Everything is used, if the game is dedicated to the style of steampunk, it is certainly the middle of the 19th century mustaches on all sides, airships in the sky and the farms, where instead of cows – some puffing iron contraption. But there is also another steampunk – when the terms of the space pirates, intergalactic ships, distant planets on the fringes of the orbits. It is to this rare environment applies SteamWorld Heist: a sort of mix of the TV series Firefly, space travel and the era of steam engines.
Nice way SteamWorld Heist started with a slightly non-obvious places: Nintendo 3DS about a year ago. In the next 12 months the game was released plus or minus on everything, on what you can play: from PC to PlayStation Vita, and everywhere gathered an armful of compliments. Somewhere less somewhere more, but the public unanimously SteamWorld Heist has supplied virtual mark of quality now it is the turn to conquer and most accessible mobile platform: iOS.
If you only play on phones, you must not know that SteamWorld is a series of such projects, United by the plot and setting, but the genre is always different. Before the Heist was prezanyatny arcade game about the pick, and before that – a nice tower defense. But Heist seems to be the crown of the series – so one-piece and multi-layered game still search.
However, initially it will be available to the script. SteamWorld Heist will start with the events of the previous part: a planet exploded, intelligent steam-powered robots fly away, someone is catching up; what’s going on – absolutely incomprehensible. Later you will get used to the rhythm, razgovorilas with the characters and even the rate the stupid references to all of the same “Firefly”. It only gets more interesting, so don’t forget to have a few words with the team: the script is not for show.
In this poignant stories behind the amazing tactical system – something like XCOM, but with a side view, as in the platform. You land on some ship, filled with the aggressive pirates. In any other game with such camera would have to take opponents swoop; here you need to turn your head. Your character roughly two moves: you can either walk around and to do something (usually fire), or like twice, or sit in the woods. Of course, there are nuances – for example, some of the guys in the state, two times to shoot somebody who can shoot after a long cross, and someone it is better not to go: because he is a doctor.
But the main caveat, though, in mechanics. The thing is that when you hide behind cover, there is no guarantee that it will protect you. Because there are grenades, safely flying in a parabola, and the ricochets. Such a normal bounce – shoot, for example, in the ceiling, the bullet flying downwards, cleaving his head had taken refuge in the barrel of a pirate. Well, your opponents also have mastered some simple physics.
In the end, the game acquires the features of a good strategy – you expect further step, I estimate in mind, as you do in three moves, learn to use the strengths of your players and hide weak ones. Quickly realize that hiding behind the bar is not a panacea, and that can get even with the other end of the ship, if the enemy suddenly has a good weapon. Yes, it’s not the one-touch killer, here it is necessary to include the head – but you do the same and want, isn’t it?
And SteamWorld Heist is incredibly beautiful. It is something beyond games, born to damn weak mobile platform: performers with 3DS rare delight graphics. But here, incredible depth images: it seems that in the game you can stick your head and see what’s going on. No huge special effects and expensive rollers – only corporality design and colorful palette. Somehow it looked like Rayman: Legends – and it’s a big compliment.
Will cost you a fortune in little more than 500 rubles, but this is the case when the game is worth the money – because it is so beautiful, sophisticated and intelligent turn-based games on iOS are extremely, extremely rare.
