Requiem: Avenging Angel PC Game Review

[@keyboardstalker4784]

"Show me any other game that lets you turn people into salt." Has he ever played any multiplayer games, like, ever?

[@murderousmayhem6362]

Lol

[@knj24march]

😂

[@TWH442]

Which other games allow you to turn ppl into salt? Genuine question.

[@DaveyKanabus]

@@TWH442 It was a joke about making people "salty" when you whup their asses online and they start QQing. I'm not aware of any other games that literally allow you to turn your opponents into salt but that's not what he was talking about.

[@PraveenMax]

Its sarcasm.. 😂

[@Senior666]

Such a classic FPS and so underrated. I love Requiem and at the time it's brought so much to the table 🖤

[@JosephSiket]

This game is a testimony of how big FPS expert Gman is. Not many FPS goers have ever heard of this gem, even fever had the knowledge or patience to make the game running on win7, let alone finish it with all of its problems. Thank you for waking up great memorries of playing this game in my high shool years.

[@graysaltine6035]

"To Salt" is to this day my favorite ability in any game ever made. I absolutely loved this game as a kid and knew there had to be a video about it from one of my regular KZbin boomer-gamer content-creator crowd. Thanks for making sure this beautifully atmospheric game isn't completely forgotten just yet.

[@MasterSoto]

Super useful against those mechs. One hits them.

[@arturbb]

The setting and art direction in this game is amazing. Great review, too, as always.

[@mihugong3153]

Man - you really reviewed ALL the games from my youth. Well-done!

[@DrearierSpider1]

Looking back at how creative/original FPS games used to be makes me wanna cry. It's a bit annoying to hear so many people say "AAA devs are making too many first person shooters" No, "AAA" devs are making too many first person shooters that are fucking terrible!

[@Gggmanlives]

Or when people say "FPS games are all the same"

[@TheSeriousPain]

DrearierSpider1 AAA devs started moving away from FPS

[@DrearierSpider1]

Gggmanlives Unfortunately, there is some truth to that these days, and that's part of the problem.

[@TheSeriousPain]

DrearierSpider1 I don't think that's completely true, even for today's modern military shooters.

This is art and it's superior to what we get now.

[@crimsonhoplite3445]

I loved this game back in the day. The angelic powers were awesome....Extremely underrated.

[@mrhypnagogia]

dude thanx for working this hard, i can always count on your videos for my entertainment. Really cool, you are on my list of top reviewers out there

[@MajorPhilGraves]

Thanks for reviewing this forgotten FPS, Gggman.

[@douglazricardo]

Finally someone knows what game is this.

[@shadow_2919]

Is true, this game is a some mixture of hexen 2 and half life, obviusly with the gold source engine, the steam version is (for me) the best version of this game

[@AustinDallasPictures]

@@shadow_2919 agreed. Maybe Valve even looked at it and thought, "hm, a totalitarian city you say..."

[@elbarto6668]

Is free on gog now

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

1:05 "It doesn't feel like a religious game" This game uses Christianity the same way supernatural does. It plays around with the mythology as much as anyone would with Greek legends, effectively implying the author didn't really believe this stuff at all.

Maybe, maybe not. Irreverence isn't a sin. (Former Amish)

[@thatsagoodone8283]

@ Damn, I like that. Just a question if you don't mind: Why did you "abandon" the Amish way?

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@ʙᴜɴᴅᴇꜱᴡᴇʜʀᴘɪʟᴏᴛ I dunno, why is religion important to people?

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@ʙᴜɴᴅᴇꜱᴡᴇʜʀᴘɪʟᴏᴛ That's a little reductive. There's also genuine emotional connections to the community, lifestyle or philosophy assistance which helps people through their daily lives, and actual resonance with the messages of the religion itself. Religion is no more arbitrary than political or social identity.

[@michaelmartin9022]

My brother actually completed this (eventually!). The second to last boss was impervious to "standard" weapons, angelic powers only. But the very last boss wasn't, railgun ahoy!

[@Fuuntag]

If someone says, “religious themed FPS from 1998”, honestly not expecting something this impressive.

[@VenomousCarnage69]

I remember owning this game when I was in junior high. Loved it. The abilities were something else at the time.

[@samvimes9510]

What an awesome concept, we need more games where you can play as a badass angel.

[@HarriJokinen]

Man! Finally someone does a retro review of this game. This is one of the obscure 90s fps games that I strongly remember.

[@Kiryutka22]

The most underrated game in history! ! ! !

