APB Cooked the attention of millions of players. Everyone was waiting for the real GTA Online. Potentially the magnificent MMO, amazing entertainment and an outstanding breakthrough in the genre. And how drooling was dripping, when the developers showed the editor of the characters and the beauty of the graphics … There were many hype, the hopes were assembled too. But what happened in the end and why many reviewers put APB less than 6 points?
The essence of the game is simple to idiocy. There are two groups in each quarter – bandits and police officers. And the main rivalry goes between them. There can be forty people from each “fraction” in total, but they do not fight the wall on the wall. Here are the confrontations of small groups of four to six people.
Your team is given the task, for example, to protect the object. At that very moment, police officers are ordered to liquidate the same object. And the battle begins. Both sides are in a hurry to the point, then shoot at each other, and when the first part of the task is completed, the second appears. For example, hijack a car. And here you are already coming, and the cops are trying to defend yourself.
There are not so many types of missions. Basically, something should be protected or destroyed, caught by criminals or hide from the police, to have the first and so on. And even all the same, it doesn’t get bored immediately. The city is more or less large, on every street the battles are different, plus the teams change and the tactics of quests are also changing-also.
Well, who wins, he receives experience and money (the blown team is also encouraged, but sparingly). This allows you to develop a character. Buy him new guns (and improve them), wear more steep clothes, modernize the car and everything else.
All this in order to kill enemies even more efficiently and fulfill the instructions that the heads of the police departments or the leaders of the bandits give us either. And the farther, the idea, more dynamic, more fun and cheerful. Even more shootings, more difficult than the task and above the bet. The most player will even erect a monument during his lifetime!
The performance of the orchestra
Enjoy APB It is extremely difficult in proud loneliness. And if you decide to advent yourself, then you spent almost in vain money. Not because the game solo is insanely boring or bad. No, she is completely nothing. But it is how to go to nature without a company. Beautifully, birds sing, you can swim in the pond. And if you are a crowd, then barbecue, barbecue, guitar, maps, laughter. Everything is the same, but more funny.
Just imagine: on the phone, it is reported that one of your “roots” is looking for the police. The cops know where he is, and you urgently need to take him away, if necessary, fight for him. And only in the tube are the beeps, as you already pound the dude in some car, pull it out of the car from the car and rush for a comrade to come faster than pharaohs.
And so we are scared from the cops, I climbed out of the wheelbarrow to the waist, I shoot from the “ultrasound” at the jacket and sometimes kill passers -by to renew the pursuers. And our driver is a maniac. It squeezes the maximum out of the car, the engine squeals, does not cope with the speed, from the wheels from the drifts of smoke, the tires are burning, and four enemy is on the tail. We can’t tear ourselves, and here the driver makes a brave decision: he enters the bridge where the repair is being repaired, blows all the barriers, flies through the cliff and is on a piece of the route under construction. On the one hand, the abyss, on the other, too. And as if in the film, the police car does not fly to us literally half a meter, falls, lights up and explodes. “Fuh!”Says a comrade and wipes sweat from his forehead on the other side of the monitor.
GTA OnlineBy the way, those who were waiting for GTA Online – partly exactly what they received
. If you have played Grand Theft Auto 4 on the network at least once, you can easily understand how it looks like APB. These projects are insanely similar. The concept is one in one. The only main difference is that here you can develop a character. Otherwise, it is directly surprising how similar.
And after fifteen minutes we are already robbing the bank, we hear the alarm and quickly fall. There was no wheelbarrow nearby, we left her far behind, and the cops are already there – the flashing lights are heard, the leader shouts “Valim in voice communications!”, And four bandits jump over the fence, pushing passers -by, rush around the yards, shots, jump, somersault and further, further, further. Higher music, breathless criminals encourage each other, swear and scorch the cops in pursuit.
APB allows you to tell hundreds of stories. Moreover, they are not only with me-somehow he talked with a friend, he also plays. His first words were: “Yesterday the bandits were caught, so there …” And his tales went, what cases they had, how they acted.
Moreover, there are many dynamic, exciting stories, and just funny. I brought me once into one random, but very coordinated team. Only one of the players was either Yun, or just stupid. But for some reason, the police regularly searched for him, and we had to save him. And once again he fell into history, and precisely at that moment when he lagged behind. Well, we immediately for him all the three of them on a good fast car, and he rolls on a collapse. Signal, shout: “Come, jump to us!”He pulls. We begin to get out, he woke up, says that “now-now”, we are back. He opens the door, jumps out onto the road, and then a police car flies between ours and his cars and knocks it down so that the poor fellow flies ten meters. The dead fool is lying on the sidewalk, we froze with open mouths, the cops are laughing, the mission is failed ..
Well, without comrades … you can’t find all this alone. A lot in APB “Soloists” – you are thrown into their group, but everyone acts on their own. Fights go with “forking”: first they kill you, you are resurrected – and while you are resorting, a friend is already lying face down. And as soon as you are shot, the third member of the team will come.
About local beautiesAbout beauty APB so much said that even those who are not interested in Online games, still heard something. In fact, everything is far from so picturesque and beautiful. The characters look good, the clothes are bright, personal cars are quite nothing. But here is the city … it is not just “not like in GTA 4”. He is at all. Black, gray. No memorable places, there are no cozy streets. The houses are monotonous, the roads are typical. And although this is not a corner, but to Grand Theft Auto 4 landscapes-like Kukuevo villages to New York.
Although sometimes you can come across a coordinated gang. Then play very cool. But best – it is with friends. So the mission is not just pleasant and comfortable, but terribly fun. Screams, discussions, distribution of teams, pondering tactics. Like, come on, I’m running along the roof, I “remove” the target from the sniper rifle, then I jump from the eastern side, and you immediately pick me up. Imagine that this is GTA, only instead of idiots-Bolvanchiks-living people. And the mission is not screamed, but depends only on you. How to decide to fulfill it, it will be. And the options for creativity here are a million.
Greed is just
So why the game is scolded, and users are not torn to a virtual metropolis? The main trouble is that APB It is too expensive. First, you need to buy a box. It costs like an ordinary mmorpg. Next, you have to pay for the subscription. And also considerable money. There is even an hourly payment, but the amount is generally monstrous. At the same time, developers also sell things for real money. The Donator is able to get an excellent powerful cannon at the auction, which, of course, can be obtained yourself, without money, but … what the hell?! That is, I honestly pay for the game, I bought it, and someone spends twice as much and gets twice as much as. If we have a Free2Play system, then this is normal. But in Pay2Play – arrogance.
However, if you are not going to conquer the servers and become the best of the best in APB, This should not bother you very much. For pleasure, you can play without investing real money, as well as not paying attention to the fact that someone buys machine guns for rubles. Moreover, all this is especially important only at very high levels, and APB – Fun for several weeks. She is like an ordinary network action movie like Modern Warfare 2. And if it were free, interest would be maintained longer (or with one -time payment and without free2play). And so – you buy, then still a subscription fee, but there is almost no content. The same battles again and again. Tea is not World of Warcraft to go to raids for years ..
If you have friends who also want to try APB, – Buy it and have fun. Running the crowd is insanely cool and interesting, but one thing is much boring here. And it should be understood that in a few weeks the project may be bored with you. He is completely not long -playing, it is not mmorpg, albeit with a subscription ..
Pros: good editor of the characters;excellent group content;Funny idea.
Cons: high price, and even Free2Play elements;monotony;Boring areas.