LGR - Isle of the Dead - DOS PC Game Review

[@marcsm2008]

I had this game when I was a teen... Bought it at release... With my entire allowance... (cries)

[@RarefoilB]

There, there...

[@MCDexpo]

what's an allowance?

[@marcsm2008]

Money that my parents gave me every month.

[@jamesisaac7684]

@Heavy Metal Collector is the best selling game of n 64. What areas your complaint about

[@shitchops]

@Heavy Metal Collector Oooh yes. Superman 64 was terrible. Jet force gem was the shit !!

[@The1000thJohann]

Thing is, this game came out in 1993. Not only did Doom, one of the greatest FPSes of all time, come out that year, so did Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and Myst, two of the greatest point and click adventure games of all time. There is really no excuse for owning this game.

[@turrican4d599]

Day Of The Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit The Road!

[@makinbacon855]

this game scared me as a kid. that kid that said "daddy?" I actually had a nightmare over that

[@Darusamon]

I had the original version of this game when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, killing the village drummer was actually part of a quest you had to do for the chief. He had a headache and asked you to get the guy to stop banging on the drums. Killing him was the only way to resolve it.

[@skyacaniadev2229]

A reference to whoever is making the music, I would say.

[@matchmakerchris7617]

@@skyacaniadev2229 Haha, good one.

[@ComputerKisserGirlhusband]

@@skyacaniadev2229 I would like your comment but it has 69 likes

[@wilsonator1000]

a machete is too violent but a shotgun is perfectly fine....... yeah that totally makes sense

[@wilsonator1000]

they are both just as violent that's my point it doesn't make sense to keep one and not the other

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

@@wilsonator1000 Agreed!

[@scootza1]

I quite like the death animations; it's kinda cool to see the zombies devour your character instead of the boring "slump over and die"

[@kevins9785]

h o h b o i ah the 90’s. When the basis of a good game was how much sadistic violence and gore you can pack on a disk. We wonder why people are so violent these days 😭😂

[@MuttFitness]

They'd do it nowadays, but most games are marketed to about 12 years old.

[@handsomebrick]

@@kevins9785Because they don't have healthy outlets for violent impulses anymore?

[@Takimeko]

@@MuttFitness Blatantly untrue, but alright.

[@Jeyeyeyey]

@@kevins9785 I wonder what games did the people in the medieval era played then

[@LGR]

Well to be fair, all the gory scenes were also censored in the version with the bamboochete. Still not sure why machetes are censor-worthy and shotguns are okay, but whatever.

[@kidferocious]

Censorship is weird. Might be ten years late, but I felt the need to say that.

[@PatriciaCross]

One of those zombies eating you was clearly Duke Nukem. Surprised you didn't point that out.

[@philipcooper8297]

Groovy.

[@Renhorable]

it seems it was just a random surfer dude

[@gamercatsz5441]

Cosbydaf Jones lol

[@victorvance2573]

I thought the same!

[@jetrifle4209]

No

[@drcatjailofficial3735]

its funny that a merit software is involved in this because the game contains nothing of merit.

[@malediktmanson]

Story sounds like Far Cry 1...

[@LGR]

+malediktmanson And about a hundred other games, movies, comic books, etc :) Not a very original theme, that's for sure!

[@malediktmanson]

Now that I think about it. Shit, hahaha!

[@Logan912]

+malediktmanson Now that I think about it, that's pretty much Crash Bandicoot 1's story too.

[@sistaledaren]

+Logan Palmer go away

[@muntapede572]

malediktmanson or maybe farcry 1 sounds like isle of the dead

[@CryMoar]

Mabamcheteboo. I think I just found the name for my new band.

[@handsomebrick]

Mabam Shetty Boo

[@TheInsanemonkeyboy]

I bought this game used at a yard sale in the 90's it was on several 3½-inch floppy disks. Got home and inserted the 1st disk to load it and it had been copied over with Leisure Suit Larry. Guess I dodged a bullet of a crappy game. All this time I always wondered what the game was like.

[@Monstermania101]

That music is a masterpiece.. I'll always shed a few tears when I hear that song playing.. me and my wife got married and chose that for or wedding song. I've never danced so Passionately to a piece of music. I'm crying right now thinking about it. And oh my don't get me started about our honey moon to this music. Let's just say it was like sea world. Very wet.

[@cvnic]

what the fuck

[@EsotericStarWarsRubbish]

*yikes*

[@iAmCodeMonkey]

Lol, cray cray alert

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

@@iAmCodeMonkey why are you berating my husband? It really really was magical - no other song could compare

[@qaz3000]

Tutulutut🎶

[@onkkell]

Heh. Title sounds like "I love the dead."

[@pedroguilherme9811]

onkel Alice Cooper approves.

[@LGR]

Merit also published that terrible Dragon's Lair port I reviewed a while back. Yeah, they didn't exactly have a great track record.

