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Valhalla Hills (http://www.valhalla-hills.com/?page_id=69&lang=en)
Deadelic Entertainment (http://www.daedalic.de/en/#1)
Steam link (http://store.steampowered.com/app/351910/)
Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II
Sistemski zahtjevi:
OS: Windows 7/8 64-bit
Processor: Dual-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or Radeon HD2900 series card or better (DirectX10 card or better)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 3 GB available space
Status: Early Access
http://youtu.be/-jLQXBWzOXI (http://youtu.be/-jLQXBWzOXI)
Valhalla Hills is a building strategy game in the tradition of games like The Settlers or “Cultures”. The player has to lead his outcast Viking heroes to the top of a mountain, where a magical portal is leading to Valhalla. But to do so the Vikings need to do one thing first: Survive!
The player faces challenges and dangers in the inhospitable mountain region and find a way to the peak. Since the Vikings wouldn’t survive long in this territory the player has to take good care of them, protect them, clothe them and feed them as well as help them to fend off ghostly residents and wild beasts. The Vikings with a mind of their own and a thirst for mead tend to have a relaxed view on things, making it harder for the player to achieve his goal. And then the next threat is nearing over the high seas…
Valhalla Hills features an indirect control. You do not control single characters but give general commands. These should be well-thought, the protagonists have their own mind and their own needs they want to follow. Even if that means work is left undone.
Constantly newly generated maps, varying mountain terrains, day and night cycles and a well-balanced economy-system ensure endless challenges and variety.
Technically Valhalla Hills is powered by the Unreal 4 Engine making its optical performance gleam
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Igra koja svakako zaslužuje vlastitu temu na forumu. Nakon više od deset godina donosi onaj pravi osjećaj starih Settlers igara, u modernom ruhu i moglo bi se reći sa određenim next-gen mehanikama.
Meni je osobno ovo savršen tip city-builder igre jer vas igra ne vodi za ruku kao mnoge takve i daje vam potpunu slobodu u rješavanju zadataka i prelasku misija. Naoko jednostavno a zapravo jako duboko, pogotovo po pitanju planiranja i risors-menadžmenta. Tek kada "zapnete" u određenoj situaciji ta kompleksnost razmještaja građevina i korištenja ljudske snage dolazi do izražaja.
Igra već sada u Early Accessu nudi jako puno i djeluje dovršeno. Trenutno postoje tri dostupne verzije na steamu:
- Bazična igra (http://store.steampowered.com/app/351910/) za 19,99 €
- Premium Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/75541/?snr=1_5_9__403) za 29,99€ koji sadrži soundtrack, digitalni art book, nekakve wallpapere, dev video i dva specijalna in-game itema
- Contributor Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/75543/?snr=1_5_9__403) za 49,99€ koji sarži sve navedeno iz premium editiona + još 5 specijalnih itema, vaše ime na credistima, prvi (još nenajavljeni) DLC i dvije igre - Cultures - 8th Wonder of the World (http://store.steampowered.com/app/351870/), Cultures - Northland (http://store.steampowered.com/app/351860/)
Ja sam imao tu sreću da sam dobio ovaj Contributor Edition, ali iskreno nisam još u igri "osjetio" sve što ta verzija nudi. Vjerojatno još nisam došao dovoljno daleko da se otključaju ti specijalni itemi, prešao sam svega par misija.
Inače, meni je VH preskočila Banished (http://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/) na tronu najboljih city buildera izašlih zadnjih godina. Iz jednostavnog razloga što je manje nemilosrdna, nadasve šarenija i sa boljom premisom priče, sadržajnija i sa više opcija u gotovo svemu što nudi.
Za svaku pohvalu je optimizacija (u early accessu!) gdje na mojoj kanti automatski sve radi na ultra bez trunke trzanja i pada frejmrejta. Uz to igra izgleda apsolutno prekrasno i tranzicije između dana i noći (zore i sumraka) su fantastično izvedene.
Do sada sam igrao otprilike 4 sata i pohvatao osnove, kako misije prolaze tako mi se konstanto otključavaju nove građevine i dodaci istima, a pošto developer skoro pa svakodnevno izdaje dev-blogove i updateove na steamu čini mi se da će proći još deseci sati kada ću moći tvrditi da znam igrat ovu igru.
Par mojih skrinšotova:
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Par službenih:
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Znam da ovdje ima publike za Valhalla Hills, i ovih 20€ se možda čini kao puno, da ne govorim o 50€, ali vjerujte mi vrijedi svakog centa. Pogotovo ako tražite neku strategiju malo opuštenijem tonu, a istovremeno sa dobrom dozom izazova.
Tople preporuke svim ljubiteljima ovakvih strategija i Catana pogotovo. Napišem pravi dojam kad odigram kak spada.