X3: Reunion

Authors: Matthew «hate008» Bulohov
Source: Country Games № 24 2005	10.12.2005

If you had asked, for what the game is to get a new video card, I would not hesitate to call X3: Reunion. In many other modern games use graphics engine as the main argument for selling - a common occurrence. And to see such beauty in a space simulator doubly pleased, because the eye-candy it is not an end in itself.

Fantastic Four

author: tick_the
	22.08.2005

Platform: PC; PS2; Xbox; GC; GBA Genre: Action Developer: Beenox Publisher: Activision Project website: http://www.f4thegame.com/home.html Requirements: P-3 800MHz; 256 Mb RAM; 32 Mb Video Mr. Fantastic hit another alien spider its incredibly stretched arm and with sadness in his eyes mumbled (he obviously wanted something to dilute the repetitive destruction of arthropods): "Damn, how much leaner these supervillains imagination. In the jungle, I am of the tarantula-age threw stones at SHIELD'e mechanized hurled against the wall, now on a spaceship appeared. I understand that it must have been a subtle irony of the Spider-man'om, but give in the end, I dichlorvos. Tsirkachestvo Dichlorvos nobody will give. As well as any other weapon. The only means to fight the bad guys (in other words to call the enemy does not work - so they are defenseless) - own limbs and superpowers. Break up the hordes of evil breeze: just in time to press all rock-solid combination of Street Fighter ABAA, and the protagonist, as if parodying techniques wrestlers will perform a spectacular somersault, effectively hitting the opponent with both feet simultaneously. Rejoice, meanwhile, is nothing. Who needs a circus "inflated" athletes - let off for the WWF RAW. Dynamic action in Beenox not come out. Only learns the sequence of keys. Superudary turned out to be extremely sluggish: we press the button, which is responsible for the use, sorry, force and some "kick". But each character has its own mini-game. Depending on the situation at the right place appears cylinders, painted in the colors required for its execution of the character. I think to say that the "puzzles" very very primitive and worn, it is not necessary, the main thing - to understand the management and set it up individually. In this respect, we can greatly envy the owners of platformers versions or the owners of gamepads. Accustomed to the unfriendly interface and wildly camera, you begin to understand what to do absolutely nothing here. The gameplay boils down to a simple cycle of action: we are running on their own (as an option - with one or more friends), and give the healthy cuffs around trying to move every hour disregard the "puzzle", again distributing healthy cuffs ... So be repeated five times, until (depending on the mission) you do not pass from two to six stages and did not visit the boss. Methods of destruction of Chairmen levels depressingly monotonous and can not, as often happens, to get a new look at the project. In them there is no raisins, no trick, all too easy - in a similar way, we sought the annihilation of another head clerk "Dandy". Puppet Show All things happening on your screen for 9 episodes, mainly based on the eponymous film, released later games. From time to time we come across is NOT the villains of the film, but encountered in comics Marvel. Thus, the storyline is closely connected with the work of the creator of the heroic quartet, Stan Lee, interviews with whom you can "open" in the "bonus" section of the menu. Events begin with a host of heroes to the space station, where, after some time, there is leakage of radioactive substances.Our foursome was out of place as the epicenter of the explosion, which, fairly irradiate acquires typical superhero abilities. So Reed has turned into Mr. Fantastic, and the flexibility of his body is now envied by every gymnast; Sue (his future wife) - in the Invisible Woman, which, besides the name suggests the ability to disappear, has the rudiments of telekinesis. Johnny - in the Human Torch and is capable of setting fire to everything that can be set on fire, and finally, Ben - a Thing of stone (in the truest sense of the word) muscles. This company and to restore order in New York, which has become the most low places in the universe of Marvel. Yes, do not forget about the "chip", borrowed from the extremely prefixal X-men Legends: at one level can be the whole F4, poupravlyat can each character separately. Here we should pay tribute to the balance of the game: the priority of, say, Invisible Woman, without which it is impossible to do in the first mission, will go to the Thing in the second. Mostly bad person declared Dr. Doom (in domutatsionnoy life - Victor Von Doom), managing a tiny unknown state Latveria. The poor fellow was an outstanding scientist but also as a result of a failed experiment (yes, almost all the heroes Stan Lee - the victim of failed experiments) disfigured, but gained a lot of great abilities, and even almost conquered the world. It is a pity that his career will stop a fire hydrant (but this is spoilers ...) Maskaradik In general, the team Beenox - people are interesting. Impermissible for a short time they were commissioned by Activision give very good and cute projects (Shrek 2: Team Action; Pitfall: the Lost Expedition; Madagascar). Fantastic Four knocked out of the list. In addition to the outrages in the gameplay of the case with audio-visual part of a lot worse. Impossible without the tears of regret to observe the incredibly lame graphics, made through the stump-deck design, ugly destructible (break-it can be almost anything, but * how * it is broken - it is better not to see). Special effects and other graphical "delights" have no right to appear in mid-2005. The final nail in the coffin of design execution F4 are neperematyvaemye videos ... All this is explained on shoestring budgets and a minimum of time, but we can not make allowances for these factors. Take The Punisher and Constantine: perhaps they were allocated more funds, but in quality they are superior to F4 or exceed seriously. *** No, the role of the shareware add-on to the ticket for 150 rubles a game is quite good. However, in our age of hard for her demanding money, no matter what. You can play, but unnecessary. It is not necessary to maintain a frank ticky-tacky design. If you really really have nothing to do - travel all over again all Highway San Andreas. Only in the case of an infinite love for the heroes of Marvel are allowed to take the product to two teaspoons a day. And no more milligram. Gameplay: 5.5 Graphics: 5.0 Sound and music: 6.0 Design: 5.0 Estimation of the author: 5.5 Outcome: 54%

