Разработчик: Commotion Games Pty Ltd
Описание
Your role as a commander puts you in charge of managing a platoon of soldiers during the war. Take men into battle one squad at a time to accomplish your missions, along the way gaining experience and respect that allows you to better equip and customize your soldiers.
Only by keeping your men alive, gaining medals and awards and defeating an overwhelming amount of enemies can you hope to be victorious during this time in history.
Recruits is in ALPHA, meaning that is is currently not finished. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME unless you are happy to contribute to the development and play it with bugs and issues. This game is on Steam so that it can reach a wider audience and players can help contribute to the active development of Recruits.
Current Features
- General Gameplay – Full body dismemberment and gore, weather effects, physics and destruction and time of day lighting effects.
- Variety of Mission Objectives – Including kill all enemies, destroy all buildings, covert operations and survival situations.
- Soldier Progression – Permanent death, enlisted rank progression, personal attributes and customizable nicknames and load outs.
- Special Abilities and Weapons – As a Commander, earn respect points to unlock upgraded weaponry and special abilities such as Airstrikes and Cluster Bombs.
- Squad Orders – A right click command menu in singleplayer gives you the ability to give basic commands to your squad members.
- Game Modes – Singleplayer campaign missions, online multiplayer death match and team death match.
- Controllable Vehicles – Helicopters and Tanks with specifically tailored missions and environments for them.
- Updates – Updates for fixes and feedback from players to improve the game in all aspects.
Future Features
- More Mission Objectives - Rescue prisoners of war, assassinate enemy leaders and base patrols are just a few.
- In-depth Soldier Progression – Platoon role stat bonuses, visual soldier customization and more.
- Special Abilities and Weapons – Larger variety of weaponry and more special abilities including Napalm, Mortar Strikes, Airdrops, Chemical Sprays reinforcements and more.
- Context Sensitive Command Menu – Greater and more precise control over the squad A.I.
- Soldier Morale – Events in game effecting the mood and effectiveness of your soldiers in battles.
- More Game Modes – Introduction of online and local co-op, capture the flag and more.
- Medals and Awards – Earn special stat boosts by performing heroic events in game.
- Steam Integration – Steam Achievements.
- Overall Game Improvements – Bugs and fixes, along with making the game easier to play and understand for all users. This game is still being developed and will always be updated to improve the overall usability.
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Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP3 (32-bit only), Windows Vista, or Windows 7
- Processor: 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: SM3-compatible
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 3 Button Mouse Recommended
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: 2.5+ GHz multi-core processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA 8000 series or higher
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Game has been abandoned and never met any of its promises. Avoid it
Promised the moon and the stars ... delivered abandoned trash. STAY AWAY. Rather give your money to a person in need.
Dead Game, stay away! Last update in 2014 and last message from the devs in 2015. Nothing even works ingame
Suddenly apeared inside my games list... like i don't even remember it at all. Cannon Fodder succesor...used to be... i guess.
Whatever, this project seems abandoned. Dissapointing somehow. No more words. Hope its going to come back one day.
why is this still on steam,listed as early access for real money. this game was abandoned a year ago. its a shame,could have been great, but you cant live on a dream i guess. i hope its still being worked on in someones basement and will be ressurected one day.
UPDATE 4/21/2018: 0 Progress has been made in years. Steam needs to take this off the marketplace so nobody gets fooled into buying this.
Game is stillborn. Died development.
It had potential as a great game. It promised multiplayer, vehicles, and allowed you to pick up weapons and ammo in the field. It allowed you to order your troops to defend or attack an area while you moved on to do something else. So much potential, all wasted due to shitty project managment and poor developers. I bought this game in 2014 during a sale and it has never been updated in the last year. If the game could be completed and additional content added, I could see justification for a purchase. However, at present, you only get 3 levels and that's it.
Game is 100% dead. Completely abandoned by the developers. Shame, too, because it had a lot of potential. If you want a game similar to this, check out Running With Rifles.
Update - April 11, 2021:
Fast forward 5 years from my last update.
Unsurprisingly, no updates from the devs.
But what is more surprising is the fact that, despite me and others reporting this game several times, this is still up for sale. Shows how little Valve cares about Early Access games scamming customers. Shameful.
Update - April 9, 2016:
No news at all since my last review update.
