Some Kronotek men and Germans enter a bar. The barman says: "Is this a joke?"
Until I got it.
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STORY:
The story is quite interesting. You start the game as a soldier fighting against Indians. You almost die but then rescued by some futuristic team who teleport you to the future and save you. Then you do missions for that organization (which is called Kronotek). The missions are usually set in the 20th century or so.
Then, while you are doing one of your tasks, some weird men appear from the future with special suits that protect them from any bullets. You get back to the future (heheh) and you discuss a bit on how to deal with those guys.
I would like to rate the story an 8/10 because of how original and interesting it is.
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GAMEPLAY:
Ever seen a graph that keeps rising and rising and then suddenly drops down to nearly zero? You could compare such graph to this game.
The game starts out to be fun, you do your tasks and stuff but things just tend to get boring after a while.
weapons:
You start missions off with usually (not always) with a weapon of the time you are at that moment, such as a musket or something. The thing that makes those weapons so incredibly boring and annoying is that you get many enemies approaching you at one time and we all know that in world war one, they didn't have full automatic weapons. And sometimes you're given a musket, meaning you have to reload after every single shot. And while you are reloading, more enemies approach and you die.
The only fun thing about weapons is that sometimes at missions, you're given a modern weapon, like a full automatic one, or a rapid firing shotgun.
A.I. (aka how enemies behave):
one word: bad. I can't believe they shipped the game with this. Enemies just ran to you and one of you just died. They rarely stay at their spot and shoot from cover. Your allies are also very dumb, they sometimes don't fire and do dumb things.
missions:
Interesting in the beginning, repetitve at the middle and fun again in the end. In the middle part you were often given a 'find him' mission and at the end of the mission, you did not get him which was more frustrating than searching Zhakaev in Call of Duty 4.
maps:
this was an extremely annoying thing, you are often in a large open field and the only cover you have are haystacks and little rocks. Since you cannot prone, those things do not provide enough cover. Luckily, haystacks block bullets, but they're often too small. Then you were after a cover and the enemies just run to you, sometimes flanking you, making situations extremely difficult.
I will rate the whole gameplay a 4.
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GRAPHICS:
I ran the game with a powercolor 4890, 4gigs of ram and an i5 750. It had a very nice FPS with everything maxed out on 1440x900. I played the game and noticed weird graphical glitches, places where the skybox was supposed to be, was one big wall with lots of flashy stripes in it so I thought it was time to turn on "wait for vertical sync". Those stripy walls disappeared.
Then, when I got to the second mission, the game crashed. The mission loaded and I was greeted by a white screen. I killed the game process and re-ran it. Crashed again. I tried it again and it crashed again. Then I decided to turn off AA. It suddenly worked but some text got messed up. I decided to turn off AF also. Errors were gone.
The game is pretty to look at, not really really pretty, but just pretty.
I rate it a 8 for the graphics, they were quite cool.
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the score?
(8+4+8)
----------- = 6.66
3
the closest score to 6.66 is 6.5 of course.
And one last thing, the extremely low scores that reviews have given are not right in my opinion. This is not the best game, but it should certainly not be given a 1.