CIA agent Milo Berwick comes to the Catalan capital in order to infiltrate the local mafia and to prevent the audacious robbery. Just keep in mind, the working methods of our bald friend, to put it mildly, different from traditional ones, so that the ordinary person on the spot the Mayor of Barcelona, we would strongly recommend advance to take refuge in bomb shelters.
Labor feat Berik begins, as befits a good action film, with a crazy chase through the narrow Spanish streets. While you're crazy you turn the steering wheel, moving away from settle on all sides by police, a mysterious passenger, only that, among other things, to rob a bank, tells you where to go. No you arrows along the road, or a smart GPS-navigator, but his aunt, hung on the ear - like all in life.
Developers are at pains to take the players deal, so that the missions that have to ride on the orders of the passengers - a lot. Particularly memorable job, when one of the gang leaders, hung with explosives, you need a nasty squeak timer delivered straight to deminers. Miss at least one turn - and remember, as the name. And you and the boss and all the surrounding residents.
Generally speaking, the adrenaline of the mission - is the cornerstone on which rests the whole game. While in front of us, at first glance, another clone of GTA, the structure and atmosphere Wheelman much closer to the old Driver, or the same DRIV3R.
 | | | Cars in the game pretty much. Give even a ride in an ambulance and police jalopy | | In fact, the game is not violent. No blood, and shoot and push pedestrians are not allowed |
Technically, you are really given to the looting of a huge city with hundreds of streets, yards and highways. Zakavyka that here in Yalta Sanatorium - absolutely nothing to do.
If you suddenly vzbredet crazy idea to take a little car and drive to a virtual Barcelona "for the soul, nothing good can wait. The local streets are sterile, as if operating on your eyes only occasionally come across people of clones. If the same GTA IV you can walk, just watching the life of the city, admiring the beautiful sunsets and sunrises, then from the "feeling of freedom" according to Wheelman quickly becomes extremely uncomfortable.
The same situation with the optional missions. It seems that the developers have heard that it now considered good form to fill jobs bonus game, but how it's done, find out does not seem to bother. As a result, your service heels boring "competition" (see sidebar, next door), take part in which there is no desire.
Stick says: which side do not look, Wheelman - it merely staged a game - a five-minute break away from the clutches of the director, and the spell will be dispelled immediately. The developers understood this very well and so hard try not to leave the player alone.But lest we got bored during the tedious patrols through the city, allowed just poke on the map to the desired mission and go straight to the point.
 | PC-localization |
An excellent gift for the Russian players, of course, is that in our country, a computer version of "Vin Diesel Wheelman» went on sale as much as two weeks before the world premiere. During this together thank the company "New Disc". Sorry, localization podkachala. Actor, voice of the protagonist, almost "merged" role. His indifferent voice acting usyplyayusche. Yes, and artists supporting roles, things matter - almost all of them hopelessly overplayed. For the semantic part of the transfer there are no claims, but all the cool voice spoils.
Explosive nature But when it comes to setting, Wheelman is changing before our eyes. That neither the scene, then necessarily mad rush, incessant explosions, nonstop gunfire and fireworks flying tires.
Developers do not have to plant the garden with accurate physics, so that all cars behave unrealistically, but damn spectacular. Any dead cabriolet zazyvno motor hums, smoking tires and darts off that epileptic doe. In the most abrupt change can be easily fit to the speed limit, the machine can withstand a dozen collisions, and perform a U-turn cop "is not able to reduce the rate and the infant.
Thanks to this "arcade" approach, developers can maintain the necessary degree of action throughout the game. You race on some streets carry the poles and garbage cans, and unhappy pedestrians, desperate mothers barely have time to duck out from under the wheels.
Even funnier is when the holiday falls detractors. Since Milo quickly spoil relations with almost all criminal groups, and then start hunting for him noble. The villains are not explicitly taught traffic rules, so too happy to turn the town into a heap of debris, no hating, cross the double solid and exceed speed. In addition, they are with enviable persistence board your car and yell out bad words.
In Wheelman bodaniyu cars generally paid more attention. For the implementation of the devastating maneuver meets separate mini-joystick (if you're playing on the gamepad, of course), and qualitative impact makes it easy to get rid of unwanted company. Furthermore, it should generate something like a combo series: the more active you rammed an enemy vehicle, the faster it will go to landfill. Do not, however, forget the weight categories of iron horses. Three: the "heavy", "medium", "easy". Accordingly, if you straddle the "bug", you should not try and shove a road vehicle. On the other hand, running a terrible kind of truck, you can safely turn to scrap almost any vehicle. For such invulnerability, however, have to pay for speed and maneuverability.
 | | | When the car lights - it's time to think about changing the vehicle | | Sitting in the cab of the truck here, you can forget about the transience of life |
When Milo will have guns, will the real fun: so our hero gives villains a light! The insane speed did not really aim, so that will save avtonavodka - Berwick chooses where to shoot, but the main task of the player - to take a strategically advantageous position on the road.
With the firing, by the way, are related and quite surreal moments. Do not expect, for example, to get rid of the pursuer, firing at the wheels - in Wheelman cars miraculously continue to race even with all of bursting tires on one drive only. Reset the "tail" can only be destroying the very car, or by sending to the light driver.