It's almost a year since QUByte Interactive took over from the previous developers, and during that time there has been zero, I repeat, zero progress on the game.
I consider Recruits dead and abandoned. For the second time.
Update - October 31, 2015:
Another six months passed and this game is still in an unknown state. I just found out that a gaming website called AbsoluteGaming made an interview with the new developers. According to that interview the PC release is planned for 'early 2016'. They also said that DLCs are planned, and that online matches will be limited to four players, which is pretty disappointing.
Something I really don't like is how these new developers also don't seem to give a f*** about the people here on Steam. No communication with us at all, zero, nada. Recruits is still flagged as an Early Access game, but isn't the point of Early Access to let people play the game in an early state and get feedback? Seems like they just code away and don't care if their potential changes to the game are actually welcome by the people who already bought it.
Update - May 5, 2015:
A user named mcabral said on the forum that development is being continued 'from now' and that they (QUByte Interactive, a Brazilian game studio) will announce their 'partnership with Commotion Games'.
According to their website they are also working on ports for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Wii U.
Original review - April 8, 2015:
Looked very promising, but the developers decided to abandon it at pretty much the first possible opportunity.
Also, as usual, Valve doesn't give a frak and is still selling this abandonware.
This game gets samie and repetative. Your troops have no Real value. AI dont play smart when your not controling them. This game also seems to be in "Early Access" Forever with no sign of any real development. Not really worth the time. 2/10
Could have been a great game. instead the devs scamed the comunity. (Reported game to steam.) This game has been abandoned DO NOT BUY
I have been a massive fan of top down shooters all my life and when I seen this and read the description and watched the trailer I thought to myself that I must have this game, I bought it as soon as it went on early access release on steam and instantly had problems with it, gameplay was stale and the AI are way to overpowered, it is not rewarding and just all around frustrating, the devs helped me when I first bought the game due to start up issues but I have since learned they have abandoned the game, it is unplayable and not fun. Do not buy, should not be on the steam market anymore, even if it was free you would be better off staying away.
There was no update since August 2014 (and this is 5 months ago).
I thinks its just a little project to earn money.
Developers have abandoned this game. Currently has about 30-40 minutes worth of gameplay. Would never recommend to anyone unless it was freeware.
I've sat down and played this well over 20 times and can't seem to do it for more than 10 minutes at a time.
This game looks extremely promising at first glance. It can be an O.K. experience if you take 1 or 2 squad members ALONE on a single mission and try to ninja them through by using the physics engine against the enemy. You cannot really play this game to an extent that seems rewarding or fun..yet.. Granted it is in Alpha...
The real reason I cannot recommend this game is because along with all of the problems it has and lack of content- Overall the developers do not release updates often and their own status within the community is taking the hit.
I have lost trust in these developers until steady updates start again. They were doing well about 6 months ago. Too bad.
7.4/10 for the first 5minutes- quickly turns into a -5/10 thereafter
EDIT:: Another 5 months has gone by and still no updates. Officially considered dead now... DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY
Mission 1: Landed in the jungle. Directed men to take an overwatch position on the treeline. Slowly walked up the camp perimeter and opened up with a burst from my M16. Two bad guys were immediately downed. Little did I know that the little wooden shed next to me was home to apparently 20 million more bad guys. Two of my squad were immediately cut down from the staggering return fire and I directed my squad to hide behind a rock as I did my best to dodge the bursts of fire the enemy were directing at me. Seeing I had no options left and that the enemy was keeping the remnants of my squad surpressed while another was working our flank, I elected to fall back to extraction and live to fight another day.
10/10 Amazing game.
The only major technical gripe I have with this game is the RETARDED amount of resources that get allocated to it.
This game has great potential as a modern day Cannon Fodder remake, but in it's current state it leaves a lot to be desired.... Hopefully after a few months the gameplay will get tightened up and it ends up being a lot more fun. At the minute however I'd keep an eye on it and wait if your curious about the game.
Abandoned. Would no longer recommend.
Old: It seems like everyone and their mother has to remind people about this, despite it being pretty damned obvious, but this game is Early Access, which means:
Commotion Games Pty Ltd wrote:
“At the moment, the game features the core mechanics that will be present in the game. Both Single Player and Multiplayer are available in basic form so that the community can give us further feedback on what areas to focus on.”
