Virtuoso

The Good
The front of the box looks nice...

The Bad
Good lord, where to start? It's not bad enough that this game is a Doom clone--it has to be a really, really bad Doom clone. I'll just ramble on for a bit:

• There is no mouse control--something that's fairly required in any Doom clone.
• The premise sucks--We know right from the beginning that Our Hero is playing a Virtual Reality(tm) game, so what's the incentive to stay alive?
• When you shoot, your drop to your knees. While you can pivot while shooting, you can't move! What's up with that?!
• The redbook audio contains a soundtrack that is beyond amateur. The rock group, Thai Dyed Suicide, is local-area band calibre (oh, wait, they were a local-area band). And whoever mastered the audio for the game made a bad recording; it's panned to the left significantly, and is over-amplified and literally clips on the CD. It's embarrassing.

The Bottom Line
This is what happens when people think of "style" and graphics over gameplay. Don't let the box fool you; move on.