Well my brother always tried to convince me that it was good, but I much prefer games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider.. things like that. But one day I saw a second hand copy in Game for 8 quid, and I just thought why not =) and I'm very glad I did!
I never played the originals cos I thought it was really geeky at the time =) my brother had all of them and I used to pick on him for it :/ oh how wrong was I