Woody Woodpecker

Anton Peregruzkin
	27.02.2002

Woody Woodpecker: Escape From Buzz Buzzard Park. Platform: PC; PS2; GBC Genre: Action / Platform Developer: Ekosystem Publisher: DreamCatcher Localization: Nival Interactive (http://www.nival.ru/rus/woody_info.html) System requirements: Win 95/98/ME/XP; Pentium (r) II 300 MHz; 8X CD-ROM Drive; 64 MB RAM; 8 MB DirectX (R) Compatible Video Card; DirectX (R) Compatible Sound Card http://www.dreamcatchergames.com/games/woody/woody_pc.html Good day, dear woodpeckers! Oh, sorry, ladies and gentlemen! Today you again Anton Peregruzkin who just wants to tell about the life of red-feathered forest dwellers. As you may have guessed, these mysterious creatures - just those woodpeckers that I so carelessly had called you in the beginning of this story. It has long been known that these vicious predators attack anything that moves, and try to zadolbat victim to a complete loss of consciousness. On the problems of one of these birds we are to talk today. And to represent it, I hope, do not, because it is none other than himself Woody Vudpekker! Today I came across a great game - "Woody Woodpecker. Escape from Buzz Buzzard Park" which was published already in three platforms: PC, PS2, and you do not believe it - an old man GameBoy Color. We'll talk about how woodpeckers hammering personalki. It was like this: There once was a Woody Woodpecker at the top of the tree in the house, situated on the thick of his branch. Walked regularly for food, but once returned, the poor fellow caught a terrible picture ... His nieces and Knothead Splinter stole villain-Buzz Buzzard, and the dogs-minions thereof prohindeya pulled even owned by babes-sisters pocket top box. Of course, all this we must now pay the ransom! But remember, I told you, what can be ruthless woodpeckers? And Woody was no exception. Instead of paying ingenuously villain, he threw himself into his crusade! So, a little-known developer Ekosystem conjunction with publisher DreamCatcher done, as said Carlson, a miracle - bespristavochnym children of programmers, designers and other computer creatures finally perepal normal platformer in the style of children under sixteen. " In general, the game is, of course, suitable for any age, but the genre, characters, and gameplay is definitely showing that the game is this - children, so late matured gamers I would not recommend it highly. Throughout the action, and it is - 21 levels (not too much nor too little), we have to manage the popular multgeroya and his nephews in order to reunite the family and to punish the evil crow. Attend as we are in the house Woody, garden, woods, a Mexican village, town and, of course, Buzz Buzzard Park where, in fact, committed the same flight. All of these locations delight in diversity, abundance of secrets and new things to help woodpecker on the road.The very same God Ptah must be worn at these levels, collect emblem "W", lives or dollars, for which he can win anything if it finds a slot machine, fight chicks, dodging lightning, fires, fly on rockets and peck his nose various obstacles. However, his niece, too, will not stand idly by and through their presence, we get a unique opportunity to ride a jet dzhetbordah, just like in the movie "Back to the Future." Something like this is even chasing Chaos Emerald in Sonike2, moreover, that for the successful passage of these racing levels, we need to collect a certain amount, no, no rings - the finish flags. Now let the layout, and I'll start, perhaps, with voice acting, especially since it is very original. Despite the fact that a family of woodpeckers, living in our television has always been English-speaking, here they all suddenly lost his voice! Discussions in the form of a similarity or syusyukanya bubukanya (depending on the character). Despite this, only one tone is enough to understand what is at stake, and yet our services more and subtitles. Music is in the game are also very cute, fun and children to the bone. Sound effects are not too plentiful, and are satisfied, of course, not perfect, but they fit well into the overall sonic picture of the game. But the graphics are not all that smooth. Despite the fact that the following figures and animated characters very well, and the surrounding scenery and just do what they please the eye defects still a lot. Immediately striking inept use of the effect that turns the volume figures in the cartoon. Line stroke is sometimes appear out of place or missing, and sometimes even cripple our favorite woodpecker. The second major problem in the game - the camera. At various stages, we see a woodpecker from behind, side or front, almost like Crash Bandicoot, but at the sight from behind is sometimes nose to nose with his character, and since you have to just go ahead, do not know where Woody will step the next step and not fall down there in the pit. Annoying behavior, and the camera in places where it should behave created by the programmer specified, not always it gives the opportunity to see the panorama in all its glory. A view of the woodpecker, finish the level, and at all makes him look like a blue klyuvastuyu pig under the umbrella. However, if you forget about all this, the game turns out very nice - of fire and electrical special effects shots, funny fall simply adorable. I think the developers of Ekosystem did exactly what expect from their computers, millions of children. Of course, this stuff is fully complete on consoles, but believe me, many do not because to them, and so want to play.

