Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown.
Platform: PC, PS2, Xbox.
Genre: Turn-based strategy
Developer: Cinemaware.
Publisher: Capcom.
System requirements:
PIII-500, 128MB RAM
500MB HDD
16MB 3D accelerator,
And the best:
PIV-1400, 256MB RAM
1GB HDD
64MB 3D accelerator
www.cinemaware.com
Once in the cold winter season
He came out of the woods ...
As my teacher used to say on the subject, whose name scare unimpaired higher technical education the reader has not ventured, "we add and multiply, and divide the police take away." So, as the name suggests, this game is just about the one who takes and shares, Robin Hood Loxley bin.
However, history «Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown» start a long time. No, not at the time of the Crusades and the War of the Roses, but no less historic 1982nd. Someone from readers Gameland Online at that time only planned, others went on foot under the table or in a school like yours truly, and «Defender of the Crown» is already gathering of gamers have convex coarse chetyrnadtsatidyuymovikov. Fifteen years, successfully passed since that time, Cinemaware has ported their hit on consoles, to rivet the various add-ony, and continue. Then came Capcom - publisher, whose record includes an arcade, fighters, and the race for the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. As a result of their collaboration was released «Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown», a turn-based game can be computed PC strategy (also released on PS2 and XBox). Feel a great temptation to finish the remaining articles to the position of ranking three kilobytes curves viper emoticons.
Overcame the temptation to go back to the review. To begin with, that derived from the original game, the gameplay is an unimaginable mix of arcade, simulation and economic turn-based strategy. Do not be biased - we will not mention the deliberate neusvoyaemost like a cocktail, just go ahead and analyze all components of the game together and separately.
Actually, a complete set of pleasures Our man in tights is allowed only when away with the pernicious Nottingham sheriff. Getting out of Sherwood Forest, the hero enters the fight with rebel lords, tearing apart the good old England in the absence of its rightful king, Richard the Lionheart. He is not alone, and shared all the work to save the feudal homeland with a group of friends.
Robin himself can, like a real cuckoo shot merchant caravans with high pine. It's all in a dash: donkeys, carts and horses pass by, how many nastrelyal - so much candy and got the gold. But its main purpose-poking at enemy castles, demonstrating the art of fencers. Pretty stupid senseless clatter, especially for delicate fingers strategists, sending a wave of your mouse a few hundred Marines to certain death.
Not idle, and companions.The gallant Sir Wilfred defends the honor fraternity for jousting tournaments, a good bonus, of course. Too fun not for intellectuals. Reverend Tuck finally sat down at the el and can only negotiate with the terrorists who seized the King Crusader. Virtuous Lady Marion easily penetrates into enemy territory, and solves the problems of military espionage. But the main man in the game - Little John, general and just good people. He spends the money earned by his comrades on the valiant British soldiers. You can roam as much as five kinds of troops: the peasants, the infantry, knights, archers and catapults. Of course, the main and indispensable in «Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown» - Voroshilov, sorry, Sherwood Arrow. These guys and a horse at full gallop and protein in the eye. Battles take place on a flat, divided by the cell board. When dull AI and the dominance of the archers of little interest. On the strategic map of this unnatural intelligence and the furtive. For a while, kept afloat only thanks to artificial constraints such as "more than one army not to attack." In general, for the player, ruptured a couple of military strategies, "Protecting the Crown 2003" - self-indulgence and sophomoric.
And the good. Obviously, considering the gameplay of 17-year-old perfect, the developers have invested in the schedule. Not that it affects, but the picture is quite decent. Plus - all Sherwood scripted brethren in the scene looks like a living thing. Speaks beautifully and naturally. The story weaves smoothly, offering several options for completion.
Diagnosis. Long gone are the days when gamers begin kolbasit pohrustyvanii the first hard drive - in the modern game industry has its own laws. And the boys from Cinemaware - simple advice: to somehow represent the future of the consumer of your product. Who is he: Uncle, still found the old «Defender of the Crown», or a boy of ten years, never once who got into the hands of a virtual sword, spear and a bow?
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