I recently stumbled upon a cycle of streams from Vasily Galperov and Co. And although the guys said that they would survey games that have not become popular for one reason or another, they have some positive qualities, rarely rubbish. I decided to make my small list of games that sunk into the soul, but at the same time for most players, they remained unnoticed, and given the summer game lull, I think for many it will be relevant.
Vampires The Maskarade: Bloodlines
Every time you mention her, someone will reinstall her
I wanted to start with my personal favorite. Vampires Game of an extremely complex fate, Troika Games, formed by immigrants from Black Isle (creators Fallout, for a minute), in its relatively short history released only 3 games, but which ones! Arsanum and Temple of Elemental Evil, for one reason or another, did not become hits and the developers have the last attempt to conquer gaming hearts. The announcement of the game took place in 2001, at that time the game was: 9 playable clans, 4 large levels (from which there were less branches), nonlinear passage (for each race a separate scenario was registered), a huge selection of armor, a fire-wing weapon (with the possibility of modification), a engine from Half-Life 2 and many many other delicities. In 2004, the release took place. And … to tear off the arms and legs of that person in Activision, who decided to release vampires simultaneously with the aforementioned Half-Life 2, and even in this form. The game was in full and completely, at the time of release in the game there was a moment that could only be switched to the next scene through the console; half of the chips did not work (for example, in one version there was completely no armor); The number of playable times was cut to seven; the levels of steel and with constant loading; the plot of the plot remained, but far from the one that was promised. You can scold vampires for a long time and in fact there is something, but there is one but!
In my opinion, the best action-RPG did not do it. Breaking through tons of bugs, the player understood that he would never meet such living (more precisely inanimate) characters anywhere else, the animation of the faces and voice acting were beautiful, and the characters themselves were registered to the smallest details, I will give a couple of examples:
1) Jack – Ancient as mammoths of a vampire, who used to be a pirate. Meets the player at the start and teaches the basics of the game. Matereshnik, comedian and probably the only one who really understands what is happening around, but always takes a neutral position.
2) Nins Rodriguez – the leader of the anarchists, brutal to the impossibility, twice saves the hero’s ass and:
With his bare hands, he tears off the bush
3) Sebastian de Lacrois-an self-proclaimed prince Ventra, a little king of all Los Angeles, whom everyone hate and there is something for. Shemannaya manners and its crown: “Good evening.", Will immediately make you think about his speedy killing, but in this case he has a bodyguard, with Claud’s sword from Final Fantasy.
4) Jeannette Workman-Sex symbol of all games and not only, probably one of the coolest quests in the game is connected with her and her sister, an unexpected ending is attached:
Jeanette and her sister Teresa – Malkavian, united in one body.
And she also has beautiful … eyes.There was also a wonderful plot in the game, in which they weaved together: mysticism, detective investigations, predictions about the end of the world and of course vampires, werewolves, zombies and other evil spirits. There were two large fractions (whose vutry was smaller): camarilla, which adheres to a masquerade and a shabash, which in order to kill all people and rule the world. It was strongly impossible to break away from the game, also for the reason that she forced to play the role of the vampire of the clan that you chose:
– Malkavian was real madmen, and dialogs with their participation simply exploded the brain, such as a conversation with a road sign.
– Nosferata is terribly ugly, so even their simple appearance on the street is already a violation of the masquerade. The game for them turned into stealth with the possibility of moving only in shadows and sewage.
-Bruha and gangrem purely fighting characters, so the game for them was like a simple and uncomplicated action with vampire abilities, the only difference was that the gangrem still possessed some kind of magic.
– Tremers are vampire magicians, if you https://independentcasinosites.co.uk/review/seven-casino/ want the opponents to blame blood and explode a bloody fountain, then this clan is your choice.
– Toreodors and the ventilation – skilled “brainproof”, the development of belief skills in these characters allowed in half the cases not to confront with opponents in general, they themselves gave the necessary objects and opened closed doors.
