Разработчик: Zanardi and Liza
Описание
About Dog Duty
Управляйте отрядом изгоев в войне против влиятельного злодея Генерала Осьминога и его армии, угрожающей всему миру сразу. В этой быстрой тактической игре в реальном времени вам предстоит сражаться партизанскими методами, чтобы уничтожить восьминогую заразу. Деритесь прямо на ходу, перемещаясь на транспортере от острова к острову, отвоевывайте аванпосты, побеждайте боссов и их безумные октомашины. Задайте жару головоногим, но не забывайте, что они хорошо вооружены.
Особенности:
- Соберите антиосьминожный отряд из трех человек и вступите в бой в реальном времени
- Отвоевывайте аванпосты, чтобы перекрыть осьминогам доступ к оружию, доспехам и припасам
- Побеждайте эпичных боссов и пробейтесь к злейшему Генералу Осьминогу
- Деритесь прямо на ходу на своем транспортере и поджаривайте осьминогов до хрустящей корочки
Поддерживаемые языки: english, portuguese - brazil, simplified chinese, german, italian, traditional chinese, russian, thai, spanish - spain, japanese, korean, french, polish, turkish
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7
- Процессор: Intel i3
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
- Место на диске: 500 MB
- ОС: WIndows 10
- Процессор: Intel i7
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- Место на диске: 500 MB
Mac
- ОС: OS X 10.9.4
- Процессор: Dual Core
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Место на диске: 500 MB
Отзывы пользователей
Dog Duty is a handheld (Nintendo Switch)/console game that's also been put on Steam as a bit of an afterthought, as it's very much designed for the handheld/console gaming audience. It's a tactical RTS, that is to say, an RTS but without any base building or resource stuff. You know the missions in Command & Conquer where you weren't allowed to build a base or build new units, and you had to try scrape through carefully with the tiny handful of soldiers they give you? Yeah, I hated those. This game is basically "Oops, all squad missions". Ugh. I really think before any developer makes an RTS they should first be forced to play RTS games so they can learn what RTS games are all about.
One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets with crap 2D retro pixel "art" textures on them, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. This very poor quality visual style is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, worse, it doesn't authentically recreate the 1990's vibe the developer is hoping people will accept instead of doing their job properly, and that's just another reason to avoid it.
Because this is designed for handheld/portable gaming appliances, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the low power handheld gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the mobile game developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for low power handhelds forces upon a game. While this might run well on a Steam Deck, we must remember the vast majority of gamers here are gaming on PC.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
Dog Duty didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for installing a mounted gun, trivial to get, but less than 16 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 16 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game.
That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Dog Duty has the ridiculous, laughable price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Torchlight 2", "Portal 2" or "Payday 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
Unfortunately Steam reviewers aren't presented with a "Maybe" option... if they did, that's what I'd choose. This isn't a completely bad game, but it's also not one of the best. As always, if you read my review and you can overlook the negatives I've called out, or they just aren't important to you, then by all means go ahead and buy this.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Zanardi and Liza |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.11.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (21) |