Revisiting SiN - An Updated Review

[@Asaylum117]

That 5 second intro sequence was definetly important in this game.

[@Gruntvc]

And that is why this game could not be made today. The censorship happy gate keepers would not allow it.

[@brandon17760]

Genome Soldat it was a rip off of basic instinct scene with Sharon Stone... what the hell are you talking about

[@lime_crisis]

Genome Soldat no one cares

[@SamuraiMujuru]

That Basic Instinct scene is referenced constantly to this day and Monster Hunter has more risqué outfits that that.

[@proudalbanianjcdenton7129]

Save it for someone who cares bitch

[@joelhatterini6392]

"imagine if Jessica Rabbit got mixed with a porno star" excuse me, sonny, we don't need redundancy here.

[@mr.generic5100]

Pretty sure she's one of the most cosplayed characters by women in that line of work.

[@luismoralesacevedo3100]

Mr. Fancypants Really?? Someone please, contact your local rule34 artist for more

[@trcsonic]

LMAO

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

@@mr.generic5100 girls even remember that movie?

[@clawzx1195]

@@luismoralesacevedo3100 hey man, sometimes you need to just *ask for more r34* cause it'll eventually happen

[@KnightBX]

I clicked cause of thumbnail, won’t lie.

[@VikingLord2000]

Who wouldn’t?

[@oddzxc]

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[@lime_crisis]

unironically clicked because of the cool gun in the thumbnail

[@KnightBX]

lime crisis oh shit their is a gun in there!

[@NeonChrome_]

You can thank the dank artist, Mila The Mute for that wonderful eye candy.

[@scoutdy6547]

"How Detroit is portrayed in robocop" So Detroit?

[@Truth_Hurts528]

Somebody is in need of ‘sensitivity training’

[@slyseal2091]

"This is Detroit" "And this is Detroit after the Invasion"

[@m0rtez713]

@@slyseal2091 They are the same picture.

[@jaronmeshileichenbaum9934]

Truth_hurts stories.starbucks.com/press/2018/starbucks-to-close-stores-nationwide-for-racial-bias-education-may-29/

[@HeyItsJonny]

@@m0rtez713 Can confirm, worked in Detroit everyday for a year.

[@TheSpidersider]

02:43 I love how John's notes has a little addendum about how he'd still do Sinclaire... All of us mate, all of us...

[@ryanm.8720]

She'd probably betray him if he did get a night with her. Hope he knows how to spring traps.

[@XBullitt16X]

Same haha, even if she is a crazy bitch, you'd be lying if you said you still wouldn't want to bone her atleast once..

[@elijahhayter3026]

@@XBullitt16X You know what they say about the crazy ones.

[@dannywholuv]

Can she make a sandwich tho

[@szymonbober2280]

@@dannywholuv ....oh, the food one... sorry, my imagination exploded...

[@jonnymagal]

Ggman: "The game has a good soundtrack" Also Ggman: Cuts to machine gun firing sounds

[@Gggmanlives]

That's the soundtrack.

[@sheedipants]

@@Gggmanlives Ggman: Cuts to machine gun firing sounds Also Ggman: "That's the soundtrack." Classic Ggman.

[@socks2441]

@@sheedipants lol

[@SinisterPuppy]

I'm still bummed out to this day Sin Episodes was never completed. I was considering a replay of that just a few days ago. MSG:V did adaptive difficulty decently; use snipers to much they get helmets,etc.

[@OuhPii]

also ResidentEvil4 and GodHand are good examples for adaptive difficulty

[@sillkthashocker]

"Un forastero!"

[@apere431]

If anyone reads this, there better be a group out there, somewhere secretly working on more episodes of Sin Episodes.

[@rolandsodakin2354]

I felt like MGS5 adaptive difficulty could be kind of random. I only used gas like once and yet all the enemies gained gas masks for some reason.

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

MGSV was overall a bad game though so nothing surprising there. Having your development trashed by the publisher tends to do that.

