Разработчик: Dark Energy Digital Ltd.
Описание
Features
- Fast-paced action and breathtaking visuals; engage mind blowing "flow combat" unique floating cover where emergent gameplay results in a never-the-same-experience.
- Unleash floating oil fires, electricity and the power of the water to wipe out your enemy as you discover the terrifying truth of the Malthusian prophecy.
- Campaign includes puzzles, platforming and combat with Hydro-kinetic powers to ultimately control the water and culminates in a unique stand off battle where the player has to unleash the awesome power of tempest against her Malthusian nemesis.
- Over 200 collectables, 12 achievements and as an added bonus, players can unlock an epic Challenge Room.
Backstory
2051. The world has become consumed by the ever rising tide of the global population flood. Fertile land has been reclaimed by rising oceans and expanding deserts, resulting in famine and poverty on an unprecedented scale. Water is now mankind's most precious resource, and conflict erupts wherever it flows.Only one bubble of the old capitalist world survives. The Queen of the World is the largest ship ever to grace the oceans, a colossal city at sea where the wealthy elite live in exile from the chaos which surrounds them. Onboard this stateless paradise the Five Founding Fathers set about pursuing their Cornucopian research unimpeded.
The contempt of the outside world is offset by NanoCell Corporation, one of the five, who promise to develop nano-technology to purify sea water at the molecular level and make the deserts bloom with the food of the world. But as they move closer to their goal, the bitterness of fanatical Malthusians grows.
The so called 'Neo Malthusians' timed their attack perfectly. 9.8 billion watched as they recast hope as hatred, following a prophecy to commit global genocide; drowning the planet with blood as they slash the worlds population to a mere half billion 'righteous souls'. A prophecy they will soon find themselves in a position to fulfill.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, italian, japanese, korean, spanish - spain, traditional chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 with latest Service Pack
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2
- Memory: 2 GB
- Graphics: NVidia 8600GT with 512MB RAM or Radeon HD 3650 with 512MB RAM
- DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
- Hard Drive: 8 GB
- Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Отзывы пользователей
Recommended
Hydrophobia prophecy is a flawed game, startup errors, graphical bugs, glitched achievements, i experienced it all during my playthrough but i'd still recommend this game if u can look past the aforementioned bugs. The highlight here is the water physics, its probably the best i have seen to this day and for the time it was released its pretty impressive, the water reacts to everything bullets, debris, and characters. The story is good enough but its a very short game if u r not going for achievement hunting and its dirt cheap even without any sales.
(Overall Rating- 2.9/5)
Pros: Water physics
Cons: Buggy, You'll need to lower your fps to 60 just to make a jump in Act 3.
decent game with interesting water physics. unfortunately story itself is very short.
O jogo parece uma desculpa pra usar a simulação de água (que talvez fosse boa pra época, hoje meh).
Tecnicamente ele tá incompleto também, ele termina num cliffhanger (que parece ser completamente diferente da versão xbox 360) mas a desenvolvedora foi comprada pela THQ e desmantelada antes de lançar a sequencia. E sinceramente, se a segunda parte fosse seguir as mecânicas do final dessa primeira é melhor que nem tenha saído mesmo.
The visuals and gameplay are decent for the game's age, but what I really liked about it was what they did with the villains. I don't think I've ever seen a game have the villains be Malthusians, even though that ideology underpins much of environmental leftism. Even when media have eco-terrorists as villains, they are usually pretty tepid about it.
In this game, the villains are very clear about how you save the environment. Their motto is "Save the world. K*ll yourself." They also say in a note: "Don't pity viruses and don't pity the humans that imitate them." The Prophecy referenced in the title is the one made by Malthus that humanity will inevitably overpopulate and destroy the planet. Malthusians rebel against the technological solutions that heroes are developing to save humanity, because Malthusians don't think people have any value.
My one criticism of the philosophy behind the game is that they seems to try to mix Malthusian ideas with Marxism, so the Malthusians are from the lower classes, but that doesn't map onto reality. Malthusianism and environmentalism in general is dominated by wealthy elites. Wanting to prioritize the lives of polar bears over the lives of people is a luxury belief pushed by those who want for nothing, not by the poor and downtrodden. Fortunately, the ill fitting Marxist elements are only mentioned in a few notes, so it doesn't play a large role.
My biggest criticism is that the game seems unfinished. There's a final boss and the credits roll, but tons of questions are left unanswered. There isn't even a ending cutscene. You just beat the boss and that's it. I'm guessing that they ran out of money. The controls are also a bit rough if you want to use a controller. You can use it most of the time, but there are a few sequences, including the final boss, where you need to switch to keyboard and mouse. I found that rather annoying.
Overall, despite it's flaws, I think they did enough interesting things with the plot for it to be worth the few hours it takes to beat it. I say get it on sale if the philosophy involved is of interest to you and you don't mind some 2011 era slightly janky gameplay.
For $5, not a bad game. The water physics hold up and are interesting even compared to today's standards. This PC version is superior to it's Xbox 360 Arcade version but overall i can only give it a 3 out of 5. The ending was WAY too blunt and disappointing for all the world building the devs put into it's universe, it's like they stopped caring once it was over. Kinda sad too, it deserved a more satisfying ending.
Meh.
What do you mean you don't get the water powers until the last 15 minutes.
if U wanna know what being CLUNKY is.. then this is the game for U..
this type of game quality past 2007 ( being generous ) is just simply unacceptable..
Yeah I played it through but can't remember anything remarkable about it, other than water is wet and I have a gun and some sort of gimmick gadget to control my surroundings (mostly water).
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Dark Energy Digital Ltd. |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 64 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 61% положительных (1246) |