YMMV / SiN (1998)

• Complete Monster: The Wages of Sin Expansion Pack introduces Gianni Manero, a psychopathic, power-hungry mob boss who desires the destruction of Freeport city. Using Elexis Sinclaire's SinTEK mutants, he forces Sinclaire's head scientist to work for him by holding his daughter hostage. He also altered the U4 drug to not only control the mutants directly, but also transform humans into hundreds of giant Goliath mutants. When he discovers that John Blade's after him, he lures him to his lab and tries to have him killed by his Goliaths, and once that fails, he rigs the facility to detonate, then tries to destroy Freeport's offshore nuclear power plant, planning to start a chain reaction that will cause Freeport to explode, preparing to kill not only 10 million people, but himself too.
• Narm: "Oh Noisy One Kenobi."
• Obvious Beta:
  • The original game was a mess when it first hit shelves. Problems included Loads and Loads of Loading, non-functioning AI for one of the bosses, music tracks not playing correctly (or at all), various game crashes, and typos on various textures. By the time these issues had been patched out, the damage had already been done; the game had released merely two weeks before Valve's mega-hit Half-Life, and SiN was completely overshadowed by that game's runaway success.
  • Even when patched, there are a small handful of areas where there are next to no health/armor pickups, what's worse is these areas usually tend to be connected to each other, resulting in a sudden incredible strictness with resources where you may not get any health for several levels at a time.
• Porting Disaster: The Steam re-release of the original game included with Emergence is a downplayed example. While it was updated to natively support modern computer hardware and use Steam's server browser for multiplayer, the music playback suffers from bugs, has censored nudity and drug references, as well as having edited a number of textures to remove pop-culture references and, oddly, replaced others with renders of Emergence's 3D models. It also does not include the Wages of Sin expansion pack, which itself included several fixes (such as adding several options to the controls menu that were missing in the original for unknown reasons) and allows playing the original campaign with some of the expansion's new additions like dual-wielding the pistol. As of early 2020, however, Nightdive Studios has updated the game to bring it up to snuff with the GOG.com version, including bringing back the original uncensored textures and adding the Wages of Sin expansion, and with promises of a full remaster down the line.
• That One Level:
  • Mountain Gorge is a linear timed challenge where there's plenty of enemy snipers and rocket troopers to take you out with relatively little health including a nasty ambush by a handful of enemies appearing behind you while you're distracted with snipers.
  • Containment Area 57 borders on luck as several of the melee attacks by enemy mutants have no-windup and can hit you near instantly, this is annoying enough when you have guns but this level forces you to melee several of them with too little health pickups for the nearly unavoidable damage.

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