Posted on: March 16, 2009

rufusbezak

Spiele: 3 Rezensionen: 1

This is Carrier Command!

Previous reviewer seems to compare this to BattleZone, it's really not like BattleZone and never was intended to be, but it is a modern remake of the classic Amiga/AtariST game, Carrier Command. I still own the original CD-Rom version (Which still runs fine for me in XP) had I not I'd have snapped this up at the price it's being sold for on here. If you enjoyed classic games like, Wild Metal Country, Infestation, Virus2000, you'll seriously enjoy this criminally overlooked game. Thumbs up to GOG for resurrecting this ;-)

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Posted on: October 18, 2008

Talon112

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Spiele: 234 Rezensionen: 1

Awesome concept, brilliantly applied.

The title says it all really. The basic concept of the game is amazing. Kinda reminds me of the video game Wargames. Being able to make your units, and -then- control them directly is a nice touch. In all it totally deserves the 5/5 from me, best game I never played til now.

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Posted on: September 13, 2009

malkav11

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Spiele: 507 Rezensionen: 6

One of a kind

There's a lot to like about Hostile Waters. It's an innovative and unique blending of strategy and action, with a decidedly original storyline penned by one of the best writers working in comics today, Warren Ellis. The basic premise is this: global peace has finally been managed. The war machines, weaponry, and soldiers of the bad old days are decommissioned or destroyed. Only....not everyone was looking for peace. And a few of the hardliners have come out of hiding and launched a terrorist campaign to which the world is now defenseless. Or almost.... there's one of the old school nanowarfare carriers left, a mobile weapons factory known as Antaeus. It's been submerged and abandoned for some time, and the first few missions of the game deal with collecting the resources necessary to restore full operations. The Antaeus, when given the blueprint and enough fuel, can synthesize any vehicle or weapon necessary for the conflict. You are in charge of the Antaeus. You get a wide array of vehicles to throw at your foes, and while you can pilot them yourself directly (thus the action part of the game), you will usually want to load them up with a personality chip taken from one of the soldiers that fought in the last war so that they can move about autonomously (under your orders, of course). Each soldier has a different personality and skillset, and as you find them you learn more about their history in cutscenes. The enemies themselves constantly regenerate until you can find and destroy the factories producing them, and there are often other story-related goals. All this makes for a game that I for one have found extremely compelling, and paying $6 for it almost feels like stealing. Note that the boxed copy has a bug which fails to recognize the retail CD, requiring a no-CD patch to play the game at all. So even if you have a chance at the box, I'd still recommend this version. Saves hassle.

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Posted on: March 12, 2018

Tiberius.311

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Spiele: 227 Rezensionen: 2

Excellent Strategy/Action game

You are the commander of Antaeus, a high-tech cruiser that has been sunk in the last war and now lifted up from the bottom of the sea in a desperate attempt to stop a terrorist organization known as Cabal. The ship features a nano-factory, capable of producing helicopters, hovercraft and tanks almost instantly, given that you supply it with enough energy. For this purpose you will scavenge everything from cars to harbor cranes, take apart factories and clean up battlefields littered with remains of annihilated enemies. You will be accompanied by a crew of fallen soldiers, whose personality has been recorded using experimental technology. Each one of the soldiers at your disposal has his own set of traits and skills - one of them is an aggressive helicopter pilot, another excels in operating a howitzer... The crew members react on each other, scold the ones they don't like and praise the ones they do. The voice acting is great, the cinematic sequences are even better. The story sounds cheesy at first, but the little twists are good enough to keep you interested. The graphics is of course dated, but nevertheless very good. This might be just a personal choice, but I really like the clean look it has. If you dabble in 3D art yourself - draw inspiration from this game. What the artists could do with just a few dozen polygons per building/unit is amazing. The game environment is also fully destructible. PROS - Excellent gameplay - Great cinematic sequences and voice acting - Entertaining crew members - Completely destructible environment. From buildings to the last deckchair on the beach - if it's not terrain, you can blow it up CONS - Minor pathfinding and target priority problems - Despite all the effort missions might get a little repetitive at the end - The story seems a little naive in some aspects, but is mature in other - There really isn't much of a progression in weapons that can be equipped - Field of vision takes some getting used to Overall a great game.

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Posted on: October 9, 2021

CarChris

Spiele: 171 Rezensionen: 86

The best action-strategy.

I consider this game to be the best action-strategy game I've ever played. If you can withstand the old graphics and you are into action-strategy games, I strongly advice you to try this game. You have "pilots" with different driving/piloting abilities and you appoint each of them to whatever vehicle you have available (but it would be better to assign them at their suitable vehicle according to their particular ability). But apart from that, you can easily take control of any vehicle, at any time, if you prefer to do something yourself (like destroying an annoying turret with the sniper helicopter, before you send your pilots in the surrounding area). The playthrough is about 20-25 hours long. An amazing, but undeservingly forgotten, game that didn't get a sequel (or at least another game with the same gameplay and at the same setting).

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