Now thats over with, whats the game like?
Enjoyable, even at this early stage. It feels like a less refined, barebones (except it has vehicles) Cannon Fodder and, in honesty, is essentially a homage to it in almost every way, right down to the unsuccessful mission music, the 'honor' list for lost soldiers, the gore, generally the way the game is played (Grenading houses to destroy them and stop them spawning soldiers!)
The Ai IS rubbish, but if you are relying on your squad Ai when you can control the squad independently, you're doing it wrong. I found my first few play throughs ended in disaster and frustration until I figured out that I could switch between soldiers (keys 1-4) and move them around independently (the trick is to give them a 'Move to' command so they move somewhere and wait until you switch to them or request a 'Regroup').
The issues right now are, as stated, the Ai is rubbish, there are some little bugs with triggers (I don't seem to be able to completed Mission 3 right now), the occasional lag when something intensive happens (crashing a Hue in to an AA gun), and some missing refinement/features which is to be expected at this stage of the game. Saying something like this at such an early stage is a bit redundant I feel, but replayability is a bit thin, limited to a handful of play throughs for each mission - You can approach each play slightly differently, I just hope they add some kind of progression or choice so that you can complete each mission in varied and interesting ways.
Whats fun about the game? The game lets you play what is essentially a modern Cannon Fodder but allowing you to be loads more tactical, the addition of vehicles is nice and gives it a 'Toy Soldiers' or 'Soviet Strike' feel and the graphics are pretty enough, the gore is nicely overdone as are the explosions.
You might be worried that this is riding on nostalgia, and that is justified especially with what I've said about the game, but for £7 you'd have to have serious doubts not to grab a copy.
I've played 89 minutes so far and that is enough for me to recommend this game, at this time, at this price point.
Do you remember cannon fodder ? Of course you do. If you liked that game you might like this one to.
Its a topdown squad shooter game. It has nice graphics and good controls. Overall its a really good game with lots of potential.
But.. yeah there are plenty of buts in this game. The AI is in this game leaves plenty to the imagination. Your own squad AI consist of shooting you in the back or the other AI in the squad. And the enemy AI move like squads and throws grenades and shoots at you instead of their own and they are pretty accurate with their guns.
You can give your AI soldiers commands but they hardly ever work like they should and the AI get stuck quite often in trees or pallets.
In this version we get to try jungle warfare, flying a chopper and driving a tank and even stealth elements.
So it got very much potential in form of maps/gameplay but then again the AI strikes. When flying a chopper or driving a tank the AI doesnt do much since you just wreck the place yourself pretty much godmode. The stealth mission the AI get stuck in the fence, rocks, trees yeah well i think the rolled themselves in glue before the mission. And in the first jungle mission you can rush like rambo until your AI shoots you in the back.
But if you dont mind the broken AI and perhaps play with your friends instead, when this options will work i'm sure the game will be freaking awesome just like cannon fodder was back in the day.
So to finsih it up
Pros:
+Its cannon fodder HD
+Solid Gameplay
+Nice maps
+Tanks/Choppers
Cons:
-AI
-AI
-AI
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Gotto say,
This game had me there for a second.. The controls are swift and the enemies are fast; so are their bullets.
Basically, "Recruits" is a lot like "Cannon Fodder", but a lot more unforgiving. You have to learn to aim fast and steady while outrunning enemy bullets.
Besides some basic gameplay elements which I think are kind of missing, the foundation is solid and deadly.
I think it could be best described as a mix between "Cannon Fodder" and a breeze of "Soldiers - Heroes of World War 2" and a lot like "Running with Rifles" with nice graphics; because it's fast, easy to learn and hard to master.
Although the game can be prety entertaining it can also be very frustrating. For instance when you're playing a jungle map you can't rotate the camera to look around. It seems to be fixed at a certain angle. (Facing North). Maybe I overlooked something, but if they don't fix this, well, that could be a major killer, because that small feature made sure that I died many times.
Also, some things seem to be just scripted. Like: approach enemy, shoot, he throws grenade, even if he's dead already. Seems a bit off to me and kills the stealth factor.
But, due to the fact that this is an early access game, I have high hopes for it.
So far what I've seen is good and solid.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Commotion Games Pty Ltd |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 16% положительных (44) |