[@pumpkinsoul12]

Needs a GOG release, never heard of the game and I want to play it but I'm a lazy piece of shit.

[@DrearierSpider1]

+pumpkinsoul12 Just got one! www.gog.com/game/requiem_avenging_angel

[@LemonRush7777]

On sale right now on GOG.

[@SAKKI14]

Skull Servants are shit xdd

[@namkha209]

Jose Valles oh yeeaaaaaah, because over 10k attack is totally worthless.

[@ZinhoMegaman]

This is awesome, when i got it running on my Windows 7 build i never finished it because i have to reinstall the Windows and the game stopped working after it and never worked anymore. Don't ask me why, i don't know either.

[@oh_rhythm]

this game used to be my jam when it came out. always loved telling people how this had bullet time years before max payne :)

[@jojolafrite90]

Max Payne never invented bullet time anyway, naming it that way, maybe, I don't even know. Popularized it, that's for sure.

[@hercufles]

on gog now

[@totallykyle484]

As a retro guy I love that you review all these old games. Keep up the good work.

[@chrisf1600]

I loved this so much as a kid. It's very spooky and atmospheric game, with character designs and artwork that wouldn't look out of place in the pages of 2000AD (Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors etc). The action's great, the story is interesting, and the "bullet-time" feature blew my young mind. Yes, the movement can be a bit janky but the grenade launcher more than makes up for it :) Happy memories.

[@leroyreynolds7366]

I must admit, as a 13 year old playing the demo from a PC mag CD, the sound in this game was amazing, directional sound, and the fact that the enemies had dialog. AI was also something very interesting for its time.

[@kkarx]

I wanted this game as kid. I wanted every fps game. :-D I managed to play it recently and I have to say it is really good. One of the best shooters from the era.

[@yigilantis]

Finally the review I have been waiting for so long! many thanks ggmanlives!

[@jdgonzo1982]

I had this game when it first came out...the graphics were amazing at the time...fucking hard though!!

[@UVtec]

Aaahhh, so it was not my imagination when I thought I die rather too often =) Great review as always!

[@yakuza2123]

This game back in the day blew my mind as strong as Drakan.

[@Gfunk839]

This looks way cooler than half life .. wish I knew about this back in those days ..

[@jojolafrite90]

No, it does not.

[@DarkShroom]

i was just watching the documentary "Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary".... the developer of this game was describing the atmosphere in their office when they got the half life demo (and realised the entire industry had changed) so no, no it does not

[@evanstein3011]

Isn't it the WORST seeing dated games you just know you'd have loved back then?!

[@adriancerecero3997]

Been waiting for a sequel or remake since 2000! my favorite moments were when I possessed those big mechanical suits with chain guns on each arm, something I haven't seen in any other game since then.

[@PaulGirdlestone]

This channel has made me go back and play through so many gems I have missed from the late 90s and early 2000s. A bit better than paying for all the AAA garbage about these days.

[@LordLOC]

Oh man I loved this game back when it came out. I worked for a gaming website back then (long before it was hip to work for one I suppose) and got pretty much every PC game that came out. When I saw this I was quite shocked (in a good way). Just to be clear, 3DO went belly up shortly after this game was released, and Cyclone Studios was nuked along with 3DO. This game used an engine Cyclone developed specifically for this game and to be licensed out like Unreal and Quake were starting to do at the time.

[@moonraven6145]

Hey, this game also invented Psionic abilities and Plasmid's combined with gunplay before System Shock 2 and Bioshock respectively as well, and ive honestly never even heard of this game until now.

[@JohnGaltAustria]

Thanks for the video. I was waiting for your review on that.

[@JohnGaltAustria]

FINALLY available on gog.com!

[@Shpuld]

jedi knight expansion, mysteries of the sith, had this gun that turned enemies into salt statues or something like that

[@SAMagic]

It was a carbonate gun. Because of course.

[@NeilHoward17]

This was the first game that when I played I felt like I was playing something that I was too young for, and I had played Soldier of Fortune the year earlier, I would have been 8 or 9 when I played Requiem.

[@SuperHoldenC]

Love these older games you talk about !

[@v1sa9e]

How can you make so many cool videos in such a short period of time ;-; MAGIC

[@SARRIMAVEA]

Good review. I picked up this game from a budget bin for 10 Euros about 9-10 years ago and it run it pretty well on Win XP with my Vodoo 3 2000. I much enjoyed it and the angelic powers were especially awesome. There was an official patch released that corrected several problems (enemy rockets hitting you through walls etc) but still it had a lot of bugs.