[@MadMaxBLD]

Haven't watched yet but came here to say, as a SiN fan for half my life, thanks for looking at this game again and giving it some attention in modern times! Everything is getting remastered or remade, yet SiN is left in the dust... and I know it's because of how it sold and the Mumbo Jumbo acquisition, but still... holding out hope.

[@Corpseplower]

Nightdive announced they were remastering SiN in KEX earlier this year, so... no, it wasn't left in the dust.

[@williamberry4597]

@@Corpseplower wasn't KEX what they did Doom 64 in?

[@Corpseplower]

@@williamberry4597 Yes. Doom 64, Turok and Turok 2, Forsaken, Blood: Fresh Supply, etc.

[@socks2441]

honestly one of my all time favourite video games. i still to this day enjoy going back to it from time to time. also i heard someone was remastering it so definitely looking forward to that.

[@ZeOHKay]

Luckily, SiN Reloaded is coming next year.

[@Roboterpunk]

Ah, Elexis Sinclaire. The reason for many a boys latex fetish to this day.

[@mahogany7712]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Gave me Gas-Mask, Breatheplay and Fullbody Latex(Specially pink ones)

[@Phobos_Thanatos]

Wtf is with you people?

[@thesleepypiggy]

I love stalker, but wtf.

[@blarghinatelazer9394]

@@mahogany7712 Jesus Christ

[@mahogany7712]

@@blarghinatelazer9394 I'll never feel a touch of a woman.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

"Imagine if Jessica Rabbit got mixed with a pornostar" Do you really need to imagine for that?

[@bug_stonkin_wess1221]

Wasn't she styled off betty boop, who was deigned to be sexually appealing?!

[@zigfaust]

@@ovahlord1451 Just because she's a sexy woman with revealing clothing doesn't mean she's a porn-star, you jabuit. See, this is the exact reason she dated Roger. He didn't have those red pill incel thoughts.

[@dubiouscollector9763]

@@zigfaust you are right, revealing clothes dont make a woman a whore... ...but she is wearing the whore´s uniform...

[@ovahlord1451]

@@zigfaust lol projecting much ?

[@anasbakhit4303]

@@bug_stonkin_wess1221 believe it or not it was Mini Mouse that started this sexy female cartoon character craze.... funny I know, they said because mini's underwear is always shows under her mini skirt and the adults at the time find that a bit hot for a children's cartoony character and they liked her that way, the artists said they intentionally draw mini mouse that way as a sense of humor and not really to be hot since she was aimed more towards childrens as on the old cartoons you can see that she repair or patch the damage on her pants by sewing different parts of fabrics making it looks funny.

[@ataridc]

main thing I remember about Sin Episodes was Bianca Beauchamp cosplaying Elexis Sinclair at E3 as part of the advertising...That was nice.

[@majorgear1021]

that sounds like something worth googling. Not while at work, of course!

[@drakescakes5629]

I remember an arcade near me had two arcade cabinets next to each other linked together to play Sin Deathmatch. Nowhere else have I seen or heard of this. It was amazing. Edit: actually I remember 2 sets now. There was one that was fast pace and you could look everywhere. Then they replaced those two with another two that were still sin but you could only look left and right. I was disappointed with that decision.

[@carljohan9265]

That kinda reminds me of a visual novel in which main guy eventually becomes a mech pilot. The sad part is, the mech fighting arcade game that he and his friends are playing in the early part of the story looks, sounds and feels better then the later scenes with actual combat mechs the size of buildings. That has got to count as some very special kind of failure.

[@eddragon2264]

What vn? muv luv?

[@carljohan9265]

@@eddragon2264 yup. I won't begrudge people who like it, but I have several personal reasons for not liking it.

[@Garrette63]

I've seen them before too, but only once. They had a trackball for aiming.

[@drakescakes5629]

I remember I was a huge geek that had like 2 friends. I was facing the most popular kid in our grade. Everybody was huddled around him it was so funny 😂. I was stomping him so it was even better. Good ol days

[@aleidius192]

**Three seconds into the video** "Oh my..."

[@crozraven]

23:37 The moment that you've been waiting for

[@fendysusanto876]

Why not 23:43 or 26:55

[@masterexploder9668]

"Enormous fuckin' tits" - GmanLives 2020, colorized.

