I tried playing with the original letterboxing on, but after a while it just became too frustrating, and negatively impacted my enjoyment of the game.
My PC isn't the the best nowadays, but still quite a bit more powerful than current-gen consoles, and the performance impact by turning it off and changing the FOV was severe, easily more taxing than changing any of the other graphical settings. I had to lock it back to 30 FPS for it to be playable.
I'm not suggesting the letterboxing isn't an artistic decision, but if the console versions are struggling with 30 FPS as it is, they'd probably dip into single-digit framerates without it.
Looks much better on the PC and runs at a stable 30 FPS (tried unlocking the framerate but it jumped from ~60 to 40, so I locked it instead), despite my older system.
The voice-acting and characters have been pretty bad, and the story hasn't grabbed me. I'm just hoping that it won't turn out that you've been in robed-dude's head all along.
I'm enjoying the atmosphere and the environments, and the gameplay has been serviceable.
I've also disabled the letterboxing and set the FOV to 90, which so far hasn't caused me any problems and made for a much less aggravating experience.
Mission: Impossible for the 64. I bought and sold that game three times. I couldn't get enough of it. It was terrible and looked horrible and was full of the jankiest nonsense, but goddam I love it. The level where you have to go undercover at the big party is one of the greatest levels in games ever. So many options, so much drama, so cool. Poisoning the drinks, putting gas in the vents. The way the whole thing plays out is fantastic.
And the level on top of the train too, where you got instakilled if you were standing at the wrong point. Amazing.
Yes! The appearance changing device in that game was so cool at the time. The KGB headquarters was also a really great level.
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