Последние обзоры 𝅵𝅵hollow

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RACE!

OK, now onto the real review.

I started to play the game at the highest difficulty.
- Just two attempts for the race? Really? And money lost?
- You've finished the race the Nth (1,2,3) place, restarted it and midrace decided to finish it - now you LOSE the race completely. Your previous standing is lost.
- I'm greeted with "Not enough money" for races from the get go. How to replenish you wallet? Drive like a madman on the streets of the city collecting scraps. No scraps left? Destroy rare cop cars. This is the first such a game in the series. You have to grind just to be able to race. WTF? Someone wanted the game to become a freaking chore?
- There was a sense of progression in earlier games. Now your first car has a maximum speed of 200km/h and takes 12 seconds to reach 100. Really? Will I be driving at 350km/h later on?
- Side missions suddenly disappeared.
- You've got busted? Your current day is finished. Everything's lost.

Damn, someone wanted players to grind for hundreds of hours to finish the game.

Pros:
- Absolutely stunning animation, graphics and sound
- Decent story

Cons:
- Controls are atrocious
- Help system is horrible, I barely understood how to use GRP after 20 failed attempts
- Movement is terrible. Sometimes the E button doesn't allow you to jump obstacles, it's finicky as hell
- There's movement stamina but there's no indication of it
- The GRP charge is a small piece of your collar you have to dedicate all your attention to. There's no way you could have it as a simple freaking indicator on the screen
- Likewise the health meter
- The GRP gun copied from Half Life is a piece of crap in how it works and is operated
- The dodge system for enemy attacks is atrocious
- The game forces you to destroy your keyboard and mouse
- You cannot outrun enemies
- Enemies without the head continue to fight as if they are completely intact
- The game doesn't reward you for headshots, they are almost useless (see above)
- Very small inventory
- Fighting is terrible
- You actually can sell stuff to use the Reforger to perform upgrades, freaking surprise! That's never explained. You don't know if items to sell are safe to sell. Power ups for what exactly?

Thoroughly enjoyed it, highly recommended. A load of fun and at times it's hard to beat which is exactly what you're looking for from a single person shooter.

Pros:
- The game can be passed without killing anyone (except those who must be killed as objectives - would be nice if that was tackled as well).
- Very beautiful. Lots of attention to details.
- Sniper rifles have a new distance based aiming mechanic. Still it's a far cry from what Sniper Contracts offers.

Cons:
- Plastic faces. I've never seen so bad faces in a AAA title. Crysis from 2007 looked better.
- Horrible terrible stupid AI. I'm playing on authentic and it's just not there. AI won't see you when you're right in front of it. AI will however spot you when you're crouching 50 meters away.
- Not a lot of new stuff if any in comparison to previous installments.
- IRL something that's guarded is guarded at all times. Without ifs. That means it's ridiculous that you can sneak in almost everywhere without being spotted.
- I can pick up a fourth gun which is the same as mine but with better modifications or the one which is not yet available, why? I can use it. If I switch to my own primary three guns, this fourth gun is dropped. What the hell? Found modifications are not unlocked by picking better guns.
- Enemies popping out of thin air. This happens e.g. when you destroy objects and you have enemies "sleeping".
- Not enough traversal freedom. Too many areas of the game are blocked seemingly for no reasons.

Buy only when it's on sale.

An amazing game, too bad development stopped and players didn't appreciate it.

It's very beautiful, thought out, there's a wonderful story, dialogues, animations, music, a lot of attention to details, it's something to behold.

The only two bad things about it are: UI - it's terribly inconvenient and roaming on the map. There's no need for the horse, it's 100% redundant, map traversal just should be twice as fast. I've encountered a single side mission so far which necessitates the horse (you need to catch a wolf).

If you're a fan of Heroes of Might and Magic or King's Bounty, that's the game to play.

Various junk loot makes zero sense - you need to sell it. Why not just give the player gold?

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I first said, "Sadly it's impossible to complete the game at the hard difficulty level without losses. It's possible at the beginning, then after completing a few missions (roughly 12 hours of play time), enemies become insane and simply destroy you. That's my biggest concern and bummer".

Looks like it was because either I played suboptimally or playing using a mage this way is not possible. There are walk throughs published on youtube where people complete the game at hard difficulty without losses using a paladin and warrior.

I'll restart the game to try to complete it without losses. Darn, 40 hours lost.

