Sumerian Six

Great game. Great story. Unique powers make the gameplay immersive. Only negative i can say is it gets repetitive at times as some missions are very similar in map style and objectives. I have played a lot of games in this genre like Desperados series, Commandos series, Shadow Tactics, Shadow Gambit, Robinhood etc and I can say Sumerian Six is a MUST play in this genre.

Pick it up on sale, but only if you're a fan of the genre. So, the positives: - I like that the developer decided to add some magic stuff into their setting: it allowed them to come up with some new and interesting skills. - It's a 3D tactical squad-based strategy. Entries in this genre are few and far between. - Your skills are upgradeable, which is an interesting idea. Although, I haven't felt a profound effect of skill upgrades throughout the whole campaign. But then: - There are bugs. In my first 18 hours, playing through the campaign, the game crashed three times. I have encountered at least one visual glitch on every mission. - I hate that you're locked from quick load once you're caught and killed. You're forced to sit there for a painful handful of seconds, waiting for the death animation to complete. After that, you have to select the save to load with your mouse, the F8 keybinding gets disabled. Which breaks the flow. - I absolutely hate the most uninspired mission challenges. Each mission has the same five challenges: "collect all boxes", "complete on hard", "don't raise any alarms", "don't use an X skill" and "complete under X minutes". Not only the challenge selection is bland, but rushing the player with time pressure in a game like this is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sin. You have to do that if you want to get the 100% completion. - The story and presentation are very meh. The "fat ugly guys is the baddie" trope is there. The "characters suddenly understand how to manipulate magical items, which they have never seen before" trope is there. The "magical pew-pew happens, and characters dump exposition explaining that they just did something good, despite having zero actual evidence of that" trope is there. The "your guys is the chosen one demigod" trope is there. The "guy, whom you barely care about, dies in a totally avoidable self-sacrifice" trope is there. The "oh no there's now five meter gap between us, which we can't jump over despite doing so many times before" thing is there. The sudden forced character growth is there. - For some reason it rubs me the wrong way, that one of the guys can throw an infinite amount of glass bottles to distract enemies. Like, pebbles in Shadow Tactics made sense: pebbles are everywhere. Coins in Desperados made sense: you can have a bunch of those in your pockets. Glass bottles? Somehow your guy can find an infinite amount of full-sized glass bottles while being trapped in another dimension. In this magical world full of occult nazis, you couldn't come up with a more grounded in reality skill? Make him throw trash. Or, like bullet casings. - The controls feel off, somehow. For some reason, sometimes right click clears your skill selection, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes pressing space with more than one character selected snaps your selection to one of the characters. They still haven't figured out the whole throwing bodies off the cliff technology: it still often confuses your characters, or doesn't let you even perform an action despite doing so a second ago. - The world evil is called Humbaba, and the characters have to refer to it with a straight face. Like, "oh no the dreadful Humbaba will consume as all". Might as well call it the pee-pee poo-poo monster: same thing. All-in-all, I can't say that I regret buying this game, and completing it didn't feel like a chore most of the time. But I definitely consider it to be a downgrade from every other game of this genre.

Man I just needed to play the first 5 minutes to know how great of a game it is after missing shadow tactics. Came from heavens.

This crashes too often to recommend: Fatal error: [File:E:\UE_5.3\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\ShaderCodeArchive.cpp] [Line: 378] DecompressShaderWithOodleAndExtraLogging(): Could not decompress shader group with Oodle. Group Index: 1 Group IoStoreHash:c454a7a5797087ebd4b61809 Group NumShaders: 20 Shader Index: 47 Shader In-group Index: 1 Shader Hash: D5C8D543CA04F2F9E31A5CF02710707C008A677D

You can melt nazis with acid. 10/10.

Orphan of mimimi, this is a nice game

Schon beeindruckend, dass solch ein Genre-Erstling des Studios spielerisch und technisch qualitativ quasi nicht von den Mimimi-Produktionen zu unterscheiden ist. Wer besonders Shadow Gambit mochte, fühlt sich hier sofort zuhause. Leider teilt sich das Spiel auch die gleiche Schwäche wie Shadow Gambit: Die Story. Die ist ziemlich flach, was für das Genre an sich völlig ok ist. Aber Desperados 3 und vorallem Shadow Tactics haben gezeigt, dass auch in diesem Bereich sehr viel rauszuholen ist und das fehlt mir dann doch. Besonders weird war, dass die Nazis hier wirklich harte Nazis sind und entsprechend auch ein Vokabular an den Tag legen. Das ist irgendwie viel zu ernst und verstörend für ein Spiel, das eigentlich viel näher an Indiana Jones als an Commandos dran ist. Nach ein paar Missionen merkt man das aber irgendwann zum Glück nicht mehr. Ein wirklich guter Vertreter des Echtzeit-Taktik-Genres.

Good one if you are looking for some real-time tactical action, and let's face it, we are anything but spoilt for choice when it comes to this genre. I can't bring myself to say that it's as good as Mimimi titles, and yet, the gap between them and Sumerian Six isn't too large in my experience, and I see no reason not to recommend the game. Extra points for the levels' visual design.

No se si Artificer es un estudio que ha nacido del cerrado estudio Mimimi, pero su juego Sumerian Six se siente exactamente igual que los juegos de Mimimi. Sin duda un juegazo al más puro estilo Commandos, pero con las mejoras de los juegos de Mimimi. Si te gustó Desperados 3, Shadow Tactics o Shadow Gambit, este Sumerian Six es un must have para ti.