[@stc.martin822]

"along with his partner JC" Take that UNA...I mean SINtek

[@heraldofoblivion499]

Use the GEP gun for silent takedowns

[@modernmobster]

I hope he covers Deus ex: nihilum at some point. A fantastic mod.

[@Xelker]

Unatco?

[@antalgergo2699]

Paul, I thought you were in Hong Kong.

[@km099]

Why contain it?

[@anentiresleeveoforeos2087]

Big ups for commissioning a cool thumbnail instead of just having it be something dumb and generic like a lot of other channels.

[@bladesofseven]

MilaTheMute is the artist. You can find him on Twitter, does a lot of R6 arts. Fair warning, they be NSFW in places.

[@chemergency]

There was also a bizarre anime film adaptation/sequel to SiN that carried a much darker, bleaker tone and had a different voice cast. John Blade is like a completely different character in it despite looking the same.

[@Sellipsis]

What’s it called?

[@chemergency]

@@Sellipsis It's just called SiN: The Movie. Came out in 2000.

[@chillhour6155]

I still have the DVD copy lol, saw it for 2 bucks back in the day and I had to have it, not bad animation really, just bit short

[@chemergency]

@@chillhour6155 The animation in it's actially quite solid, looks good for an anime of its age.

[@mattrobson3603]

I'm like 63% sure that Gmanlives has a video on it.

[@NebLleb]

Hey, it's the game that features the really good pistol/handgun that ISN'T Halo: Combat Evolved!

[@CrizzyEyes]

So you never played Unreal Tournament then.

[@NebLleb]

@@CrizzyEyes I did. And I played Unreal 1 as well.

[@Kong20012]

Don’t forget FEAR, Swat4, arma, Rainbow six, hitman, verdun and rising storm.

[@TheOneTrueStAN]

RE4 handguns have always been my favorite, after CE and FEAR honestly.

[@187onaPigeon]

I remember recreating the pistol with cardboard/food packaging

[@MrDorkbot]

You know I really hope they'll make sin 2 one day, have it set in between wages of sin and episodes and try and explain what happened between the two. Also my favourite part is when the weird sewer mutant cult leader tells his followers "you were not meant to watch Cable TV and Gameshows!"

[@Gruntvc]

Me too, sadly this dev is defunct and most Western devs/publishers would likely ruin it. A Man can dream though, this and a new Turok...

[@Razor_Afterlife]

Maybe a fan sequel

[@AkrianX]

Nightdive Studios bought the rights recently, so they actually may do a sequel someday.

[@Gruntvc]

@Armand Shukaev, Nightdive Studios seem to remaster games more than make new ones. Give Sin and Turok to the devs of Terminator Resistance. At least they'd be single player focused and not changed for the worse like most Western devs/publishers now.

[@marksantory4405]

My friend had this game. I spent the night at his house and once everyone went to sleep I spanked off all over a towel in his computer room to the villain. Oh no not the lady, the mutated guy in the pink pin stripes.

[@teapeaa]

LUL

[@ryanm.8720]

The mutated guy might be a better choice than Elexis, since he's less likely to betray you.

[@marksantory4405]

@@ryanm.8720 Haha yes at least he won't cheat on you and that half your money with him after the divorce.

[@PartyCrasher04]

LMAOO WHAT

[@HeyItsJonny]

"Came for the game. Came for the game."

[@DeepseaOddities]

Thank you SO much for giving SiN so much love in your videos! Didn't expect to get a brand new look at this classic today so that really made my day. Ritual Entertainment are the unsung fallen heroes of classic FPS if you ask me. What's really interesting too is that if you look back at their build of Condition Zero (Deleted Scenes), there are a TON of similarities to SiN that just have their fingerprints all over it. For instance, in Thin Ice you take on a fighter jet shooting RPGs at you just like at the end of Emergence. The final chapter, "Rise Hard", takes place in an office building and rooftops, also like the end of Emergence. CZ Deleted Scenes is unpolished and literally unfinished thanks to Valve's strict deadlines, but I think it's a hidden gem despite its flaws thanks to some really exciting gunplay and varied environments, something you previously commented on in your CZ video. Less known is that the game has a hidden difficulty where if you put "Skill 0" into the console, the damage you take from enemy fire is roughly on par with in actual CS 1.6-- it's a huge challenge but I love playing this mode. I dream of Ritual coming back, but I doubt that could ever happen. They suffered the fate of being swallowed up by a casual gaming company. Oh, the humanity!

