| Giants: Citizen Kabuto | Planet Moon Studios / Interplay | 2000 | |
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Good humor in 3D games is a rarity and if it
is introduced nevertheless into a game, the German translations often
mess up the intent. Quite differently in Giants Citizen Kabuto: In no
other play are the cutscenes so funny and offer such high-class British
humor. However, beside the good cutscenes the game offers also excellent,
captivating single player action. One takes over (successively, in 3 split
campaigns) 3 different races. The Meccs, a humanoid race of space cowboys
are first. The Meccs fight in troops with up to 3 members, can camouflage
themselves as "greens", fly with jet packs and possess various firepower
mixes. The Sea Reapers are next and one plays a light-dressed woman, with
curved swords, and they possess magic powers. E.g., the cyclone which
throws everything and everybody in the surroundings around the area is
especially nice. Last but not least: The Kabuto, a gigantic creature which
smashes whole villages within seconds with simple steps and blows. However
beside the shooter elements, Giants offers even more: Later the Meccs
can build up a base and Kabuto gets a younger generation. To try and obtain a
Teen rating, before the U.S. release the developers added a top to cover
Delphi's bare breasts. If you go in the Giants install directory, make a copy
of arpfix.gzp and place it on your desktop and rename the one in the Bin folder
to arpfix.old and when you start game again, Delphi will be topless as originally
designed. A Geforce 3 Limited Edition adds significant performance improvements: tuned for the GeForce 3 and DirectX8.0, adds higher resolution textures, adds increased polygon-count characters, Vertex/ Pixel shaders, Meccs are now bumpy AND shiny, moves terrain bump map calculations from CPU to GPU, adds soft edges to character shadow, adds sky reflection on water, smooths transition from water edge to terrain, adds weather effects.
The graphics (except for some clipping mistakes) as well as the sound succeed very well, only the weak save function and the limited A.I. are real criticism points. The missions or scenarios are very varied and offer for hours fun. (Rev. by Enrique-Portuondo Ochoa) |
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