“Daily patrol“Burst into the screens of cinemas Aki Bars – one of the best blockbusters of winter with a well -worked universe. At the peak of the popularity of the works of Sergei Lukyanenko, we can buy a number of games devoted to this topic. The sale of the playing of the new film has not yet crept into the game industry, but the brand “Night patrol»Many. Suddenly, an unusual for such a major world appeared the implementation of the confrontation of “sentinel” – competitions in cars. There is nothing special – ordinary arcade – races, good graphics, funny music and medium lousy physics. Everything is like people.
The most interesting thing is that it has long been believed that a good car symbulator, even an arcade, our domestic developers never make. This opinion came to us from a well -fed and smug west. Brisk “Adrenaline show»Proved the opposite. And then there was a game that returns everything to its circles.
I do not argue that in a true car symbolic does not need a plot. Good performance, high -quality graphics and physics, unusual missions, a system of bonuses/prizes – and the standard player is admired. And if you give more opportunity to tunen … monstrous NFS: Most Wanted with his revered rollers, excellent gameplay finds and even bad, but the plot had a wonderful atmosphere. A “Night Watch Racing“, Having enormous opportunities for substantiating scenario passes and design finds – the world obliges – did not please anything special. Familiar heroes, simple briefings and a viscous plot void ..
The situation could be saved by a high -quality game component. Hardily limited by barriers (here they were called magical) routes, linear passage and lack of adrenaline. Forget about clashes from Flatout`a – each side, pillar or bump – a serious barrier and danger. Here is a collision with a side – only a temporary speed restriction. Many people like meat of 10-16 cars, someone likes to compete with one single controlled AI car, but here we were harshly pointed to our place. Interactive cinema in the worst sense of the word – zero of freedom, maximum restrictions. 6 racers participate in the tournament – three representatives from day and night patrols. Do not expect a huge number of special capabilities – each hero has his own transport and his own unique skill.
For example, the Gorsvetovsky “emergency” ZIL has the ability to accelerate, UAZ has superfers, in the light of which enemy cars are sharply losing speed, and so on. True, most of the skills are useless. A small tornado is effective, a protective field – for an amateur. Having played half an hour in this game, everyone will be able to make their own “Table of Ranks”. Instead of the bonuses selected along the way or earned by special tricks, all these special capabilities are available initially, the ability to use them is not limited by anything – after all, magical power is replenished during the race permanently. The developers tried to introduce the flavor of the Tetralogy of Lukyanenko into the game – you can call Zavolon or Heeser, which will give competitors with powerful spells. We added a dusk in the idea of a special mode of driving – the damage is doubled, a street movement disappears. Only opponents and all kinds of bonuses remain on the highway. Although traffic itself causes exclusively a smile – only hunchbacked “Cossacks” and “victories” are missing. And the very vivacity of the route on the roads of our Motherland in reality is completely different. It seems that the notorious “drunken monkeys with a grenade in their hands” are sitting behind the wheel of neutral cars – a frantic speed, wobbling on the left -to law, attempts to attack and harm “a sentinel”.
Cars, of course, play a crucial role in any, even arcade race. Foreigned and dullly painted domestic models stained under the “crest” – a clear sign of the lack of a license. PSYCHO CRAFT Studio In general, you need to reprimand with the entry in the labor – if they did not create normal cars, then they could make at least a tolerable physical model. But, even using the Newtonian Tokamak engine, cars behave implausible. The damage system is completely absent – so the standard UAZ will not work to the puff. Cracking weather effects do not work and do not work. Of course, they are present, but this is the best definition for them.
There are only six short races in the championship and very quickly boring tracks. Familiar images come up in memory – Moscow State University, Red Square, Cosmos Hotel – which are quickly replaced by some gateways. Either we were in the center of the capital, then we are going typical of any “soviet” district center by the quarters.
But gradually you begin to understand what kind of pigs the developers put you – “”Night Watch Racing” – Team game. And everything would be fine if the glasses were plused, or it would be possible like JuiceD Plan for competitions. But no – here such gameplay models are inappropriate. Not one wins, but a team of light or dark others, depending on whose representative came to the finish line first. Here we would concentrate on eliminating opponents, providing colleagues “Green Street”. All some kind of diversity in the game. But no – ignorant partners (or guts, to anyone) are not at all concerned with a common victory – they interfere in fleeting skirmishes with an opponent, forget about us and in every possible way push us back. Well, at least from their special capabilities, we do not tolerate damage – the magic does not work on us. But they are not the first to break to the finish line. Therefore, if you did not come the first, then with a 99 percent probability we can say that the opponents won.
Powerful artificial intelligence, so praised by the publisher, there is nothing to wait for – rivals brazenly use trump cards that are prohibited in a decent society, like an acceleration or instant painting behind the rear bumper after a cool turn. The game turns into a muffling of opponents, “neutrals” and colleagues in all possible ways – magic, rude blows and only occasionally can you use really beautiful tactical moves.
In the world of surrealism, dreams and dreams, writers, poets, artists of the “Silver Age” lived. After almost a century, in this world, our Russian gagodelopers begin to exist – a high -quality jump in graphics passed by the technologies used in “Night Watch Racing“. The juicy palette, for example, is not at all about – when you saw bright acid shades of cars last time?! Great shader effects were screwed to the engine. Guys from PSYCHO CRAFT Studio showed that they can still work with the shadeers in the vastness of Russia. But lovers in videos will rotate the ardor. There is no full screen smoothing, however, there is the effect of “overexposed photo”. There are blooming “blurry” and other standard effects already. But you can’t wait for something supernatural. There are only textures of terrifying quality and the same resolution (ultra-modern monitors and super-video cards the size of the keyboard are resting).
That’s something, but the music pleased. There are two versions "Racing patrol": "night" And "day". True, the difference is only in details and in the soundtracks. “Night Watch Racing»Gives a wild mixture of selected Russian rock and Fank;Out -ceran expressions and the modern and fashionable hip-hop of domestic performers-this is Win Diggers Casino review the characteristic of the sound series of the “daily patrol …” The voice acting also holds at the level-for unlicensed cars they sound somehow too believable. Growing metal, tire screens and the roar of the engines of foreign cars will accompany you the whole game (unless you decide to purchase it).
Final comments
The heroine of my review can not boast of nothing but belonging to the universe of the “patrols” – a sluggish gameplay, the funny attempts of the scriptwriters and dates of the rollers, boring and gray graphics. The kingdom of games-shares is growing, and this time it found another worthy member-inexpressive, with a loud name and disgusting quality of performance. Hack, she is in Africa Khaltura.
Gameplay: monotonous races on the tracks studied along and across and across, fussing with partners and mean magical techniques (most of which are simply worthless, and the rest are hardly superior in quality to the standard for autoarkades).
Graphics: Gray landscapes of Moscow could be turned into candy due to photorealism. Models of angular and routes amaze with the lack of bold design solutions.
Sound: voice acting 70% of games is on the definition of “neither Shatko nor Valkko”. This is our case.