[@FeelingShred]

And also not forgetting that the company started out with the Quake Scourge of Armagon expansion pack, which might be in my opinion the best FPS experience I ever had. Or at least top 3. That thing took the Quake engine and took it to new heights, it's truly the single player campaign Quake deserved to have.

[@sebastiankiro6984]

Civvie, Mandalore and Gmanlives all post at the same time.. What a blessed day!

[@sageringeisen8236]

Hopefully we'll get a collab with all three.

[@patricknaughton6636]

We can only hope but I think gman got kinda pissed when civvie called him out for dropping the ball on the blood fs video. Personally I'm holding out for a civvie episode that does a bit where sseth voices cancer mouse

[@aceofhearts573]

Thanks for the heads up brother

[@sageringeisen8236]

@@patricknaughton6636 That's right, totally forgot about that.

[@zoloftdependant5246]

@@patricknaughton6636 they should kiss and make up

[@joepwrsurge]

Bro, I'm so glad you reviewed this game again. I remember playing this game over and over as a twelve-year-old. It was like a next-gen type step up for me back then, like Allied Assault felt back in the day.

[@hajimeokajima]

Half Life: Exists Reviewers to SiN, Shogo and Quake 2: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.

[@yourfatboy5359]

Dont forget about doom 3 when hl2 was released

[@aprofondir]

Yea because those games seem almost juvenile and barbaric compared to Half Life

[@St_Rizla]

24:05 what's funny is they had two models cosplay in latex as Elexis and Jessica Cannon for E3 2006, and Jessica's model had a tramp stamp lol

[@CantankerousDave]

I remember her. Makes me wonder if she was hired for her name, Cindy Synnett.

[@St_Rizla]

@@CantankerousDave definitely a pseudonym too

[@scottl.1568]

Jessica is all right... She can get it!

[@VandalVanWilder]

"imagine if Jessica Rabbit got mixed with a porno star" - Laughs in SFM

[@ejeckk]

When I lived in Kaiserslautern Germany back in the 90's, I used to run a PC gaming club. We would LAN this game (real LAN; not what folks call LAN today) and play this game beyond all redemption. There was a map where everyone was miniaturized in this room with with giant bookcases, chairs, tables, etc. We would play that map for hours on end. This brought back some great memories.

[@lennertbruin5513]

Yeah, loved that level. Very unique. Good memories.

[@V0lk]

I remember playing that level a lot. It was so much fun.

[@luissantiago5163]

That intro. The great Anti Simp *edit* Oh this game looks interesting. Story wise kinda meh looking but gameplay looks cool

[@Thfoxpz]

And it's older than you

[@luissantiago5163]

@@Thfoxpz ok then. it's as old as me.

[@theroboxer3282]

@Dmitry TKR it means he did the opposite of simping.

[@majorgear1021]

My wife’s boyfriend loved this comment.

[@Genesisx3x]

"Make sure to make it look like an accident, Blade!"

[@tommyswain3762]

That “questionable taste in art” is absolutely a reference to A Clockwork Orange.

[@Gggmanlives]

I thought it was a reference to dick.

[@tommyswain3762]

GmanLives it can be both ❤️

[@jong2359]

@@tommyswain3762 but mostly dick.

[@Cr1msnF4dger]

I mean it doesn't help that Alexis is dressed like a dominatrix so

[@toxiclaw7591]

14:36 they even explained why there's no bathroom breaks, my man's wearing a diaper!

[@ZeDitto3]

My Mans is just dummy thicc

[@vladv5126]

"Then you're moving through the sewers..." *ding!*

[@cheesydenton]

This place stinks like your apartment, JC

[@WetWookie1988]

This is the pinnacle of entertainment comments.

