Разработчик: Deck 13
Описание
На этот раз он не ошибется. В этот раз Осирис покажет миру людей из чего он сделан. Но анка для этого будет недостаточно, пока он не найдет самую важную часть своего тела — сердце.
У Ассила непростая жизнь. Всего три недели назад он смог отразить смертельное проклятие. С тех пор в отношениях с Тарой пробежала трещина и анк был украден у него зловещими убийцами. Ассил собирается вернуть всё назад.
Но пострадал не только он, есть и другая жертва — фараон! Еще секундой ранее, он сидел на троне ленивый и вялый, переживая очередное похмелье, и вот уже он раб на собственных каменоломнях — как же такое могло произойти? И что более важно — как он сможет выбраться оттуда живым?
Ankh: Heart Of Osiris — еще более динамичная и причудливая игра, которая погружает игрока всё глубже и глубже, в неторопливый мир старого Каира. Вы встретите множество знакомых персонажей, но будет и несколько новых сюрпризов, так же как и традиционный черный юмор в духе первой части Ankh.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС: Windows XP или Vista
- Процессор: с тактовой частотой 2 ГГц
- Оперативная память: 512 МБ
- Видеокарта: со 128 МБ видеопамяти, Radeon 9800 / GeForce 5800 или лучше
- DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
- Жесткий диск:
- Звуковая карта: совместимая с DirectX
Отзывы пользователей
"Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris " is an ancient game from 2007. It's a whopping 17 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware.
This is an Egyptian themed "me too!" entry trying to do a slightly more recent spin on games like Sam & Max Hit The Road and Day of the Tentacle, but the charm isn't there and the puzzles are convoluted yet unrewarding. It's also really dated and lacks support for 4K resolution and other modern PC attributes, making this a bit of a failure.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 12 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
"Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris " is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $5 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Really hard game to complete without a guide, I played this game to completion simply because I wanted it to be 'done' in my steam library but I had to follow a YouTube guide in order to complete it, the game is very very hard and I didn't understand the story so good either, I don't understand how anybody could play this game without a guide would take centuries to complete
This game is one of my favourite adventure games when it was released.
For context, it was in late 2000s, it was the terrible drought of point and click adventure games, then, like a ray of sunshine, those games were released. Are they the best adventure games ever? No but they have a good sense of humour, fun puzzles and imaginative story. They're also a lot better than pretty much any other games released during those years.
Sure. It's not the worst or best point and click but has it's moments. Needed a walkthrough for some parts.
This game gets a thumbs up from me but barely. It's a decent little point and click adventure that was actually rated pretty highly during its time by the German gaming press but does not hold up particularly well.
Let's start with the pros though:
- Decent voice acting
- Graphics are OK for a game from 2007 and the early days of 3D adventures
- It's not too long and can be finished in well under 10 hours
- You get to play as different characters and, in imho, all are more fun than the 'hero'
- The game is usually heavily discounted on Steam and can be had for about a dollar at times
Now for some of the negative:
- The story is a direct continuation of the previous game and will make even less sense if you haven't played that one already
- But even then, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense and feels more like a set up for the finale in part 3
- It's not as funny as it thinks it is - most of the jokes fell flat for me
- The puzzles are hit and miss, they are either painfully obvious and trivial or rather obscure and convoluted
- The biggest challenge are not the puzzles but rather objects hidden in the background that are very easy to miss (this was most annoying in chapter 4), one item did not appear to be there (visually speaking) at all and I only found it on mouse over by accident
- No option to highlight interactive objects
- Game tends to just quit when you try to switch back to it from ALT+TAB - so save often!
This seems like a lot of negative and yes, mechanically the game isn't great. It's a decent game though if you liked the first one or (German) point and click adventures from that era.
I was glad to see a sequel to this game. Beautiful art. Fun and intuitive story line and problem solving. Easy point & click navigation. Bright colors makes objects easy to see. I still have a lot farther to go in the game yet.
Thank you developers & Steam.
pros
+ nice looking cartoony and colorful 3D graphics
+ there are some fun moments
+ story is enjoyable
+ diverse cast of witty and engaging characters
+ character models and cutscenes looks decent
+ some puzzles enjoyable. there are also inventory puzzles you can combine some items
+ three playable characters and they are quite likeable
cons
- lack of background musics in some scenes
- voice acting hit and miss
- some puzzle solutions quite nonsensical. therefore generally you don't know what supposed to do
- there are no steam achievements
- there are no cards
- lack of a button which shows hotspots causes pixel hunting
- lack of a interactive map causes too much backtracking
- a hint system would be helpful.
