There are such games, completely special, even unique. I prefer to call them „folk“. They will suit everyone: an adult, tired after a hard day, and a son-seeker, a teenager-studio, and even a dumb grandmother. „Nationality“ is achieved thanks to two things. The first is the simplest gameplay, and the second is low system requirements. True, the „people“ themselves should poorly imagine what a high -quality game should be.
Therefore, often such projects turn out to be very dubious quality. Let us recall at least Communism Muscle Cars, Need for Russia, Specnaz 2, Paragraph 78. They received deservedly low grades, but one way or another, nevertheless fell into “folk” computers of illegible buyers.
This time before me „Another world“, which belongs to the pen of the Polish studio Openoko. She is already sadly known for “excellent” Evil Resistance and G.B.R. However, as analysts said, in a crisis of bad games should be less. The buyer’s pocket will be carefully studying the goods, so every slag will now not go to the shelves, to sell it – at a loss. Perhaps this is an attempt to rehabilitate? The game somehow got to the shops.
Gend a couple!
In order to honestly renovate the „folk“ action, I sat down for a completely „folk“ computer. Not ultra -modern, but quite affordable for a mythical average user. The mysterious Athlon X2 5600+, 1GB RAM, 8600 GTS read icons on the accompanying paper. On the desktop I found a label Sims 3. The lifestyle simulator very cheerfully earned on medium-high settings. Funny little men will become a control group – we will compare the performance of games by them.
I set the „thin“ by current standards „Another world“ (a little over 1GB), the disk spun faster, the StarForce test has begun. When the system was convinced that I was not a pirate, loading began. I felt some kind of courage. Unusual computer, new game, excitement from buying, anticipation ..
Wow, steampunk! Steam things, wonderful devices, arcanum stands in front of the eyes. Technological romance, mystery of inventions, entertaining forms and patterns … Fantasy has already broken through. The introductory video begins in which some old general with a mechanical hand tells the main character that there are no people left in the city (this is London), but only the hordes of steam robots are running along the streets. Our task is to go through a punishing sword for possible shelters of the main villain in the hope that in one of them we will meet him. So easily developers have legalized an infinite number of a wide variety of levels that you do not even need to come up with a plot background. A crazy scientist can hide in general everywhere … However, the word „hordes“ set me up in a bloodthirsty way, thoughts about stupid missions disappeared. I watched the screensaver and made it possible to chop, shoot, cut, blow up and all that ..
Five minutes passed. The level loaded 20Bet Casino by three quarters. The combat enthusiasm was somewhat went out, but Vera still remained – after all, I have a “folk” computer, which, as you know, is weak and always to blame for the fact that the games on it go through one place. I knew this, so I waited patiently.
Three more minutes passed. He waited. The level has begun. Around the dilapidated city. Everything is littered with some kind of construction garbage, and in the hand of the character of a bizarre appearance a revolver. I thought I had to look around. Obeying the mouse movement, the character tried to turn. The frame froze. After 30 seconds, the FPS counter moved from the dead point. I decided to take a step – the game froze again. After another 30 seconds, everything came to life, and enemies ran to me. Somehow the shot thundered unnaturally, everything froze again, but this time only 10 seconds. Having killed three robots, I accidentally looked at the fire, from this the FPS counter took value 4. He no longer rose above ..
I had to restart the game and turn off all the new -fangled shader effects. I didn’t think that the middle computer was so weak. Without “hot air” and shadows FPS reached 75. I was delighted, but a shot from any weapon quickly brought footage to zero for a second.
After 30 freezes of 30 seconds, each I found a shotgun. Low voice strainedly and somehow unnaturally thundered: “Droboviyak!»I already jumped up from surprise. After that, the headphones lay aside.
So, cursing, I finally managed to go through the first level. In the next I found a machine gun, the queue from which I made the game think for a good five minutes. If you are going to go on a trip to „To the other world“, then stock up on tea and lemons. Helps, you know, to while while fading.
After three more tea drinks „Another world“ Somehow he ended up in the basket, leaving behind a memory in the form of five nondescript screenshots. Unfortunately, it was not possible to take pictures on the maximum schedule-because of terrible brakes, even the unperturbed Fraps could not photograph the screen.
Learn in mistakes
Fools learn from their mistakes. Who, tell me, these people from Openoko? This is not the first project in which impossible play. Where did the testers look (if they were), what the developers thought (and the publisher, too, by the way)? They themselves, interestingly, tried to go through at least one level? Maybe my „folk“ computer is to blame? I moved for a working machine (Core 2 Duo 4.7GHZ, 6GB RAM, GTX 260) – did not help. The clumsy craft tightly hung everything in the same places. Took a step – stood. Shot – still stood. Even the main menu is in no hurry to appear on the screen-it must be waited for about a minute to Go out.
It turns out that the configuration of the computer, to put it mildly, has nothing to do with it – it means that the problem is in the game itself? Right. Perhaps in a fight for first place inhabited and brakes „Another world“ It easily devotes not only the infamous Lada Racing Club, but also all other garbage crafts of recent years. Vivat, Openoko, The title of cings of slag is now your.
Pros: absent.
Cons: There is no optimization, brakes at all levels of detail and permits;a weak plot;unsuccessful voice acting.