Arctic Adventure

Arctic Adventure is the sequel to Pharaoh's Tomb and sadly suffers from the same issues as it's predecessor. The game is a puzzle platformer and it does improves a little bit on its predecessor but sadly not enough to recommend it… The FAST system is still my main issue with the game - Every object in the game have a rectangular bounding box where its borders can be larger than the actual object on screen (the player himself, traps, projectiles and enemies) so the hit detection is not pixel perfect and as a result you will die by running into objects like round boulders and enemies that are not look like a square and you will die by touching the invisible borders of the objects. The game improved the issue with the FAST system by lowering the number of moving objects in the level by a lot….so they didn’t fix the issue but lowered the frustration, so your skill will be a bigger factor/ The game got 4 chapters (80 levels) and it somewhat OK compare to Pharaoh's Tomb but I still cannot recommend it fully.....its OK, not very good and not that bad

Imagine getting this in 1991 instead of Sonic the Hedgehog on the glorious Sega Mega Drive. Final game in FAST engine platformers, after Pharaoh's Tomb. Infinite lives are back and there is world map now. Level design improved by being less of "gottem". Aside from times when it goes "gottem" in your face by spawning a snowball few steps away. But boxy collision remains and so do problems with jumping, while still remaining mostly bland and repetitive and hard and well, not worth your time. Antarctic Adventure is better. But that one has Hideo Kojima and the heartwrenching plotline of penguins nationalistic conspiracy so.

[h1][b]Arctic Adventure[/b][/h1] Mais um clássico de 1991, o jogo possui 4 episódios com um total de 80 fases, e é divertido e nostálgico até certo ponto. Arctic Adventure tem seus problemas, uma área de dano maior que o objeto, todos os objetos ou inimigos do jogo são formados por blocos, mesmo que sua aparência não seja um, em alguns momentos chega a ser frustante, porque você acaba morrendo sem sequer encostar na armadilha ou no inimigo. Se você jogou no passado ou gosta de jogos antigos, pode ser divertido, mas prepare-se para algumas frustrações em meio a diversão. [b]Nota: [u]6/10[/u][/b]

Не знаю, как вы, а я лично не могу играть в игры с CGA-графикой. (Игру получил в составе 3D Realms Anthology, отдельно я бы её вообще не купил)

-: občas kolidovanie s objektami, grafika, audio efekty, postupne stereotyp, jednoduché hlavolamy, nepredvídateľné skákanie, nepriatelia +: príbeh, herná doba, voľnosť pohybu, žiadne obmedzené životy, zábava, dizajn, menu Verdikt: Arctic Adventure je sequelom hry Pharaoh´s Tomb. V roli dobrodruha s menom Nevada Smith sa vydávate hľadať vikingský poklad do Arktídy. Charakteristickými črtami hry sú relatívna voľnosť pohybu a neobmedzený počet životov, respektíve pokusov na prekonanie úrovní. Úlohou hráča je prekonávať rôzne nástrahy, likvidovať nepriateľov s koltom, nájsť kľúče k niektorým uzamknutým komnatám a následne nájsť časti mapy vedúcej k pokladu. Okrem munície je potrebné zbierať aj krompáče na prerazenie ľadu. V hre sa samozrejme nachádzajú aj hlavolamy, no tie sú jednoduché. Občas dokáže naštvať nepredvídateľnosť skokov a iritujúca audio stránka hry. Tá je jednoducho otrasná. Herná doba závisí od šikovnosti hráča. Arctic Adventure je zábavnou hrou hlavne pre fanúšikov daného žánru. 66%

Arctic Adventure is an adventure platformer set in the Arctic where you have to look through caves to find pieces of a treasure map left by Vikings. The gameplay is pretty simple, but there's some things that don't work the way I would want to. Like jumping, it takes a long while after you jump to drop into the ground, you're like a feather falling down. It takes a while for your character to jump again once you made one. Moving platforms are a chore to land, because you can move them to the opposite side. Platforms let you (as in previous editions) stand floating on false edges. When you found the majority of the caves (19), the same thing happens over and over again. It gets old. Then, sounds. You get used to them, but can be so annoying. Turrets that no-stop try to shoot you behind walls make a lot of noise. Snowman, chests and hidden blocks that grant you points can wreck your ears. It gets louder and louders depending on how many points you've been granted. VERDICT Overall, it's an old-school game to kill some time when you're bored or want to experience what's been like playing these games. I recommend it just for these interests. Because it can get tedious.