- I can't finish the first race first. I've given it almost 50 fair attempts. Enough. Drove perfectly. I've played over 30 racing games in my life, including pretty much all NFS'es, GRIDs and Flatouts and others. This is too much to take.
- Key bindings cannot be redefined. Sorry, I don't have extra fingers to use numpad 0 as the handbrake. It behaves truly unpredictably.
- Physics and car control are truly horrible. I know it's an arcade but I've played better arcades.
- Turn signs are easy to miss.
- Music is too much in your face.

Verdict: uninstalling and requesting a refund.

A refund request was rejected. Darn.

Cons:
- Truly horrible physics
- Your car weighs nothing
- Your car can and will drive anything including walls, roofs, etc.
- I've been unable to destroy a single opponent car during races
- The car feels like molasses
- Very few races
- Some car upgrades are _downgrades_
- Winter races suck because of horrible visibility
- You need to upgrade each car individually - it costs a ton of money which you need to grind through races

Pros:
- Beautiful races

How to play:
- Never upgrade the gearbox, I repeat never upgrade the gearbox (it adds maximum speed but destroys acceleration)
- Use manual brakes sparingly (spacebar) - it actually allows to make turns
- Use any trainer to solve the money issue if you don't want to go crazy

Overall:
- Buy only at discount when you're truly bored. Then you'll get bored playing this madness.
- I haven't finished the game as it's too repetitive and boring

I don't know if this game was meant to be a clone or something similar to Heroes of Might and Magic or King's Bounty but there are far too many common features to ignore that, so I'll consider all of the three to be roughly the same.

What absolutely bugged me is how horrible the UI of AoW III is. Totally unnecessary 3D, very difficult to asses what's on the screen including the number of troops in your army and the army of your enemy, the health/damage information, why are my troops are "low-health" after a battle - it's all confusing as hell.

Obstacles on battlefields are impossible to read: which ones can be destroyed and which cannot, where your troops can move and where they cannot. What's the line of sight? What's the effective range? What's the effective move distance? Why do I see hexagons and the move distance e.g. of 27 translates to 6 hexagons? What a mess.

And oh boy I wanted to see the battle not tiny troops on the screen in 3D from far apart.

Lastly, in terms of damage output and health, in HoMM and King's Bounty more powerful troops are bigger and that's not the case here where everything is of roughly the same size, only your hero is slightly bigger.

OK, I started a new game and there goes my first battle. Why did the two types of my troops split into six (!) squads and one type stayed as a single unit? Where's the rhythm and rhyme? How this can be controlled? How can I split the troops?

Maybe I was trying to play the wrong game I don't know.

This game requires ultimate reaction times, precision and excellent attention and I'm lacking all of them. Perhaps I'm too old, or too tired, or too unhappy but I'm done with this game and I won't try to complete it as it's too mentally draining. Tons of people will enjoy it but I can't and thus I won't recommend it.

The game includes some elements of DOOM Eternal, Portal (Valve) and Deus Ex.

Even in its current state there are lots of bugs and the game doesn't perfectly respond to controls at all times. Some enemies at times become immortals.

This is basically an add-on to Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts with a tad better graphics. What really irks me is how utterly buggy it is. Check my screenshots for that.

Pros:
+ If you liked the original, go for it though the new installment lacks sufficiently new content.
+ You can now probably pass half of the missions without killing anyone at all, the Deus Ex style. Much appreciated.
+ Tons of ways to approach each mission (tunnels, airways, etc.)
+ Replayability.

Cons:
- Too few missions but many ways to accomplish each.
- Most guns are f-ing useless. I've completed the entire game without changing or buying new guns.
- Saves are f-ing broken, they are automatic and you cannot choose what and when to save. Replaying from a certain point often becomes impossible because the game adds new automatic saves thus making your old saves disappear.
- AI is still idiotic however it sees you immediately from any distance whenever you miss a shot even when you have a silencer. They can also shoot at you at any distance using any guns, not just sniper rifles.
- Almost nothing new in terms of mechanics or features vs. the first game.
- No updates, no new maps, the game has swiftly been abandoned.
- Very uneven in terms of missions difficulty. The very last mission is a breeze, missions before it are way harder.
- Heavy enemies are bullet sponges in terms of shooting at their face shield masks.
- The game could be better optimized though. I had to lower resolution to get acceptable frame rates.
- No DLSS/FSR/TSR.
- Tons of bugs.

Bugs:
1. When the game starts it often crashes in ... the menu.
2. When the game starts it often loads in window mode though I've never pressed Alt + Enter.
3. The game often crashes when completing missions (shows the mouse cursor on top of the black screen).
4. Hit registration is f-ing broken: some shots just miss no matter how precisely I try to shoot.
5. Climbing mechanics is outright broken and could have been implemented better.