[@pickelsvx]

O H H E Y VLAD V

[@vladv5126]

@@pickelsvx hey!

[@timking3587]

Brings back memories of having to get a CD with the patch direct from the company or whoever to fix load times in the game originally. Back when the game was released i had dial up and just downloading 100mb was trouble. Disconnections etc.

[@gamertechkid1490]

I'm so glad you covered Sin Episodes. I actually enjoyed this back in the day, after I finished Half Life 2 of course.

[@tomcruiiseship9461]

Same. Shame that didn't make more.

[@arthurgrmg2850]

_"MAKE SURE TO KILL ME, BLADE!"_

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

_"DON'T FORGET TO LOOT MY CORPSE, BLADE!"_

[@emojidevil129]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4PVYZqmm9JoaqM

[@intrepidmatter8165]

"MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT, BLADE!"

[@PeterPing]

"TAKE CARE OF MY FAMILY, BLADE"

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

Back then, those graphics were cutting edge lol

[@vivekkparashar]

Yeah with all that bounce and shit ...cutting edge indeed😜

[@nickm5419]

these graphics are better than UE4

[@daveb1930]

That Sin Episodes difficulty bug was legendary. I did manage to finish it eventually, by save-scumming. What a grind.

[@fen4554]

I remember my computer struggling to render the helicopter fight scene with my Diamond Voodoo2 expansion board.

[@03blaird]

I Remember it being a slideshow on the rig I had as a kid!

[@majorgear1021]

The AGP bus couldn’t handle it!

[@dannywholuv]

Yeah my rig stuttered like fuck. Youd hear the pigeon explode 5 times before you seen anything happen 🙄

[@TheGamerguy6]

"You like my jetpack BLADE!"

[@intrepidmatter8165]

"HELP ME BLADE I'M MELDED TO THE PIPE"

[@Em4gon]

Hey, love your reviews of old games, very informative. Thanks to you I discovered lots of good games nobody talks about now!

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

Gman... 23:42, from one Black brotha to an Australian brotha.... you're a man after my own heart. Those words are music to my ears. I love me some ass.

[@DelGray]

Everytime I get a new GPU I always go back to Sin Episode and see how much nicer the opening looks lol it was a ritual going back to my first proper gaming rig and getting Steam for the first time

[@kendog84bsc]

The thumbnail art is simply gorgeous

[@NeonChrome_]

Thank you, MilaTheMute for the beautiful thumbnail art as always! 🤟🏻

[@Raptor501st]

The pistol just looks like it belongs in a 2003 game, quality wise

[@azumi2121]

Sin and 'No-one lives forever' were amazing additions to the genre, I always think about re-visiting those two.

[@moonraven6145]

I miss when instruction booklets were made to look like they belonged in the games lore, like a Journal or like a Manual on how to operate a spaceship, stuff like that.

[@Leyvin]

Sin Episodes had a lot of promise., and for what it was... it was good. The issue was that unfortunately Episode 1 was so insanely pirated, that it literally bankrupt Ritual. Thus we never saw another Episode released. It's not quite the same as Valve, who have more than enough funds and staff to produce HL Episode 3... they just haven't., because they've decided to "Diversify" into half a dozen other projects and again not really keep any of them alive either.

[@labdG]

Elexis may be super sexualized but the fact that she's the main villain and a leader is really cool and not usual in games. I also love the fact that she uses her apeal to manipulate and distract. xD We so often get super sexy women in games that just are there to look pretty but she is actually a woman with more power than perhaps anyone else in this game. I dig it. Kind of like how Bayonetta uses her sexuality to display her power over others.

[@DominikSobolewski]

Battletoads had an oversexualized female villain.

[@labdG]

​@@LtJackStone Well, I gotta admit. I probably wrote that poorly. Because I didn't really mean it the way you said it, but it's basically how I wrote it so it's my own fault. Basically, I just thought this was a cool character and although I still think she has aspects that are quite rare, it's not like I don't think there are tons of other good female characters.