[@MattMcIrvin]

Drawn in the style of every college-newspaper comic in the 80s.

[@BeardyOfIron]

I played this game as a kid. I broke the disc after many mind numbing hours of HELL.

[@ZorotheGallade]

I am walkin' Walkin' around Don't know what the fuck I'm doing Don't know what the fuck to do Maybe I'm goinna kill some zombies Then I'll find a place to poo Daradara Daradara Daradara Daradara Daradara Daradarararara. --Brutalmoose

[@rdubby1102]

Get it on ITunes now! Only $19.99, however you get it for free if you can successfully use the rifle without oiling it.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

6:17 - Is that zombie Duke Nukem? :D

[@g-forcefgt323]

yes there are a million zombie duke nukems

[@Elz_und_Elz]

*_WOAH BUMMER DUDE_*

[@iaincowell9747]

@@Elz_und_Elz The sound file sounds like it's not complete. Sounds like "WOAH BUMMER DU".

[@SilverSurfer166]

Where can I find the 10 hour loop of the music?

[@anarchist135]

Remake this game in the latest crytek engine

[@tylerkriesel8590]

They already did, it’s called dead island.

[@kagemarunl]

...excuse me while I steal your entire collection. ♥ This game you can keep, but the amount of awesome and nostalgic games at 0:15 is just...wow. I love these reviews, have no regrets about becoming a subscriber and hope you'll keep on making awesome reviews! 8D

[@NudeRockENT]

LGR, I've learned more from your videos than I have in my entire 12 years of schooling... you are a f*cking modern-day god man. Keep doin what you're doin. It's people like you that give me hope for the human race

[@mcgibs]

I remember being creeped out and intrigued by the box art way back in the day when I was maybe 6 or 7 and wandering around a computer store. I couldn't remember the title of the game. Years later I was almost certain Isle of the Dead was that game but the box art was nothing like what I remembered. Turns out it was the first edition I encountered back then.

[@touhouguyII]

LOVE your channel!

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@touhouguyII]

Lazy Game Reviews You also have a very relaxing voice, a great LP'ing voice:D

[@lorettathomas2753]

Lazy Game Reviews i love your channel too been watching for 3 years your reviews are really cool to watch are you going to review duke nukem sometime soon bryan t

[@LucasGodzilla]

+Loretta Thomas Now he did

[@lorettathomas2753]

LucasGodzilla i'm really happy he did i asked him on facebook if he had plans on reviewing doom 4 he said he wasn't sure yet but he said he will cover the original

[@MrFutago87]

After seeing Brutalmoose's review of this game I noticed that the bodies of the native guards apparently can switch.

[@thekenyonsquad5672]

actually, there are two villages, so the bodies weren't switched, they were just different guards.

[@MrFutago87]

Kenyon Erickson Well that went from kinda neat to really lazy fast.

[@Uncle-Jay]

I would really like to see this remade, because the concept is actually pretty cool, it was just done super half assed.

[@anthonyyu2722]

"In fact, it's not even a six of diamonds of all trades and a novice of none, it's just not much of anything." - haha, that is LGR gold right there.

[@ramonavega4316]

Thank you for making a review for this, I was trying to for a while but it was so bad, I just couldn't do it. You have me DNrespect for life. You are awesome.

[@nyastclair8174]

What version of this game has the death animation of the zombies eating you? I remember buying it long ago and it was missing some of them. Cuts right to the scientist laughing at you. The animation at 6:23 to be exact. Is this the older or newer version?

[@BunniesFromHeck]

i've wanted to see a detailed review of this game for years now! in fact, i've tried to search out and play this game for years now, just because i never saw a proper review. thanks, LGR!

[@evanpatterson8487]

Hi I need help back in the day had a game that was a plat former that featured a little goofy fat guy that had either a yoyo or a paddle ball the hole game was kind goofy done, any chance you may know what this game is ?????. and there was one I played in school that had a tuxedo penguin and you were in his apartment and did different things?

[@judsongaiden9878]

They probably drew some inspirado from Lucio Fulci's 'Zombie'. 6:29 And this came out a year before he did that.

[@mytchyl]

Is the voice actor/animator in this game the same Myk Friedman of Toonsmyth?

[@ShadowNinja452]

Looked it up & yup. Same guy. Unfortunate he's dead these days though :( RIP Myk Friedman

[@iwao72]

is that a remix of the game's music in the begining? is there a full version somewhere?

[@marcsm2008]

It's the music from the CD version of the game. But the CD version is the censored one, so I don't recommend it.

[@PunakiviAddikti]

Anyone else notice how that double barrel shotgun doesn't need to be reloaded? It's like it's semiautomatic as well as has a magical, endless magazine of shotgun shells. That magically runs out when the game says you ran out of ammo.

