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Kunstkamera (July 28)

In the Kunstkamera section, we briefly talk about the most interesting loaded games that have been released over the past few weeks. Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Wiware and DSIWARE, Apple App Store – independent projects regularly appear in all these networks that are not in the main sections of our site, but we are not entitled to be silent. In this issue: learn to hold a candle, follow the amazing adventures of the anus man, we participate in a television book Pearl Harbor Trilogy – 1941: Red Sun Riding Genre: Arcade Avia Simulator Developer: Legendo Entertainment Platform: WIIWARE Price: 700 NP WITH Attack on Pearl Harbor Some of you are probably familiar: a few years ago on RS, she performed in the unsinkable genre "good and cheap". This is a simple aircraft system with two buttons control, which nevertheless allowed, like in some IL-2 Stormavik, lay a dead loop, shoot everyone from a double turning or desperately go to a ram. Plus additional nonsense: it was allowed, for example, to fly in a centimeter from the cruiser's deck, dropping the bomb, and remain whole! In between Trash-Ugar-cute comics with a flat soldier's humor. Obviously, deciding that in the PC, where in the budget sector for years they have been successfully kept City Interactive , there is nothing more to catch, the authors transferred the game to WII, and almost in its original form. Of course, there are enough new missions (although the topic is the same: the second world, Pacific campaign), but the concept was not touched at all. The same comics, the same twist in the air, chattering machine guns and funny explosions – they didn’t even redraw the cover. The nearest analogue here is series Blazing Angels , only burns and explodes one and a half times less often, and giant airships, alas, are not provided at all. If we take into account that Blazing Angels herself seriously loses the series Ace Combat , You might think that Pearl Harbor is not worth it, but no: the game has blossomed with new colors on Wii. Management is perfectly adapted to Khimout: gracefully waving the controller, you can do everything three times faster and more precisely than with the help of a mouse. However, Red Sun Ring flies too fast (in an hour with a trifle!), and this is one of its main problems: it is assumed that this is only the first episode, and soon there will be two additional sets of missions on Wiiware, but I don’t really want to buy such a game by pieces. Grade: 5.0 Family Feud: 2010 Edition Genre: Quiz Developer: Ludia Platforms: PSN, WIIWARE, IPHONE Price: $ 10 Family Feud – One of the oldest and most popular American television studies, an analogue on domestic television – “one hundred to one” with Alexander Gurevich. If anything, the essence is as follows: the organizers of the transfer in advance ask a hundred accidentally chosen people very non -obvious questions (for example, “why did the non -GRA come to the solarium?"), Count the options and the number of answers, and the task of the players in the studio is to guess the most popular of them. The team, which scored more points in a tour of several rounds, participates in a tour called Fast Money (we have a “big game”): there you also need to guess the most popular answers to five questions, only now you need to meet in a miserable fifteen seconds. The main difference between “one hundred to one” and the actual feud itself – we have a “game on the contrary” tour, where we need to guess the least popular answer. The home analogue of Family Feud has been shining more than once, it seems, on all existing platforms, and 2010 Edition is distinguished only by a set of questions that are not enough here – they begin to repeat in a couple of hours. However, the developers managed to ruin such a funny television game with completely childish mistakes. For example, it is necessary to drive the answer on the digital keyboard in just 20 seconds, and, accordingly, there is no time to think at all at all. You are also not informed by the most popular answers at the FAST Money stage, although in television it is a holy work. The questions themselves are finally boring, and the answers to them are even more boring: a persistent impression is created that the authors did not interview any people, but simply wrote the first thing that came to their mind. Grade: 4.5 Cool-OH Adventurr Genre: Platformer Developer: Aitoons Develop Platform: iPhone Price: $ 1.99 Creators Cool-OH Adventurr They clearly knew how to make a player: after all, not every day on the App Store you can see a game with a title image in the form of hairy buttocks in a hat and trousers. The hero of this game seemed to escape from the miniature "Sheril and the anus" from the animated series "Gryffins". Or from the series "South Park" about "polarity syndrome" and Ben Affleck. In a word, you realized – this is a really straightforward ass that imagines herself Indiana Jones: a whip, a brown hat, a shirt – everything is as it should be. According to Cool-OH gameplay is the most condo platformer that you can imagine: it looks a little like Super Mario Bros. (the hero often and with pleasure descends himself into the toilet to surfacing in a completely different place), but much stronger – on EarthWorm Jim. With the help of a whip, a militant sciatic can cling to special rings, fly over the abysses and smash enemies. In addition, some golden beans that need to be collected are scattered everywhere, but the ultimate goal is to get to the most important toilet and go to the next level. Copropothematics in the game is generally represented very colorful and versatile. The hero restores health with suspicious tubes with cream, if you click

