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Alekhine's Gun (formerly Death to Spies 3)

Astral Rag

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From the comments:

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I don't know If I need to make a dedicated thread for this but has anyone heard any news about Death to Spies 3, you know russian hitman? Last I heard about it they made a kickstater or one of the knockoff sites of it for funding the game, and that was over a year ago.
 

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Codex 2012 PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Huh, you'd think they would keep kickstarter/indiegogo backers, in the loop, had to look up their facebook to find this:




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Still watching the videos, apparently they've gotten a new publisher and a name change, but it looks like the same game. Never heard about Maximum Games before, they're publishing the US console release of Div OS and latest Sherlock Holmes so they can't be that bad right? Release is Nov 10 men so cancel your Fallout 4 and Tomb Ryser pre orders and get this instead.

EDIT: This article says Maximum Games are actually developing it, goddammit did Haggard finally go broke enough they had to sell everything?
 
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The game looks so much like Blood Money. Even the hud compass is the same. And why not even a single mention of Death to Spies in that interview?
 

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Huh, thought of the chess world champion when I opened this. Was disappointed to find it's the sequel to an all-too-clunky stealth game. :(
 

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Codex 2012 PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Steam page is up, shows 19th Feb 2016 as release date but it might be wrong:
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Nov 10 was a tarded release date for a game with no press/hype anyway, now that HITMAN got pushed back it makes sense to avoid it, hopefully it will be out by xmas.
 

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PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
sad to see how small the levels are
 

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Codex Year of the Donut Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
I was hoping this would be sleeper hit of the year...
Love those stealth games :(
 
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I don't know if it's because I got the kickass torrent discount but holy shit this the only game I have that causes my cpu to squeal. I would of upgraded it but with a whole new chipset just around the corner this year makes me recluntant to do so.
 

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I don't know if it's because I got the kickass torrent discount but holy shit this the only game I have that causes my cpu to squeal. I would of upgraded it but with a whole new chipset just around the corner this year makes me recluntant to do so.

Like audibly squeal? Try turning on VSYNC?
 

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What does ''Alekhine'' even mean? Sounds like gibberish russkie word made up by clueless kwans, but isn't this made by genuine russians?
 
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As I said in the hitman thread:
Well then it looks like im still going to buy Alekhine's gun aka death to spies 3 aka russian hitman aka throwing glasses into peoples faces simulator.

So in short yes, yes it is and it still has a place in my heart.

Although there is a very distinct lack of shit to throw into peoples faces. Whereas now hitman has oodles of.:negative:
 

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Project: Eternity Wasteland 2 Codex USB, 2014 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
It's mediocre. Basic mechanics are there: stealth, avoiding guards FOV, disguises, trying to find new ways to assasinate a target, etc. But levels are small, restrictive and often very bland (the third level f.e. is just a mess of corridors), AI is braindead, they often don't hear loud shooting happening in the other room and sometimes ignore corpses, voiceovers are shit and often out of sync, there is forced mission compass and bullshit "instinct mode" like in Absolution and to top it all off it crashes a lot, at least in my not removed from inventory copy.
 

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What does ''Alekhine'' even mean? Sounds like gibberish russkie word made up by clueless kwans, but isn't this made by genuine russians?

If I recall correctly, Alekhine was famous for his formation of rooks and a queen in chess. They were called Alekhine's gun(s), hence the title.
 

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Some of the early reviews are pretty fucking unkind too. 2/3 out of 10 wut??

With modern gamejournos and stealth games, you remove the score from a 10 and then remove another 2 because gamejournos. So a 5. Sounds about right.
 

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Anyone being honest with themselves wouldn't rate Death to Spies 1 and 2 any higher than a 6. The games were okay early Hitman clones but nothing spectacular. And, yes, this looks that much worse.
 

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