The game I m reviewing today is Will Rock. A typical FPS Genre game, inspired from Serious Sam 1 & 2 implies mindless shooting, a shit load of annoying enemies commin at u from all direction.
The game is made by Ubisoft and Saber intereactive, U might remember Ubi as the guys involved in makin Far Cry and Splinter Cell. But this was a disappointment and looks like it was a budjet release by them as we will discover as we go on.
However the game just dosent match up the legend of serious sam 1 or 2, yes it does include the sense of humour of Sam but unfortunatly it isnt as good. Also the game was buggy with some major bugs esp in controls, actually i had to install the v1.2 patch from their site to fix the buggy controls even after this there were lot of bugs, I missed a BOSS Fight bcos of a bug just imagine how can that happen. There also seem to be issues involed in climbing sloped areas etc
The Game is also filled with oneliners, however they just dont make u laugh.
The Story of the game revolves around an archeoligist name Will Rock who got to kick some Greek God Asses to get his kidnapped girl friend back.
Rig used to play and Review
PIII 667 Mhz
256 MB SD RAM
GeForce 4 MX 440
Game Requires approx 1 G Installation Space
Now lets dive deep into the various aspects of the game, the Game is Rated indivudially on various different aspects and then given an overall rating. Since this is my first review of a game, I will explain my game ratin Technique.
The Game is rated in 5 Aspects and then an over all
1) Game Play - How does the game feel, the controls etc
2) Graphics - Well the word explains it all, how eye candy is the game
3) Audo - Hows does the ingame music / sound effects feel
4) Others - Any other Extra Features that makes the Game worth while
5) Multiplayer - Are u the kind who plays online also then look at this section also
All ratings are out of 10
The final Rating is decided by takin the portions of the above rating
1) Game Play - 40%
2) Graphics - 30%
3) Audio - 15%
4) Others - 10%
5) Multiplayer - 5%
1) Graphics
Well as i said before the Game is a budget title, and the Graphcis Does say a lot on that. The physics engine is not very impressive as it is just very basic. The Weapon graphics are all average. The fluid dynamics and representation is not very impressive, i dint fell much different walkin on land and swiming in water. The explosions were no impressive. There are situations were we got to catapult ourseleves from one location to another if not done properly u can end up dead. Most enemies just die and fall down or split up into pieces just like in old "Unreal" game. We also deal with massive out door arenas as well as closed spaces. The out door arenas are not very impressive most of the time its like rocks and desert or some ruined cities, there is one forest level in the game.
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| Most Fights Take in open areas or wide arenas like this | Forest in Will Rock not as impressive as Serious Sam |
Graphics 6 / 10
2) Game Play
Well not all games are decided by Graphics but by game play. Here too the game fails miserebly. First of all the game is buggy and I had to install patch before i could properly play the game. Second is the fact that enemies are not as impressive like Serious Sam. The developers hav tried their maximum to make it that way but has failed. The FPs controls are similar to anyother FPS.
One Difference from serious sam that i noticed was the inclusion of power ups. Here u Get power ups when u give up 50 Gold u collected there are 3 power ups
1) Titan Motion - Slows down time
2) Immortality - Give immortality
3) Titan Damage - 4x Damage
Blaze of Glory Before Confronting MedusaAll of which will last 30s. I felt they wernt very effective and game can be finished without their help also. The enemies are easy to kill and most die with a few shots, however they are real annoyin and hard to kill at times.
The Player is also challenged to jump over lava pits. movig briges etc it felt like First Person "Mario"
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| Looks Like Lava Stage In Mario | Now where is that Dragon ? |
There Game is either takin place in open out doors with a lot of enemies or we are indoors doin jumping
In short the game play is average and has nothing more to offer than a regular FPS
Game play 5.5 / 10
3) Audio
The game audio is below average, boring and was repetitive. A small no: of tracks were used and became boring and repetitive after a short duration of game play.
The weapons sound quality is also low most of the times i felt the sound and the weapon dint match
The enemy groans, screams etc were average.
There arnt many vocals in the game
Over all the game has below average audio quality
Audio - 3 / 10
4) Others
Well there isnt much of an extra in the game. The story is just made so that one could start shooting from the first actually Serious Sam's approach was better just include the story As simple as possible then keep addin those who are interested may read.
There is an opening movie and a closin one but it really wasnt any movie just slide show with voice acting.
Once U finish the game u can choose to play game from any level u want. The cheats in the game are also easy to apply unlike other games were lot of typin has to be done
Others - 2.5 / 10
5) Multiplayer
The game does support multiplayer, various modes of play exist death match, Treasure hunt and cooperative mode.
Death match - Usual frag em all contest
Tresure Hunt - Collected the winnimg amount of tresures in the map to win
Cooperative play - join hands with ur friends and play in the game together. This was a bit different and ought to be fun in a LAN Party
Multiplayer - 7 / 10
Overall
5 / 10
Will (not) Rock :-) isnt as impressive as it was meant to be. For the n00bs it may be an intro to FPS but it could be better as for the veterans do play only if u want to finish all the FPS in the world.
My 1st ever Game Review Posted before @ TvmLife
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