SOFTWARE REVIEW
(C) UnBEL! EVER ^ Speed co. ^ XTM
It's nice when you have something to survey! Especially nice
when Download high-quality and truly worthy of attention! And
for Last month, surprisingly, that such software came
plenty of ... Moreover, the situation can be characterized not
other than the Belarusian Aggression!
AWAKEN demo version
(C) RAGE Technologies'99
(C) Arny'99
SIZE: 762 sectors
Earlier this year, has already appeared quiet, a short demo,
entitled SPACE. Then it was still difficult to understand what
it is, where and with what is there. Now everything falls into
place! Spirit of the legendary Elite wakes up in the new
development team from Minsk has RAGE known to our gamers
project MONSTRLAND. So what is AWAKEN?
First of all, judging from the demo it ... "Shaded Elite:)
Ships, stars, planets, and fight in open space, pirates and
hermits, and most importantly, irresistible oschushenie infinite
Space familiar with each spektrumistu deep childhood. Here
only now we need a little less imagination to
completely immersed in the game world as game graphics are not
wire, and "shaded" - the so-called flat, too well
familiar to gamers BATTLE COMMAND or STAR FOX. Diversity
spaceships, weapons, items available at the station
and just the menu items will not leave any of the old
"elitchika" indifferent. And although the demo realized not all
opportunities promised in a future game, even it leaves
completely pleasant experience. Moreover, AWAKEN, as I
understand it, This is the first game in the genre simulators,
not released in the West - A dream come true INFORKOMA, and we
now have the coders, capable of implement a three-dimensional
gaming reality!
But put aside this ad husks and consider AWAKEN from the point
of playability. At first everything seems fine, nice
volumetric filled graphics, large instrument panel with
Messager in ACADEMY, but ... is only after the departure
from the station to deploy the ship, and we can begin to enjoy
the greatest obstacle in the world! And on the screen just a few
objects! And this despite the fact that the game screen itself
is somewhat less relative to the screen in the ELITE ... The
stars are in place so that absolutely impossible to understand
in what direction are flying your ship. And know it is
absolutely necessary, because in the heat Space battles by
pressing simultaneously on several key except those hits will
be triggered, and others - absolutely not you need a button.
And okay, if it is withdrawal missile guidance, and then often
turn back the form and then ... Poll buttons are not ideal, as
their general location.
The most striking thing, it's an amazing imbalance
of the battle in space. The first thing that catches your eye,
in AWAKEN is much harder to survive than in the ordinary ELITE!
Enemy may literally 10 seconds to destroy your ship through the
conventional laser. Well, if applied to rockets, then there is
all ... Your anti-missile system is so left that virtually no
allows you to stay alive for a little bit serious attack.
Ships themselves behave like real space racers! For
imym fragment / container have to fly almost at
key is "J" - so fast it naff to you. And about the trajectory
dispersal of these fragments, I generally keep quiet ... here
the laws of physics quite powerless! If the ELITE you can
safely soak 10.5 enemy ships, and then calmly pick up
everything that of them dropped out, then AWAKEN'e, even for
the selection of one container need to make a maneuver! And if
you do not start the race for container immediately after the
explosion of the ship, then he can hide in the distant cosmos.
And who do you give the selection containers! After all, until
you betes with one enemy arrives whole crowd that has long
given rest.
I certainly do not have anything against the complications of
the game compared to the progenitor of the genre, but not to
the same degree! Needed a certain balance, and when you want to
play, but a victory pay is not the first time. And it is
precisely this balance until absent in AWAKEN'e ... And typical
example is Perfect leftism in the name of the planets / stars.
It seems like all The authors rightly so - to repeat the
original ELIT'ovsky generator names, but it turned out quite
something. Whether from use the Russian language, or because
repeat the balance of randomness / zadumannosti which existed
in the ELITE impossible.
Another error of authors in my opinion is to use
not his, and torn from HARD DRIVING three-dimensional engine.
Case here is that certain HD-shny dvizhek is not ideal and it
could perepist, and even better to write from scratch, better
and faster. While, on the other hand pleasantly pleased
skreshenie demomaykinga and gaming! I mean chank'ovy
tunnel during giperperehoda. Although why it seems to me that
it is not realtime, a "golimaya" animation. Again, why? When
VAV'a exactly the same tunnel was in GOA which is known
only 4k? Make a tunnel like effect immediately disappears
need to do podgruzku from disk every time giperperehode!
In general, a novel seam open - any
modern effects, from simple plasma to light by Phong may
find their way in a game like AWAKEN'u!
In short, on the one hand I am all hands and the other must also
work and work to get the output real masterpiece
worthy of the proud title - THE GAME OF A LIFETIME.
PUSSY demo version
(C) FATALITY'99
SIZE: 666 sectors
Eng. pussy ['pusi] n 1) pussy 2) soft, fluffy object
Naturally, neither one nor the other meanings of the word is
not FATALITY invested in the name of the game. Although the
second concept is much closer to slang translation of the word.
So PUSSY ... Well, who did not look epic TITANIC? Well, I for
one was looking, but so what? And then, Now that all the events
of the film can survive on their own skin in the new
blockbuster from the ferocious FREEMAN'a! It's steeper than
KOLOB0K, global than White Eagle and more fun than HUNTING
Krotov. However, so far that only the demo, but it provides an
indication of future game.
Apparently, the FATALITY acted criticism of the masses and a
new game was not so much an arcade as logical. Although it is
possible to the full version will be different in the semantic
load of pieces / levels. In the meantime, it is a nice 50fps
puzzle by destruction of various types of blocks, and
copulation in the single fit with your favorite KAT. Want to
compare with FATALITY CODEMASTERS'ami - the same ability to
make publicly favorite Games and with virtually nothing on them
to earn:)
WACKY RACES
(C) PAL DEVELOPMENTS'92
DISK VERSION: ENERGY MINDS / X-Project
SIZE: 377 sectors
Another game of a series issued by PAL
DEVELOPMENTS under license from the famous cartoon studio
HANNA BARBERA. The essence of the game in this case, virtually
no important (Well something like races with obstacles). Just
nice to see another high-quality, classic bourgeois arcade game.
BEST VIEW 2.8
(C) IVAN ROSHIN
Well, there's comments generally irrelevant - the new BORN DEAD
= new BEST VIEW! The main feature of the new version is the
presence of cunning buttons CAPS + A, CAPS + D. The functions
performed by these buttons truly priceless - scan a file / disk
and selection in its fragments are recognized by the program as
music / graphics / code, etc. Under the question arises
generally being wanted BORN DEAD'a existence, or rather reading
room being wanted for him. Because now, with the help of BEST
VIEW, you can easily read the entire text newspapers, otguzit
right places on the disk, and even listen musical
accompaniment. And all this without even downloading BORN DEAD!
That's Roshchin, like this fellow! Of course, as always, new
opportunities bring with them new bugs, but fixable ... in
COMING SOON:)
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Also, in my hands got two e-magazine; HOBBY # 1 and
AMAZING # 2. Neither the first nor the second, I consider there
will not be so both magazines have to read yourself, but do not
read what is written by those who read these magazines before
(a) you ... Although there is another option - electronic
newspaper OPTRON! There sat large experts on compiling indexes
the content newspapers / magazines ...
