Разработчик: ACE Team
Описание
In the midst of a battle between the good and evil factions of ape men, he meets the stunning Scarlet Nova, heir to the planet's tyrannical Emperor. Unwilling to follow her evil birthright, Scarlet tells Dick of the Emperor's atrocities... and never one to turn down a fight—or to turn down a beautiful blonde—Dick agrees to help overthrow her father's cruel regime!
After a chance reunion with the resourceful Robot, our heroic trio embarks on a fool's errand to topple Gravoria's greatest menace and restore peace to the planet once more. However, in order to accomplish this feat, they will have to ascend... THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS!
Filmed in the 1970s, The Deadly Tower of Monsters is an action-packed adventure, full of time-honored literary themes: the daughter versus the tyrant father, the planet full of innocent ape-creatures, the dashing space-age liberator, the robot companion, the tower full of treacherous mutations... A timeless classic for all ages!
Despite the film's low budget, director Dan Smith was able to craft an engrossing story about strange alien beings and titan-size monsters (sometimes filming without a script!). It is a thrill ride overflowing with elaborate weaponry, eye-catching special effects, lots of technological noises, and of course: plenty of explosions! For the first time in decades, this tour de force is coming to DVD, so a new generation can experience this sci-fi cult classic. Movie highlights include:
- Laugh-a-minute director commentary! – Director Dan Smith lends his decades of industry know-how to deliver side-splitting anecdotes and insights on the film's production. You won't want to miss a single syllable from the genius mind behind this masterpiece!
- Got vertigo? Too bad! – Experience the awesome verticality of the tower at every step of the journey, with wide-angle camera shots and impressive aerial stunts. Watch as our heroes fearlessly dive off the tower or glide effortlessly across chasms, all in search of hidden secrets and intergalactic glory!
- Over half-a-hundred imaginative monsters! – Squid people, nukular ants, dinosaurs-gone-wild, giant blobs, robo-monkeys, and more are brought to life using state-of-the-art effects, including stop-motion, rotoscope, image compositing, and even some elaborate costumes covered in real fur! You and the family are guaranteed a good ol' time!
- Ray guns, crystal swords, and laser whips. Oh, my! – At the heroes' disposal are a wide variety of weapons used to smack!, pow!, and ker-splat! their futuristic foes. Watch as our plucky protagonists collect hidden scrap metal pieces and upgrade their arsenal, right before your very eyes!
- Did someone say, "Special powers"!? – I sure hope so, because this film's got 'em! From time-slowing vortexes to speed boots... Wait, what's that on the ground? Is that a bird? No, it's a land mine! These aliens are in for a bang, and so are you!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, russian, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 4800+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 1024MB or ATI Radeon HD 5750/6670 1024MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Game is not particularly long(about 6-7 hours on a first playthrough), or features deep gameplay. But it's got a great aesthetic, fun premise, and a love for hokey old movies that really shines through. It's rather tame for an ACE Team game, so it doesn't get too wacky crazy.
I absolutely loved the humour and attention to detail in this game, which is why I'm very sad that I didn't end up enjoying it as a whole. Although this game does some things very well, there were just too many things that it doesn't.
As I mentioned, the story in this game is the highlight. This game sets itself up as a commentary track on an old, low budget movie, and it works surprisingly well. The narration is usually funny, and the various references and world/enemy design are really creative as well, with some enemies moving like they were filmed in stop motion, or flying enemies having obvious wires that are keeping them suspended. Unfortunately, it wasn't all good, as the fourth and final chapter of the game really missed the mark for me. The story suddenly changed and got really weird, and it lost a lot of the magic for me. That was really unfortunate, as I was loving it until that point, but it resulted in a fairly disappointing ending.
The gameplay is alright, although I didn't find it to be anything spectacular. The platforming is decent, but the combat leaves a lot to be desired, and usually boils down to spamming your favourite weapons until the enemy stops moving. Upgrades weren't very exciting either, as character upgrades were hard to get (as they're locked behind achievements) and weapon upgrades felt a bit pointless once you'd upgraded your favourite ones. There's three characters that you can play as, which have some different abilities (and are occasionally required to progress), but my friend and I played as Scarlet for most of the game, as she moves faster than the other two. This felt like a bit of an odd design decision, and made the game feel like a slog whenever it forced us to play as someone else (especially the robot, as it moves significantly slower).
