The starting line of games for Nintendo 3DS, to put it mildly, did not live up to expectations. Built -in applications – nothing more than a demonstration of the capabilities of stereo recovery, boxed Pilotwings Resort and Nintendogs + Cats – Cost in front of a large three -dimensional feast. But on 3DS there is something to play: here you have Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, and Splinter Cell, and Resident Evil, and Zelda – in a word, the most hard and well -known games. Gambling reached the most tidbiture projects, evaluating what the Nintendo heavy artillery costs and how convenient it is to play familiar characters in unusual three dimensions
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 3D
Genre: action
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release date: March 25
Average score on Metakriki: 49/100
Series Splinter Cell On portable consoles, well, in no way is it: Essentials on PlayStation Portable suffered from a nightmare and unreasonable management, and the version Chaos Theory on Nintendo DS So was a lively example of how you should not make games. And after stressful and aggressive Splinter Cell: Conviction An attempt to plant Sam Fisher again on pocket prefixes looks completely unconvincing.
On Nintendo 3ds Days in Moscow , Events where the Nintendo European Office demonstrated the game for the new console, we played a mission in which Sam Fisher had blood from Twinky Win Casino the nose to penetrate the Panama bank. Here the hero cuts down a couple of guards, makes his way to the roof of the house, disables the alarm, and then spectacularly, almost like Tom Cruise, descends from the cable that has come from the roof of the bank. All these actions are accompanied by inhuman torment from the player: the stereo is often prevented from understanding what is happening. Almost everywhere it is dark, when using the night vision device, one half of the picture is blurred, and the other obscure back of Fisher obscures the other. But the 3D effect helps when Sam needs to be checked with a map of the area: the translucent scheme is neatly divided along the floors, and navigate this is a pleasure.
The least lucky management. The camera moves the buttons on the right, weapons and gadgets are selected by the stylus, the icons are responsible for all contextual actions on the sensory lower screen. If you approach the door, a long list appears with small buttons, which are extremely difficult to aim. It is not easier to get into the enemy: because of the awkward and sharp button aiming, Sam does not look like a trained agent, but to Michael Jay Fox, who for some reason was given a gun in his hands. Well, the final blow-in the process of porting, the multiplayer.
Ridge Racer 3D
Genre: Arcade races
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Release date: March 25
Average score on Metakriki: 74/100
Reiko Nagasa, Masco series Ridge Racer , For eighteen years I have not grown at all. The game has not changed: these are all the same arcade races with such an active use of uncontrolled drift that dashing droves, just like in Mario Kart , They never go in a straight line, even if there is not a single hint of a turn ahead. The slowly slow machines are replaced by more and more advanced ones, and speeds below three hundred kilometers per hour simply cease to exist – the most difficult turns for the samurai are customary to pass by pressing the gas pedal into the floor. Ridge Racer is not the most diverse race, but it is terribly fascinating, forcing the championship for the championship. And when competitions with ordinary rivals begin to bother, the game offers a duel with bosses. Rails against the experimental reactive car Soldat Crinale are remembered for a long time.
Three -dimensionality was only beneficial to the game, it creates an unforgettable effect of immersion: a high -rise building burning by neon lights flashes, and autumn leaves fly directly to your face. The asphalt and prohibitive speed gleeping in the sun forced to forget for a while that Namco Over and over again, he offers us the same game, replacing only a couple of insignificant details.
It will not work to arrange online 3DS on Nintendo 3DS, but their absence is slightly brightened up by a function Street Pass , which automatically adds data on the records of other people's records and makes it possible to compete with their "ghosts". Ridge Racer is unlikely to interest lovers of complex automobile simulators, but if you have a pleasant shallow tremor from the words “Starlucer” or “Hyper Knight” – this game should definitely not be skipped.
