Game News Metalheart: Replicants Rampage Demo

[Sol Invictus]

Tags: Akella; Metalheart: Replicants Rampage

The demo for the single player RPG Metalheart featuring turn-based combat by Akella has finally been released. It's available at the <a href=http://www.nicolasgames.com/gry.php?action=more&id=41>Nicolas Games</a> website, which is in Polish, but the demo itself supports English, German and Russian languages. The download weighs in at 171mb.
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Update: Due to the limitations of the Nicolas Games server, you can also grab the game from <a href=http://hrej.cz/metalheartreprampage&p=downloady&id=1208>this</a> location. I'll post more mirrors as soon as they go up.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

Let's just hope it's better than the Sabotain demo. Downloading now.


...or not. 15 users max. Bleh. They need mirrors.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

From where? I cant seem to find it.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

Scroll down. It's there.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Yeah, I tried that just now, fucking thing is broken for me. I'll try later.

 

[kumquatq3]

broke for me too, eh o well, happy halloween. night

 

[Briosafreak]

Mirrors mirrors where are though?

 

[dojoteef]

A MIRROR!

You know I usually put my mirrors up on the wall . Okay, I know that was cheesy, but everyone loves the taste of cheese! Anyway, I spotted this over at the Blues News forums: This site seems to be a mirror that actually works. It's very slow now that everyone is trying to download, but it sure beats that 15 connection max of the other site (I never could get it to connect). I'm downloading at around 5Kb/s now so I guess I'll have wait until tomorrow to post my impressions on the game when the download finally finishes (current expected download time of 8hours).

 

[Greenskin13]

Momma thinks you should answer the phone.

The screenshots sure look purdy enough, though.

 

[Sheriff05]

Whats the word on the street in Poland about this game getting released?
Soon?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Who's ou polish connection round here anyways?

 

[Sol Invictus]

So I'm getting it at around 15kbps thanks to GetRight. It's not much, but it's faster than the 4kbps I was getting from a single download. I'll find out what the game is like in a few hours and post some impressions soon after. I hope it's good!

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

I hope it's good as well. Was following it a bit before my hiatus. Seems like it might be, but you know what they say about looks...

 

[Elwro]

This game got a single-page preview in our biggest magazine, CDAction, a few months ago. Didn't hear a word about it since. I don't know if it even has a Polish publisher, and it certainly is not advertised.
The preview was interesting, BTW.

 

[kumquatq3]

So I'm getting it at around 15kbps thanks to GetRight. It's not much, but it's faster than the 4kbps I was getting from a single download. I'll find out what the game is like in a few hours and post some impressions soon after. I hope it's good!

thanks, be nice to know if it is worth a dl

 

[kumquatq3]

NMA posted a quick link, I got it DLed and played through it a bit.

The first think you will notice is all the dialogue is text....and is rather poorly translated into English. While not horrible you get things along the lines of:

Crud! We shouldn't have crashed our shuttle!

and after killing an enemy:

You made the enemy dial 555-Dead

.........


The interface is simple enough, you can crouch and such via buttons like FO:T, and the inventory is pretty straight forward. I forgot to look to see if there is a weight limit, but I don't recall any.


........

Combat seems to be the bright spot. Pretty much FO-style TB, except you start combat by shooting at what you want to fight ,but you can't see your % hit on that first shot, which is annoying. The combat will also lag a bit for what seems like no reason, but I assume it;s a off screen NPC, a la FO.

You control both people in the party and you can target anything.

YOu actaully start out fighting what seems like a radscorpion.

...............

The music takes a bit of getting used too, but it's not bad.

 

[xemous]

partybased rpgs

 

[kumquatq3]

downloading now @ 180k
i hate party based rpgs without a central charator but, ffs, that really annoys me that everything has to be party based now

Well, there seems to be a central guy and the chicks a side kick



Btw, there doesn't seem to be dialogue trees at all

 

[mathboy]

It's availiabla at www.gamershell.com if noone knew...

 

[z3r'0']

Link:

Click Here

 

[the_dagon]

metalheart test



err... after a LONG download, I tried the demo...

well, it's really looking like FALLOUT (great), but it's still lacking a LOT of polish (great for a polish game )

At first I managed to fight a radscorpion style creature (turn based like in FOT)

then I came to a city (?) wall, with openings I managed to open with the crowbar

then... after a gameover screen which appeared I didn't know why,

I came to the same place, crawled into the opening and ... crash to desktop...

seems there are stability problems. Maybe they should polish a little bit their demo and publish it again.

It could be a REAL fallout game !

 

[kumquatq3]

then... after a gameover screen which appeared I didn't know why,

Were you screwing around with a bionic knee thing at the time? Even time you "install" it, you lose some of your green bar, if you run out you get a gameover screen. Go fig.

 

[Elwro]

Afaik the game is Russian, not Polish. Akella is a Russian group.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

It's pretty much unplayable right now, i managed to kill some imperial guardsmen, but one
of the "doctors" missions wouldn't start, i kept clicking on the dialogue thing but it just kept freezing.

Also when i killed the mutant it wouldn't let me rob his inventory to get the knife , thus couldn't do one of the rangers quests.

 

[Dhruin]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those occasions when a regional publisher releases an internal demo before they are supposed to. Just seems strange that a Polish distie has it on their 15-capacity FTP but Akella themselves don't mention it.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those occasions when a regional publisher releases an internal demo before they are supposed to. Just seems strange that a Polish distie has it on their 15-capacity FTP but Akella themselves don't mention it.

You know, I found that a bit odd myself. Also, it would appear that the official Metalheart site isn't even operational. It loaded up the front page, but neither of the language choice buttons were linked to anything.