At the game exhibition Krey 2003 A small bomb exploded. Developers from Digital Spray Studios For the first time showed the next shooter of the brand “Made in the CIS”. Only if you saw the second-rate back-it is unlikely that anyone would have noticed You are empty. Modern graphics at that time was perfectly combined with the original setting. Just imagine! USSR. The usual city at first glance. A failed experiment. Chaos, fear, death. Zombie pioneers, embittered steelmits, huge athletes, the size of a good jeep and crazy grandfathers armed, naturally, good old double-barreled. In general, what he saw made an indelible impression on journalists and ordinary mortals. True, the developers could not decide on the mechanics of the gameplay, but the engine was how good. Time passed, the world saw Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Chronicles of Riddick.. F.E.A.R., In the end, and Digital Spray Studios continued to pour over her hit. And this fall 1C Without unnecessary pathos and advertising “fairy tales” rolled out You are empty. Welcome to the Soviet Union!
Scientists also cry
In the yard of the 50s. The life of an ordinary Soviet town turns into a real hell. After a series of unclear events, almost all residents turn into terrible mutants. Your character, by the will of chance, has escaped from destructive changes and intends to understand what is happening Kuterome. The city is teeming with brutal citizens, for whom the main goal in life, after the construction of communism, was the annihilation of everything and everything, therefore, the path to the truth runs through the mountains of corpses. Of course, then it turns out that Soviet scientists were the cause of the universal mutation. They just wanted to make compatriots stronger, smarter, faster and thereby advance the work of world communism far ahead, but the experiment failed. The details of the incident will have to be recognized by finding leaflets and notes (who said Doom 3?), because “normal” characters and video locations are not often found. An interesting tie was killed on the spot by weak performance. Do not expect interesting dialogues and colorful characters – this is not here.
The path through the whole city is dangerous, so let’s move on to the description of the arsenal.
Here the fantasy of designers did not take a walk. Along with standard PPSh, double -barreled and mauser, to destroy comrades, our nameless hero uses the construction nail and electric gun. Interesting, but I want more.
There is no expected atmosphere of fear and horror at all, but during the passage of the player the idea that here he is – the virtual USSR. On the walls, propaganda posters are hung up, another message about the greatness of the Communist Party and even the game console (~ ~ ”) bears the proud name“ the console named after the worker-peasants’ Red Spicy Jackpots Casino revoir Army ”from the dynamics with wheezing. “Metro-2“And did not lie nearby.
Gameplay You are empty is a standard running back and forth with shootings. Only now the developers did not try to make a hurricane action a la Painkiller And Serious sam, on the contrary, they tried to scare the player. As a result, boring battles, not particularly strong Generalger, the absence of any dynamics and a disgusting bearded gameplay. There are actually no variety in the gameplay – even a virtual shooting range in You are empty Not brought. The so -called “methods of cooking” monsters are absent. It is not necessary to refine with the choice of certain ammunition for each enemy, the main thing is to drive a more red-hot lead in a zombie-toy-waist. Boring, in a word.
Are you Empty?
The graphic engine, as it is not insulting, managed to get old in more than two years. The trunks lack normal textures, special effects are average, animation is nightmare. However, despite the rather low quality, local monsters look at least original. The goose of the Medcesta, the huge chicken named after the Lenin Komsomol, a frantic fireman with an ax at the ready (there is a variation with flamethrower!), the dog Pavlov – you can’t list everything. Our choice, of course, belongs to a flying electrician. The Soviet response to the carlesa with a dragonfly circles over you and, landing, tries to knock out more life, flying away at the first attempts to bring a gun on a reptile. It is a pity that the “stupefied” pioneers did not survive before the final version. In addition to the design of the local zoo, the game pleases with excellent open locations. The architecture of the Stalin era is perfectly transferred to the game.
Worse than serving the plot, in You are empty, Probably only a sound. I’ll clarify, the sound is just terrible. Having first heard the cry of a hospital patient, I almost died in a fit of laughter. After all, it was precisely such sounds that a drunken electrician, who tried not so long ago, was published by the wiring in the house where the author lives. The voice acting of other monsters is also not particularly quality. The music is practically absent, which is very poorly affected by an attempt to create at least some kind of inflating atmosphere of fear: tense compositions playing against the background would have come in just right. The existing tracks of positive emotions do not cause.
Among other things, creation Digital Spray Studios Full of different bugs and errors. Due to the unfinished physics in the game, objects hovering in the air are often found in the game. You may not be surprised if when loading the next level or saving You are empty snaps in incomprehensible inscriptions and sends you on a walking trip to the desktop. Well, and the fun itself happened when in one of the scenes on the engine the character shot himself out of his finger. More precisely, at the time of the shot of the pistol in the hand, no.
Final comments:
If we take an excellent idea, add an average graphics to it, and then threw everything with a wretched script and a nightmare sound, we will get You are empty. Creation Digital Spray Studios And Mandel Artplains really stands out against the background of domestic competitors with its extraordinary setting, but nothing more. Apparently, even Western class B shooters (StarWars Republic Commando, for example) for a long time will be for our developers an unattainable peak of skill. We are waiting S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Gameplay: Run, shoot, looking for keys, switch the levers – old as the world and insanely boring. There is no dynamics, exactly, like a frightening atmosphere.
Graphics: an outdated graphic engine sometimes gives a good picture.
Sound: terrible.
For a long time?: Even the most notorious perverts are unlikely to want to go through You are empty The second time.