The best thing about that game are the Derek Smart flamewars that it spawned. It was indeed a steaming pile when released, and the dev (Derek Smart) was notoriously thin skinned which led to some epic usenet threads.
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I recall the publisher also released the game before it was ready so I don't think Smart should get 100% of the blame.
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The rumor mill of the game developer world back in the late 1990's was that the publisher finally told Derek Smart that they had to release it no matter what because they were done funding his crap. I don't know it to be 100% true but it is what was spoken around the old water cooler at Eidos Interactive when I was working there as part of the QC team for Joint Strike Fighter back in the late 1997 through early 1998.
In short I wouldn't pee on a Derek Smart game if it was on fire and threatening to burn my house down.
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