Posted on: October 26, 2018

boomboris

Jeux: 598 Avis: 5

It's ok, but sometimes too old

A gloomy hero walks through different epoch mazes and labyrinth, killing everything that moves. No storytelling, no cutscenes, no iron sights or health regenerations - just fast paced shooting enjoyment, like it was in the past. Project Warlock is a tribute to fps games of your father. It looks as 2.5D game with sprite enemies and environment, with tons of guns, catchy rhythmic music and secrets hidden in walls. A bit of modern stuff is added to game for even bigger combat variety - you can upgrade your weapons, granting them new abilities, or even learn some cool magic tricks. But despite that, game suffers some technical and game design choices. Sometimes game sticks too strictly to its oldness, and levels are too blocky, in some cases it's difficult to remember level layout because of environmental uniformity. Several weapons loose those values closer to end., and magic seems to be very additional feature, you can skip it entirely. Level map is obsolete and uninformative, and dynamite should be moved as a grenade but not as standalone weapon. For some reason game demands pretty powerful rig for smooth running, and as I recall this is first game that looks better on medium settings. Why? Game is too dark on high quality, and medium settings just fix this issue by switching off map lightning. Overall Project Warlock is a pleasant experience of cool old-style shooting game. Besides some small issues it's a great debut project made with love to genre's legacy. I wish luck and success to Buckshot Software. Thank you guys for well spent time, I hope to see your new projects in future!

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Posted on: October 28, 2018

Whraven

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Jeux: 498 Avis: 7

Expectantly good

It's a good doom-style (2d levels, no jumping) game. It's levels mechanics is weird and somehow feels tacked on and only 50% complete (even though it certainly feels at home in early 90s). "No saves" mechanics is completely out of character and seems simply unreasonable. Enemy design is cool. Weapons are 70% good (sounds certainly are great). Overall it's good, sometimes great (especially if you are into this thing).

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Posted on: November 1, 2018

Dadcopter

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Jeux: 117 Avis: 1

Solid Stuff

It's a love letter to the 90's FPS genre that refreshes the old formula by keeping everything familiar: wide-open rooms and narrow corridors, labyrinths, multi-colored keycards and secrets galore. Running from room to room, wiping out waves of enemies with your choice of over a dozen different weapons in classic style, slinging magical spells and generally just feeling powerful as all get out- all to a wonderful soundtrack that combines creep factor, synth and chiptune sounds and pure headbanging material all perfectly suited to your frantic, blood-stained trek. Adding to the formula, Project Warlock sports a cunning upgrade and levelling system that allows you to mix and match weapon upgrades and skill point allocation, adding a level of replayability that will have you coming back to experiment time and again. Aside from a few spikes and lulls in difficulty that left me either frustrated or frankly bored, the only things I can find complaint with are the brightness and the bosses. Oftentimes I felt shackled to my Light spell (I'm looking at you, stages 3 and 4) to such a degree that I oftentimes forgot that I -had- other spells to use. Though not game-breaking, I found myself needing to light up the room between shots (or in my run's case, axe swings) just to make sure I wasn't swinging at nothing, leaving my arsenal of other powerful abilities mostly untouched. As far as the bosses go, you won't find much here I'm afraid. The bosses of the first two stages felt at least somewhat challenging, and required me to think on my feet. The others afterwards... less so. Perhaps this was the nature of my build (here's Johnny), or perhaps it was simply a matter of poor design, but of the things worth killing, the bosses weren't really it. Regardless, I had a fantastic time with this, and if you're a fan of old-timey FPS games, you will too. And at such a low price, it's worth every penny.

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Posted on: October 18, 2018

sugarglitch

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Jeux: 3 Avis: 1

Retro-styled gem with great mechanics

Pros: Firstly, the options menu is great with lots of choices to make the game look however you want! The visual style is retro with VERY pretty post-processing effects to make a very simple, yet beautiful look. While I haven't played through the entire game the level and environmental design is amazing thus far, with nice destructible objects! The soundtrack is killer and the sound design is perfect, a 10/10 in that department. The perk/upgrade system is a great addition to keep the combat feeling fresh and makes you look forward to maxing out the potential of the warlock and his weapons! Since this is a retro-styled game there are, of course, secrets. Secrets are a very nice touch to the game, finding one feels rewarding and it doesn't feel worthless or tacked on! Difficulty wise the game on difficulties other than easy is really challenging and really keeps you focused on your ammo supply and surroundings. What is great is that the game on harder difficulties doesn't make the enemies bullet sponges unlike lots of others. Cons: At times certain enemies can feel too weak health-wise. There are not many, but some bugs such as after throwing a dagger and taking out magic light the sound is deafening after it hits something and enemies that have two lives change their name's to enemies around them. Not game-breaking bugs but still bugs. I don't know if it's an issue on my end but the optimization feels off. I'm running a GTX 1060 and the game feels like it's running at 30 FPS. If there is a FPS cap in place please let me know. Conclusion: It's a great game that never feels stale! If you're a fan of older titles or a fan of first person shooter's in general you'll love it!

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Posted on: October 18, 2018

Owlyzz

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Jeux: 123 Avis: 1

Brilliant!

This game is brilliant, plays like a genuine old school shooter. Hexen and Blood come to mind. Combat is fast and smooth and challenging. Both melee and ranged combat is fun and rewarding. Plenty of secrets and traps. Collect points for weapon, spells and character upgrades. The graphics are definitely delicious, creating this bloody, dark fantasy, medieval carnage vibe. Only one glitch I've encountered so far -- some graphical distortion at the beginning of a level that disappears after I open the menu screen and play with any of the bars. Love the game!

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