And though daring the arcade is always fun at first, eventually it starts to get annoying. For example, here is almost impossible to simply break away from the chase. AI persecutor operates the machine with superhuman precision, leaving unscathed in the most seemingly hopeless situations. Again, damage to absolutely no effect on the behavior of the car. And these conventions - the car. If your heart to the road games are more or less realistic, Wheelman can be downright frustrating.
In addition to the banal, in general, stunts like shooting at the wheels or Collision attacks, Milo trained, and some exotics. First, like in Pursuit Force, this allows you to change cars, they say, on the fly. It suffices to hang for a couple of seconds on the tail of a desirable car, and then press a button and, voila, our hero Tarzan siganet shaped on a machine-neighbor, throw out the driver's accident on the roadway, and rush on, as if nothing had happened. So it is very convenient to replace the badly beaten by a machine with a fresh, good most of the missions allow for that possibility.
Secondly, the Mylo is the so-called "indicator of attention." When it is filled to the limit (and restored it almost by itself) you can either increase the speed of the car, or for a few seconds to slow down time to make several fatal shots at the pursuer. In words, this operation seems a little cumbersome, but in fact it is very easy to use tricks. And, most importantly, they really come in handy in battle, thanks to such tricks are simple and familiar at the same GTA salochki the bandits are transformed into spectacular action: you have to ram settle on all sides of the machine, palite pistol, change on the fly cars ... The camera, moreover, does not hesitate to take close-ups, in all its glory showing very bright scenes. And while a mission is scarcely more than ten minutes after each want to catch his breath.
| What to do in your spare time? |
In Wheelman there are several kinds of optional missions for the fulfillment of which players are rewarded in different bonuses. However, you can very well do without them.
King of the road
The most that neither is trivial circular race around the city. The subtlety is that in our case, the machine is not forbidden to push opponents to complete their destruction.
Rage
Most probably a simple mission. All that is required of you - is to drive around the city and destroy state property, receiving for each demolished trash or destroyed by a billboard money. Accordingly, the more mangled, the better.
Taxi
Remember Crazy Taxi times and learn to be crafty fish is. Everything is simple: pick up a client and delivers it to its destination. The faster the run order, the greater the reward.
Made to order
Quest is a bit like "Taxi", but now need to cop it in a certain place valuable suitcase and for a strictly limited time to deliver it where you want. The sooner we are working, so, as always, richer reward.
Quick march Quite different things when Milo left the car. Exclusively on foot missions are not that many, but those that have, fairly spoil the overall impression. If our hero marches on foot, the game turns trehkopeechnym "shooter with Shelter. All you have to do - stomp forward, bringing enemies well-aimed bursts.
Not to be confused with the local shooting holiday violence of the same 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. In Wheelman «pedestrian firing" - a pitiful sight: the enemies of the rod fearless lemmings right under your bullets, no destructible, special effects-toed ... Plus a brilliant find designers - to place around the city Red Exploding Barrels that thumps like a Christmas cracker, and for whom (of course) are extremely fond of hiding enemies. Weapons few, and opportunities for the main character is almost none.
| | | The most boring, that there is only - is hiking | | In the face reflected sadness of the world |
Walking on my own two seem particularly poorly in comparison with the missions on wheels. " Here they are something just did not suffer from monotony. Then running away from pursuers, running just stolen juggernaut. That mchishsya the train station on a motorcycle, firing simultaneously looking out the windows of enemies. Then behaving spying mafia tycoons, now and then forcibly changing the machine on the go. Situations change constantly, and the missions just do not have time to get bored.
The employees Midway and Tigon, of course, went one hundred percent gunman on wheels glued on proven patterns. Oschuschetsya Wheelman that your Call of Duty, where instructed by the director falling airplanes and blow up trains.But here the pepper is not so much apart in the corners of firecrackers as turretless the whole show as a whole. Cars rush speed fighter, the cartridges do not end, the protagonist, like a grasshopper, jumping from machine to machine. Looks great, plays fun, but in this world do not want to linger longer than is required by the plot. In Wheelman no "second bottom» GTA IV, it lacks the crazy missions and opportunities Saints Row 2. She completely deserves to be passed to the end and did not regret the time spent, but on the toy Barcelona already niskolechko not miss on the closing credits.
| Chase for Dummies |
The game has several ways to get rid of annoying the enemy. And we've prepared a short-aids to make your life easier.
Ram stroke
Perhaps the main reception, allowing you to quickly get rid of the pursuer. Fairly pat enemy vehicles, you will very quickly show who is on the road, teapots, and who D'Artagnan.
Shooting at the wheels
Holster Milo never empty, so do not miss the chance of heart palnut to the enemy. True, personally aim you can not: the main character decides to shoot - at the wheels or directly to passengers.
Aimed Shot
And that is to say, superudar. When using it, time slows down, so you have time to easily and with impunity lard machine of the enemy with lead.
Cyclone
Apply a little bit better against left behind his pursuers: Milo at full speed and deploys a car 180 degrees and continue to move (but backwards), cut off, as they say, tails.
Seized car
This technique allows not only get rid of enemies, but also to change the car, if your already deteriorated. All that is needed - the right to drive to the popular among the car and press a button, and then Milo deftly jump "to visit". An interesting detail: if siganut a parked car, he politely and be got to move forward, although our hero is still only halfway to the pedals and steering wheel.
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