Arctic Adventure came bundled with a 32 game collection of Apogee games called "3D Realms Anthology - Steam Edition" released back in 2015. The original game was released in December of 1990 for DOS (I never played it back then). I got the anthology on the winter sale for $9.99, that's 31 cents per game! That was such an awesome deal that I had to buy it, because there were some games in the anthology that I wanted anyway (Duke Nukem games, Shadow Warrior, and a few other FPS games). I didn't know it at the time, but this was a limited release for Steam. I don't think there's anyway to buy it now on Steam, but you can get it for free on 3DRealms website since March of 2009. So basically I paid 31 cents to have a free game integrated into Steam. I wish I could do that with any PC game that's not on Steam as there are quite a lot of them I'm interested in. Arctic Adventure is the seventh oldest game that was part of the anthology. There was no way to purchase it separately, which is odd because it has its own store page, forum, ect... This game is the equal to Pharaoh's Tomb. And feels like a spiritual part 3 to Monuments of Mars because it practically plays the same way, but with many improvements. This game runs through DOSBox and despite the store page saying that it only has partial Xbox 360 controller support, DOSBox allows you to map any key on the keyboard to the XBox 360 controller making it fully playable without a keyboard. By default the only things mapped on the controller are A for jumping, Up/Down/Left/Right on both the d-pad and left analogue stick to move around, and Y for Yes. I mapped L3 for restoring a save prompt, R3 for saving prompt, X for attacking, B for No, Back for the Quit prompt, and Start to pause. The game installation takes up 26.2MB in the steamapps\common folder, but the game itself is less than 1MB. The rest is just the manual and DOSBox. This game is available for both Windows and Mac, but not on SteamOS/Linux. Though I'm pretty sure you can use DOSBox in Linux and even Android. The system requirements are greatly exaggerated. If your PC or device can run DOSbox, you should be ale to play this game just fine. It would be extremely unfair to rate this game by today's standards, because if I or most people did, they would call it a piece of crap made by some noob. However, because I know that it was made when PC gaming wasn't exactly as awesome as it is now, I'll give it a fair review. Oddly enough, even though this game was released in a time were home consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master system were around, Arctic Adventure feels and looks like an early arcade game that was made and released before those two game consoles were even in existence. So for me the game feels even older than it actually is. I could never genuinely enjoy games from that era (mostly due to crap controls, not graphics) especially since I didn't grow up in that period. If you grew up playing this type of game maybe you can enjoy it. I don't find any game fun if the controls just plain suck. The farthest back I can go in terms of games and actually have fun is the NES and SMS, anything prior to that feels really ancient to me. The controls in this game however are a major improvement over Pharaoh's Tomb and Monument of Mars. I've bought many games on Steam since I first opened my account and have never played the majority of them because I became obsessed with Left 4 Dead and ignored all my other games. Recently I've heard of some games being removed from Steam, but you could still play it if you already purchased it (Wolfenstein 2009 version is an example), and then I've read about a few cases where games have been removed from Steam entirely even if you purchased it and you can no longer play it (that's really sucks). Since you can't purchase the 3D Realms Anthology or Arctic Adventure on Steam any longer, I decided to start playing all my games in my Steam Library while I still have them. I'm starting with the oldest to the newest because if I do it the other way around, I won't be able to stand most of the older games. Arctic Adventure has not aged well visually and it can't compare to many console games of the time or any game today. It "borrows" many concepts from Super Mario Bros. The controls are like Monuments of Mars and Pharaoh's Tomb but so much better. The collision detection has also been improved from Pharaoh's Tomb. There are less traps that once you are in them, you can't get out, unlike Pharaoh's Tomb which has a ton of them. I actually enjoyed this game much more than Monuments of Mars and Pharaoh's Tomb because of the improvements made to it. I like that you have an overworld map an don't have to do that levels in any particular order. And the storyline is pretty good for a game of this era. The store page description about there being only 20 levels is not accurate. There's 4 chapters and each one has 20 levels for a total of 80 Each level consists of a single screen in which you walk, jump over obstacles, enemies, platform, traps, ect... Your only weapon is a gun, and unlike Pharaoh's Tomb it's not limited to just 5. When you finish one chapter of 20 levels, you must quit and exit the game and relaunch it to load another chapter (or at least I didn't find a way to do that otherwise). I actually finished all 80 levels in 8 hours butIt was not an easy game to finish. Soe levels are really difficult. I enjoyed it but have no plans on playing it ever again. So do I recommend it? Yes. Why? Because it has some of the improvements that Monuments of Mars and Pharaoh's Tomb desperately needed. It's a tough challenge but it's not impossible thanks to being able to save and having an unlimited amount of lives. Completing this game is a real achievement. Some levels will try your patience. The next oldest game in the anthology is Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy, but I'll be playing Dark Ages next instead because I skipped it in order to play Arctic Adventure.