[@handsomebrick]

Someone should make a modern 3D version of Where Time Stood Still, it would probably be amazing.

[@phar314]

The cutscenes are so damn gold.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Awesome review, Clint! So much fun!

[@TECH097]

Toonsmyth Productions is actually the KZbin account of Myk Friedman. Sadly he passed away due to medical complications involving Diabetes from what I understand. Despite that he left a great impact on the world of animation with his fantastic style and wit. R.I.P. Myk. We'll miss you.

[@Gigantor3000]

Wow. This brings back memories...memories of excitement, confusion and then disappointment. I got this game for my birthday in 6th grade or so, it looked so cool and bloody and rad. I booted it up and brother....this thing sucked balls.

[@NujuBIONICLE]

Is Dead Island spiritual successor to this one ?

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Wow, just seeing the start of this game I’m really interested in the concept, I love island settings and a build-engine FPS set on a tropical island would be amazing to me. The combination of the adventure mode and the FPS gameplay could be fun but I’m not sure if it’s a great game or not from the start, but I might give it a go someday.

[@CyanOcelot]

Why were the two village door guards bodies switched?

[@GrumpyMonk86]

where is that intro music taken from ?! I must know.

[@GrumpyMonk86]

where :(((

[@Scootie98]

its from the isle of the dead (cd-rom version)

[@xmoraboyx]

Do you have any plans on covering Chris Sawyer's Locomotion in the future?

[@ProjectMarakar]

Hey not to be a bother but do you have the midi's from both versions of the game can't seem to find the music from the original uncensored version

[@Clay3613]

How do you get all of these boxed games?

[@LGR]

Lots of looking, anywhere I can :) Ebay, Amazon, talking to other collectors. I also find a ton of them while thrifting, as seen here: kzbin.info/aero/PLbBZM9aUMsjEM76RFMofBZmDBuqNPnCdt

[@jakespoon5549]

Where can I buy the ost?

[@jdzero]

Realms of the Haunting was actually a decent attempt at fusing a point-n-click and shooter ... though neither are all that ground-breaking. Their budget was primarily used on green screening people on crappy CGI backgrounds, and hiring terrible actors to be in the those green screen rooms.

[@k6ka1]

he's definitely older than you are. back in the days, he bought those PCs and started a collection. he's still collecting. and when you buy something, you probably want to keep it and show it to other people in the future, which is exactly what Clint does.

[@DOOMdestroyer360]

Good review. I'm surprised you didn't bring up how the big surfer zombie looks like Duke Nukem, every other video I've seen of this game does. lol

[@wagdawgwag]

Um....could you put up a download for the PRACTICE MODE sound? I don't know where to get it. ._.

[@Maltebyte2]

whats the intro music? its awesome!

[@PlanarCollapse2]

Hey, any chance you'll review Duke It Out In DC & Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach?

[@jasonarmstrong5750]

So is this a case of so bad it’s good? Because I’ve always wanted to know if there’s a video game equivalent of the room.

[@PhilMcCool]

LGR, have you played the shareware FPS game 'Bad Toys 3D'?

[@Dalekzilla54]

This game always brings memories of Brutalmoose singing to the music. "I am walking.....walking around..."

[@vetzRetro]

Did you capture this from a 386 or from DOSBox?

[@ollymuirs]

How do you get all of those games in physical copies?

[@LucasGodzilla]

Oliver Muirs eBay

[@theanonymousmrgrape5911]

Why did they have to change the machete when the game also explicitly has guns?

[@KirbyButton]

I know you probably get a lot of requests but I would love a review of Revenant. I remember trying to play the game but it would take forever to load and crash on me. I don't know if it was my computer or the game itself.

[@herrabanani]

could you have a picture saying "dos review" or "review" in the thumbnail?

[@theholidaydecorguy609]

I got this game on a shareware cd back in 1995. It honestly is a fun little game if you don't let the fact that it's utter trash. Honestly, and please don't laugh this game got me into programming. Also, love this video.

[@ShamanEffect]

I stumbled across a let's play of this a couple months back and I got to say, whoever did all of the cut scene animations did a very good job. I was actually surprised the game featured a day/night cycle, though it's all superficial. I heard if you know what to do and where to go, you can actually beat the game relatively fast. Yeah, I think all of the death animations are the best part of the game, though I've never seen them all, or a compilation. Still not a good game, but I've seen worse.

[@TheSmokingUnicorn]

After watching some questionable at best, horribly bad at worse movies for a class, I am more than thrilled to find a new LGR review in my inbox.

[@brandonnesfan]

is that the car from initial d as your profile pic?

[@AlienExorcist]

I have the Floppy version of this. I always wondered why I couldn't get the infamous suicide sequence upon quitting, seeing all of the animated cut-scenes were removed. It was definitely the harder first edition though. I no longer have a PC slow enough to play it :(

[@Feenicks01]

I remember seeing ads for this in PC mags and being thoroughly excited as an impressionable 10 year old ... Sad to know that the actual game was shite ...

