Разработчик: Charybdis Ltd
Описание
In this superb classic retro adventure game from yesteryear, take on the role of Spud and prevent the evil Doctor Chillblane from enslaving the world with his cruel tyranny. Travel the world from pole to pole running a gauntlet of strange creatures such as... manic penguins, crazed pixies, paranoid polar bears and dangerous dragons... in order to complete your quest and save your Grand- father and his amazing magical invention.
Seeing is believing in this the world's first interactive cartoon. Find yourself slap-bang in the middle of a pre- rendered talking world, with a 1st person viewpoint scrolling seamlessly through 360 degrees.
FEATURES INCLUDE
- Over 200 stunning locations to explore and a multitude of cinematic cartoon animations
- Over 16 different music compositions and a barrel full of wacky voice characterisations
- A 3D inventory that allows you to construct new characters
- SUPER-LOOKAROUND-O-VISION - 360 degrees of submersive entertainment
STORY
When the fiendish Doctor Chillblane revealed his wacky plans to conquer the world nobody laughed! At least not when he could hear them anyway.So it was, that late one snowy night Spud's Grandfather and his amazing magical toy making machine were spirited away - very noisely, by a huge gun totting mutant reindeer!
And now it's up to SPUD to rescue his Grandfather and recover the toy making machine to prevent Doctor Chillblane from enslaving the world with his cruel tyranny!
You play the part of SPUD - a street wise kid, who has to travel the world from pole to pole running a gauntlet of strange creatures such as...... manic penguins, crazed pixies, paranoid polar pears and death breathing dragons..... in order to complete his quest within this amazing cartoon adventure.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP
- Processor: Pentium 800 Mhz or higher
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: SVGA video card capable of 1024x768 and 24-bit color
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: 100% compatible Windows® 16-bit sound card and drivers
Отзывы пользователей
its Donner *dog whistles* HUBBA HUBBA
Jerry: sAY hOW YOu DoINg? HEhe, kNow tHE PaSsWoRd? uH-UhH nO CLUeS!
Dave: CAt gOT YOuR tOngUe bUCKo?
Jerry: YoU KNoW wHAT I tHInk DaVE?
Dave: suRE DO jeRRY!
Jerry: HE DOeSN'T KnOW ThE pasSwoRD!
Dave: oK KiD YOu GoT fIVe sEcOnDS tO CLEar The ArEa... fIvE, foUR, thrEe, tWo, OnE!
INTENSE TURRET SHOOTING AT SPUD!
Spud! is an ancient game from 1996. It's a whopping 28 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 a comedy themed point and click adventure game where you move between various 360 wraparound scenes, back in the day when CD-ROMs and "Multimedia" was new. Does anyone even use the term "Multimedia" anymore? Okay. That's how old and busted this is.
This game is so old it runs in DOSBOX and doesn't take advantage of hardware acceleration. It has a dated control scheme, dated graphics, and runs poorly due to the DOSBOX emulation. While DOSBOX is a fine tool for those seeking retro gaming, it's not really appropriate for ancient abandonware like this to be dumped on Steam without any modernisation, this is just a greedy cash grab from developers trying to get your money for dead software, they want to pay them a second time for a game you probably already owned. Or maybe not, in this case, because it really was bad then, and it's bad now.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display.
The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
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 2 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?
Spud! is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $4 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 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Charybdis Ltd |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (25) |