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Brief History of the Jokes: Part I. From the 70s to the end of the 90s

What is a first -person shooter? This is a game in which we see the surrounding world, as it were, through the eyes of our character. And this world is usually hostile, so the main method of communicating with it is violence. It is “View from the Eye” and shooting as the basis of gameplay that distinguish FPS from other game genres. In this mini-cycle of materials, we will try not to enter the field of all kinds of simulators and role-playing games, even if they often have a lot of shooters in common. We are only interested in purebred, seasoned “jester”, which influenced the genre, industry and mass culture. Let us recall them with a name – from pixel antiquity to the present day. MIDI MAZE, one of the proto -shows, was quite peaceful It all started not with Doom And not even with Wolfenstein 3D. Shooters were born long before the nineties. The origins of the genre can be found in the seventy -third year – and it is worth giving a thank for them NASA. It was in the laboratory of the American space agency that was born Maze War – The first proto -shower. Only a convinced Stoik could play it today. Monochrome tile graphics, turns strictly ninety degrees and giant eyeballs indicating the players who you want to scare. But there were shooting, a literal look from the eyes and even Deathmatch for two – a phenomenon unique for its time. The palm of the championship at Maze War disputes Spasim – Three -dimensional space letaire with multiplayer as many as thirty -two people. But Spasim is more likely a simulator than FPS. Like Battlezone , that came out in 1980 and was dedicated to the battles on frame tanks. The landfills were not yet in use. The next step on the way to Halo And Far Cry I became MIDI MAZE eighty -seventh year – she Faceball 2000. In appearance, the game reminded more likely PAC-Man, moving into three dimensions, but there was already a smooth change of angle of view, and even color schedules, albeit without textures. This graphic miracle reached gamers only four years later – in the game then not particularly great and not at all terrible ID Software. No, it's not about wolfenstein again. In 1991 it was released Catacomb 3D – The pale action, noteworthy, however, with two things: walls with the texture of the brick and the screen in the middle of the screen, from which the protagonist let fire balls into the improvised evil necromancer. Left Catacomb 3D, right Wolfenstein 3D. As you can see, the difference is not particularly great And what, if, without changing the engine, replace the magic labyrinths with the dungeons of the German castle, monsters – with the Nazis, and put the “Luher” in the spread of the hero of the hero? Now it turns out Wolfenstein 3D. Wolf had almost nothing to do with a series of flat stealth explosives Castle Wolfenstein. But there was everything necessary for success: Willyam Blaskovitz, several types of weapons, Easter ghost with Pac-Man and Hitler with machine guns. Even Nazi symbols on every corner, fiercely at that time, cruelty and scandals with prohibitions did not prevent the brainchild of the young still karmak and Romero to become a worldwide hit and the first real FPS in the usual understanding. The engine gave out a good picture for its time and laid the basis not only Spear of Destiny, but also several third -party projects. Wolfenstein engine used, for example, very popular Rise of the Triad. And the most peaceful shooter of all time came to Super Nintendo – Super 3D Noah’s Ark , where it was necessary in the role of Noah on the ark to shoot from a slingshot with food in animals so that they would fall asleep. And "First Russian School" "Kremlin's dungeons" was suspiciously similar to Wolf, albeit a little improved. In general, there were a lot of games, good or strange, FPS developed, and ID Software bathed in the rays of glory. Who would have thought that only a year after Wolfenstein will be killed by the creators themselves? Super 3D Noah’s Ark is the first Christian shooter and one most striking examples of religious propaganda in video games. As they say, you cannot win – join In the ninety -third, the Doom era came – it was this game that made the first -person action movie the king of all game genres. No wonder all the other shooters have been called "DOOM clones" for a long time. After the despicable and flat levels of Wolfenstein, the Martian hell looked like an amusement park – bright and diverse. Doom introduced millions of players with stairs, chainsaw and double -barreledlet. And also the word “Deathmatch” began to be used for the first time here: office locals crackled from the network battles so that the work simply rose in infected doom teams. What the game was not accused of – from the propaganda of Satanism to the zombie of adolescents, which allegedly resulted in a massacre at the Columbine school, but no one could sink it. Maps and modifications to the original doom still come out, and on May 31 of this year, John Romero himself posted an unofficial fifth episode of the first part on the network – twenty -six years after the release! DOOM Engine engine – it is also called ID Tech 1 – gave the life to the whole host of games and mods on a variety of platforms. The last official project was published on it in 2002 – it became Dark Arena For Gameboy Advance. The game is interesting, however, only by this. But there were really cool and original projects on Doom Engine. Say in fantasy Heretic It was already possible to look up and down and use magic artifacts, and in its continuation Hexen – choose one of the three heroes, solve almost

