Rise Of The Argonauts (PS3)
Funny story that Rise Of The Argonauts: first postponed until next year, he was finally launched to the lucrative Christmas by its publisher Codemasters. A last-minute choice probably largely motivated by commercial factors. Rise Of The Argonauts, Greek tragedy or a title that could reach the summits ...
Rise Of The Argonauts is based on the well-known legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Greek paradise, the island of Iolcos represents a kind of forbidden city protected by the gods, and thus seemingly inviolable. Yet the evil spirits (Black Languages) benefit of the marriage of Jason and his beloved, Alceme for stays in the city and to remove the life of a deadly arrow. Determined not to leave the destiny fulfilled his step, Jason embarks on a long journey in search of the legendary Golden Fleece. Protected by the Gods, King Jason, Heracles, Atalante, Pan and therefore leave the clique crusade across Greece.
The Trojan
The theme of Greek mythology, also interesting is, it is rarely discussed in the era of modern video games. It certainly offers a background that is really exciting cross the most beautiful legends. With plenty of good will, the developers Liquid Entertainment have exploited many of them on the basis of a coherent universe and warm. The environments are quite large and rather worked. Although the level-design oscillates between beautiful architecture and Greek villages completely stripped, Rise Of The Argonauts still has the merit of offering a singular journey, a moment of escape on land unknown sometimes surprising. The developers have given careful attention to the construction of the adventure to make the most epic possible. On board his ship (the Argos), Jason is free to choose his destination, then progressing on the island of Delphi to the evil of Saria through the arena of Mycenae. Freedom remains restricted, however, including levels not often that one and only way to overcome a quest finally to direct. As a subterfuge, Rise Of The Argonauts forcing the player to go back and unrelenting. This is certainly one way to lengthen life, but running here ridicule both situations are puzzled. Especially since these walks highlight many technical flaws, starting with a frame-rate on the street leading to annoying jerks. The bugs dance techniques and noise encountered during the adventure leaves us perplexed: how as a buggy (and others) he could pass the dam approvals Sony and Microsoft?
When is this enough Tropico
Combined with a comprehensive implementation of tooth-saw, textures often bordered with bad taste. If it is not a technological jewel, Rise Of The Argonauts still has a leg artistic pleasant, but certainly not sufficiently exploited by lack of time ... This feeling bitter and frustrating rubbed off on the care given to the characters. While some have benefited from a deep, others simply have no charisma. Worse, most villagers look like junkies without expression. Too bad, because Codemasters has still made the effort to locate his entire game based on a system of choice close to Mass Effect, Rise Of The Argonauts capitalize fully on the discussion - sometimes boring - with the residents. If your choices have no real effect on the adventure, they can focus on side quests. These are mainly reflected by actions of citizenship to citizens.
For the rest, the Rise of the Argonauts gameplay revolves mainly around the alternation between adventure and combat. The clashes, too few, lack of pace and is mainly ultra-simplistic for a game of its kind. And for good reason, the proposed range of shots is reduced to ... not much, if not a few weapons and comes straight out of the range of small magician. In addition, your allies recruited throughout the adventure are what is called a figure. Oh hey, we took the opportunity to rebel from the lack of a cooperation that could give the game an extra edge. Because with an RPG superficial managed as a tree of competence, Rise Of The Argonauts undeniably lack of wealth to play the leading roles.
Conclusion
Rise Of The Argonauts is probably one of the new victims of the massive productivity editors. Because without wanting to throw stones Codemasters, Rise Of Argonauts had the potential to be a place in the sun in the case of good adventure games. With more time and / or means, developers could refine textures, the characters work, reviewing the problems of frame-rate and especially all the terrible fix bugs. But now, time is money. Suddenly we find ourselves in front of an ambitious, exciting, well built, but badly marred by many problems that it is impossible to ignore. In short, a nice mess to add on the list, the gods have decided!