[@ZsoltVajda]

SIN was the first game that I can remember where headshots were thing

[@VirtuallyUnderstandable]

Not playing this game is a *sin* hahahahhaha End me please

[@sageringeisen8236]

Another joke now, you comedic bastard.

[@VirtuallyUnderstandable]

@@sageringeisen8236 sorry, I don't want to go to hell with my sinful jokes

[@Professor_Utonium_]

@@VirtuallyUnderstandable You're a weeaboo, so you're already going there

[@VirtuallyUnderstandable]

@@Professor_Utonium_ my pfp is Hana Macchia a virtual youtuber, not from an anime. Heck she's from Indonesia

[@Professor_Utonium_]

@@VirtuallyUnderstandable Hey, if it quacks like a duck... All joking aside though, I don't diss on people for liking that sort of thing (Japanese or not)

[@happyjohn354]

SiN actually has a movie that came out in 2000. I thought it was pretty solid as a kid.

[@frankiemartinez1755]

My man keep doing these re reviews, i cant tell you how many badass old reviews i listen to on your page and are too short. But above 20min reviews!? Thats my shit right there. You did it with vampire the masquerade, and half life opposing force, keep it up!

[@werecomingforyou9041]

“Don’t forget to loot my corpse, BLADE.” -James willams

[@mistermann4163]

Sin feels like Resident Evil up to 11 in a Sci-fi universe from the way you describe it.

[@davep8221]

JC's name came from the relatively unknown John Carmack.

[@socks2441]

who is now surely exceptionally well known. so you mean 'relatively unkown at the time, john carmack'? ;-)

[@davep8221]

@@socks2441 Actually, just irony. I'd imagine that at that time, John's name was known to more gamers due to the size of the community and the dominance of id. Ask a CoD player today who he is and you'd probably get a blank stare. But back then, there were lots of id engine games out. So basically, a joke that fell flat.

[@socks2441]

@@davep8221 dont worry, i flatten a lot of jokes. its not you, its me ;-)

[@cheesydenton]

@@davep8221 They must wash their mouths with bleach before talking about Carmack.

[@exaIgnus]

👍 for the thumbnail. Ah, Elexis Sinclaire. I remember the secret "Rub-a-dub-dub" scene, and the way to expectate it on more free form options. All this so ahead of SFM.

[@majorgear1021]

what’s the cheat code to unlock that scene?

[@auto_mata]

Ha, I just replayed through SiN last week on a whim. It really struck me how good the soundtrack was, particularly the industrial track from that city chase onward. And it does have one of my favorite video game quotes, right from the start of the game: "Nice shooting, Tex. That billboard ain't getting up."

[@imcharming4808]

How did you get it to run? I thought it was impossible on modern machines? I tried but it was 1-2 years ago.

[@auto_mata]

@@imcharming4808 They released a Steam version this year called "SiN: Gold" that should run on modern machines. Has the base game and expansion pack. store.steampowered.com/app/1313/SiN_Gold/

[@Gruntvc]

@I'm Charming, Nightdive Studios "remastered" Sin recently, so it should be able to run now. If you already own Sin on Steam, it was a free upgrade. Sadly they didn't add achievements like Turok 1&2.

[@Corpseplower]

@@Gruntvc Re-release, Nightdive is still working on the remaster.

[@justinemery2194]

SiN has been criminally underrated for years. It’s one of the best FPS ever and had amazing death match mechanics. It’s also the only FPS I was good enough at to talk shit and back it up lol. Used to play on PC Games and PC Gamers magazine servers daily.

[@Tyrany42]

Imagine rebooting SiN and bringing back Elexis in this day and age; people would go ballistic. A shame no one is interested in bringing sexy back, pardon the pun.

[@interpol007]

Remake being made right now

[@anthonymaslow798]

No one would go ballistic, stfu. There are so many games released with ridiculously overly sexualized character models. No one says shit. gAmErS are such wankers. mUh aNti-sJwS. You bitch and moan more than the fiendish sJwS you turds are always whining about.

