Drop your waffles
Was inspired to buy a cheap Steam key for this after the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal. Basically an attempt to do a Tomb Raider-style action/adventure in first-person, and not as janky as I had expected going in, but the puzzles just aren’t that interesting or fun to solve; I quit after a particularly tedious one a few levels in involving navigating a maze of floor spikes while shooting small targets.
Deadfall Adventures features James Lee Quatermain, great-grandson of Allan Quatermain, as he hunts down pieces of an artifact around the world and fights with communists, germans and even the undead! Action! Puzzles! Ancient tombs and much more in.... DEADFALL ADVENTURES!!!
Jokes aside, this game is like a late night snack that is in your fridge for quite some time now, you do not know if it is even eatable anymore, you just munch on it for the sake of it.
Farm 51 is a little polish studio, who are known for Necrovision and the Painkiller remake/remaster. Their games are not that great, but usually fun in a really satisfying way, because they know their audiance pretty well.
After developing Deadfall Adventures, Farm 51 disappeared for 4 years, which clearly indicates the quality of this title.
The game itself is an FPS with puzzles, which borrows heavily from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Alan Wake, Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones. The mechanics of this game are way too familiar, and even some of the sequences are nothing more than nods to other, much better franchises. The voice acting is horrible, the combat is very mediocre and the puzzles are... well, they are bad.
Some puzzles are very tedious because the game does not communicate very well what to do in order to progress, despite the fact that you can use notes that feature hints/solutions to puzzles.
The characters are badly written, the story is mediocre, everything is pretty much just... there. However, I finished it because it has a very B-movie vibe, that games rarely achieve.
Jokes aside, this game is like a late night snack that is in your fridge for quite some time now, you do not know if it is even eatable anymore, you just munch on it for the sake of it.
Farm 51 is a little polish studio, who are known for Necrovision and the Painkiller remake/remaster. Their games are not that great, but usually fun in a really satisfying way, because they know their audiance pretty well.
After developing Deadfall Adventures, Farm 51 disappeared for 4 years, which clearly indicates the quality of this title.
The game itself is an FPS with puzzles, which borrows heavily from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Alan Wake, Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones. The mechanics of this game are way too familiar, and even some of the sequences are nothing more than nods to other, much better franchises. The voice acting is horrible, the combat is very mediocre and the puzzles are... well, they are bad.
Some puzzles are very tedious because the game does not communicate very well what to do in order to progress, despite the fact that you can use notes that feature hints/solutions to puzzles.
The characters are badly written, the story is mediocre, everything is pretty much just... there. However, I finished it because it has a very B-movie vibe, that games rarely achieve.
For all of its ambition Deadfall Adventures is sadly plagued by issues and shortcomings that are the obvious result of being a smaller scaled and therefore smaller budgeted title than the triple-A juggernauts it is trying to measure up to. However, given that there are so few Indiana Jones style games out there it may still prove to be worth a look regardless as it fills that void rather nicely.
Where the game suffers most is in it's presentation and storytelling. The plot simply isn't very interesting and I never grew to like the two leads. Something that was in part due to how miscast their voice actors felt. The protagonist sounds like an old man and his attractive sidekick has the worst faux British accent I've ever heard. The rest of the cast doesn't fare any better. It's evident that nobody who got behind the mic knew how to act. The writing is nothing more than a bunch of clichés.
Deadfall's mix of shooting and puzzle solving does a much a better job of holding its own. The firefights aren't really anything to write home about. The undead mummy enemies you'll encounter can prove memorable thanks to the unique approach of using your flashlight to make them vulnerable before you can finish them off, but the human foes are incredibly dull in combat and have lackluster AI. Aiming is a little stiff as well. The brainteasers in the game are cleverly designed and actually made it feel like I was someone competent enough to belong in a tomb deciphering the mysteries left behind by ancient civilizations and deactivating centuries-old booby-traps. They really sell the feeling of adventure as do the environments. The graphics are dated and a little muddy, but the design of the locales themselves is interesting and they are filled with hidden secrets and side-paths that lead to optional treasures. On top of these diversionary collectibles often having some of the game's most memorable puzzles tied to them, each treasure you find can be used to level yourself up at certain intervals. Thus it's worth getting off the beaten path.