All of this would probably have been forgivable if it weren't for the very poor implementation of local co-op. I understand that the game very clearly states that it wasn't designed for multiplayer when you start the game, but I wasn't expecting it to be barely playable, especially when it's advertised on the store page as co-op. I played through the entire game with a friend using Steam Play Together, and issues we encountered included:
- The camera only follows the first player, so the second player constantly got lost off screen.
- The second player gets the ability to teleport to the first player, but this sometimes wouldn't work or would happen unexpectedly.
- The second player can't pan the camera down, and it's extremely jarring for the second player when the first player does this unexpectedly.
- When aiming down, the second player doesn't get any reticle, making it almost impossible to aim.
- The second player can't interact with any of the terminals for upgrading or changing weapons or characters.
- Although money is shared between both players, the second player doesn't get any weapon upgrades the first player purchases and is stuck with the base version of all weapons.
- The health and ammo is shared between both players, so combat is often harder as a result.
[*] Many critical objects like elevators and lifts would behave bizarrely or wouldn't activate at all for the second player
These issues left us pretty frustrating, especially since the store page doesn't mention that this game doesn't work well in multiplayer, and just advertises that the game is co-op.
Although the game looked nice, and the world and enemy design was good, the game was fairly unstable. On top of the issues with multiplayer that were already mentioned, we encountered numerous other bugs, like getting hit by enemies through walls, certain sound effects being extremely loud, terminals becoming impossible to interact with, lifts getting stuck or characters clipping through them, flickering textures, characters randomly being launched away at high speeds, and the entire screen going black.
TL;DR Although this platformer has a really unique premise, and the narration and level design is pretty interesting and enjoyable, the final portion of the story was very disappointing, the combat felt somewhat uninteresting, the multiplayer was barely playable, and the game was very unstable. This game might be worth it in singleplayer if you get it on sale, but I otherwise can't recommend it.
just awful
The game has a lot of charm, the story is imaginative and funny, but the gameplay is very lackluster.
The combat is extremely bland, and combat is the bulk of the gameplay. All three playable character are identical except for one skill. In order to open a path, you are forced to backtrack because you play as the wrong character.
The whole game felt like an overstretched Psychonauts level.
(Reviewed on January 23rd 2017)
One of the funniest games of 2016 thanks to the director narrator's fourth wall breaking that is always aware of whatever you're doing in the game, even down to spinning around (commented on twice!) in an idle manner. What started as an innocent and funny examination about spinning in videogames turns into a heart-wrenching story of love and loss. It's a cute retro sci fi romp through movie sets and a gorgeously designed tower. Now ACE Team, give me Zeno Clash 3!
It is a fun short game that is in fact a love letter to all those B movies that you would watch on VHS and after 20 years will try to remember what they were called yet still have some heart-warming memories about them. Challenging combat and tons of references, what else do you need?
Quite literally the most fun I've had with a game in a long time. slept on this one way too long!
I'm really enjoying this retro game! The fact I can take a small break and heal helps my aged body (and eyes) out a bit, Very beautiful graphics in my humble opinion.
A short-ish game. The comedy is a mixed bag some of it was pretty funny some of it fell kinda flat.
Wasn't a hard game either but I enjoyed playing it as the controls were good and the combat decent, though the attack patterns were pretty basic
they give you loads of weapons options as well but honestly the novelty I think was the main goal, as you can only carry two of each ranged and melee at a time
Still I'd say it was pretty good and worth a play through
This is one of the funniest games I ever played.
I tried to be a little understanding as this is an 8 year old game but after around 2 hours of gameplay I just can't force myself to play any further.
The dialogue/jokes are quite good as well as the voice acting, but thats the only praise I can give.
Everything about this game feels clunky and awkward. The movement, the combat, the camera and the map design are all horrible.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | ACE Team |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 73 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 90% положительных (588) |