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Super Mario 3D World

On extraordinary Nintendo Direct, Supered to the E3 exhibition, perhaps the main game of this year for the prefix Nintendo WII U – Super Mario 3D World was announced. You can blame Nintendo of self -digging as much as you like – this will not become true. The new part of the series is played as for the first time on the "dandy", but it looks and feels completely different. [[Videoid_11162]] The situation with the sales of WII U resembles the sale of fur coats in the summer months – it seems to be inexpensive, and it would be useful, but what to do with it is not clear. There are not enough interesting games yet, and third -party publishers refuse to make games for the new prefix "Big N" one by one. They want good sales of prefixes, and good sales of prefixes do not exist without good games – and here you have a vicious circle. Nintendo has to cope on your own. Super Mario 3D World – the second part of the series with the popular word "3D" in the title. The first game of this "subseries" was Super Mario 3D Land For Nintendo 3DS – one of the best sold on the portable console. However, this time the word "3D" has a slightly different meaning. “This is the first three -dimensional“ Mario ”, which is played as a two -dimensional one,” said Miyamoto at one of the presentations. A real truth – the game skillfully combines the elements of the usual two -dimensional sitscrollers (like classic Super Mario Bros.) with elements of three -dimensional parts of the game ( Super Mario 64, For example). From the classic games of the series, she got races to the flagpole, many enemies and traps, and from three -dimensional – encouraging the study of levels. The formula is at least curious – it seems to be canonical, but varied. ► The Debutant of the series is an orange dragon, a new friend Mario. We hope he did not come to squeeze the honor of the Dragon Yoshi from the podium. From now on, playing alone is strictly contraindicated-Mario is helped by his friends, among whom even the lazy Princess Pich was flooded-finally it is not necessary to save her! The team is unique in some ways, each of the heroes has its own abilities: Luigi jumps high, but terribly slows down after accelerations, Princess Pich can jump high and soar in the air, but does not like haste, so -the -man runs the fastest, but Mario – the golden middle, The most balanced character in the brave four. The house built by Jack Creators Super Mario 3D World They do not hide that their main source of inspiration was Super Mario Bros. 2 , Still on Nes. The history of its appearance is amazing – initially Super Mario Bros. 2 It was developed as a continuation of the first part, but more like an addition – from the new ones there were only levels and finalized Luigi (he jumped much higher than his older brother, but slowed down very poorly after accelerations). Such a game entered the Japanese market. The management of Nintendo of America, however, rejected it for its market – it seemed too similar to the first part (only more difficult), which could reduce sales. Instead of her, Nintendo of America took Yume kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, changed the springs of the characters, wiped the original name, added the plot and under the name Super Mario Bros. 2 launched into the markets of Europe and the USA. ► on the left – Doki Doki Panic, on the right – Super Mario Bros. 2. Find one difference. Deception? Not really. Initially Doki Doki Panic It was developed as the first part of Mario, but the project was frozen because the gameplay was considered too boring and incomprehensible for players. ► American cover of the game against the original Japanese. The “Japanese” second part of the Americans managed to see only with the release of SNES and a game reprint Super Mario All-Stars , which included all games about a mustachioed plumber, including the Japanese version Super Mario Bros. 2 (I went out like Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels ). But the Japanese by that time had long managed to look at the “American” second part – earlier the company had already released this game in Japan under the name Super Mario USA. ► How the characters changed each other. Unlike previous cooperatives with Mario, in 3D World (the first, by the way, a three -dimensional platformer with Mario, where a joint game is present), the developers made a bet not on high -speed passage, but the most effective ones – who scored the most points, the king of the ball. The new Power-up helps players-Cat Cossack! It makes it possible to apply special blows and climb the walls. But nine lives, like a real cat, does not give. Games about Mario, contrary to common opinion, have never been casual. ► Sometimes Mario still recalls her professional duties – cleaning pipes. THIS IS INTERESTING: what happens to Mario when he climbs into the pipe? This question did not give the players peace for more than one year in a row. Now the veil of secrets is ajar – almost all the pipes in the game have become transparent. Different secrets are stored in them and are waiting for dangerous enemies. In any case, you will have to explore the pipes, even if you don’t really want to,-stars, coins and bonuses can be hidden there. IN New Super Mario Bros. U A player with WII U Gamepad could create a platform to support the rest of the team – roughly speaking, he became Buffer. Now there will be more sense from the tablet – touching the controller screen can be detained for a short time, suspend the departing platform or find secret blocks and coins. It only embarrasses that

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E3 2016 – What else to expect from the exhibition?

Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Ubisoft | Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo A few days remain before E3 2016. Here we collected all the information about those who "did not fit" in previous materials. But we’ll say right away – quite obvious and dozens of times confirmed things, such as showing a new Call of Duty or Deus Ex: Mankind Divated, It will not be here. Only what you could miss. More chaos One of the first big rumors about the upcoming exhibition was the alleged announcement Injustice 2 , Continuation of the superhero fighting game from Netherrealm. Hearing and so was quite believable, and then Ed Bun himself began to Tizer the game on his Twitter, putting a picture with a Roman number as an avatar. And when a poster is in the network, there is no doubt left – we are waiting for the details. Release, according to rumors, in the future May. But CD Projekt Red chose to let more fog. The head of the studio Marchin Ivinsky officially stated that Cyberpunk 2077 there will not be appeared at the exhibition, but something other studio may well show. He did not even deny that this “other” may be connected with the “witcher”. For a fourth part or new DLC for the third, of course, we do not expect, since the authors officially said goodbye to the Universe, but still intrigued. The news from Poland does not end there. A couple of months ago it became known that Techland is developing two large games, the total budget of which reaches seventy -seven million dollars. One of them will delight us with role -playing elements, the open world and the fantasy environment, but nothing is known about the second, but we are almost sure that this is a continuation Dying Light. There is news about Dead Island 2. The game was originally developed by Yager, but the publisher, dissatisfied with what it turns out, removed the developers from the project. Since then, the fate of the game has raised questions. The other day, the Dead Island 2 page disappeared from the Steam service, which gave rise to a wave of rumors about the abolition of the project, but Deep Silver has refuted: the game is alive and is developed by Sumo Digital studio. The representative of the developers said that he does not deny the fact that Dead Island 2 will show this year. But Deep Silver is preparing a surprise. The publishing house promised to announce a large project at the exhibition, and many agree that they will become a new part of Metro. But there is no evidence of this yet. But with another important announcement, Deep Silver did not pull and presented before the exhibition Agents of Mayhem , new Volition game for the universe Saints Row. You can already https://bof-gb-casino.co.uk/ admire the first trailer, but we will learn more on E3. The path of cowboy The Nordic Games Publishing House decided not to lurk and presented the full plan of its “performance” on E3. Of course, they will demonstrate a long -announced Elex, role -playing game from the creators of Gothic. They will present for the first time The Guild 3 , A new part of the once beloved by the public economic simulator with sims elements. Show SpellForce 3 , Continuation of a fairly popular role -free role, crossed with a full -fledged RTS. Well, finally – Battle Chassers: Nightwar , Pretty role -playing game in the spirit of classic jrpg. And here Darksiders 3 The list was not. True, the game is already under development, so hope remains. But a really major surprise can be the announcement of the revived Destroy All Humans series!, the rights to which Nordic just at. The Executive Producer of the studio Reinhard Pollis has already written on his Twitter that the company is considering several options for the development of the series. From the announced, but not yet shown to wait Payday 3 – Starbreeze just recently bought the rights to a series of 505 Games and officially confirmed the development of a third part. The exhibition may well visit and Borderlands 3 – Randy Pitchford announced her last year. It is possible that Gearbox will show something completely new, but most likely it will talk more about the DLC for the recent Battleborn. Something is lucky for the exhibition and Croteam. We almost have no doubt that it will Serious Sam 4 , – The game for a very long time in development. Yes, and the studio itself on its Facebook page is actively hinting at Sam's speedy return. However, Sam may not limit himself to – The Talos Principle 2 Also in business. In no case will the main “serialist” of the industry will pass by the exhibition – Telltale Games. Will definitely show the third season The Walking Dead (it comes out in the fall) and the still nameless game about Batman promised for the summer. We are still waiting for the details about the game in the Marvel universe-nothing is heard about this project from the announcement at all. But the most powerful bomb we expect from Take-Two and Rockstar. The director of Take-Two Strauss Zelnik has already mentioned that the creators of GTA are working on new exciting games, the announcement of which will sound very soon. And before that, he promised to truly surprise everyone on E3. There are a lot of options for what Rockstar can surprise us: the plot addition for GTA 5, Continuation of Red Dead, rumors about which have been going on for a long time, remasted Red Dead Redemption, The new part of Max Payne, the revival of old episodes like Manhunt and Midnight Club, something completely new – everything will come down to us, only, please, as soon as possible, there is no longer left for strength left. By the way, the new Bioshock would also have come to the place, as well as the details of the

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Understanding Stake UK Casino’s Cashback Offers

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