#. | Our impressions of new video games (part one)

During the exhibition, visitors could see the not yet released games, the release of which is scheduled for the coming months. My colleagues and I decided not to miss such an interesting event and played almost all shown in the demonstration stands projects. I want to share with you my impressions from them, but given the large number of video games, the material will have to be split into several parts. We offer to your attention the first part. Today we will tell you about the games Far Cry 5, Detroit: Become Human, and Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.

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Far Cry 5

The Game Far Cry 5 from the canadian subsidiary of the French publisher Ubisoft released 27 February 2018 on the platforms Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But we can already definitely say that it will be quite an interesting project. As the setting of the new game were elected to the North America, and to be precise — a fictional hope County in the state of Montana. It runs a despotic radical Joseph, "Father" Led, self-proclaimed prophet. He created a religious cult "Gates of Eden", which now holds the local residents and even the servants of the law in fear. At some point the people rises up against the sectarians, and it was at this point in the story takes our main character.

As far As I understood from the demo (imported from the German Gamescom), to play Far Cry 5 will be possible for several characters. At least I was offered to play for the pilot of nick Raya, the girl grace Armstrong and a dog named Boomer. I chose the first option. Begin the demonstration with a mission to liberate the town Fall''s End from the oppression of the zealots. The player can operate covertly and shoot villains with a sniper rifle from long range or rush ahead, killing every enemy in the close combat. The gameplay will be familiar to fans of the Far Cry series. After the liberation of the city, local residents are trying to bring him back to life.

After that, the game invites us to sit behind the wheel of a car, and then behind the wheel of the plane. You will need to find and shoot a few key objects to track down a convoy of cars carrying precious cargo of the sect, and even to participate in air duel with another pilot. In between you can escape from the action part and just go fishing in the local rivers and lakes – the fishing rod is selected in a menu switch weapons. The demo goes from the beginning to the end in about 25-30 minutes, but it can be much more time. It is a pity that the exhibition makes its own rules, and stay on one stand longer a luxury.

The Game was running on PlayStation 4 console Pro at 4K resolution and looked surprisingly great. Most impressive to me was very bright and attractive color palette of the game. It is sun-drenched, playing with paints and offers players a huge variety of great-looking locations. While I can't say that Far Cry 5 will offer us something revolutionary in comparison with the previous games of the franchise. One thing is certain: the game will stay true the original concept. It will be exciting, fun and full of adventure.

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Detroit: Become Human

New game Studio Quantic Dream personally, I'm waiting, perhaps stronger than all the other games of the coming year together. Game designer David cage knows how to create incredibly engaging story and then wrap them in an intuitive and easy gameplay. So it was with games Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls (even though it was criticized by many players, I this story satisfied). Cage in his new game, decided to imagine what will happen to mankind in the future when humanoid robots will be freely sold in every electronics store.

Questions rising in such films as "blade Runner," "I, robot" and especially on the television series "People", are played in the game from different angles. To play for several main characters, each of whom sees the world differently, just like in Heavy Rain. In the demo presented at the exhibition "IgroMir 2017", we were asked to play the role of Connor, the police Android leading the negotiations with criminals and terrorists. He will have difficult task to stop running amok Android to jump off a building and take along with you the life of a little innocent girl.

The Player at the outset to enter into negotiations with the offender or to spend time studying the crime scene, allowing him to better learn from the failed Android and prepare for communion with him. Each your find will be able to unlock extra options in conversation that potentially will allow you with minimal damage to solve the problem. Time flows, like in the real world and the game does not allow you to procrastinate. Each second reduces the chance of success of the mission. We must act quickly and confidently. Choosing options questions and answers for the defective one you see on the screen how your actions affect the situation.

The Game affects the abundance of scenarios. Depending on your choice, the scene on the roof of a skyscraper there are plenty of outcomes. You can sacrifice yourself and save the girl, you can just swing the villain so that he voluntarily released the hostage, or we can lose both in case of unsuccessful outcome. I have named only three basic options complete the scene. But in fact, about a dozen of them with some differences, which is very impressive! I specifically went demo for a few endings, deliberately taking the right or not quite obvious at first glance, solution. Every time the game reacted to my choice absolutely adequate than that used to bring me to a complete delight.

Detroit: Become Human does not yet have a release date, and the window of release is 2018. I would venture to suggest that the release date of the game, we will announce in a conference at Paris Games Week, which will begin at the end of this month. Studio Quantic Dream is still French. Where, if not on a major French event, to make this momentous announcement? Patient and believe in the best.

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Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

The Game Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (and shouldn't have gone on about its name!), released in 2010, has become one of the most brilliant JRPG of its time. Designed the famous Studio Level-5, and for the design of the characters answered the legendary animation Studio Ghibli Director Hayao Miyazaki. Kindest fairy tale about a boy who tries to save his mother in a magical world, full of magic and monsters, like very many players. Needless to say, the game was really incredibly charming and multifaceted. And really visual component in the spirit of the cartoon "spirited away" and "Kiki's delivery Service." I fall in love with the game once and for all.

In this new game the main character is not Oliver from the original, and the young king with the unpronounceable name Evan Pettinicchi Tildrum. As is clear from his name, he is the representative of the cat race (remember the cat-the king of games 2010), and on the head it adorns a pair of cat ears. The game takes place centuries after Wrath of the White Witch. Power over the land of fairy Kingdom seized the Rat tribe, and only Evan is able to bring your cat the nation to its former greatness. It is a game of cat and mouse, and the basis for the plot of the game.

The Game combines several genres. Here you and the elements of a JRPG with exploration of the colorful world and lots of NPCs and role-playing combat system with the use of minions in different colors, enhancing the main characters, and a huge number of possible quests, and fragments of real-time strategy, and even the management of your own castle (just like in the Suikoden series). The gameplay is really varied and will not allow players to get bored for a second. And updated combat system, departed from the concept of Pokemon, it felt fresh and exciting.

What pleased me most of all is the continued cooperation of Level-5 and Studio Ghibli. The characters continue to resemble the main characters of the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and music for the game was written by the legendary Japanese composer Jo Hlsalshi. Game Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom will be released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 will be released 19 January 2018. Have to wait quite a bit.

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