'But the auto-targeting would frequently go searching for enemies that weren't visible, which meant his arms were constantly flailing and half the bad guys in front of you wouldn't be properly targeted.'ĭrake wasn't exactly a looker in 2004, either. 'The gimmick was Drake could dual-wield guns, and as part of that aim in basically any direction,' says Alex Navarro from Giant Bomb, who reviewed the game back in his Gamespot years. If you page through those old console reviews, every critic bemoans an auto-aim functionality that was either finecky or straight-up broken, depending on who you talk to. What's funny is that apparently this PC port is somehow the best version of Drake of the 99 Dragons.

So yes, I suppose it is kind of like Max Payne, if Max Payne was addicted to cough syrup. Ideally you're supposed to combine all those acrobatics into awesome, John Woo-style kills, but the aiming is so imprecise and alien that the only effective strategy I found was to slow down time and methodically dispatch the enemies in my way one by one. They have such an unpleasant sensation that you literally feel like you're breaking the game. It has all the trappings of a cast-off PC port: the tutorial asks me to press the 'fire' button, I guess because they couldn't be bothered to write in the keystroke replacement. From what I understand, the version on Steam is a mirror image of the PC copy that was originally released back in 2004. I spent $4.95 for the privilege of playing Drake of the 99 Dragons in 2018. Instead, it was left to rot in the forbidden corners of Majesco's coffers. Drake was plenty turgid and stupid, sure, but it didn't fail in spectacular enough fashion to canonize its legend. You know what I'm talking about: Big Rigs, E.T., even the relatively recent Ride To Hell: Retribution, with its once-in-a-lifetime fully clothed sex scenes. Those abysmal scores earned Drake of the 99 Dragons an ignoble reputation, but as a whole, I don't know if it quite stacks up to the comical reverence pressed upon the really bad games. Drake intends to be a stylish, soapy corridor shooter starring a trenchcoat-draped assassin branded with a Slipknot-tier magical skull tattoo on his pallid chest.

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