[@Law2120]

I love this game. Have had it since the 90s. I still have it complete with box. I finally got it running on my pentium 2 with a voodoo 2 card. You need the 3 patches to get this game working . I remember even back in the 90s you needed the patches to have it run.

[@RyuRanXII]

Nice review. I didn't have the opportunity to play this game back then.

[@mryayayify]

The theme and premise that Requiem: Avenging Angel has would fit a Doom game perfectly IMO

[@WasdPt]

This is one came directly from my childhoold memories! Great work Gggmanlives! I still have problems to get it working. Always receiving the message to install DirectX 6.

[@Gggmanlives]

There's a modified exe you have to download to fix the DX6 error.

[@Godsraptor]

My all time favorite game. Played it on win98, never had a single problem or crash. It ran faultlessly why it never got moved to a gaming platform is beyond me

[@XGOUKI]

I remember beating this game years ago. I'm glad is out on GOG now. The sound track was repetitive but it did have a terminator like vibe to it. The original game disk you could even pop it in a cd player and listen to the whole sound track.

[@jojolafrite90]

The animations of dying enemies are very quake-like, the way ammo pops up too.

[@Razorblade1812]

Just to let you guys know, the game is now available on Steam only a couple months ago! If you want the game, go ahead and get it. WARNING: For German Steam users, it is recommended to immediately buy the game before it gets taken down sooner or later, since the game is still on the German index!

[@secondghost]

Nice review. I had this game when I was a teenager, I really enjoyed it. I should play through it again if I can get it working.

[@adrianvergara1729]

Thanks to this video I discovered this game. I really liked it. Definetly one of the better old school shooters. Thank you!

[@TheHabitman]

Geist. In that game, not only can you play as a salt shaker, but you become a toilet as well. 10/10

[@Brettbren]

*Call me sophomoric, however that "Pain it the Sphincter" line had me cracking up, it was THAT funny!*

[@DrearierSpider1]

Great news, as of today the game is available on GOG! www.gog.com/game/requiem_avenging_angel

[@FreeArtFreestheWorld]

+DrearierSpider1 I hope +gggmanlives does an update to this video then.

[@arx3516]

This game had something that really made it unique, the art style, the biblical inspiration were asome. They should remake it, while obviously improve it.

[@stevenclubb7718]

I reviewed this game back in the day for one of the Planet sites. Cool game with a bunch of issues. Although I'll quibble with one thing in your review. Technically, the enemies aren't firing hit-scan weapons, which leads to one of the cool features. When you slow down time, you discover they're firing super-fast projectiles which you'll see slowly moving through the environment.

[@SpiderDevice]

This seems like a really cool idea for a game. The Religious Armageddon + Sci-Fi type of stuff has always seemed cool and appealing to me, which is why I really like Doom :) Nice review GGGMan. I agree with everyone else that this needs to be re-released on GOG, I'd love to see that.

[@monkshoodable]

Thanks for bringing this one to light again :)

[@giantzombiechild]

I really enjoyed the setting, concept, and atmosphere of this one, it has probably one of the coolest takes on Abrahamic religion and mythology that Ive seen in a game. Wish it would get a remake or reboot or something.

[@DueP_DoG]

Gut gemacht, Gggman.

[@CptCaretaker]

DueP_DoG Als ob er deutsch könnte.

[@leob4403]

Er kann keine andere Sprache reden, er ist ein bisschen doof

[@salokin3087]

This bastard is staring back at me on my shelf, please a video or a link or any steps to getting this to run would make my week, no MONTH. Save me Gggman, your my only hope!... at getting the game running.

[@Gggmanlives]

I think I just patched it to be honest dude. There is a windowing program called D3D which can force games to run in windows as well but just changing compatibility modes worked for me.

[@salokin3087]

Gggmanlives Thanks but i still get "install directx 6"

[@slipgatetourist4929]

Game james check out this page: pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Requiem:_Avenging_Angel

[@Gggmanlives]

Slipgate Tourist There's a modified exe you have to download to fix the DX6 error.

[@salokin3087]

Slipgate Tourist Thanks man, it crashes a LOT, but getting it running is half the battle!

[@elenchus]

loved this as a kid. i was the only person i knew that had ever heard about it, even like a year after its release

[@michaelflanigan3481]

Fantastic review. Now I want a copy...

