Hi!
This time, I would like to remind you of the classic RTS genre, a genre that it's glorious years has sadly passed. This game is - Original War, the game of Czech studio Altar Interactive, now Altar Games - yes, the creator of the very popular game UFO: Aftershock. Original War is a wonderful mix of strategy and RPG game, where we lead a group of American or Russian soldiers, who are trying to take control of the mysterious mineral (Series C & C bows), where? Exactly!
Welcome to Siberia!
The game story takes player only 2 million years BC somewhere in the endless wastes of Siberia. Despite the passage of years, graphics has barely grown old. Hand-drawn backgrounds and complex object models, neat special effects (and a great burst of "nuclear" weapon) even today delight the eye of player.
Build my tank
Original War has an incredible feature. Because of a mix of strategy and RPG, you have only limited amount people. Your soldiers are not produced in the barracks here, so you need to take care of every of them. On the other hand, we can construct a whole lot of types of vehicles, because we have the opportunity to choose the individual components of our new tanks, such as chassis, engine, weapons and the driver type. In later stages of camapign we can invent a technology that allows us to replace people with computers, making the game a little easier, because we do not have to worry about the loss of our peole lifes. But still we need to fuel our tanks in time, otherwise they will be only a dead piece of junk.
It was a long, long time ago
In my opinion, Original War is one of the best-routed in the history of gaming ever. You can feel the depth of the story and you can easily identify with the characters of the game. The stories are very complex, the main characters have a rich background. The dialogues are written lightly and with flair. Interestingly, some of the decisions taken at the beginning of the game have an impact on the further course of the game, eg. If you kill your prisoner, he won't be able to free one of our comrades from enemy hands (because he's dead) and at the very end of the game, our comrade does not come to our rescue at a crucial moment of the battle.
Game in the hands of players
After a few years since the release of the game, Altar Interactive has decided to give away the source code and tools in the hands of players (precisely in 2005). And it was a very good decision. Community took care of the patching the errors and fix multiplayer issues. That allowed every willing to create their own missions, and even his own campaign. The programs gives you so much possibilities, that you can even alter the mechanics of the game and, for example, add new graphics of vehicles or buildings, or entire new factions. There was a time, I worked as modder in the Original War coding team and it was the time when almost every multiplayer clan made its own mini-campaigns with teammates as characters to memorise their glory and great victories in Original War contests (this is just a sensation! does players in CS do machinimas about their teams?) I tried to create a good history - a spin-off for American campaign. Community in game is still active and interestingly, despite the 15 years since game release, the latest patch was published on 6 December 2015 and introduced - among other things - support for Steam Workshop!
It's boring to play alone
So why won't we play a round in Owar? I do not know how it looks like today, but a few years ago, servers were crowded by players. Creating a thousands of game modes, most of which were based solely on honor of the players and were extremely engaging.
So old that no one had heard about it
Unfortunatelly, the game has not obtained great popularity in the west. But today, in the era of electronic distribution of this reheated pork, but rather a delicious stew tasted anyone who likes really good RTSy. I highly recommend to any fan of good RTS games and the players who appreciate the story.
If you want to play it: http://store.steampowered.com/app/235320/
Hej!
The game story takes player only 2 million years BC somewhere in the endless wastes of Siberia. Despite the passage of years, graphics has barely grown old. Hand-drawn backgrounds and complex object models, neat special effects (and a great burst of "nuclear" weapon) even today delight the eye of player.
Build my tank
Original War has an incredible feature. Because of a mix of strategy and RPG, you have only limited amount people. Your soldiers are not produced in the barracks here, so you need to take care of every of them. On the other hand, we can construct a whole lot of types of vehicles, because we have the opportunity to choose the individual components of our new tanks, such as chassis, engine, weapons and the driver type. In later stages of camapign we can invent a technology that allows us to replace people with computers, making the game a little easier, because we do not have to worry about the loss of our peole lifes. But still we need to fuel our tanks in time, otherwise they will be only a dead piece of junk.
It was a long, long time ago
In my opinion, Original War is one of the best-routed in the history of gaming ever. You can feel the depth of the story and you can easily identify with the characters of the game. The stories are very complex, the main characters have a rich background. The dialogues are written lightly and with flair. Interestingly, some of the decisions taken at the beginning of the game have an impact on the further course of the game, eg. If you kill your prisoner, he won't be able to free one of our comrades from enemy hands (because he's dead) and at the very end of the game, our comrade does not come to our rescue at a crucial moment of the battle.
Game in the hands of players
After a few years since the release of the game, Altar Interactive has decided to give away the source code and tools in the hands of players (precisely in 2005). And it was a very good decision. Community took care of the patching the errors and fix multiplayer issues. That allowed every willing to create their own missions, and even his own campaign. The programs gives you so much possibilities, that you can even alter the mechanics of the game and, for example, add new graphics of vehicles or buildings, or entire new factions. There was a time, I worked as modder in the Original War coding team and it was the time when almost every multiplayer clan made its own mini-campaigns with teammates as characters to memorise their glory and great victories in Original War contests (this is just a sensation! does players in CS do machinimas about their teams?) I tried to create a good history - a spin-off for American campaign. Community in game is still active and interestingly, despite the 15 years since game release, the latest patch was published on 6 December 2015 and introduced - among other things - support for Steam Workshop!
