It just so happened that we met with Risen 3 In parallel, the game was shown almost simultaneously in Moscow and Munich, and different pieces were shown to journalists. But since the “Gambrome” team was not used to the half -timers, we managed to visit the method of Mom Uncle Fedor both here and there. And now we say with confidence that we know about the future game most of the others!
[Videoid_12806]] Titan Lords debut trailer [[/Videoid_12806]]So, Risen 3 is the next representative of the “role -playing games from Piranha bytes”, who stood out in a separate subjunction at the time of the first Gothic. Each of the games of this studio is characterized by a nameless hero and the open world of not the largest area, but of prohibitive saturation, as well as a bunch of elements that are now accepted by stamped. Here no one leads the player under the handle from the marker to the marker, the monsters do not adapt to the level of the protagonist, and on the map you have to move on foot, and not on a horse or, worse, instant auto digging.
THIS IS INTERESTING: Piranha Bytes studio is extremely conservative not only in gameplay matters. They are even based not in an ordinary office, but in the old “grandmother” house with carpets on the walls (as they joke themselves, “the office looks like our games – a little clumsy but cozy), and categorically refuse to grow more than twenty -five people – – in their opinion, only in a small team can you maintain the atmosphere of the family and mutual trust.
► Fire rain – a very comfortable thing. He hangs with a personal cloud over the main character and constantly damages everyone who surrounds.
However, a little piranha bytes still make concessions to fresh trends. Say, in Risen 2, the protagonist had a ship and a team with personal opinions and problems. Neither give nor take – Captain Shepard, born during the heyday of sea piracy. And in the third part they add backlighting key things in a special mode of view and even markers on the map, so that they do not have to look for the purpose of the mission according to the only description (but they will again have to be turned on manually by clicking on the button in the journal with quests).
However, these are details. In fact, Risen 3 is almost the same “Gothic” as in 2001, only a little more modern. A game designed for those who love just such a gameplay – a leisurely study of the area in search of cunning hidden hiding places, neat sorties first only on the weakest monsters, gradual gaining trust in one of the three fractions, his own manufacture of weapons and his readiness to die, inadvertently deviating from the route In the direction where too strong opponents live. The same relic as the recent Divinity: Original Sin , which has every chance to stock up in the soul.
► The monster has already crippled one character and, it seems, is about to switch his attention to the hero.
In the next world
Risen 3: Titan Lords it is felt more likely not as an independent game, but as a plot addition to Risen 2: Dark Waters. Such an impression is due to a huge amount of content transferred from the past and almost not recycled-the old animations of attacks and finishing, familiar characters and enemies. From the first minutes of the hero, the old enemies, “scaders”, pirates and aggressive monkeys meet old enemies, poultry birds.
Much has been preserved, but the protagonist in Titan Lords was still replaced. They became an nameless beginner, who, by a happy chance, associated with the nameless hero from R2, who will also play an important role in the new game.
► The fight against neutral monsters brings not only valuable resources, but also meat, which can always be frying at the nearest fire.
The main character begins the game by a mighty fighter, but twenty minutes after the start almost dies in a fight with a shadow creature. He returns to the world of living thanks to the magic of Voodoo Shaman Bones, familiar to us from the previous parts of Risen. Having woke up, the nameless discovers himself without previous skills and, worse, without the soul that the creature managed to suck.
And then the hero stuck between our world and the world of shadows, in fact, he is a zombie who has retained the mind and a keen desire to return to a full -fledged life. Only powerful magicians can help him in this, which, as veterans of the previous parts remember, if they were not exterminated, then dispersed in the far corners, without adding a good mood at all. As well as the desire to help everyone who suddenly remained without a soul by their own stupidity. In a word, the task of the hero is quite traditional – to get out of the very bottoms into circles of revered people who are not customary to refuse magical services. And at the same time, to save the world, having achieved the titans surviving after the previous parts.
War of the Titans
Bones asks to find the powerful Druid Eldrick, who could explain the nature of what happened to the hero and prepare him for the confrontation of shadow creatures. With the search for the druid and the game begins after the prologue. The powerful abilities accessible in the prologue were taken away from us, and now we have to develop the future superman from scratch.
Along with Shaman Bones, who immediately adjoins the team, we will see many other familiar faces – for example, one -eyed Inquisitor Mendos, who was killed in the first Risen. Now he lives in the world of shadows in the form of a ghost, but the protagonist, having gutted, can pull out a scandalous inquisitor from there and introduce him to his own missions. It is interesting that the inhabitants of the world of Risen do not really react to a walking and harmful ghost: think, green, translucent and glows. If I hadn’t watered all with mud in a row, they would probably have ignored, and at least sniff, offering to return back to the grave. We will also meet the Petty pirate, which was present in all the previous parts of the series – and her appearance will be upheld again!
