Review Hammer & Sickle sucks per LoadedInc

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Hammer & Sickle

There's <a href="http://www.loadedinc.com/review.php?temp_view=review.php&game=HammerandSickle&id=633">a review</a> of <a href="http://www.nival.ru/hs">Hammer & Sickle</a> over at <a href="http://www.loadedinc.com/">Loaded Inc</a>. The reviewer gave the game a <b>5/10</b> and said it basically wasn't any fun. Here's a bit on the combat:
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<blockquote>The action is turn based, but the interface is a bit quirky. <u>At times, for instance, I had to reissue movement commands because my range of motion was outside of the allotment of steps for the given turn. It would be smoother to have a situation in which pressing the end of the turn button would keep your remaining movement buffered for the next round.</u> The combat interface took a bit of getting used to, but there are a suitable number of choices included to allow you flexibility in play. If you want to use a firearm, feel free, but be ready to deal with the consequences of blowing your cover. Alternately, if you can find an enemy alone, a quick flash of a knife can do the trick.</blockquote>
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Umm.. Doesn't it? I'm pretty sure <a href="http://www.nival.ru/ss">Silent Storm</a> did that.
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[Section8]

Top row of buttons, second from the left.

All in all, that was a better review than the mainstream sites. I got the impression that the criticisms weren't a direct result of the reviewer being "incompatible" with turn-based games. But, the message was ultimately, "I didn't enjoy it," with only very fleeting insight into the "meat" of the game.

 

[Kizmiaz]

Top row of buttons, second from the left.

Or press "M"

 

[Fresh]

What is it with these reviewers? They can't read a manual?

 

[Claw]

Warez don't generally include a manual, dude.


PS: Silent Storm wasn't extremely popular on that site either, so maybe that explains it.

 

[LlamaGod]

I've seen this reviewers other reviews, he's a total fucking idiot

 

[Mantiis]

The game seems to be a victim of reviewers likes and dislikes. If there was a liking to the game the reviewer would have put some effort into it; as it was they seemed to just want to get back to the latest GTA or FPS.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Well, the reviewers get tired of sucking Bioware/Valve/EA/id's dick every so often and they just take it out on an actual quality game like this one so they retain their "edge".

 

[SpFiota]

So what do you guys think of the game? Any of you played it? I tried the demo, but the dialogue was so bad it made me cringe. Silent Storm was great, but being a strategy game, dialogue wasn't as important. Is Hammer & Sickle worth picking up or what?

 

[Balor]

I've played Russian version, and dialogue was great there.
Perhaps it may be bad translation... and besides, search for more H&S threads. There are quite a few 'mini-reviews' out there.

 

[bryce777]

So what do you guys think of the game? Any of you played it? I tried the demo, but the dialogue was so bad it made me cringe. Silent Storm was great, but being a strategy game, dialogue wasn't as important. Is Hammer & Sickle worth picking up or what?

I am soso on it. I think I liked the silent storm ones better, even though sentinels has decided to hang on me every 5 minutes and has become basically unplayable.

The problem is there seems to be just a lot of wandering around and then you advance to teh next mission for no real reason.

Maybe if I played a character with a higher than 2 intelligence it would be a little better, though.

One day I will get back into it, but not for now.

 

[Balor]

Maybe if I played a character with a higher than 2 intelligence it would be a little better, though.

Lol! Take a character of Int 8 in PST, and I bet you'll also think that it's a crappy actiony game.