Hired Team: Trial Gold is an action game in which you fight your way through 28 deadly maps filled with crazed junkies and other deranged, well-armed lunatics. Go into full-out shooting action with this multiple shooter game.
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"The drastic growth of science and technology in 3rd millenium has resulted in the global urbanization of the whole planet. The huge and vast Megacities now fill the planetary surface with their complicated infrastructures. The ultimate part. about 96% of Earth's population lives in those Megapolises. But global urbanisation leads to global crisis, pandemics, unemployment, crime, and government corruption. The police and Secret Services cannot successfully fight well-organized ruthless criminal groups. Everyday, bloody exchanges of fire for city control. City hospitals are overcrowded with street wars victims. Only a new, well-trained, and skilled force can stop this urban chaos now. Former soldiers of special military forces, police brigades and secret services must pass a TRIAL to get enlisted to the elite 'Hired team'."
I saw this game on abandonware and it instantly grabbed my attention, so I did some background check on it, I have never heard of it, or played it back in the days so I have no idea if anyone played this at all. All I know is that they actually had to put a sticker on the box because the game had "Trial" in its name and nobody would buy it. It actually took me an hour to get the game running at all on Windows 10 and as you can probably tell there's no support for this game anymore.
This is a true sucker rally, just so you know, there's no version of this game that predates the self-promotion of their "GOLD" edition. For starter, this game was released late in 2002, four years after the release of Unreal and Quake 3 Arena. By that time, these games were already in the budget bin at GameStop while games like Halo: Combat Evolved and Unreal Tournament 2003 came out. So while this attempted to be a poor man's Unreal, only sold substantially in Europe where predatory import companies would take advantage of the German game index list banning Unreal Tournament and many other shooters in the vogue. Apparently, the game sold a ton in Germany, thanks to magnussoft, a Deutsch company that dug out shovelware by the hundred during the early 2000s. Talk about unethical.
It's no good to play on your own, years later. The AI is some of the worst I've seen in a video game by far, constantly gets stuck, jump around aimlessly, never aiming at anyone, they don't seem to want to play this game either and I'm almost sorry for them. I think I could actually enjoy it if anyone at all played it online back then - if you know, let me know. Because the bots, well they're not great at all, and they're perhaps the biggest reason this game is so bad.
It has a few realistic weapons rather than the usual laser canons of arena shooter games, nonetheless they certainly didn't bother to put a packing sound to their guns and honestly, the pistol sounds about as powerful at it is - completely worthless. They couldn't even make the sniper rifle sound imposing. I don't know if the shotgun is worse, but I actually managed to kill someone with it, only took him five to six point-blank range shots, it might be the hitbox though.
Graphics are fine, they're not the best but they do the job, I think the maps are great actually, probably the best part of the game, there are 28 of them and they're all really varied and unique, so kudos to the lone mapper at Summitsoft Entertainment.
Presentation is mostly fine, there's a plot to the game that makes absolutely no sense but it's there and frankly it's an arena shooter game so who cares. The UI is mostly fine, I actually prefer it to the Q3A and Unreal UI for what its worth, but the console prompts are almost unintelligible. Oh, there's gib to the game, the developers really want you to know that, because every weapon will gib your enemy, doesn't matter the health threshold; you can even gib someone with the useless pistol, probably the worst weapon I've seen in a game.
With a bit of polish, this would have been much less offensive, but honestly, I'm not quite sure if the developers of this game tried at all, or simply tried to cash in so late into the arena shooter game. You can certainly tell it's made from a budget, it's a mystery.
I saw this game on abandonware and it instantly grabbed my attention, so I did some background check on it, I have never heard of it, or played it back in the days so I have no idea if anyone played this at all. All I know is that they actually had to put a sticker on the box because the game had "Trial" in its name and nobody would buy it. It actually took me an hour to get the game running at all on Windows 10 and as you can probably tell there's no support for this game anymore.
This is a true sucker rally, just so you know, there's no version of this game that predates the self-promotion of their "GOLD" edition. For starter, this game was released late in 2002, four years after the release of Unreal and Quake 3 Arena. By that time, these games were already in the budget bin at GameStop while games like Halo: Combat Evolved and Unreal Tournament 2003 came out. So while this attempted to be a poor man's Unreal, only sold substantially in Europe where predatory import companies would take advantage of the German game index list banning Unreal Tournament and many other shooters in the vogue. Apparently, the game sold a ton in Germany, thanks to magnussoft, a Deutsch company that dug out shovelware by the hundred during the early 2000s. Talk about unethical.
It's no good to play on your own, years later. The AI is some of the worst I've seen in a video game by far, constantly gets stuck, jump around aimlessly, never aiming at anyone, they don't seem to want to play this game either and I'm almost sorry for them. I think I could actually enjoy it if anyone at all played it online back then - if you know, let me know. Because the bots, well they're not great at all, and they're perhaps the biggest reason this game is so bad.
It has a few realistic weapons rather than the usual laser canons of arena shooter games, nonetheless they certainly didn't bother to put a packing sound to their guns and honestly, the pistol sounds about as powerful at it is - completely worthless. They couldn't even make the sniper rifle sound imposing. I don't know if the shotgun is worse, but I actually managed to kill someone with it, only took him five to six point-blank range shots, it might be the hitbox though.
Graphics are fine, they're not the best but they do the job, I think the maps are great actually, probably the best part of the game, there are 28 of them and they're all really varied and unique, so kudos to the lone mapper at Summitsoft Entertainment.
Presentation is mostly fine, there's a plot to the game that makes absolutely no sense but it's there and frankly it's an arena shooter game so who cares. The UI is mostly fine, I actually prefer it to the Q3A and Unreal UI for what its worth, but the console prompts are almost unintelligible. Oh, there's gib to the game, the developers really want you to know that, because every weapon will gib your enemy, doesn't matter the health threshold; you can even gib someone with the useless pistol, probably the worst weapon I've seen in a game.
With a bit of polish, this would have been much less offensive, but honestly, I'm not quite sure if the developers of this game tried at all, or simply tried to cash in so late into the arena shooter game. You can certainly tell it's made from a budget, it's a mystery.