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Continued fighting game. The choice of characters has expanded, and now there are 8 single player and 12 - In separate fighting for survival and match (choose 5 fighters who alternately fighting with 5 fighters of the enemy, when a fighter ends energy in its place stands the other). The graphics and sound are improved, so that the progress of the game is obvious. Difficulty levels remain 3 as the speed of the match.…
Streets of Rage 2 is the sequel to Streets of Rage, and its plot basically says that in the past the former policemen young Axel Stone, Adam Hunter and Blaze Fielding celebrated the victory against the criminal syndicate, one year after his fall. Axel Blaze turned bodyguard and now works as a dance teacher, but Adam decides to join the police again and goes to live in a small house with his younger brother.One day…
The control system and a high level of complexity have not changed since the first game of the series. It added a new type of job, for example, following after another dolphin and pseudo-three-dimensional levels. One of the innovations began Metasphere, which can be converted into other beings Ecco. Transformations depend on the level on which the metasphere and allow to turn into a seagull, jellyfish, sharks, a…
The gameplay of the game remains the same. The player must pass the track faster than competitors, along the way trying to circumvent urban traffic, animals and other obstacles. Racers themselves can use different weapons to fight right in the race. For the victory the player receives a cash prize.In comparison with the previous part, the game suffered a number of technical changes. The colors became more vivid.…
Dr. Ivo Robotnik, a mad scientist, kidnaps innocent animals, turning them into vicious robots! Only one guy is able to stop a series of kidnappings, initiated by a mad professor. This is Sonic, the coolest hedgehog in the universe, eclipsed by its popularity, even "Hedgehog in the fog." He has a radical "sharp" hairstyle and special sneakers, which allow him to run at supersonic speeds. We need to help Sonic fight…
The plot of the game Quake II is quite simple. The landing force, which was to land on the Strogg planet, was ambushed. But, according to the coincidence of random events, the assassin Bitterman is able to survive. And he, having established a connection with the center, continues the operation "Overlord" alone. Now a little about the game and its gameplay. This is a first-person shooter. The game was released in…
The plot of the game Dino Crisis was too smart and, in my opinion, very meager. There are many subject branchings in it. In short, a group of special forces were landed on the island of Aibis, that they would find Professor Kirk there. It needs to be delivered to the mainland. But from the very beginning the operation was not asked. After all, because of the experiments of Dr. Kirk with the third energy the portal…
Series Need For Speed - now a game that does not pass unnoticed, neon, tuning, girls and chic. Every year, 1-2 parts of the game are stamped, new tracks, new labels and sloumouds appear. But once the game Need For Speed was a real revolution - jump forward for a whole generation. There were no night races, no vinyl, no tuning. What has turned the first part of the game into a real cult, which to this day no one…
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In Grand Theft Auto 2 (GTA 2) you play the role of a criminal who works for a giant global concern controlling the trade in special drugs that actively influence the brain. Game GTA 2 was released simultaneously for both PlayStation and PC in the fall of 1999. This version is much more interesting and more elaborate than the first one. The action takes place in three detailed sectors, divided into four zones.…
Nuclear Strike is a video game in the genre shoot 'em up, developed and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation gaming console and personal computers running Windows in 1997. The version for Nintendo 64 was developed by Pacific Coast Power & Light and published by THQ under the name of Nuclear Strike 64. It is the fifth part of the Strike games series. Description Graphically, the game is constructed using…
Legendary Doom game for Sony PlayStation. The game, in fact, includes two games Doom (Ultimate Doom) and DOOM II. We have to play for the nameless fighter of the space special forces, although he has some other names in him: DoomGuy, Doom Trooper, Doom marine, as well as Flynn Taggart, John Grimm or simply Reaper. In the literal sense, we have to go through hell. As a result of the experiment being conducted on…
Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown is the third in a series of Duke Nukem games. This is the first three-dimensional game in the Duke Nukem series. The first two games in the series were two-dimensional platformers, I do not know about these games, that they were in general. Duke Nukem is a special agent of the US government. He returns to Los Angeles after the events of the game Duke Nukem 2. The radio receives a distress…
The plot of the game Quake II is quite simple. The landing force, which was to land on the Strogg planet, was ambushed. But, according to the coincidence of random events, the assassin Bitterman is able to survive. And he, having established a connection with the center, continues the operation "Overlord" alone. Now a little about the game and its gameplay. This is a first-person shooter. The game was released in…
Crash Bandicoot - a platforming game about the adventure of a bandicoot called Crash, created by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation. The game was released on August 31, 1996 in North America, then, in November, in Europe, and on December 6 the game was released in Japan. In the role of distributor was the company Universal Interactive Studios. Gameplay Crash's attacks are reduced to just one button. With…
Gran Turismo is the first game of the Gran Turismo series developed by the Japanese studio Polys Entertainment (now Polyphony Digital) and released by SCEI on December 23, 1997 on the PlayStation platform. The American release took place on April 30, 1998. Developers managed to find a "golden mean" between the arcade and the simulator: despite the obvious "arcade", Gran Turismo has a fairly thin physical model.…
Road Rash. With these two words, we all have too much in common to remain indifferent. It all began on Sega, when in 1991, from the restless depths of the game, the first game of the series, still gaining momentum, was released. And, as they say, she shot. The idea of racing on motorcycles with a concomitant scuffle was fresh and new (in fact, then the usual motosimulators did not have time to nest), besides, we…