I would have preferred something a little more open-ended as this is a much more traditional first-person shooter than I was expecting and Deadfall is at its best when it's diving as deep into its archeological inspirations as it can. No aspect of the gameplay is really as smooth or polished as anyone would want, but I found a memorable adventure here anyways. It's able to provide exciting moments such as a standout mine cart ride that rivals Temple of Doom itself, despite not having much going on story-wise. I should also mention that the multiplayer portion of the game is completely dead and the survival mode isn't much to speak of. Simply put, this is a highly-flawed package that is all about the single-player experience.
There are plenty of treasures to be found within Deadfall. They're just small and are going to require some digging. If you find yourself up to the task of overlooking a constant stream of deficiencies then this may just be a game for you. I know I enjoyed my time with it as I've always had a soft spot for the smaller, more imaginative projects out there that are executed just competently enough to be playable, but not enough so to really blow anyone away.
7/10
Where the game suffers most is in it's presentation and storytelling. The plot simply isn't very interesting and I never grew to like the two leads. Something that was in part due to how miscast their voice actors felt. The protagonist sounds like an old man and his attractive sidekick has the worst faux British accent I've ever heard. The rest of the cast doesn't fare any better. It's evident that nobody who got behind the mic knew how to act. The writing is nothing more than a bunch of clichés.
Deadfall's mix of shooting and puzzle solving does a much a better job of holding its own. The firefights aren't really anything to write home about. The undead mummy enemies you'll encounter can prove memorable thanks to the unique approach of using your flashlight to make them vulnerable before you can finish them off, but the human foes are incredibly dull in combat and have lackluster AI. Aiming is a little stiff as well. The brainteasers in the game are cleverly designed and actually made it feel like I was someone competent enough to belong in a tomb deciphering the mysteries left behind by ancient civilizations and deactivating centuries-old booby-traps. They really sell the feeling of adventure as do the environments. The graphics are dated and a little muddy, but the design of the locales themselves is interesting and they are filled with hidden secrets and side-paths that lead to optional treasures. On top of these diversionary collectibles often having some of the game's most memorable puzzles tied to them, each treasure you find can be used to level yourself up at certain intervals. Thus it's worth getting off the beaten path.
I would have preferred something a little more open-ended as this is a much more traditional first-person shooter than I was expecting and Deadfall is at its best when it's diving as deep into its archeological inspirations as it can. No aspect of the gameplay is really as smooth or polished as anyone would want, but I found a memorable adventure here anyways. It's able to provide exciting moments such as a standout mine cart ride that rivals Temple of Doom itself, despite not having much going on story-wise. I should also mention that the multiplayer portion of the game is completely dead and the survival mode isn't much to speak of. Simply put, this is a highly-flawed package that is all about the single-player experience.
There are plenty of treasures to be found within Deadfall. They're just small and are going to require some digging. If you find yourself up to the task of overlooking a constant stream of deficiencies then this may just be a game for you. I know I enjoyed my time with it as I've always had a soft spot for the smaller, more imaginative projects out there that are executed just competently enough to be playable, but not enough so to really blow anyone away.
7/10
Uncharted from Aliexpress
Plusy: dobry projekt poziomów, niektóre zagadki, pomysł, niezogrsze strzelanie do nazioli
Minusy: tragiczna fabuła, reszta zagadek, koszmarny voice acting, strzelanie do mumii
Minusy: tragiczna fabuła, reszta zagadek, koszmarny voice acting, strzelanie do mumii
I was looking for an Indiana Jones type game, and this one is so low quality I couldn't continue. The voice acting and the stiff animation reminds me of early arcade shooters like House of the Dead. The controls were also really stiff, and the puzzles and level design was really amatuerish. When it started killing me in really cheap ways and making me replay large chunks of levels (including re-doing puzzles) I was done.
Mds, esse jogo, como eu gostava disso ? Tipo, o jogo é bem ruim, mas tem algumas coisas criativas
Os 3 primeiros capítulos são a configuração do que uma obra como a do Quatermain pode gerar de mais ambominante. Você clareia os corpos de ancestrais egípcios até a morte, se alia com uma espécie de simulacro de um Hitler disforme e evidência um inferno comunista.
É meio impressionante como a obra do Haggard parece ser mais progressista e sutil.
É meio impressionante como a obra do Haggard parece ser mais progressista e sutil.