WORLD CITIES, WHICH ARE REVOLUTION
In a hypothetical future, in the year of the Lord 2366, humanity has long since passed the land boundaries, traveling the cosmos beyond the final frontier. Under the aegis of political - military of some important and rich mega-corporations, many planets have now been colonized by exploiting the laborers and often reducing the settlers in a state of semi-slavery. As obvious result of this state of things, the realm of humans is found to be threatened by violent infighting. Ultra-separatist organization, in fact, took possession of many cities in all the planets controlled by corporations, is determined to dismantle the dominance of their captors. But what looked like a battle driven by noble ideals, quickly turns into a bloody struggle meaningless and time exclusively to mutual extermination. Desperate times, so call for desperate measures. It 's time to call in war the best group chose assault and infiltration, the Alpha black zero, the team which we will be called upon to impersonate the leader, the Lieutenant Kyle Hardlaw.
The title in question begins with a sumptuous film made with the same game engine, which will be discussed later, where we will see our digital alter ego court-martial. In the Palace of Justice of Qahira, the most important "world state" - in political terms - of the Galaxy, a military tribunal asserts that we, that is you in the shoes of Hardlaw, we stained hundreds of unjustified killings in the government same, the SolGov. All the while we were on a mission of infiltration under diplomatic cover military institution that has given us the various tasks, and then with the aggravating circumstance of the alleged impunity thought we could enjoy. Other allegations see us accomplices of certain groups of extreme right-wing assassins made up of the worst kind and have instigated, trained and supplied arms to these illegal communities with the sole purpose to make them turn against the government in power (the SolGov, in fact).
The capital city of Qahira, Olympus City, is divided into two: on one side those who are tired of the terrible dictatorship of SolGov, other corporations divided between economic interests and terrible intrigue.
During the process we will have to defend our position and that of our team, so as not to be silenced forever ... We will succeed in the enterprise?
NEED TO REDEMPTION
Obviously, otherwise what kind of superhero would we be? The whole game is seen as a sort of giant flashback, where we will relive each moment all the situations that led to the awkward position of defendants before the court martial.
This, overall, is the plot that acts as a backdrop to the final baked product by Dutch masters of Kaheon. Basically we are faced with a classic third-person shooter where teams comanderemo a team that has the beauty of the five elements, to which we give the customary and traditional orders such as "Cover", "shoot", "Hold" and few other variations. In summary not have to do that in advance the individual missions, all extremely linear (if we try to go to new roads, an invisible wall blocking us the way), kill all the terrorists and discovered (revealed?) The background to this terrible civil war . Once you have chosen the wealth of weapons in a list of three possible kit during normal gameplay we can switch from one character to another and, optionally, the role of one of them throughout the game relying on the excellent of our IA companions. Of course, continuing the role of the leader is strongly recommended, in order to be able to choose for ourselves the tactical approach to the various situations of offense or defense we're going to face. Still on the subject of AI, good also that of our opponents.
Despite their appearance, at least in the early levels, halfway between the Palestinian terrorists that we are unfortunately used to seeing on TV and buzzurri with red turban seen in Mortal Kombat, we must recognize that the difficulty was perfectly balanced. If at first behave like peasants armed with pitchforks in a nuclear war, it is equally true that, as they advance in level, we will see them groped moves encirclement operations, sniping, or call reinforcements if injured or outnumbered. All this thanks to a system which does not provide behavioral scripts but real subroutine to adapt to various situations.
Graphically, the title offers leasing very large and very well maintained, with a reddish tinge absolutely impeccable, and the lighting of the red planet where we live our adventure was made very well, with effects that resemble very much the excellent photography of Pitch Black, unknown movie with Vin Disel. However, the movements of our alter ego, as well as that of our comrades and enemies are a bit 'too woody and not credible. Without being too obvious, it seems that they have all been sitting for two years in a row and then forced to run the hundred meters without heating ... In the face of an environmental framework more than decent, unfortunately weapons are made in a discreet but lack credibility plus a nasty bill that many items in the game, in addition to being minimally interactive, are almost irritating to the eye when compared to the beauty of certain locations.
On the audio front, nothing to complain. Excellent English and excellent dubbing subtitles, all in Italian, as the game menu. The soundtrack, never intrusive, it seems snare in the right place, quick to point out the highlights of the game. Impeccable even the sounds of the guns, persuasive as - and sometimes more - other noble productions.
A pity it is not amazing ability to use binoculars or, even more, a map of the area to ... clean. In locations sometimes really very wide, it is easy to get lost or go round in circles, and since there is only one way to achieve the purpose, it may be frustrating around and around several times at the same point before going down the right corridor that will take us to finish the level .
Prior to vanquish the final comment, I remind everyone that ABZ: Intrepid Commando (this is the full title) has a multiplayer mode in LAN up to 5 characters where everyone can play as a member of the heroic squadron. In addition, the title seems poorly digest libraries OpenGlide, so you may want to play in Direct 3D.
COMMENT
No real news for this ABZ, which still plays well worthily his cards on all fronts; immediate enough and with a very low learning curve, this shooter has a captivating storyline full of twists and altogether convincing, though have the usual mix of platitudes already seen in many other titles related. The excellent performance of the graphics locations combined with a more than good sound segment decree the promotion of this title which, while not assurgendo Olympus of video games, is a great choice for all lovers of action, combined with a healthy twist strategy.
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