[@fossilfern]

I really enjoyed this game back in the day. Haven't played it in a while, might try and get it working myself.

[@dirtyunclehubert]

OH MAN OH MAN. here i was, "he surely hasnt reviewed requiem, this forgotten gem" - AND THEN YOU DID. big big love! one of THE top games of my youth. there was a time when i was like able to quote EVERY line from that game. i loved the nothing held back violence, those screams of agony....have not yet seen anything like it again. truly a game from the time when developers were creative and were so unappreciated, they went out of business after releasing one game and that was that. too fucking bad that we cant play it properly like, ANYMORE AT ALL and nobody seems to bother to redo it properly. would SO love to replay it like now, 15 years later. but can it be done? ain't also about getting it to RUN, but theres this weird bug where you just cant open a door. :( EDIT: it is on steam! but it is in NO way updated or bugfixed in any way. almost unplayable. i guess there was any publisher who bought the rights to the game for 5 bucks, and then put it on steam fast ....

[@jojolafrite90]

Gog. Maybe they included some workarounds?

[@Dkcode]

Back in the late 90's when I was a young teenager I'd always pick this game off the shelf but I never got round to buying it. There was so many quality shooters around at this period this game was a bit of an underdog.

[@georgiosbgl]

forget gaben, GOG is our new lord and savior. they recently released outlaws. btw great review gggman.

[@lurkerrekrul]

I played Requiem on my old Windows 98SE system. I didn't run into any of the usual bugs (like doors that wouldn't open), but it did crash fairly often. I tried running it under XP once and the main menu wasn't centered properly and I would occasionally see flashes of the desktop, which pretty much ruined the immersion factor. As for the controls, I could swear that I was able to assign angelic powers to specific keys. I have a vague memory of using the numeric keypad to access my favorite powers. Couple pieces of trivia: You only get the bullet time power after you find a fellow angel in one of the levels, however even though finding him is one of the level goals, it's possible to finish the level without finding him, meaning you never get that power. The first time I played it, I forgot about finding him, finished the level and only realized that I didn't get the power when I finished the whole game and realized that I hadn't used that power once. While you can resurrect fallen enemies to fight by your side, they're still considered enemies by other friendly NPCs.

[@samghost13]

Whaaaat?! Awesome game/weapons! I really enjoyed the Driller Weapon from Turok! Cerebral Bore ; ) Requiem also looks like it has some Awesome Weapons to! thumps up for ya Ggg Dude

[@bobenheimen]

**thumbs fedora brim** Ok, but I only do not tip from how truly euphoric I am.

[@goopah]

Game recommendation: "Secret Service: In Harm's Way" (stay far away from the sequels). Around 2002. Developed by FunLabs, published by Activision. An FPS that takes a few minutes to get the hang of, but then quickly became one of my favorite shooters of all time. It's hard to describe, but I've not played anything quite like it before. Flawed and mostly shredded in the reviews of the day, but fun as hell if you've got patience.

[@IMN602]

I played the SHIT out of secret service in harms way. I beat the whole game on HARD if you can believe it. I'm not joking! That first level on hard is INSANE

[@TheTimPilot]

Not a bad game. One of the few I completed back in the days.

[@unkownnameless2699]

it was an amazing game that was both unpolished and extremely ahead of its time. There is so much you can see in this game that the fps genre didn't pick up until years, even decades later. angelic powers, used with the left hand, very bioshock, except RAA had a shit ton more.

[@Hoshi82]

Loved that game. Great review!

[@ProphetsAnointing]

I bought this Game when I was seven for our Win95 family pc. I was so annoyed to find my hardware wasn't good enough! I must get around to playing it.

[@zeliph]

It would be cool to see a remastered edition of this. I bullet time and salt powers would look cool as heck.

[@sameerpharma4906]

"just keep those fedoras untipped, alright" XD this man

[@1183newman]

I remember playing the demo for this game and liking it. Never bought it though. Always get confused between this game and that one where you play a little cherub in some scifi third person shooter.

[@TopperRico]

Great game back in the day.

[@Dr.Strangelewd]

Gonna add this one to the backlog, looks sweet and I don't think I ever even heard about it.

[@this_connor_guy]

It's funny, I just discovered this game and put a copy on my ebay wishlist. I thought, "man, gggman needs to review this." Bam, here it is

[@Gggmanlives]

I live to please :)

[@this_connor_guy]

Now you just gotta do a review of ZPC :P

[@DiegoAlanTorres96]

The mouse cursor bug doesn't happen with dgvoodoo2 from what I've played. Using the Stretched 4:3 fullscreen mode.