Soldier of Fortune 2

Wilson
	07.05.2002

Game Name: Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix Platform: PC Genre: FPS Developer: Raven Software Publisher: Activision Official system requirements (minimum): · Pentium II 450 MHz · 128 MB RAM · 1.3 GB HDD (plus 140 MB for swap) · 16 MB Video Official site: http://www.ravensoft.com/soldier2.html At ease, soldier. Before you - Maj. John Mullins, was with him and you have to work. His track record would envy even the general, to say nothing about you. He brings Vietnam and numerous other military conflicts around the world. Now he works for us. Our organization is called "The Shop" and is designed to eliminate the threat to world peace in cases where diplomats and government powerless. We are doing surgical strikes against terrorists, dictators and other dangerous elements, using well-trained saboteurs in conditions of absolute secrecy ... Actually, you are all already know, if played in the first part. Since then, it took several years for which Mullins managed to lick the wounds and make a lot of feats: to translate 641 grandmother across the road and remove the tree 456 kittens of different shapes and sizes. But here the assistance of our invaluable expert needed again the very same "shop" and he left his cozy ranch in Oklahoma, once again went to save the world. I will not delve into the maze of the plot, but there is also a Russian scientist and biological weapons, and crazy dictator - in general, a standard set for the average blockbuster. Let's talk about the beautiful, in the sense of the schedule. She SoF 2 does not cause violent emotion, but the model made good (with a few exceptions: the cars resemble sliding on the surface of tin cans), have all the special effects: explosions, flames, fog, and list goes on. The game used highly modified engine from the Q3, which guarantees high quality graphics, but on the other hand means that you really need a powerful machine (see the "minimum" system requirements), to fully enjoy his superiority. If you do not have time to get a yes gigabytes gigahertz, but still want to play, come to the aid of graphics settings, which allows you to change almost all the ingredients until the resolution and color depth of textures, detailed special effects, types of display lighting, etc. Sound the same: overt flaws not noticed, but not delighted. That is all there: guns firing, grenades exploding, but not impressive - no sense of presence. By the way, there is practically no screams, well, let's say, the soldiers bravely suffer injuries, but when the old woman's death puts his scythe over his head, there could anyone not survive and zaoret the whole district.But the music is quite fitting and even informative, no, I misspoke: the music responds to changing circumstances in the game, that is, if nearby enemies, then it becomes more dynamic and alarming. With my words get that graphics are not impressive, and sound in SoF 2 mediocre, then what made me sit through the game not one or two hours? Guess to three times. The gameplay, of course! Realism, according to developers, in their game, put into a qualitatively new level. Of course, after such words come to mind at all other games: Ghost Recon, Delta Force, but not Soldier of Fortune. So hasten to reassure you, the spirit of the previous saved: realism as much as you want the game remains fun, dynamic, and the extent of the arcade. Yes, probably, a physical model of weapon was complicated and precise, but the main character still carries around an arsenal that would be enough to make a military coup in a small African country, no less cheerfully runs with countless wounds. Well the fact he and superstar, on the other side! But if you think that saving the world is easy, especially since this guy as John Mullins, I assure you, it is not, at least at the third level of complexity (of four) is quite hot, and the number of saves is often limited, so that have to sweat. In addition, the enemies got ... brains, even with the convolutions - AI I was pleasantly surprised. Imagine that you throw a grenade at the enemy, and he, without hesitation, picks it up and returns to you. Demolish the tower! In the literal and figurative sense. Or again: you retreat to a safe position, and an enemy soldier, instead of stupidly rush after him, the shooting, leaning out from the shelter, but when you disappear from