It's boring to play alone
So why won't we play a round in Owar? I do not know how it looks like today, but a few years ago, servers were crowded by players. Creating a thousands of game modes, most of which were based solely on honor of the players and were extremely engaging.
So old that no one had heard about it
Unfortunatelly, the game has not obtained great popularity in the west. But today, in the era of electronic distribution of this reheated pork, but rather a delicious stew tasted anyone who likes really good RTSy. I highly recommend to any fan of good RTS games and the players who appreciate the story.
If you want to play it: http://store.steampowered.com/app/235320/
Hej!
Tym razem chciałbym przypomnieć wam klasyka gatunku RTS, gatunku, który lata świetności ma niestety za sobą. Grą tą jest - Original War, gra czeskiego studia Altar Interactive, obecnie Altar Games - tak, to twórcy serii UFO i bardzo popularnej UFO: Aftershock. Original War to wspaniały miks strategii i gry RPG, gdzie kierujemy grupą żołnierzy amerykańskich bądź rosyjskich, którzy walczą o kontrolę nad wspaniałym minerałem (seria C&C się kłania), gdzie? No właśnie!
Witamy na Syberii!
Gra dzieje się jedyne 2 miliony lat przed naszą erą gdzieś na bezkresnych pustkowiach Syberii. Mimo upływu lat, grafika prawie wcale się nie zestarzała. Ręcznie rysowane tła i złożone modele obiektów, schludne efekty specjalne (i wspaniały wybuch broni "nuklearnej") do dziś cieszą oko każdego gracza.
Zbuduj mój czołg
Original War posiada pewną niesamowitą cechę. Przez miks strategii i gry RPG dysponujemy jedynie ograniczonym zasobem ludzi. Tutaj żołnierzy nie produkuje się w koszarach, tylko dba o nich jak o własne oko. Natomiast możemy konstruować bardzo dużo rodzajów pojazdów, gdyż mamy możliwość sami dobrać poszczególne podzespoły naszych nowych czołgów, takie jak: podwozie, silnik, broń czy sposób prowadzenia. W późniejszych etapach w nasze ręce trafia technologia umożliwiająca zastąpienie naszych ludzi przez maszyny, przez co jest trochę łatwiej, bo nie musimy się martwić o straty w ludziach.
To było dawno, dawno temu
Moim zdaniem Original War ma jedną z najlepiej poprowadzonych historii w grach ever. Dialogi są klimatyczne, czuć głębię fabuły i można łatwo utożsamić się z bohaterami gry. Historie są bardzo złożone, główni bohaterowie posiadają bogate tło fabularne i można naprawdę utożsamić się z poszczególnymi postaciami. Dialogi są napisane lekko i z polotem. Co ciekawe, niektóre decyzje podjęte na początku gry mają wpływ na dalszy przebieg rozgrywki np. zabicie jeńca, spowoduje, że nasz towarzysz broni nie wydostanie się z niewoli i na samym końcu gry nie przyjdzie nam z odsieczą w kluczowym momencie bitwy.
Gra w rękach graczy
Po kilku latach od premiery gry, Altar Interactive postanowiło oddać kod źródłowy i narzędzia w ręce graczy. I to była bardzo dobra decyzja. Community zajęło się łataniem błędów i rozkręciło multiplayer, a także umożliwiło każdemu chętnemu tworzenie własnych misji, a nawet własnych kampanii. Możliwości oddanych w ręce graczy programów są tak duże, że można nawet przerabiać mechanikę gry i na przykład, dodawać nowe grafiki pojazdów czy budynków, albo całe nowe frakcje. Swego czasu sam zajmowałem się tworzeniem modyfikacji do Original War i w czasach gdy najczęściej powstawały mini-kampanie opiewające chwałę danego klanu multiplayer (to dopiero ewenement! czy gracze w CS robią machinimy o swoich klanach?) próbowałem stworzyć klimatyczną historię będącą spin-offem do kampanii amerykańskiej. Community gry jest nadal aktywne i co ciekawe, mimo 15 lat od premiery, ostatnia poprawka ukazała się 6 grudnia 2015 roku i wprowadziła - między innymi - obsługę Steam Workshop.
Nudno jest grać samemu
Więc dlaczego by nie zwołać ekipy i nie strzelić rundki w Owar'a? Nie wiem jak wygląda sprawa dziś, ale kilka lat temu serwery kipiały od natłoku graczy. Powstało mnóstwo trybów gry, które w większości opierały się tylko i wyłącznie na honorze graczy i były niezwykle wciągające.
Tak stara że nikt o niej nie słyszał
Niestety, gra nie uzyskała wielkiej popularności na zachodzie. Ale dziś, w dobie elektronicznej dystrybucji ten odgrzewany kotlet, a raczej pyszny bigos zasmakuje każdemu, kto lubi naprawdę dobre RTSy. Gorąco polecam, każdemu fanowi dobrych gier RTS i graczom ceniącym fabułę.
Jeśli chcecie zagrać: http://store.steampowered.com/app/235320/
Jeśli chcecie zagrać: http://store.steampowered.com/app/235320/
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