Dead or Alive: Dimensions
Genre: Fighting
Publisher: Tecmo
Release date: May 20
Average score on Metakriki: At the time of delivery of the number, the game hasn't come out yet
Tecmo In vain lifts in Dead or Alive: Dimensions Serious topics as cloning and biological weapons-no matter what the scriptwriters come up with, for many this game will remain a touching fighting winging about a bearded razor, his daughter-stripper and a ruh from Ninja Gaiden.
The threshold of the entry of Dead or Alive: Dimensions is about the same as the infutings of the series Tekken , – Already in the first twenty minutes you will learn to fight well, make simple but effective combinations, block strokes and conduct competent counterattacks that open an imprudent opponent of the world of pain. Play Dead or Alive: Dimensions on 3DS fun primarily thanks to convenient control and a muvist, which is always at hand: the lower screen shows possible combo, changing depending on the situation.
In addition to simplified mechanics, DEAD or Alive always favorably distinguishes the opportunity to set up the size and even jumping breast in heroines. This is where the stereo-chartinka has to be used to the table, especially since the girls are not used to it: two whole games in the series were already dedicated to the Zen-mocking of figure-like ladies in swimsuits.
25 fighters in the arcade mode of the game were available to us in the preview. On multi -level arenas, we dashingly broke our heads of stone sculptures, gently rolled along the snowy slopes and fought in convulsions, accidentally under voltage. Fans of exciting stories will probably like a short storyline, in which two girls found out relationships on the suspended bridge. The duel ended unexpectedly: a military helicopter flew to the help of one of the warriors with a third girl who shot the bridge.
Super Street Fighter 4: 3D Edition
Genre: Fighting
Publisher: Capcom
Release date: March 25
Average score on Metakriki: 85/100
It is difficult to imagine a person who is at least a little fond of video games, but does not know who Ryu and Ken are. Capcom Finally, I was entirely transferred to the portable console of Street Fighter from the senior prefixes, and Nintendo 3DS appeared Super Street Fighter 4: 3D Edition.
Understanding the importance of management, the developers tried to adapt it for both newcomers and experienced players. The touch lower screen, divided into four customizable fields, is responsible for conducting the Combo. Super-and ultra-combination hang on them, and this is a very successful thought: it is difficult to remember all the combo on the move, and so people who are not familiar with the series will be able to gradually master management. There is a regime for a pro, in which only basic sequences of shocks can be hung on sensory fields, replacing not the entire combination, but only part of it.
Unlike Dead or Alive, it makes no sense to randomly crush the buttons in the hope of an accidental victory – each character has his own fighting tactics. The game contains all 35 fighters, from the famous Chun-Lee to beginners like Abel or Rufus. The characters look in 3D as alive, and in order to evaluate the stereo effect in all its glory, the camera can be transferred to the fighter by the shoulder, where the playing looks like an old Super Punch-Out!!. But it’s not to get used to such an angle: it is difficult to assess the distance between the fighters from behind the shoulder and take the grip on time.
Alas, Super Street Fighter 4: 3D Edition has not yet championships in the network game and are static arena, but the entire DLC content that has been released for senior games has been added to the 3DS version.
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
Genre: third -person shooter
Publisher: Capcom
Release date: June 2
Average score on Metakriki: At the time of delivery of the number, the game hasn't come out yet
Merceenaries mode from the last two parts Resident Evil Lucky: killing a zombie for a while turned out to be so exciting that Capcom I decided to make a full -fledged game out of this. Everything is as before: there is very little time left before the evacuation, it is extremely important to hold out until the rescue helicopter arrives, and at the same time reduce the concentration of infected by a square kilometer. In the process, the time of the game can be renewed, but then, it seems, the whole meaning of the regime is lost – it is much more important to score more points.
In our preview version, the Spanish village was inhabited exclusively by fanatics in masks and robes (probably to avoid scandals on national grounds). Their movements were clumsy and cutting, and the infected themselves reminiscent of the Dubolomes of the army of Urfin Jus – which, however, did not prevent them from briskly clinging to the player, forcing him to quickly press different buttons to break out of the disgusting embrace. Often from such flickering, the character accidentally poured himself with a healing spray at the most inopportune moment. Otherwise, these are all the same Merceenaries, to which we are used to: Hank fits accurately in his knee and turns a suspicious person in a hoodie's neck, Claire Radfield fits from Beretta from both hands, and Jack Krauser plays either in Robin Hood Guda Guda.