sight, throw a grenade in the direction of your intended location. Not bad, huh? Save that realism imposes on "artificial intellectuals" are the same requirements as to the people: they too need to aim and reload weapons. Campaign in the game is made to last. Changing terrain, weather conditions, objectives. The game gradually takes us through the story, rather strange, but it does not matter. Mission alternate intros performed on the engine. Needless to fly a helicopter (but without our participation in its management), and ride in a truck (there have to shoot from the foe), and rescues a prisoner from the enemy territory. Sometimes John help friendly units, although still not known who helps someone:). Act quite competently, but totally out of control. Despite the fact that the campaign is done with high quality, I strongly doubt that it will want to go again and again, because it is completely linear, and there are a random parameters, in particular, the enemies respawn all the time in the same places. Long life to the game is designed to provide multiplayer, which in this case is almost standard: deathmatch, team deathmatch, CTF, and several variations on the theme: infiltration (infiltration and theft of documents), assasination (killing a certain person), demolition (the undermining of concrete structures). But what if the house you do not have access to the Internet, then you all this not available? Certainly not! The developers have not forgotten these, making Random Map Generator, which is a rather interesting novelty. For everyone there strategies the random cards - something familiar, but for FPS ... For a random game, you can set the basic parameters (terrain, etc.) and play one of the last three multiplayer modes with bots.In my opinion, the RMG can significantly increase the replayability and long time to keep interest in the game. Well the sweet talk of equipping our soldiers. I will not name specific models of tree trunks so interesting, just say that the game is the knife that you can throw :)... plus 2 types of guns (they can be used in pairs), 2 types of submachine guns, 2 types of shotguns, three assault rifles (two of them with grenade launchers, and the third with his bayonet), sniper rifle, two grenades, a machine gun. In addition, there are night vision, infrared goggles (handy for night missions), and binoculars. And if we consider that each weapon behaves differently, and in some cases, stealth works better gun ... In general, good luck, soldier!

Halo 3

Author: Red Cat
Source: Country Games № 21 2007	15.10.2007

Every story, sooner or later comes to an end. Here are the creators of Halo and decided if you do not put a full stop at the famous TV series (this guide will almost certainly not allow), then, at least, pause, and until then send the last Spartan to retire - but not earlier than the famous super-soldier would say the decisive word in the war for the future of mankind. Fight will be on several fronts at once, because the hero must protect the tribesmen and the covenants, and the monstrous The Flood, whose plan is to subjugate every living thing in space. Well, besides, Halo 3 - that's hundreds and even thousands of innocent victims hours of free time spent on the joint transmission network and fierce battles to Xbox Live. But let's not get ahead of ourselves and tell you everything in order.

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines

SI
Source: Country Games № February 2010	05.02.2010

GENERAL APPEARANCE Bloodlines - mediocre attempt at making PSP-version of the first part of Assassin's Creed, latecomers at least a year, and then all two. After a great second part of the faded original recall did not want to, but Griptonite Games makes: and sounds the same, and the interface "animus" (despite the fact that it generally does not fit into the canonical storyline Desmond), and the ability of the hero. And the right would be if the plot was interesting, but no: ignoring Bloodlines, an amateur license parts of the series will not miss anything.

The Rumble Fish

Authors: Natalia Odintsova
Source: Country Games № 24 2005	15.12.2005

Siamese Fighting Fish flaunt bright color, unpretentious and extremely aggressive. It is worth two of them end up in one aquarium, as immediately begins to fight a life and death. Down with the compromise and diplomacy - in a jar of water can be only one boss!