AquaNox

Aquanox is a deep-sea underwater cockpit-view dogfight game in the footsteps of the descent series of the late 90s. It’s also the successor to the 1996 submarine game “Schleichfahrt”. The dystopian setting itself is quite interesting: humankind had to escape earth’s surface after a devastating nuclear world war and found shelter in the planet’s deep oceans. Population centres are at least 1500m deep and full of crazy people trying to cope with underwater life in confined spaces. Science is given great leeway to experiment on genetic alterations making it easier for humans to survive the great depths. But crime is equally rampant with different factions fighting for power and resources. The player is a mercenary accepting any well-paid job, hunting down people or in other terms cleaning up the ocean floor, sometimes getting tangled up in the ambitions of some politicians. After about 7 hours play time, here’s my pros/cons list: Pro: + dystopian underwater setting + crazy, weird, likeable people living underwater + visiting different cities and areas + some interesting characters + Still good graphics even today + portrait of a dysfunctional society struggling with life in the ocean + interesting story twist at the very end Cons: - Generic underwater cities and structures - Missing diversity in underwater landscape - Rather dark - Very slow, dragging main plot - Repetitive, generic search & destroy missions - Hard to manoeuvre the ships - Issues with modern mouse controls & speed - Tedious mopping up enemies at the end of some missions - Some missions very difficult, even unfair (e.g. EMP restrictions) - Tech / cyberpunk setting a bit convoluted - Pretentious “relaxed / cool” slang / dialogue - Many dialogues include a decent amount of puberty level profanity and showing off - Repetitive, boring music - rather mediocre voice-acting - Waiting 20 seconds for a mission to end without anything happening, sometimes I can choose to leave the mission myself - Shallow story develops into generic supervillain threatening to destroy earth and then awakening some ancient ocean monsters - Ocean monsters explode like ships when getting destroyed - many ship designs wouldn't make sense underwater - feels like a bit too flashy techno setting Conclusion: Although the setting itself is quite intriguing, the game itself is lacking variety, motivating mission design and some deeper story. Dialogues are mostly including puberty level profanity at the beginng with some show-off attitude and only some background information and story development sprinkled into them. Some characters are interesting, but most rather shallow. Players will like this game if they enjoyed the Descent series and an underwater dystopian setting with arcade-style dogfights. Rating: 4/10 points

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Господи, на скока она тупорылая и конченная - то от чего я кайфовал в 2003 - сейчас воспринимается просто крайне негативно - после офигенной пляски с бубнами - разрешение со старта в монитор 2К - все настройки графы на максимум - русификатор и решение проблем с мышью носле 1 часа безуспешной попытки пройти вторую миссию - я сказал да ну - есть же куча реально классных игр п.с. после покупки я ее на костылях разворачивал в 2К - вернуть деньги они отказались - НЕ РЕКОМЕНДУЮ ВООБЩЕ В ЭТО ВХОДИТЬ - ИГРЫ РАНЕЕ 2015 ГОДА ДЛЯ 2025

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