All this is all for the cool vampire setting and it turns out an explosive cocktail. In a word, it is better to play once (and it’s better not one, the game has a game) than read a hundred times, especially since the fan community has released a huge number of own patches that allow you to pass the game without problems, there is also a good fan translation (the game has not officially released in Russia), which will help to plunge into the world of the game who do not know English.
I Can Read Your MindsIt just so happened that among the developers of the video game, there are craftsmen and professionals of their craft, but there are creators (whose games are most often not sold). And Double Fine, led by Tim Shaifer, certainly belong to the second category. Their debut project “Psychonauts” at one time became a banal victim of unsuccessful marketing. The game looked and positioned as a simple platformer for children, using psi capacity, and the players did not even expect that under the guise of a game for primary school schoolchildren a masterpiece of a modern gaming industry was hidden.
The plot narrated about the adventures of Visoputin, a boy who dreams of becoming a special government agent – a psychonaut who perform the most dangerous tasks in the world and are able to penetrate other people’s thoughts. To do this, once goes to the Summer Camp “whispering stone”, where young psychonauts are training. There, his ability to resist the invasion of his mind almost immediately notices the team of teachers and offers him to undergo training, and at this moment, in children in the camp, someone begins to steal his brains. The banal tie smoothly flows into crazy travels through other people’s thoughts, digging in itself and the fight against their own complexes and teachers. The further retelling of the plot is useless due to its confusion, it is better to just admire the "interiors" of other people’s thoughts:
– The world of Colonel Oleandra, where bombs do not cease to break, fly rockets and shoot soldiers
– The world of bicnucleuchery fish Linda, where once acts in the role of Godzilla, who attacked the fish city of Ichteopolis.
– The world of Boyd Cooper, the guard of the hospital "Torny Tower", he knows who the "milkman" is
Advent Rising
At the time of the announcement in 2003, it was difficult to believe that all those things that the developers from Gliphix spoke of can be realized, not to mention the fact that before that the team had not released a single game and the Advent Ring trilogy, should immediately put them on the Olympus of the video game developers. Think about: the script for the game was written by Orson Cattle Card (a very famous American science fiction writer, who wrote a cycle of books about the ender, the recently released film “Ender’s game” – a film adaptation of the first novel of the book), the soundtrack was performed by a symphonic orchestra, they promised to introduce a huge amount of controlled equipment into the game, and the player’s character simultaneously knew how to shoot weapons and the psi of pse of psi – everything worked out on the paper. Great, but. The developers, apparently, overestimated their strength, and as a result, everything related to gameplay, graphics and staging rollers in the game was at an extremely average level. The whole game pulled the plot on himself, and he was surprisingly strong.
So, the game starts from the moment of the first contact with an unearthly alien race, which warns earthlings about the imminent and inevitable attack of their native planet Rasa Synthetics that destroy all living things in the galaxy (nothing reminds of anything?). You have to play for the ordinary pilot of Gideon White, who, by and large, is unreasonable, except that
In the next few minutes, the land will be destroyed, and he will remain the only surviving people in the company of his brother or beloved girl.
Over time, the hero is explained that he is the last hope of the Gallax and only thanks to him and his new abilities to save all living things from absorption by seekers. Then everything develops so rapidly that you simply do not have time to notice the shortcomings of the game, the whirlpool of events does not let go to the very end, but, as I said, the game was declared as a trilogy, and the plot breaks in the most interesting place. It is sad that we will never know what happened to Gideon, since there will be no continuation, and they did not end the story in books and comics.
– These are the very seekers, though they still do not know who they ran into.
– Gideon over time studied all the new and new abilities, which, with their prolonged use, pumped. For example, now someone will from the heart will attach about the floor of telekinenses.
– And then it spreads to the sides of a psychocenetic wave.
– Transport was also implemented in the game, though management was terribly crooked, and at that time Halo had already been released, which had everything perfectly with this.
