The writer of science fiction main stream does not come to make us smile. Try to remember the world of Total Recall. Red, stuffy, messy. Now focus your attention on Red Faction. Always red, impersonal, metallic, etc. Finally last effort: Mixed together and by sprinkling a pinch of the big shots and that's it! Alpha Prime is here. An ugly future where humanity is under the total influence of Big Brother. A humanity where men began to sink in mine, risking their lives to win. But above all, a humanity that alcohol does more drunkenness. May God preserve us from such a purpose. Whatever our future in this game is, you are a famous prospector, making you a certain elite. But it is that one day the skids on the asteroid Alpha Prime fall. The local miners have started to yearn for murder, the government gets involved in the case and the powder starts to talk. Lack of luck, your best friend is there and your ex-wife. So, armed with a handful of grenades you will try to put order in this joyful mess. Friendship, love and political conspiracies, there's nothing you can spare, the only thing the developers did not see to fit is to introduce into their soft, it's a little surprise. Let us see more...
The universe and the scenario were seen and reviewed twenty times, and the lack of any personality. The player evolves mainly in the complex of a mining operation in decorations made of metal and machinery. Graphically, however, the game is honest and has all the latest visual effects in fashion, even a little too much sometimes. For example, taken from a certain angle, the lighting may seem strange, too breathtaking. This could be a detail, but the game is quite dark we had the opportunity to see many times during the adventure. If not a purely technical point of view, not much to report, the game is quite nice and runs quite correct even on a midrange machine a year ago. It can even be downright beautiful when using hubbardium, a local product which significantly boosts your physical and sensory acuity.
It remains then to fall back on the action, after all overrides any other consideration in a shooter. The problem is that too, it lacks everything, except corridors and locked doors. Alpha Prime is one of those ultra linear FPS you with tasks that are merely pretexts for advancing from one point to another, or more precisely, crossing a lane overlooking a room filled to selection of mutants, robots, or elite units. Enemies to AI rather unfortunate, robots will never take cover but relying on their resistance to bullets quite unfair (it is common to have to empty them on a charger while you segment a few shots ) and the elite soldiers who are in speed in all directions. The exercise could vaguely distracted yet lacking the amateur, like a crossword 2 strength could hold gracefullest seasoned in a waiting room, where at least the weapons were not so poorly designed. Not original two, they are becoming few and weak. So, it comes quickly to only use two, pump rifle that once again largely outperforms the others, or the machine gun that makes for a Gatling, if you are out of reach of the gun . From time to time, a passage through the sniper rifle will eventually serve. As for grenades, their delirious rebounds and lack of power makes them utterly useless. The other problem with the armory comes to its part of a major lack of ammunition, especially at the beginning of the game, a shortage annoying in a game that looks the part yet of the big shooter that spot than to the shoot tactics.
Game shoot requires, you must know play the trigger to survive on Alpha Prime. Gun punches, machine guns, grenades, flame starts ... All these weapons lack power, and if the ammunition are plentiful, you will not allow your stock. It is often empty a charger to an enemy without being able to kill him. At this rate you habit to reload your weapon two, three or four times during a fight two enemies when you stand in the road. In the middle of your arsenal Playschool, the palm of the inefficiency comes when even snipe that seems unable to break down an opponent in a ball head. The resulting clashes somewhat exciting, the more frustrating as the sound of weapons inspires confidence. Deaf, heavy and powerful, they accounted for almost anything that is not weapons.
While we're on the sound for that matter, note that the composer has quite viciously abusing illicit product before writing if it sounds like a soft melodic lines. The problem, if we can say is that they have a real structure, so it can not cut short after a fight. You can not criticize this man to have a fine ear, it's just that is difficult to ignore that we rebalance the same song every two minutes, for switching, or almost the only piece of "tension". Tiresome.
Conclusion
The main weakness of this Alpha Prime is only failing to stand out from the competition. For example, it is possible to collect and bring many elements of the decor, original option in itself but which has, so to speak, not been used. The game itself of its phases of action a little too soft and the screenplay cliche. Do not blacken the table, it is not a tragedy. Adding that even in the category of FPS without multiplayer mode in which a priory we expect a little, it has been doing well. Beating The Hell in Vietnam at least, but it is true that this is not an achievement.
Difficult to find his account in question without hitting atmosphere, provided unsatisfactory weapons and enemies more funny than anything else. However, it is argued, without much conviction, but it is argued. Play Alpha Prime is like a bit watching a stupid TV in the evening when you are slammed, you know it is not terrible, but pfff, we do not know what else to do so ...
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