After the relative success of the dilogy Sniper: Ghost Warrior Polish publishing house City Interactive no longer the subject of ridicule and insults. Instead of frank trash, it now produces mid -budget European shooters who are designed to perform “warm -up” in American.
Handyman
Enemy Front – A sort of hybrid of early issues Medal of Honor And Call of Duty with the aforementioned Sniper: Ghost Warrior And Sniper Elite. All signs on the spot. Once on the fields of World War II, the player acts as a universal soldier: he shoots the Nazis, participates with computer partners in the assault and defense, mines armored vehicles and weapons warehouses.
And then Faustpatron grabs in the hands to knock out the scripts that came at the call. Or sniper rifle – to cover the allies from the roof and shoot enemy snipers. At the same time, particularly successful shots are accompanied by slow -off shooting of a bullet enemy flying into the skull. There are also compulsory exercises with machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, from which you need to knock down German-fascist aircraft. There is also a friend from the last episodes Call of Duty The assault on the closed rooms, when the hero blows the door, breaks into the room, and then in a spectacular “slush” shoots the taken aback enemies.
Like in Sniper: Ghost Warrior, action and sniper joys alternate with stealth. At some fairly spacious levels, you can first examine the area through binoculars, thus mark enemies, and then decide how to proceed: build a ramba and go in a way or turn into a sort of Sam Fisher, who squatted past enemies, distracts them with throws and distracts a pebble and distracts them and distracts them andquietly cut down one at a time. There is also the opportunity to take the enemy in
hostages from colleagues, and then ruthlessly shoot him.
Reporters without borders
All this is accompanied by attempts to create a dynamic plot drama. Our hero, American journalist Roy Hawkins, goes from an extreme reporter, who for the sake of a loud article personally participates in military operations against the Nazis, up to one of the leaders of Warsaw Resistance. He saves French girls and Polish priests, arranges sabotage at the Norwegian factory, tells the severe Polish man about his past exploits. And even conflicts with a certain British special forces during the next sabotage operation.
It is clear that against the background of the latter Call of Duty, Medal of Honor And Wolfenstein: The New Order All this looks, let’s say, somewhat primitive. Enemy Front The same level of directing and design is missing, and all these exercises with faustpatrons, anti -aircraft guns, explosives and execution of enemies in Rapid are more likely to cause hiccups – well, how much can you repeat the same thing? It seems that some such scenes are completely taken from the early Call of Duty And Medal of Honor. But set worse than.
The work of the sniper, like ballistics, is realized more primitive than in Sniper: Ghost Warrior And Sniper Elite. Stealth looks an optional application to the main action – as a rule, it is easier and faster to shoot in open. And the search for secrets and the implementation of side tasks like salvation from the execution of resistance representatives are not motivated by anything intelligible.
Another significant drawback Enemy Front – lack of the ability to use armored vehicles and transport. As a result, the player has to make quite long and boring races on the map on his two.
And yet, in anticipation of the exit of other, more expensive and spectacular shooters, kill the evening or two for Enemy Front Can. At some point, the game still manages to capture you with their scope and children’s spontaneity, with which the authors, openly copying other people’s ideas, are trying to make us beautifully and spectacularly. Thanks to the Cryengine 3 engine, everything looks like a pretty. Yes, and enemies allow to light even at an average level of complexity, so that a certain excitement is felt here.
Pros: cute graphics;In places, funny shootings.
Cons: total secondaryness;weak directing;The game is morally obsolete.
