Platform: PC.
Genre: FPS with a splash of Adventure.
Developer: N'Lightning Software.
Publisher: N'Lightning Software.
Website: http://www.n-lightning.com/horizons.htm
Say what you like and have to wonder every day something new, hitherto not seen. That's only if you come across in everyday life that something unusual is quite simple, the computer games the probability of such a meeting is gradually reduced. Recent hits are almost always cloned ideas of their predecessors, the long-standing and try to give them a super new feature, and those who ponaglee, and did promise to "revolutionize the genre." Trying to, you know, to entice gamers sweet words. Hmm ... And in fact, any of these innovations has necessarily been realized a long time ago in some ancient Spectrum toy. But agree that there are "new items", continuing where the player is not something that is not waiting, but just do not understand, there will be those in the second part or sequel. Not to mention their borrowing by other developers. Why? Now to find out ...
I think many readers will remember the terrible events that took place not long ago in the U.S.. Then a few collapsed with oak shells at most teens can not diverse ammunition and decided to have some fun. The place chosen is quite fun and crowded - the second his native home, in other words, a school. But already there staged a very real slaughter - who from his father's rifle, and some with a hunting knife, killed a lot of their friends and classmates. Brutally so, quite mercilessly. So far, in the eyes of standing footage from television news, when his mother weeps over a dead bloody daughter ... What those bastards slipped roof so no one really ever knew, but one of the first version appeared on the corrupting influence on the fledgling teenage psyche of computer games in general and in particular DOOMopodobnyh. The logic, of course there is, but ... In general, as it may be, but there are people who undertook to do the "right" shooter. The name itself is also picked up right - N'Lightning, that even the last hungry beavers Arabian desert have recognized the usefulness and enlightenment of the office. All in order to, so rebetenok the computer not only wits studied, but also became a kind. What came of that, gamers will recall, had the misfortune to buy Catechumen. Good, and perpetual deeply mired in a miserable implement and complete lack of interest in the game. And here comes the repetition - Ominous Horizons. Those same features, side view.
It starts very entertaining and original. A paladin, the guardian of the holy order and total well-being, the will of fate turns out to be a small town. Put bluntly, the town is right (you may have noticed, I pressed on that word?): One big street, one restaurant, one hotel, a smithy and a church.Residents are also alone in his misery - the insidious power of evil to contrive secretly sneak into this quiet corner of piety and created most terrible blasphemy! Heathens only destroyed the entire village printing machine and stole the Holy Scriptures. The trouble repeatedly exaggerated when it turns out that the Bible is a library of Evil did not stick. In consequence of that was dispelled by the wind, and now languishes in separate leaflets on various nooks and crannies. What is there to do? Accounts in a matter of urgency to seize a local cleric weapon of revenge (who said that regular paladins rich?) And dive into a kind of portal. Look, you know, adventures on their second ninety.
The correct play for the right children have to be free of violence. But if you already own genre affiliation and the existence of monsters oblige make chlenovreditelskie action, then do without blood, as it turned out, very possible. Everything you need to do is remove the animation of monsters with a hit in their "holy bullets" (and you're naive, thinking we're going to hack sword ?..). Shot a couple of crossbow - vrazhin and vanished. And completely without trace, and then suddenly, child looking at the corpse run! So one should not hurt the psyche of gamers sudden appearance because of the angles of all villains. Therefore, they claim only to the appointed place and be sure to report their presence soon - porychat, wings poshelestyat. Boring and tedious. And without any interest in the game kill blotches genre adventure. Realized they were as follows. If you see a high step, leading further down the hall, then somewhere close (in fact - to distant lands in a secret island, guarded by evil scarecrow) will lie shoes that improve jumping ability. Likewise, we find and the rest of the knightly equipment, but interesting to play this does not become. Or, for example, have to wade through the cave, blowing winds, dropping players to the entrance. They do not blow constantly, so we have to choose the time and hide the tabs. Very interestingly, is not it?
Alas, but the game disappoints with first seconds of lame graphics. Gray-brown-poshkaryabannye texture escorted us from the very first episode to the last. Ubiquitous sprite lights, coupled with a grim and confusing architecture level creates an oppressive experience. Just think of it, and after the third GeForce appeared already quite a while ... Although here it would be correct to recall the first Riva TNT. Monsters often scare negligible number of polygons spent on their modeling than ferocious grin, and intelligent behavior. Developers can only praise for a really lovely night sky and a good implementation of water hazards. Moving in the underwater kingdom made a rare weird - instead of what would dive and swim with graceful arms and legs, our hero is forced like a frog move my body weird jerks. First, this "feature" is funny, and then somehow not very much. In general, there is not praise for that - nothing new since the ill-fated Catechumen'a have not been identified. If something is creates an atmosphere that only a quite decent sound effects. No, music is like everything else is horrible, but that's howling wind in a cave (the same one where the wind blows) really bad. In the rest - gloomy darkness.
As a result, we received virtually unplayable product. The game, which really can not even shoot and run within the beautiful lawns and byways, we have to spend hours looking for a place of "shoes", wandering among the ruins of the dark and stupid monsters.Alas, what local analog Halsey realized in the form of scrolls containing biblical texts, does not play the saint and on whether mandatory for viewing. I only need to thank the developers for trying to create a toy without violence and brainless mysheklikanya, but ... One's ideas is not enough. And as experience showed, did not have even two. They say that God loves a trinity, but that if this case? In my opinion, we should not torture yourself, and other such religious innovations. |