In addition, Merceenaries 3ds will delight us with the appearance of Rebecca Chembers and Jill Valentine and the opportunity for the first time in the series to fire on the move. It is also not necessary to get distracted from shooting and climb into the inventory: the choice of weapons and the card was taken to the lower screen (by the way, so that from the mission with the same mercenaries and zombies it is not very cloning, you can amuse the change of weapons of the characters) between the levels). And for fans who are unbearable to see Resident Evil: Revelations , Mercenaries includes a demo version of the game.
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Genre: slasher
Publisher: Nintendo
Release date: The end of 2011
Average score on Metakriki: At the time of delivery of the number, the game hasn't come out yet
That Kid Icarus: Uprising Unoriginal, only those who remember the first part, released 25 years ago on Nintendo Entertainment System. There, a winged boy named Pete jumped over the abysses, shot enemies from a bow and received new abilities, just like in Metroid. Fortunately, Nintendo does not try to play the feeling of nostalgia once again, so Kid Icarus is not a remake, but the real continuation.
Pete confront the gigantic sizes of a jellyfish, very similar to a dressed Cleopter from Dante’s Inferno. In demo, only two levels began to openly start with rapid flights in the sky: red -rays of death are allowed into the native, squadrons of winged one -eyed monsters emerge from the clouds, and the game itself is more like a rail tire. A girlfriend on a wireless angelic connection flirts: "You, Pete, are not particularly hot, this is just a demo version". The situation changes when the player finally finds himself in the city. Kid Icarus turns into an energetic slasher: all these soaring eyes, snakes with wings and hypertrophied lips on the legs without strength fall under the blows of an angelic blade or metal claws (at the beginning of the level you can choose the main weapon). And when all this corporation of monsters begins to bother, a hefty Cerberus is released on you and they are forced to dodge his violent attacks. Steel management is similar to Metroid Prime Hunters And at first it may seem unusual, especially left -handed people, but it is worth sinking – and after a couple of successful counterattacks, Cerberus emits the spirit.
This dynamic and bright slasher is one of the most anticipated 3DS projects. It remains only to throw the obsessive thought from the head that it is such a kind of vision Devil May Cry from Nintendo.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Genre: adventure
Publisher: Nintendo
Release date: June 2011
Average score on Metakriki: At the time of delivery of the number, the game hasn't come out yet
Everyone who is at least a little familiar with The Legend of Zelda , Surely at one time they managed to play in Ocarina of Time – The first three -dimensional part of the series, which is considered foreign critics by almost the best game in the world. It is precisely because of this that they sigh dreamily, saying: “This is how they could make games before!»Despite the fact that in Ocarina of Time Link did not swim on the ship, did not turn into the wolf, did not become a lilliput and generally resembled a strongly retouched zombie.
Ocarina of Time re-released a myriad of several times on several consoles, and now, finally, it reached 3DS-with carefully redrawn textures and a revolutionary 3D picture. But we are rather surprised not by stereo -eating, but a competent interface that we could not make in previous ports. In and large, nothing has changed in the game itself: the main character travels around a huge fairy -tale world, wanders through confusing dungeons and solves puzzles, like 13 years ago. At the presentation, we ran along a small village and went to the dungeon – to fight with a spider boss, where it was necessary to shoot a accurately from a slingshot. The game offered to aim with the help of a gyroscope, but any displacement of the prefix led to a focus loss on a stereo screen, so it was much easier to use an analog stick.
The full version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D includes Master Quest, a kind of complicated version with more complicated and gloomy dungeons. A sharp shift in the accent to the difficulty in handy: after simple puzzles and leisurely races in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks The updated Ocarina of Time is exactly the Zelda that was so missing on the portable console.
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