► Type on the left is a slightly decomposed Mendos, familiar to us in the first part. And birds like that on the right, generally met in Gothic
The developers threatened to return to the fantasy surroundings of the first part, but in fact, they simply combined it with the pirate style of Risen 2. The hero carries with him a Corsara saber and a revolver as a secondary weapon, constantly applies to the healing rum, and at the same time acquires knowledge in the magic of Voodoo, which debuted in the last part. Unless, of course, does not make a choice in favor of the guards faction with their crystal magic. The interface is accurately postponed from Dark Waters, everything is painfully familiar, up to the opportunity to return to the dangerous island of Takarigua, who occupied an important place in the history of the previous part.
As in Risen 2, the hero uses swords, sabers and swords for close attacks, and pistols and throwing knives for distance, often alternating both in battle. Later, the main weapons will be allowed to change to a crossbow or musket, but the deficit of ammunition cannot be avoided, no matter how economy.
However, you can educate a hero and a magician, and this will not be a traditional suffocation in a thin mantle, avoiding close to the enemy. The magician in Risen 3 fights almost the same as the swordsman, twisting the pirouettes and actively moving in battle, just instead of the blade, he holds a lightning or fiery ball in his hand. Very impressive, and effectively – mana spells do not require, only time for reloading, and then not all. The catch is that they still have to switch them from time to time-someone has resistance, and who has immunity. In addition, it will not be possible to study magic at once – first you need to curry up in the fraction, its practicing. Otherwise – only disposable scrolls on which you will go bankrupt even faster than on cartridges.
► In the third part, the hero learned to swim. I must https://sister-site.org/dealbet/ say, in Risen 2 it looked damn stupid – a pirate that is afraid to plunge into the water.
Soul and soullessness
There are many dialogs in the game and a lot of text. For some reason, the dialogues did not find a bold replica of “dump!", Which was used in the second part and included the script, according to which the hero shot the interlocutor in the face and thereby finished a bored conversation. Is the hero Risen 3 really not ready for such harsh acts?
► Goblin with a revolver always seemed to us some kind of "zombie with a machine gun". ► a charming gnome probably planned the dirty tricks! Perhaps this is a deceiver Jaffar from Risen 2, who taught the protagonist theft skills? But he wore a pirate triangle ..
The role system will also change: it will become more flexible. The number of hiding places and assembled objects will grow – in each nookswoman, where else go to figure out how to climb, it is necessarily found if not the legendary artifact with a constant “background” bonus, then at least a crystal suitable for the exchange or a sign with ancient knowledge.
A karma system will appear – when the main character lies, refuses help and does bad deeds, he loses the indicator of the “soul”, and for honesty and kindness his “sincerity” grows. Only the player’s desire depends on how he will develop his character – a person or a demon. Some game bonuses will depend on this choice-it’s easier to communicate to a good character, but the evil will be able to tear out the heart from the enemy and cynically gobble it up-as well as the ending, which will vary for the first time in the series depending on the decisions made.
Fights are still quite clumsy without a gamepad, under which control in Risen 3 is primarily imprisoned. We played on the keyboard and mouse and considered that the combat system is quite cruel to those who are trying to beat a group of monsters. There are few consumables, standard attacks are weak, and enemies always attack a group and bite on several sides.
► a meeting with a necromancer capable of attacking the generations of the other world. Before these "shadows" in the series were not.
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The most alarm is alarming in Risen 3 in Risen 3. The graphics have changed since the Dark Waters for the better, but the gameplay, despite the small calibrations, remained the same as two years ago. And this huge, but not too diverse world, divided into islands, risks boring already to the middle of a long journey – like in Risen 2.
Success factors
Risk factors
- game according to the classic rules of Piranha bytes;
- the opportunity to pass the game of the villain;
- The new main character is with a tail and a preservation character.
- Not everyone likes this very “old school”;
- The game is similar to an addition to the second part;
- Piranha games rarely do without critical bugs at the start.
Stage of development
The game is almost ready, the exit is scheduled for August 15, 2014. Unlike Risen 2, the third part will appear simultaneously on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
We will wait?
Risen 3 – brought to mind Risen 2, designed primarily for connoisseurs of pirate topics and console roofs. The fast August release will put everything in place, but to be honest, I really want Piranha bytes to keep their promises.
Expectations rating: 75%