- the sound of footsteps grating on the ear
Overall this is a good sequel to the original and improves it also. if you like the first game, you re gonna like this one too.
Sometimes a little strange how to solve the puzzles, but in the end it's fun.
Point & Click oyunları arasında sevilen bir yapım olan Ankh'ın ikinci oyunu ile beraberiz. Gelişen ve pozitif değişime uğrayan grafikleriyle, daha da eğlenceli ve sürükleyici hâle gelen mekanikleriyle önerebileceğim bir yapım. Eğer farklı oyun deneyimleri arıyorsanız kütüphanenize eklemenizi kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.
Daha fazla inceleme için;
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28040015
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2749755656
Tags: Adventure - P&C - Point&Click
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Ankh series is a boring series of difficult point&click puzzles that require a guide to complete, while offering a kid oriented cartoony universe and characters. Not a good combination.
Well, again, nothing to complain about. Same decent graphics as in Ankh 1, still interesting plot and almost every time logical puzzles (except in the quarry that musical thing...). Almost ten hours of playtime. A solid 8/10 point-and-click experience. Laughed twice (2).
Play the first Ankh game instead, its slightly more enjoyable. Ankh 2 is a disappointment so far for me and not much new is offered in the game early on. I also bought Ankh 3... but I do not have high expectations, as the sequel to the first game is already a letdown after the first hour and a half. I will push through and complete it some day, possibly changing my review, and move on to the third game in the trilogy.
UPDATE: I finally finished the game....
I have good news and bad news... Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 all sucked.... That's the bad news.
The good news is that the last 15-20 minutes of Chapter 5 was good. It is definitely not worth playing through the entire game. See you in Ankh 3 I guess....
This game is not for me...its really confusing at first!And it never tells you where to go,and what to look in your whereabouts place of mentality!
It's a burned-out wealthy puzzle family adventure i get it!
But it never seems to have a kidnapping vengenance against those responsible playing it!
Something Strange is happening,and it never has a indescribable look to it!
Its all stranded with isolated roads with deep horror surges of figuring out relentlessly!
Im sorry i wasnt pursued to like this game,maybe next time the developer can engage me into another videogame
that is less ensembled and brain hurting in a blood-curdling epic adventure!
That is both imaginative and has an imagination!
Another bad game that deserves the 6.6/10
Love the burrito master
Serious fans of the point-and-click genre may appreciate this one, but players who only occasionally visit this kind of game would do well to look somewhere else. 'Ankh 2' is tagged on Steam as a comedy, but genuinely humorous moments are quite rare. It isn't a particularly intuitive game, and the narrative mechanics are far too inflexible. I can remember one moment, for instance, when I had to shoo away an aggressive cat. I had in my inventory a piece of chicken but trying to use this to complete the objective resulted simply in my character shaking their head and saying, very robotically, "Hmm... this doesn't work."
There are some fun moments in 'Ankh 2', but no more than can be found in any other average point-and-click game. At £3.99 you certainly won't feel cheated by the developers, but don't expect more than a few hours' enjoyment.
Could've been good but too many annoyances made this game pretty unplayable.
There are parts I really liked about this game, the story are actual puzzles were enjoyable. But that's about it.
Technical glitches up the wazoo. Uggg. It completely crashed on me so many times and a couple of times after an event happened the game glitched, with dialogue popping up like it hadn't happened and I couldn't go back, couldn't go forward. So lame. Also, talk about clicking on super tiny specific things or one tiny hidden area of the screen to find an exit. I literally had to move my cursor slowly across one oasis scene trying to find the one small spot that finally popped up as an exit.
I've seen plenty of sequels that want to rely so heavily on building up to the third installment that the story goes missing (I'm looking at you, Dragon Age II!), but I've rarely seen a second game that uses the first as it's crutch. Mainly because that's such a stupid idea, and yet that's pretty much what Ankh 2 seems to be doing a lot of. I've never played the first, but with how many things are mentioned for happening in the first game and how little is explained at whatever the hell is going on when I jump in the game, leaving me with this subliminal message to get Ankh 1 (Which I won't, because of how pestered I was).
In the end, I was left with my imagination to fill in what happened in the Ankh 1... and that's not a good thing to do.