Another interesting game about psi capacity, but this time the action is currently taking place. Having left in 2005, although she won flattery reviews of the press, she failed with a bang, since she had practically no advertising, in addition, Psiops came out at the same time: The Mindgate Conspiracy, a maximum game, but much more pop and simple, on whose background the Second Sight was prosperous. And as it turned out in vain.
The game starts in a military hospital, where the main character John Vatic wakes up all in bandages and with a shaved head (at that time he suffers from Amnesi and does not remember: who he is and how he got here). Trying to escape from the ward, John accidentally opens the door with the help of telekinesis, and then an interesting. The hero has flashbacks, in which he, along with a special forces detachment, is trying to find in Russia a scientist Viktor Grienko, who requested a political asylum in America. Moreover, the events taking place during the hero’s memoirs change circumstances at the moment when John returns to reality. So, for example, in the hospital’s computer, John finds notes that one of the members of the detachment Jane Wilde (by the way, she called John to this task), she died, and during the flashback he saves her when the hero finds herself, the recording on the computer will say that she was alive, but touched by the mind.
Along with this, the hero has a set of psi-capacity: telekinesis, astral projection, suggestion and psi gaze, which are realized much more interesting than in the same Psiops. And what is the plot in the game! Events constantly contradict each other, the flashbacks reveal more and more information about the mysterious project “Zener”, children of mutant, betrayal, experiments on people and many other elements of good Hollywood thriller. Gamplei in the game is thoughtful, with the expectation of the use of psi capacity, although the action is also present, but it is realized badly.
– John Vatica is not only one telekinesis, a shot from a shotgun at point blank is sometimes useful.
– Although no one forbade the TV in flight in flight.
– Over time, John’s forces will grow and he will learn to instill in other people’s heads and scatter people like rag dolls.
Dark Sector.
This game belongs to the category of long -term construction. The announcement took place in 2000, and at that time it was a stealth in a science fiction setting, where the hero had a very cool biomechanical costume. Here is a video of the original concept:
Those who played Warframe will probably see something familiar, because this material formed the basis of the game (Digital Extreme-developers of both games), as they say no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten not forgotten. But back to our rams.
During the development of the setting, as well as the game engine changed 3 times, and as a result, at the time of the release in 2008, the game became the Resident Evill-like good in the surroundings of the fictitious East European Lasria country, whose population is safely in isolation due to the virus, which turns people into mutants with metal skin.
Just our hero Haydenn, with a simple mission at first glance, gets there-to eliminate the CIA traitor named Mezer, who for some reason looks like Rasputin. But an attempt to capture leads to the fact that the hero, by his own stupidity, explodes the building in which mutants were held, releases them to freedom and he himself is safely infected with the virus, after which the main feature of the whole game grows out of his hand – Glev. The plot turned out to be clicked, it was quite interesting to observe the misadventures of the protagonist, and the glove and the possibilities associated with it will diversify the shooting gameplay. Of the advantages of the game, I would like to note: a very good graphics, chic art design, soundtrack and sounddrapex (when you first encounter mutants in the sewer – remember my words) and setting. Of the minuses: a delusional plot with a weak production and absolutely stupid AI-Taxes, which is compensated by their cheatter accuracy and flimsy of the protagonist at first.
– Glev in the hands of Hydeden turns not only into deadly weapons, but also into a tool for solving puzzles, many of which are tied to the possibilities of its charging energy of fire or ellectricity.
– Though there is a firearm in the game, but on all guns there are DNA scanners that explode weapons if you use it for a long time. In this case, the game has a black market where you can buy "clean" trunks.
– In the near battle, Hayden is also not a fool to wave the glee, but a stunned enemy can make “fatalities”, you would hear with what crunch the neck of mutants break here.
– In the second half of the game, the hero is still overgrown with a biomechanical shell.
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-The enemies in the game are quite diverse, here you are homeless bums, and mutants of varying degrees of strength, and the cleansing command.