[@cocobos]

I have no issues playing back then early on. Awesome game.

[@clubdrunkify]

I couldn't even get this game running on different computers 10+ years ago, and not going to even try now. It's a shame because the game looks surprisingly good and seems to have held up pretty well.

[@alb1no]

Thanks again so much! Greetz from Germany :)

[@spiderjerusalem100]

This looks pretty badass for such an old game.

[@michaels6391]

I've nevver heard of this game before, but the visuals are really cool!

[@goopah]

6:33 Was that a... train level?!? If so, I'm going to need to take my shrink wrapped box down off the shelf after all these years. For some unknown reason, I've always loved train levels.

[@peppermillers8361]

Does the Half Life 2 level counts? Oh, wait

[@DenDyje]

Great review!

[@Szini]

I remember my older brother installed this game to my PC Back in the days. I was blown away how amazing it was, then I could never install it myself anymore, and it always pissed me off. I hated and loved this game at the same time for these reasons.

[@minusED]

Back in a day it seemed killer and was a lot of fun!

[@sweeneezy]

This and Dark Forces 2 were some of the most frustrating installs I've ever done.

[@RePtIlLiA100]

Well, i'm so glad you ask :D :D :D respect ;)

[@loganjorgensen]

An interesting novelty that I'm glad GOG has now, a while back I tried all the patches I could but that old hardware specific requirement wouldn't budge. Was looking to get an old rig to run it but no need now. :)

[@mitthjarta5]

Hey long time no see! :D I got my copy working not too recently, with a registry edit to fool the game into thinking it was being run with DX6, that and if you can manage to get nglide to work, the 3DFX version runs too. But yeah Hooray for GoG! i also found out after hacking it for dx6, that patch 1.2 replaces the DX6 renderer with a DX8 one... lol :/ GoG is so much less hassle, kinda wish it was on GoG sooner because It wasn't when i put in the legwork to get it running. Because even hunting down patches are a challenge now (file planet has been in the process of being archived for a long while now, so patch downloads don't work :/) also you still doing retro pixels n whatnot? I've recently started coding a virtual retro console thingy in C with SDL2

[@loganjorgensen]

Yeah been a while, nice to hear from you. Nice to play Requiem again but the Interact button is iffy which I think was there originally iirc. Sounds cool your recent work, yeah I'm still tinkering, been about raycasting engines lately. :)

[@mitthjarta5]

yeah still TAB? lol in general the default controls were terrible Q W swap weapon RT swap spell ESDF

[@nudge2626]

This game looks great, hard to believe I haven't heard of it before. A early 2000's fps you should check out is command and conquer renegade.

[@volo870]

Gggmanlives, did you play Messiah? You shall absolutely love it! It has one of the craziest postapocalyptic religious overtones I've seen. Also the gameplay is wonderfully gimmicky.

[@soterioncoil2163]

Had this game back in the day but didn't get to play it much as I had difficulty getting it to run. I enjoyed what little I got to play it felt like it was pushing the envelope a bit like Turok. I'll probably pick it up on GOG eventually and sync it with XPadder.

[@lordbelcheriv6115]

Kinda strange game, and takes awhile to get into it, but it def grows on you. Btw, the GoG version is pretty stable, and haven't encountered any bugs on Win 7 yet. Another great thing that the devs captured is the atmosphere. The music alone is both dark, but inspiring at the same time. Can't say I've ever encountered this in any other game. Another great retro shooter, with a Christian based theme! Can anyone say: sweet Jesus with a shotgun? Quit? Are thou certain? Nice touches! Anyway, keep up the good work!

[@shawnadams1965]

This game was a nightmare to get running but I loved it once I got it stable. I played it back when it came out. I haven't revisited it, but I was cleaning out my gaming room today and found the CD.

[@hotsexspy2267]

I've got a good idea for a FPS review (feel free to discard this idea as you may) How about South Park the FPS game for PC/N64/PS1 for a review. Just a suggestion.

[@Gggmanlives]

Yeah I've got it on PS1, will check it out at some point.

[@Coccyx69]

Yellow snowballs XD

[@henriquegiusti]

Since you mentioned dash rendar, what about a shadows of the empire review?

[@jackliu8991]

Great video! By the way, will you give a full review on metro 2033 and last light?

[@Gggmanlives]

Yeah. Playing through the Redux versions soon as well.