If you make a sequel, it should have elements of it's predecessor, but still be able to stand on it's own. Come on Ankh 2! Look over at Mass Effect 2, Arkham City, and Assassin's Creed II. They're doing it just fine! Even Final Fantasy can make a game that stands on it's own... about 15 completely different ways, though.
But that isn't the only thing that made me dislike Ankh 2. The game's graphics, while cartoony and colorful, have poor texturing and the game likes to do the occaisional zoom in on some of the objects, which made me sneer at my laptop screen.
On top of that, the story is urine poor (I'm allowed to say "urine", right?). There are a few jokes that hit me with the "nostril snort and slight smirk" reaction, but these are very few. Most of them are incredibly cheesey- just like the voice actors. And they're all pretty much rubbish. Except for Moses. He was decent. But everyone else was very obviously acting.
The story also wants to hit these serious moments and build up this particular love triangle when I had no absolute belief in either because of how odd the former stood out like sore thumbs and how forced the latter felt. Along with that, the story's biggest flaw is caused mainly by the gameplay which is about as slow as a donkey with two broken legs and no carrot in front of it's face. Characters- even when running- are hardly going that fast and always maintain the same animation- which is alright for a casual scene. But in suspense, action, and intense scenes- these really bring all that feeling down to a screeching halt.
Along with the occasional game flops, like screen glitches and crashes. There was one point that I had played four hours worth of the game and was close to beating it, and I accidentally saved just as the game broke on me, and I ended up having to go all the way back and rush to where I left off.
Another huge problem is the logic of this game. Sure, it's like many point-and-click puzzle games (where the most specific, strange things can solve puzzles, even when other objects in your inventory could suit the job just as easily), but honestly. How was I supposed to know that a doll with it's head popped off should hold a candle? Or that I should use the Eleventh Commandment Tablet as a wrecking ball? OR that I can split a coconut with a cuckoo-clock's bird and use said coconut to revive a parrot?
And my final complaint, is more of something I just noticed when I was getting towards the end of the game. How to Thara and Assil have the magic ability to telepathically communicate to each other during puzzles so that one on the opposite side of the stadium knows that they need to direct a sunbeam produced by another and reflect it right back at them?
I'm going to play Ankh 3 not because I want to, but because foolishly bought both and now it's just sitting there, staring at me in my inventory- and the slight charm of this game which existed as much as a fly's fart in the midst of a tornado. To those looking to play this game, play at your own risk. If you like puzzles... play at your own risk. If you like parodies of Egyptian society... I suppose you'll like this. If you like weird B-movie stories... I guess you'll like this too. But only buy it on discount. I'd never pay the full price for this.
This is a pretty neat little adventure game. The puzzles have a good mix of obvious and not-so-obvious, the voice acting is not terrible and the world is... interesting. I did get a bit annoyed with some of the puzzles that make you run around the whole god damn game to push buttons etc, but that's more a personal peve.
Would recommend to fans of the genre, but not non-puzzlers.
The Heart of Humor...
You should buy this game if you like adventure games, humor, and you find it on sale.
You should avoid this game if any of the above does not apply to you.
Loving this game! It is kinda tricky so I don't recommend this game to anyone that has a hard time being reaaaally patient. The puzzles are elite and I have to admit that I've had to use a walkthrough to get through a couple of the puzzles, but it's not impossible! The story line is an A+. However, there are a few things that should change, starting with the movement. The walking is VERY slow and can get annoying at times. I would also change the camera views to allow people to control the view themselves. The camera view in this game is automatic and causes trouble at times. Sound track is pretty good and the game is sorta humerous! The talks with each individual in the game allows you to choose different subjects to talk about, but it's up to you to find out which conversation will lead you to the next task in the game. Overall, I give this game a 9/10! I got the game on sale, but I would pay full price if I had to.
Recomended, strongly for diehard adventure gamers. Writing, art and puzzles are all good. The game excells in theme and feel. It is funny, irreverent and well put together. Sometimes it can feel a little like "Monkey Island: The Egyptian Years", which is OK, as long you know what you're getting into.
Not the worst point and click adventure game but certainly not the best either.
The voice acting is somewhat poor and the characters lack facial expressions.
The story is kinda whack aswell especialy concerning what actions you have to take to save egypt. Overall Id give this a 3/10 honestly this just does not compete with the likes of sam and max, monkey island or broken sword.
if your a big fan of point and clicks than i guess it would not hurt to give it a go but if your not a hardcore point and click kinda person then give this a miss as this game is booooring.....
3/10
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Deck 13 |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 04.12.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 53% положительных (30) |