[@Chuked]

@@anthonymaslow798 people went ballistic when they wanted to add swastikas so yeah people would go ballistic because of this 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@devlintaylor9520]

@@Chuked add swastikas to what?

[@Chuked]

@@devlintaylor9520 battlefield 5 and cod ww2 games

[@4.0.4]

Really a nice touch to commission a thumbnail for the review.

[@TroyMcElveny1]

I grew up and played this game. Nobody I knew had heard of this game. So glad to see someone give it a modern review.

[@mattrobson3603]

"There's just something about combat in an office building that's just always enjoyable." It's getting to live out the fantasy of coming to work and going buck wild with a machine gun. I assume, at least. I've never worked in an office environment.

[@chuupi8412]

i love your videos gman. my appreciation for old school fps' has gone way up cause of your videos. keep the great content coming!

[@amoroughil8874]

"Dont forget to loot my corpse BLAAADE" - Some skinny elf looking dude

[@MercuryCircuit]

Great Vid. I loved Q2 and Sin. It was a time when you could see things changing with fps games and my intro to Lan parties and multiplayer. Great days and memories :)

[@TheBenevolentPirate]

Speaking of narrative driven levels in old games. I think the first star wars dark forces is over looked as an early game with a narrative to the levels. At least it's the oldest shooter I've played were I felt I was playing a story rather than just a series of levels.

[@todesziege]

Dark Forces and Duke 3D were two that really pushed it, and later Sin, Half-Life 1 and Unreal. Though I honestly think the original Doom did a pretty good job at it too, better than many of its followers.

[@RATTLESNAKE209]

As soon as I clicked on the video I checked out the most replayed parts, I wasn't disappointed.

[@JawasRandomStuff]

So you, mandalore and civvie uploading at the same day. this is a good day.

[@lurkerrekrul]

I love SiN. The demo for it was one of the first FPS games I ever played. Unfortunately, it took forever to load on my first system and I didn't know to invert the mouse control, so when it started, I couldn't hit anything. Because of the long load time, I never tried it again and just kind of forgot about it. Years later, I decided to try the demo again on a much faster system and was surprised that the load times weren't that long at all. With the controls properly configured, I thought it was great and bought a used copy the moment I saw it at EB Games. I did have a few glitches in the game (a room filled with water, a scrambled guard tower, points in the game that would create corrupt saves), but it was a lot of fun. I never played SiN Episodes. I remember when it came out, I publicly said that it was a bad idea and probably would never get finished. The only thing I was wrong about was the reason for that. I figured that the company would lose interest or claim that they didn't sell well enough to continue the series. Turns out that Ritual got bought out by another company, which caused them to scrap all their current projects. Another reason I dislike episodic games is that I like to be able to play through the entire game start to finish, rather than feel like I'm playing unconnected levels.

[@Anonymous-73]

If there’s one game that needs a remake, it’s this

[@abesmissioncontrol2013]

A remake of this in 2021 would gender-swap the hero and the villain, making John Blade the bad guy who dresses like a dom and is always hitting on the "strong female lead" Alexis (who don't need no man).

[@Anonymous-73]

@@abesmissioncontrol2013 ....what the fuck

[@degamispoudegamis]

@@abesmissioncontrol2013 sounds like cope to me

[@ENGLANDmistaT]

SiN was awesome. Pood my pants when I first encountered the subway mutant

[@brainc0la-_-]

John Blade was pretty fun, too bad he'll never come back.

[@Gruntvc]

Pretty much all the badass alpha male voiced characters have disappeared now. John Blade, Turok, Duke Nukem, Caleb, Lo Wang, etc.

[@majorgear1021]

“I’ll be back” - John Blade

[@Moji55a]

​@@GruntvcSorry I can't take you seriously when yoi mention "badass alpha male" Lo wang and Duke Nukem is cringey while only Turok, John Blade, and Caleb is cool.

[@Zusse]

I remember finding out about Sin when I realized how awesome this game was and dope the weapons graphics and how ahead of it time it was when it came out I instantly loved it

[@calahad]

I remember playing the living shit out of this game when it came out as a demo on a disc with one of the local gaming magazines.

