Platform: GameCube
Genre: Strategy with elements of adventure / puzzle
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Official site: http://www.pikmin.com/
As often happens, unfortunately, the graphics in games used as the sole tool in attracting consumers' attention. Moreover, if the game with a beautiful shell and creates something akin to the gameplay, not always it turns out, I'm sorry, advanced. After all, much easier on old ideas and the famous name to earn a few million American rubles, but this industry is not getting better. Well, that today there are developers and they actually are not enough to create for us the original game products and carry a small revolution. Industry successes in recent years confirm that the interest in it is on the rise, and last but not least due to the increased number of unique games.
W December 2001 on the GameCube got the English version of this innovative and exciting strategy Pikmin. By and large, this review could be completed, publicly stating that the game was developed under the leadership of the Shigeru Miyamoto. But it would not be fair to the reader who wants to know the details.
Pikmin is interesting primarily a history of its appearance. The idea of the game came to Shigeru Miyamoto, after several trips in Japanese garden, which is a brilliant designer grew near his home. He considered that an interesting and bustling microcosm of the daily bustle of the flower garden it is quite possible to move into the virtual environment. The idea was very interesting, and Nintendo project was given the green light.
Pikmin story is simple. She tells us about the catastrophic crash of a mysterious alien planet whose name is Captain Orimarom. Sam pilot miraculously survived, but that's the problem - the space spaceship unfortunate traveler broke into 30 pieces over the entire surface of the planet, and left only have 30 crucial days during which the necessary time to recover the ship and sail home. Not having time to really "delighted" to his position, Orimar on his luck finds Pikminov - friendly people, which missed a strong economic hand. Orimar, realizing that all is not lost and returning to their home planet may well take place immediately adopted for addressing questions of his own salvation.
Pikminy look like and what they use? Pikminy - tsvetkopodobnye are small creatures, they have even on the top, depending on the species, is on the kidney, leaves or flowers. From one Pikmina little use, the power of creatures - in their number. Under the leadership of the leader, that is, you can gather up to hundreds of Pikminov.They can be dragged from place to place virtually any weight, which usually indicates the figure, talking about how much workaholic to be connected to work. The heavier the load, the figure looks scary. The more Pikminov drag an object, the faster it goes well. Beings can be divided into teams and take in several tasks - everything will depend on the chosen strategy and goals of the player on the ground. Control over Pikminami by C-joystick controller GameCube.
Besides the fact that Pikminy may be involved in finding and moving into the camp on a planet scattered elements of the destroyed ship, they will still be very useful in everyday life of your camp. The player almost throughout his adventure will solve the problem of replenishment of its settlement by new residents. Pikminy not come at the behest of a single click of the barracks, they are the same colors, so light they appear from the seeds and the seeds are stored in pollen "Pikmin fertilizer" - scattered around the world colored tablets. For these pills to hunt throughout the game. Place found the tablets - camp, and will be updated with new subjects of your tiny kingdom. Proklyunuvshihsya from land creatures to put into operation is very simple: they need to pull out as a carrot.
Number Pikminov will never remain constant, as the world exists in plenty of hungry and fierce enemies. In battles with wild beasts zhukopodobnymi loss on your side is almost inevitable. Pikminy on orders will fearlessly tilting at the monsters of any size, stick them on all sides - this act is very funny looks - and a handful of them die in the jaws. If the attack approached with a certain degree of caution, the fate of the enemy in this case not to be envied.
Orimar and Pikminy have traveled through five unique areas, which poses many kinds of obstacles, including giant bosses. As engaging the new species of creatures, the number and complexity of the puzzles will steadily increase: Red Pikminy correspond to fire and they are the best fighters, yellow Pikminy may be abandoned on inaccessible for other types of height and they are excellent carriers; blue Pikminy know how to deal with water but they are bad wars.
The most important thing in Pikmin - it wisely planned it as a hard timeline practically does not tolerate delay. Some tasks require especially thoughtful treatment with such force as Pikminy. Beings can not only fight and carry objects, they also send you hack tremendous plant, to build bridges across the river and destroy the mighty walls. Pikminy - the key to a successful outcome of the company.
Talking about the technical side of Pikmin, should again be noted that the game is capable of processing simultaneously on the screen more than a hundred Pikminov, and when he led such a "polygon fuss" - breathtaking. It does not cease to marvel the beauty of texture, their uniqueness from location to location, the effects of soft shadows that gradually darken the remotest places on the screen, as well as pristine a pulsating water. In a game full of cool lighting effects: day of the beauty of the planet caressing the bright rays of the sun, when the late afternoon golden haze enveloped the neighborhood, and the nature of the night immersed in a bluish shimmer. These natural processes are due to the effect of soft smoothing performed incredibly impressive.However, when approaching the camera at a minimum distance from the earth, the texture quality drops, they take a little zamyty form. But the camera is a little take (and this situation - the most used in the game), and you again captivates indescribably beautiful microcosm, if, indeed, fall under the crown of summer garden. According to developers, many of the things that they had been photographed in real life - got into the game. Despite the fact that the game will be updated with frequently no more than 30 frames per second, Pikmin today can rightly be considered one of the most beautiful games on the GameCube.
Pikmin is also one of the most exciting games on the console this year. It will ask you to do not only real-time strategy, but decide not to a small number of different puzzles, and just to entice spanning adventure, which, as it is not sad to realize flies too fast. The process of finding 30 pieces of the ship only lasts for 10 + hours, but it's so exciting that the game will return you in his arms again and again. The more so after the company has yet to investigate the regime Challenge, which will offer new jobs and put up new bosses. Pikmin-hundred percent hit. Fans of Nintendo, fans of the genre strategy with elements of adventure / puzzle, and all those who just likes interesting and high-quality games, I recommend to buy Pikmin.
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