The stream of complaints of gaming critics does not dry out that projects are still breeding about the second world. It seems that everything has been played and outplayed for a long time, dozens of times frostbitten under the Ardennes, hundreds of times are defended to death near Stalingrad, and the unfortunate Omaha Beach is simply rolled into concrete with crowds of virtual tourists. So, froze-worse under the breath for a look, throw a couple of on-duty phrases on how there are not enough industry of fresh ideas … And then quietly at night, until no one sees, grab the old Tommy-Gan and run into Normandy, put pressure on the “brown plague”. Eh, Spielberg, Stephen you are ours! I would have shot further about dinosaurs and did not excite the public with epic battles of the past years, and we would now meditate on thoughtful Close Combat. However, what has been done is done, and today in the program of the day the race in exotic places, the thematic entertainment “Capture the Bomb” and “Mouse”.
Bomb is oeren
As the name implies, the action in the add-on to RFB unfolds around the project of creating an atomic weapon, which, having appeared in the hands of the Nazis, would have done much more troubles than the notorious FAU missiles. To visit Norway, Malorca and Spain, where the main battles will unfold. Allies were preparing, they prepared their bulky operation “Overlord”, and the Germans took and landed a landing right in Barcelona without any preparation. An alternative story is now in high esteem, yes. Here, of course, you are not a secret Arctic weapon of Russians, with the help of which they wanted to arrange a world freezer in Warfront: Turning Point, but the charge of healthy idiocy is provided.
The absurdity begins already with the first mission for the Hanses. On a secret heavy water production plant in Scandinavia, the Anglo-American troops fell on his head, which immediately broke all the guards on the fascist flags and forced the enemy to shamefully drain with a talked dodgy. At the most dramatic moment, the tanks of the allies emerged from nowhere (yeah, crawled along the bottom from the most vague albion) and threatened the entire evacuation plan, which was supposed to carry out a wretched species raft. And only the desperate throw of the T-7 “Mouse” cooled the fervor of the attackers and gave time to prepare secret materials for sending to Germany. They loaded, waved a swimming transport for goodbye with a pen, it’s time to pull the schnapps for the health of the Führer and the prosperity of the Reich … Bah! All works went to the bottom – saboteurs tried. Penal Bbat, expulsion on the eastern front? No, the punishment is much worse: a business trip to Spain with an order to go through this boring game until the end.
Recently, the RTS market has not often pleases us with high -quality strategies, but all of them are pood hits, from which competitors tremble in fear. Uberbuchet Company of Heroes And an excellent student-Komsomol “”In the rear of the enemy»They head the list, they step on their heels Supreme Commander And C&C 3: Tiberium Wars. Stars from the sky are not enough, but with dignity filling the niche of the middle peasants like projects Maelstrom And Warfront: Turning Point. And behind the break is in the ice hole everything else.
It is difficult to say what exactly is so bad today’s patient. Clumsy, but there is a balance, pleasant graphics in place, the topic is again inexhaustible … But you don’t get pleasure, well, no matter how you try – but not it, the “fan” of this. The reason, most likely, lies in improper positioning by the developers of their brainchild. Instead of FreshBet Casino online gluing the bully pseudo-strategic trash with tank armades and trousers-infantry, they suddenly decided to do tactics. So – behind every soldier of the eye and eyes, painstakingly save the units of the expo and methodically clean up the enemy positions of a handful of subordinates. But if in the same “enemy’s rear” it was possible to skillfully climb into the tank and enthusiastically twist the Germans on the tracks, like spaghetti on a fork, then in RFTB gameplay is hopelessly Ser and bored.
One after another, we lure the enemy armored vehicles, storm the artillery positions with two and a half arrows and arrange a real genocide on the head of the enemy on the map of the sniper. If you dare and put the tanks into the attack with the support of the infantry, they will be sprayed immediately to the howitzers atoms, shooting at a very indecent angle almost point -blank. After adrenaline battle, COH has such an approach faster than the speeches of candidates for deputies before the election.
The situation is not saved by quite a variety of technology samples, among which there is all kinds of exoticism like the already mentioned “Mauses”. As expected, all this iron has a different thickness of the armor, depending on the type of projection, has limited ammunition and looks extremely reliably reliably: there are no complaints about, it is to models of technology. But why, tell me, these flirting with realism in the game, where the infantry steers tanks, units and buildings have strips of lives, and officers give subordinates unlimited ammunition and morality? It turned out something deprived, on the one hand, the depths of true tactical RTS, and on the other, the entertainment and constant action of “rash” strategies.
But what is new in the add-on compared to RFB? Two campaigns (for Germans and allies), several fresh units and … all. To put it mildly, not densely, given that you quickly get tired of the original, and then all the same tyagomotins-only a little more. Only vigorous videos at the beginning and end of the missions are a little pleased, but we did not come to watch the film, right?
Final comments
The expanshen turned out to be as dry as himself Rush for Berlin. There are no bright large -scale beatings, as there is no serious tactical gameplay. In the dry rest, a crazy plot, outdated graphics and speedy oblivion.
Gameplay: non -convertible mixture of tactics and RTS – excessively complex and monotonous.
Graphics: good models of technology and animation of soldiers are combined with pale special effects and inadequate brakes.
Sound: Fritz is bursting in German, and Ivanes-in Russian. Still nice.
For a long time?: the original still deserves attention, but the add-on is unlikely.