Posted on: March 15, 2020

Gunpowder_T

Игр: 211 Отзывов: 3

It´s an okay classic shooter

This game is... good. I guess. When I first got my hands on it, I was not very experienced with classic shooters. So from this game I got the feeling that playing classic shooters was about fun shooting and navigating on poorly designed maps. Well after playing through first two Dooms on both vanilla and modern sourceports, Doom64, Wolf3D the first Quake, Blood and Shadow Warrior I gotta say - boy was I wrong. And maps in this game sucks so much. Someone didn´t pay much attention to textures and level design so most of the maps just look like the same narrow coridors, crawling with enemies. Fine by me. But if you kill them all, you still have to find a way to the next corridor. And repeat. And repeat. And again. Almost no fun twists, good traps, creative design choices... God, the map design is just awful and unfun. I mean... the game is kinda fun, but if you want to get that retro feeling of an old, sprite based shooter in a modern coat, just buy Doom 2 and run it on a modern source port like GZDoom with BrutalDoom mod. It´s much better. Also cheaper.

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Posted on: April 2, 2020

maclintok

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Игр: 114 Отзывов: 1

Dragged down by limited lives

The core gameplay and visual design are pretty good. Your mileage may vary when it comes to retro pixel art but the homage to Wolfensten 3-D/DOOM era design did land fairly well for me. This limits the shooting mechanics a great deal as you're not dealing with real 3D space and there is zero verticality but the developers layered in some nice RPG leveling mechanics to spice things up. I played for a number of hours before realizing that there are a limited number of lives. Progres resets to the first level once those lives are gone. I don't think this is the right choice for this style of game and there simply is not enough communication about this when you're first learning how to play. Finally there are minor performance issues as other have mentioned. I simply bumped down the overal quality to Medium and saw a dramatic boost in performance without really much in the way of visual degradation. The developers lavished much attention on various retro display filters and it's debatable if that was a good use of resources for them.

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Posted on: August 26, 2020

tmadhacker

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Игр: 81 Отзывов: 2

A quite alright afternoon timekiller.

It's a good little retro-shooter. I spent a day eating up, and haven't touched it since. Honestly it's a flash in the pan kinda game; because there a few quibbles. They nailed a good aesthetic, and the fully customized graphics options are cute, but clearly a novelty. The unlocks are well paced out and satisfying, but if you are like me and want to 100% unlocks, you'll be secret hunting for a bit. Later levels have no-return points that prevent getting them. I cheated and Youtube'd the few I missed on the second playthrough. I was hoping for wise-cracks like the trailer, but other than the Doom-esque text dumps at the end of episodes, the protagonist is mute. Poor showing. No Duke or Caleb here, except as easter eggs. The weapon upgrades are great though, they all feel like they can be useful, but some are way better than others, like the crossbow upgrades into a three-shot, or a balistae that pins enemies to walls painkiller-style. I'll let you guess which one is better and more fun to use. Shrapnel grenades are hella deadly, but I usually ate a decent chunk of the splash damage. Some mechanics feel last minute? I played with most of my points in guns. Spells are less useful for non-melee builds, and even on hard, I always swimming in extra lives. The hardest difficulty is ironman, so they are moot. I don't get it. Not to snub the game, it was fun, grungy boomer shooter with a lot of modern bells and whistles, it wasn't too long and didn't outlive it's welcome. With two play-throughs under my belt, i got 15hrs outta this, which isn't too shabby.

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Posted on: January 6, 2021

JESSE1562

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Игр: Отзывов: 8

Better than most

Project Warlock comes pretty close to the likes of Doom and Heretic, it sure as hell does a better job at being a classic FPS than Wrack or any other classic FPS clone. Unfortunately I could not rate it any higher as the level design is a little lacking and the game can start to feel repetitive after a short while.

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Posted on: August 28, 2021

manowar85

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Игр: 202 Отзывов: 24

Rapid-fire Warlock

"If it moves, shoot it!" This was golden rule for all shooters from the early 90's and the same applies here. Positives: - Fast paced action that focuses on quick thinking and quick reflexes; - 60 levels spread across 5 distinct environments. A level takes up to 5-10 minutes to complete, so it's short & sweet. Each environment comes with its own set of enemies; - Visually pleasing enemies, their sprites and animations give them a "cute" look. Some are clearly inspired from 80's movies such as "The Thing, Robocop, The Terminator"; - Good soundtrack, reminiscent of the old Doom music; Negatives: - Limited lives. I can't understand why the developers would want you to lose all your progress. Just play the game on EASY, where you have unlimited lives. Not to worry, even on easy mode the game quite challenging; - No save/load system. If you stop playing, you need to start the level all over again. Worse, in some cases you'll need to replay several levels you previously finished. This is so infuriating, I ended up using cheats to teleport myself to where I previously left off; Project Warlock is one of the better retro-shooters out there, though it's held back by a couple of bad design decisions. (On a side note, many reviewers have complained about the brightness, that it's too dark to see anything. I'm happy to report this has been FIXED with a patch and now the brightness level is just right)

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