[@Sarioya]

If I remember correctly, you actually *have* to kill the drummer in order to progress.

[@psychoticgiraffe]

The music actually does a good job of setting the mood.

[@ppsilocin]

Hey Clint, did you ever played Hopkins FBI?

[@plurp7]

Great Video Clint! the game however- well, I am not quite sure if this makes me wants to eat cheese or not... time will tell though.

[@HeroicPunk]

I love your videos, I really do. Just wanted to say that. Keep up the great work. Thanks.

[@DragonLS]

Ooh, you have Revenant! Do you plan to review it at some point in the future?

[@phreakinpher]

Bam-friggin-boo is my new favorite phrase in the English language.

[@SpaceMissile]

6:49 - "...or the MaBamCheteBoo thing" _i love it._

[@Mii85]

Kinda feels like The Forest on drugs. I might be masochist byt this seems fairly interesting.

[@ProblmSolvd]

Games that come with comics to explain the story... what ever happened to games doing cool shit like that? I miss drawing maps for silent hill, and writing down room coordinates for resident evil games to find all the ammo (I had a system!)

[@jasonji3263]

7:18 "Ah bummer dude," I lost my shit.

[@toogee1850]

Literally the only thing that looked good about this game was the animations and little cutscenes. Those cartoonish zombies and that art style is pretty dope.

[@SadLittlePumpkin]

Hm I guess I won't buy one of the cods then. What other "classic" military shooter would you recommend?

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

I wonder if Isle of the Dead will have a sequel. In the 2020s. After seeing the recent announcement of System Shock 3, it could be possible.

[@MaximilienNoal]

I don't want to spoil it to you, but I saw Kikoskia's LP of it. While the game is awesome and has a intriguing story (even if the FMVs can be cheesy), the ending is a slap to the face. Not gratificating at all. And it has been seen a million times.

[@someinterwebguy]

The music in this game sounds like somebody having a seizure while attempting to play a MIDI keyboard.

[@dbjr68x]

You should check out Etherlords I & II. I always enjoyed playing those games. It's not a dos game, but still.

[@SomeBHODYoncetoldme]

amusing review... holy balls though, that music ditty would get old VERY fast. I find it infinitely entertaining how games like this got released. any chance you'd review or at least have played the first Settlers?

[@FMFlameNinja]

How is the native village able to have a working toilet? And newspapers?

[@OmYoJEL]

Hey LGR did you ever play a game called Werewolves of London? it was on the Amstrad and the Spectrum as well i think. You had to go around finding and killed the people who put the werewolf curse on you :P it was pretty bad but i used to play it all the time for some reason would be cool if you ever get a copy to review it :) Great videos btw never heard of this game and quite glad i didn't actually!

[@confushiarch3421]

1:14 i've never heard anyone else say that... your literally the first person ever to say that to my knowledge... i highly doubt that is a thing!

[@MrAlan4567]

Great Review Clint :-D

[@jetpak12]

The game's artists seem to be skilled, judging from the look of the enemies and the animated cutscenes, so why couldn't they make better textures for the walls? I don't think fixing that would have saved the game though.

[@jdzero]

I would probably recommend Realms of the Haunting over this one, if only because the adventure/puzzle game elements are a bit more refined

[@VampirePrinceKRS]

when you first picked up the "bamboo stick" on the plane I thought it was a ruler/yardstick.

[@d4v3tm]

Clint: will you do a crysis 3 review? Crysis is one of my fav game and i would love to see that in your series :)

[@zogmorp]

The enemy sprites are really well animated.

[@Nik-ff3tu]

Holyshit I used to see this game in my dreams when I was little kid and I totally thought that I made it up

[@Ikelae]

man.. you can tell a game is bad when you can just see the control issues.

[@thewayiigo9886]

It's sort of a early 90s Far-cry ish and Dead Island ish type of game. I think it was just to far ahead of it's release 10 years later with the tech it would have worked much better. The Wolf3d engine just was not up to the task, Duke3d may have worked better but that was still years away and to license the engine would not have been cheap.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

The game does have boneheaded decisions that make it a chore to get through, which can't be attributed to being too far ahead of its time. Case in point, respawning enemies every time you reenter an area (maybe one or two would be alright, but having all of them is just tedious.) Also, the same devs made "Nerves of Steel" two years later, and I don't think you can blame anything in that game on insufficient tech.

[@vancereloaded]

I had no idea what this game was from the title or the box-- but then you got to the part where you're walking on the beach and I recognized that instantly. It's clear from the game that the developers had some neat ideas, but it seems for whatever reason they filtered them through the mind of a 5 year old. I think my cats could draw a better map, for example.