Review Night Watch crushed by Pro-G

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There's a <A href="http://www.pro-g.co.uk/pc/night_watch/review.html">review</a> of <A href="http://www.nival.ru/nw">Night Watch</a> over at <A href="http://www.pro-g.co.uk/">Pro-G</a>. It gets a <b>4/10</b>, so they didn't like it much. Here's a bit of back ground trivia from it:
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<blockquote>Night Watch the game was released in the USA to coincide with the film's release on DVD, but to be honest it's a wonder why the developers and publisher bothered. While the film earned millions in Russia and has a cult following in Europe, it never really caught on in the US; if anyone's first experience of Night Watch was the game, it'd be easy to understand why.</blockquote>
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Probably because the movie wasn't released everywhere and no one knew it was out. Kind of silly to make a DVD/Game release tie-in when not too many people ever knew there was a movie.
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I saw the movie, heard absolutely nothing about it though, luckily my friend did. It wasn't too bad. I also heard about the game awhile ago, after I watched the movie, but I never bothered to check it out... There's no suprise that it Flopped. North America isn't into this type of stuff, they rather have shitty 'Action' movies starring Brad Pitt.

Anyone read the Novels?

 

Have any codexers played it and how is it?

 

I read the novels when they originally were published. I thought they werea crap then and they are crap now. Movie was even worse. And the game even worse than that.

 

And even so there's another game coming...

 

Movie licensed game + Russkie Devs always equals a recipe for great games. Although Nival is pretty good sometimes.

 

Have any Indie people thought of using the SS engine for a real RPG yet?

I played hammer and sickle, and while good in parts, it didn't really add up to a great RPG...though I know there were some harsh consequences if you got things wrong

 

I'd take Brad Pitt sans movie.

 

That's almost as bad as being Vaan'd.

 

Keep Brad.

I don't find many actors hot really, Lets see...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920992/

He ain't bad.

 

Keep Brad.

I don't find many actors hot really, Lets see...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0338526/ ... m,%20David

He ain't bad.

 

Ok, I'm not going to revert to schoolgirl years for an extended period of time, but if we're talking favorites:

Jason Statham is unquestionably the sexiest man alive.
Goran Visnjic is flat-out beautiful.
And Pauly Shore looks much better than most give him credit for. (And he's probably a lot of fun too.)

That's my top three.

 

Keep it in your pants, ladies. We don't care who you think is sexy. Not unless you're a lesbo.

 

Fuck right. It's bad enough that Underworld got a sequel.

Brad Pitt FTW.

 

Back to reality, Penny! You were never a schoolgirl!

 

Just because you haven't been able to enjoy anything in life since Fallout, don't take it out on me. But, we knew, of course, that it was only a matter of time.This is your theme song.

I've been nothing but one of the girls since day one, and no doubt I've got far more inner lady to channel than you've got inner gentleman.

 

*snicker*

 

Proverbius was given the smackdown

By the way, nothing wrong with your favourites Penny. :twisted:

I will try to get things back on topic since I derailed it.....

After checking out the Silent Storm engine (Especially Hammer and Sickle, which is much more realistic in weapon damage) I am incredibly surprised that nobody has attempted to make a real RPG from it.

If Vince was here I would ask him if he thought of this engine, and also how one goes about licensing such an engine.

I am sure that with enough knowledge, speechtrees, books, other UI extras could be added.

 

It seemed like they had a hard time making a Real RPG with the Silent Storm engine even with the direct help of Nival. I doubt a small team would be able to handle it without it being even buggier.

Plus, it'd probably cost you a lot more than licensing the Torque engine or something along those lines.

 

By the way, the Night Watch movie sucked.

 

I thought it was kinda cute, actually.

 

Watch it and then watch Star Wars: Episode 3 again. When it comes to kids turning from good guys to bad guys, Night Watch is just another FANTASTIC example of how Lucas sucks balls as a writer.

 

Well, in original script it was MUCH better (I've read it somewhere). Too bad it was blunly axed.

 

That's like the very definition of damning with faint praise.