games website "Mafia: Gangster City" Detailed review: Defeat expectations

What do you think of when you just read the introduction and haven't touched the game yet? Oh, Sicilian gangsters, wine and beauty, gangs of little boys, hot typewriter shooting, hot car explosions!

If you've got these pictures in your head and you think this game is enough for your needs and desires... Then you are very wrong, as to how wrong, players please look down.

First, hardware requirements and picture: 7 points, full of color details, but still underheated

The hardware requirements for this game are as follows.

Basic configuration: CPU: any 2GHZ dual core

Memory: 2G

Video card: 256 video memory

Recommended configuration: CPU: Any 2GHZ dual-core

Memory: 4G

Video card: 512 video memory

It can be seen that for a game that can represent the size of the entire city, the configuration requirements of "Gang City" are not as high as expected. I've tested the latest SimCity game before, and these two "seemingly" similar games are more different than you think, so how does it actually work?

As you can see from the figure above, there is a huge difference between full effect and full effect opening, with rainfall details, shadows, map fineness and anti-aliasing all collapsing. In the author's mid-range configuration, if the frame is not locked, the effect breaks through 60 frames regardless of full on and full off, and even reaches an exaggerated 130 frames (based on FRAPS).

But such a high frame count... It can be seen that the overall picture of this game is absolutely the whole operation, we players basically can't do much impact, and the facts have proved this. But from another point of view, such a low configuration then everyone can play on, at this point also some people.

I know many players will ask, after talking so much, what is wrong with what was said before - do you think that the above expectations are such a configuration of the game can meet? You should know that the configuration of Mafia 2 two years ago was pressed to the N card 400 series graphics card. Well, let's see it in action.

Second, the actual start: 5 points, this is a round operation + round fighting game, players can not afford to wait for him to be worth 5 points

Yes, this screenshot looks very much like Allied Expendables, or a new version of the Alliance, but unfortunately, this game's business model is half round, and the combat mode is full round. In an increasingly fast-paced society, it's hard for me to imagine that players can afford to wait... Well, let's just say you're turn-based gamers who can afford to wait.

The game is divided into story mode and free mode, but either way you need to play as a small to large gangster boss, the game will start like a D& D choice skills, like, allows you to increase the sense of inclusion by choosing the character's background while setting the character's attributes and abilities, although there are many options, in fact, it is two kinds of force and brain.

And the protagonist from attributes to performance almost does not exist in the protagonist halo, sometimes even worse than the little brother you hire, so the added extreme visible is necessary, but I do not know whether the players who like comprehensive development can accept... .

Since the characters are divided into two factions, you will naturally be divided into two factions when you start the gang business, both civilized businessmen and violent gangs, but the business part of the game you start to feel that every day to smash and rob money quickly, in fact, no matter how long you play, eventually will go "white road". Naturally, many of our protagonists turn out to be highly intelligent criminal geniuses.

However, the biggest problem in the business of this game is not choosing the path, but the waiting time, when you ask your staff to execute the character, the character will run to the relevant location to perform the task, you know at first watching them like a real person to perform the task is very interesting.

However, the time is a little boring, and it can not be accelerated or SKIP, so that people have a kind of this game is malicious to extend the waiting time. That's when you know that staring at Street View is the only thing you can do to kill the wait -- because the game doesn't come with Windows.

Even scarier is the battle mode, which I discovered at the beginning of the battle mode that this game should have had a Silent Storm name many years ago, and yes, the battle theory of the two games is exactly the same.

All characters' combat actions are calculated in move points, so there will be situations where you can't shoot someone while sticking to your face, or you will get stuck halfway because there are no move points, such as pure data rather than reality. However, for the "Silent Storm" nine years ago, players at that time still liked this setting, because "Silent Storm" was very strict on this, crouching and crawling and special shooting positions and props are available.

In Gangster City, however, they only borrowed Storm's combat system in general. What is more brainless is that Silent Storm has classified this type of game method as TBS, that is, turn-based strategy, Gang City must bullshit a "TBTC", turn-based combat? That's right. You're not as serious as Silent Storm, so all you can do is fight.

The most interesting thing is that the only bright spot of this game is the combat mode, which can be skipped, but the business part of this game requires only 1 hour for you players to be able to touch clearly, but there are few operational components, and most of the rest of the time is waiting. That can take the edge off the boring business of battle mode, do I have to skip?

Three, shortcomings and shortcomings: Under the surface of the optical fiber is a piece of rough

The first is BGM, there are very few BGM in this game, and most of the tunes are very happy, which sounds like it is to echo the tragic era presented by the United States in the flashy era of the last century, which is good, but don't you think it also needs some tragic or serious?

Especially when cutting the picture, the kind of sad song has always been accompanied by a happy trumpet, which will reduce the sense of substitution, and not to mention that there are so few songs that everyone will be tired of listening.

What is more annoying is LOADING time, LOADING into the game, switching map LOADING, entering battle LOADING, and even archiving need to be loaded, which makes me wonder if this game is made by "Silent Storm" engine (that game also has these problems). The round game itself makes people tired of waiting, so much LOADING and lengthy waiting time will wear away the patience of players, when "Heroes 5" was abandoned by many players because of this symptom.

By the way, Heroes 5 is also made by the Silent Storm engine, do you want to play Heroes online?

The last and most important shortcoming is the core problem of this game: neither business mode nor combat mode, there is no place for in-depth study, most of the business is a large proportion of exchange and high investment consumption to delay your game time (such as the initial money laundering ratio of 1:2).

As I said before in the battle, the lack of some specific tactical arrangement of characters, with attributes but no more exquisite props and equipment, the interaction between characters and scenes are fixed and immutable, and there is no scene damage or scene movement.

Four, overall rating: 6 points, easy to use, easy to abandon

"It's not Brothers of the Four, it's not Mafia 2, it's not LA Noire, he's going to smash all the expectations that players have for him" (I didn't say this, please check GOG), and I agree with that.

Even if you understand from the beginning that he is operating + "TBTC", you will find that his degree of research is as simple as "Monopoly" dice, and this game does not have the popularity of "Monopoly", and this game. When you open GOG or STEAM, you will find that the price of this game is prohibitively expensive. Forty dollars? I could have bought Far Cry 3.

Text and text: games website Literature Group -- Lady Lu Literary Guidance: Half Demon Lich