SunAge (RS)

SunAge In the last decade, the gaming industry has been dominated by 3D graphics, no matter the genre. From first-person shooters to adventures and strategies, nothing has escaped the evolution towards 3D graphics. Unfortunately for us, this momentum and the desire to have the best graphics on the block didn’t do us much good. Sure, games look nicer now, but the designers also preferred to concentrate on the visual aspect, forgetting the fact that a game should be, first of all, fun, not some postal card slide show. And if we look at the sales of some titles, considered to be certain successes before the launch, like Crysis or Unreal Tournament 3, we can see that players have taken the first steps against this trend. Swimming against the current, SunAge is an old-school real-time strategy game, with a futuristic theme and a couple of more or less useful innovations. The story, pretty similar to Mad Max, tackles the age old “Where is the human civilization headed?” question. The story is (again) placed in a distant and grim future, in which our Sun is dieing and the natural resources of our world have been exhausted. Thus Earth becomes a huge desert and the few privileged (read “wealthy”) humans retreat in Domes – bunkers built for the sole purpose of keeping the human race alive. Even so, the Domes collapse until only one is left, with the survivors forming the Federation. The rest of the population however didn't have the privilege of living in a dome, and many fell victim to the desert. Under the influence of radiations and the harsh conditions, they turned into the Raak-Zun, a mutant subspecies of the human race, who unsurprisingly hates the Federation. Just as predictable, the Sentinels also make an entry - an extraterrestrial race which has the key to a wormhole that leads to a paradise planet called Elysium. And even if the story doesn’t lack its share of clichés, the producers did their best to familiarize us with the main characters and lend credence to this post-apocalyptic future of humanity. A series of patches now up to version 1.08 have made the game much more stable and have added the MIA multiplayer, but there are still loads of major bugs. Troops regularly stop responding to commands and sometimes move off in a random direction after being selected with a single mouse click. Buildings occasionally can't be placed, even in apparently clear areas. Mission objectives are regularly impossible to complete. Previously explored areas are lost in saves, so every time you load a game you've got to start peeling back the fog of war all over again. This game was obviously kicked out the door way too soon, which is awfully odd because it was apparently in development for about 11 years. Battles also feel clunky due to a bizarre design choice to take firing orders away from you. Instead of right-clicking on enemy troops to get the guns blazing as in almost every other RTS ever made, here you have to move your troops within range of the bad guys to make them open fire. Also, your troops don't automatically follow enemies once battles have started, which turns many battles into irritating chase sequences where you have to run after enemies to keep them in firing range. It's hard to understand what Vertex4 was trying to accomplish here. There aren't any obvious pluses to making this drastic change to such a longstanding RTS convention, so this offbeat movement mechanism will only frustrate players. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/93062136/dsrhderwet.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/93063004/dsrhderwet.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/93063250/dsrhderwet.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/93065212/dsrhderwet.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/93065213/dsrhderwet.part5.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/93064659/dsrhderwet.part6.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/93064668/dsrhderwet.part7.rar

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