Advent Rising

Мало кто вспомнит, но был прокат - прокат видеофильмов, DVD-дисков, прокат игр. И вот отец приходит с прокат-салона с двумя новыми игрушками - [b]Advent Rising[/b] и [b]Cold Fear[/b]. И если Китобойное судно трогать мне было страшновато, то в космических похождения Гидеона я пропал... Я перепроходил игру раз за разом ставя себе разные челенджи (вкачать всё оружие и или все навыки, пройти только с одной способностью и т.д.) И ведь без гайдов и подсказок пришлось побеждать охотника за головами на посадочной площадке. Уже тогда я поражался истории, её взрослому нарративу. Как она беспощадна к персонажам, главному герою и чувствам игрока. А встреча с финальным боссом... до сих пор аукается в неокрепшем детском уме, даже сейчас спустя 20 лет и до сих пор пробирает до мурашек... Да я тоже не могу пройти мимо и не упомянуть музыку, это просто шедевры и им нужна современная обработка, чтобы чуть подтянуть качество В общем прекрасная история, которая кричит о необходимости продолжения... Но увы, мы его так и не получим... Так и не узнаем, чем закончилась история Гидеона Вайта, оказавшегося [spoiler]в снегах неизвестной планеты[/spoiler]

Сейчас-то мы знаем, что Advent Rising не оправдала ожиданий, но в свое время игра подняла ожидания до небес, чтобы затем разбить их о плоскую землю предсказуемости и скучных клише. Однако в сети до сих пор можно встретить слова адвентистов про незаслуженно забытый hidden gem. Что ж - заслуженно. Это просто играется не очень интересно. После появления способностей про пушки забываешь. Начинаешь репитативно раскидывать толпы глупых врагов с не очень отзывчивым управлением. Музыка то играет, то теряется. Звуки то есть, то проглатываются на фоне, казалось бы, насыщенных сцен. Знаменитые катсцены комично выглядят из-за операторской работы мышью (я не шучу, гляньте сами!) В общем само техническое исполнение говорит нам, что игру делали впопыхах, чтобы оправдать инвестиции и замахнуться на продолжение. Из плюсов разве что приятная мультяшная картинка (недаром режиссер игры Дональд Мустард работал над Fortnite), которая иногда отсылает то к Halo, то к Mass Effect. И дизайн персонажей погружает в ностальгию по началу 00х.

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Uff, lo jugué en 2026 y más allá de las gráficas que se notan ya muy viejas (que sí lo son), el juego no ofrece mucho ni en mecánica, jugabilidad ni narrativa. Se nota que está totalmente inspirado en HALO pero falla terriblemente. La historia no tiene lógica, y conforme más avanza, más ridículo se tornan las acciones de los personajes. Más allá de eso, simplemente no lo recomiendo nadota.

О, игра очень приличная, прошёл в сентябре 2025-го и купил, наконец, в коллекцию. Наверное, мой любимый вид игр под названием "Словно посмотрел хороший мультфильм", выглядит и сейчас достойно, а играется увлекательно и тактильно приятно. Будь Force Unleahed без мечей, получился бы именно Advent Rising, очень уж похожи местные способности героя на стандартный набор ребят из ЗВ.

I bought this game thinking it would be a nice nostalgia trip from my child hood but that quickly wore off a couple hours in, when this game first came out it was touted as a "Halo killer" that couldn't be the farthest thing from the truth. The graphics are subpar even for 2005, the story is lack luster and not all there with huge inconsistencies and plot holes, the pc port controls are absolutely atrocious, the sounds design while good can be easily broken, and the list goes on. It really begins to show its age and lack of polish and concise direction from the developers the more you play, being soft locked out of certain points in a mission that are required to progress the game becomes a consistent problem and very game breaking. The studio that developed this game is no longer in business with very good reason, at launch there was a million dollar prize competition if you complete the game first, they failed to follow through on that, which may have lead to their demise as a studio to begin with aside from the atrocity that is Advent Rising. In my honest opinion its a hard pass even for a nostalgia fueled fever dream, not worth the space on your dive and definitely not worth the $10 it's listed at or any sale price it may drop down to.

Ностальгия...

Advent Rising is one of the biggest collosal failures I have ever played to a point its comical I remember seeing ads for this game everywhere on the internet and every magazine imagineable when I was a kid and even heard it was advertised in theaters halo style in some countries and branded as a halo killer with its scifi setting and big open areas AND it had Orson ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Scott Card's name attached on to it. YES the writer of Ender's Game is somehow attached to this mess but why is it a mess you ask? Let's start with: [h3]Story[/h3] Tonally weird and abrupt. It has a lot of interesting ideas but never bothers to fully explore on them with a lukewarm cast at best. Our protoganist Gideon is ehhh not the worst the thing but definetly way to tryhard at times especially when gains space magic his fiance Olivia is so forgetable that I googled "advent rising girl" to remember her name so I can write it in this review his brother Ethan is cool and their dynamic had some interesting themes to explore but never properly explored And rest of the cast is rushed in their storytelling couse of the games breakneck pacing, in the entire campaign I only saw this game breath twice and one of them was prolouge oh and If you wonder about the spacemagic I mentioned earlier its quite litreally carbon copy of force and every power ever from star wars jedi academy and no Im not saying this to be cynical game tries to explain these powers ONCE and it does it so vaguegly that my brain immidietly went "oh its the force and its many cousins" If all this sound off for a Orson Scott Card script thats couse he didnt wrote the entire game, he wrote some of the screenplays but majority of the story was written by the devs themselves [h3]Gameplay[/h3] Becouse its labeled as a halo killer and main platform of choice was Xbox I decided to plug in my controller and play the game in its intended way only for my controller to annihalate the game and made me install a fan patch for it, appereantly controller support on this game is gamebreakingly broken. After a fan patch later I could finally hop in and play the game and gameplay is loop is essentially your typical action adventure affair, Gideon can use melee or wide range of weapons with acrobatics + space magic to fight with aliens with some basic platforming here and there. Now when I describe this type of gameplay your mind goes Ocarina of Time or Tomb Raider Legend right? where you lock onto an enemy and have 360 movement around them but camera is always locked onto that enemy WELL NO!. Camera spins each time you target a different in enemy and you swap targets via the second analog stick or mouse scroll on keyboard which means on crowded areas camera spins around so much that I actually got motion sickness and had to take a break from playing, crowded areas are really common on this game as well at times feeling like a purgotory then some intense space adventure but I digress. Platforming is also broken as gideon can get stuck basiaclly everywhere not to mention how unstable the game itself, its a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess Even the level design is weird like enemies are not placed as obstacles but like backround decorations as If they are houseplants so you can skip half the battles in this game by simply goin into the main path so much for that ACTION of Action Adventure Overall Advent Rising is a big mess, it promised too much and tried way too hard to be a better halo and fell down so hard that getting a big name like Orson couldnt even helped them Not worth its price which is quite tragic unless some maniac decides to buy the IP and remake the game from ground up

a camera é horrorosa e o jogo fica craxando vai sefuder

For a game made about 10 years ago, its really good if you like story and sci-fi.