[@bansheekiller]

Young me was so freaked out when I figured out in the demo version that came on iirc a PC Gamer disk, whilst you start off in a helicopter segment where you mow down as many enemies as possible with the mounted chaingun, I figured out that if you didn't kill enough enemies, the helicopter would be forced to land early, giving an alternate start to the rest of the level.

[@DeezNuts-bg2qp]

Damn, I thought jak 2 was the cutoff for... Immersive 3d graphics

[@HansLollo]

The assault rifle looked like a goddamn power drill. It's the one thing, along with the exploding dove, that I remember.

[@magostarmus3705]

2:00 JC Denton! In da fresh!

[@Metalclear82]

Actually, Elixis was modeled after latex model Bianca Beauchamp. She was even part of the publicity campaign back then. The photoshot of her with the Elexis outfit can still be found in her website

[@cambreaKer]

can you make a review of delta force? it was also a forgotten game from 1998

[@Rodarbal0]

The blackhawk down one 👍

[@cambreaKer]

@@Rodarbal0 that's also a good one.

[@iRAWT]

My favorite FPS growing up. 100%. I was kicking ass in the #1 clan, Bad Karma- back in the day on heat.net rocking a 56k modem. That's right kids, soak that shit in. LOL. Jokes aside, SiN was an absolute diamond for it's multiplayer. It had fantastic level design, bunny hopping, rocket jumping and of course, BEAST MODE!!! I got super nostalgic chills watching this. Great game, wish a remake would come back.

[@shinodaa]

Sin Episodes has the best soundtrack "What's the world come to" stil love it in 2020

[@ulizez89]

I second this, that song is straight up great (not "great for a videogame song" but just great, period).

[@matbianchi2655]

Sins game mechanics are really tight and smooth as I remember, good game

[@terminatror1000]

He got us with the Thumbnail guys

[@bloodrunsclear]

BLADE IS BACK! Phantom Fury seems to show him and his mag, and it even sounds like the voice actor!

[@fromvault801]

Get out the Jergens and a box of tissues its Sin

[@mashakos1]

I remember playing the demo of this game over and over before the game came out, being blown away by all the PCs and ATMs in the game being fully functional with passwords and stuff. Doesn't sound all that impressive nowadays but in late 1997? Felt like science fiction!

[@MarkusxJxKeetz]

“I’ll get you, BLADE!”

[@VicTheRattlehead1]

"hey blade, if you hear this, shoot me" Press F for our bois

[@Senior666]

Am kinda surprised to see you doing a re-review BUT it is SIN and that smooth Aussie accent dose it eveytime 😂👌

[@paddybear6995]

Ok, so I'm now wondering if Gmanlives prefers Forest Gump or Pulp Fiction? :D

[@paddybear6995]

@@Largentina. What about Gump Gump and Pulp Forest?

[@TrueDiox]

I do remember throwing DOS commands into those computer terminals. That level of interactivity really stood out for me at the time and, over 20 years later, I still haven't seen it get matched. Deus Ex games came closest, but not quite there for me.

[@RetroAmateur1989]

review gore: ultimate soldier sometime

[@marscaleb]

Wow, I've played that one! That game is even more forgotten than Sin!

[@unwillfullyignorant7805]

Can’t wait till 7 years when SiN comes to life

[@jaydamalley3398]

"Check his ovaries!"

[@blakeprocter5818]

I can't watch this right now, but as soon as I can I will be all over this Triple G. My favourite childhood shooter. This is such a classic. I'm looking forward to this unexpected review on greatness. Most people will say Half Life 2, or Duke 3D, or DOOM. But NAY!!! For shall I sayeth thus.. the light is SiN, and thus shalleth SiN be the brightest light in the sky.

[@sirderpington7704]

JC? OH NO IT'S A BOMB!

[@dilanwijekoon9327]

one of most memorable games.hope a good remake or reboot will come

[@marksayosmejia7251]

Cool. Been waiting for this since i saw your tweet.

[@JasonL_Hawaii]

4:32, this explains the original source as we see this clip in your intro for most of your videos.