Hubbardium is used for interstellar travel but it also seems to poison people and turn them crazy. Unfortunately, sometimes they'll also act unpredictably in a sort of random running up and down the corridor while you shoot them way, so even the AI is patchy.Īlpha Prime isn't even all that long, boasting just ten levels (and no multiplayer).Īlpha Prime is set in the future on a distant asteroid where an element called hubbardium is mined. Even the arsenal of guns - painfully average (shotgun, machine gun, sniper's rifle, blah, blah).Įnemies will charge you at times, or take cover appropriately, and sometimes act a little unpredictably in a sort of human-like way to keep you on your toes. The developer has thrown in bullet time to try to spice things up - which is activated by taking a drug called Hubbardium that the story revolves around - but that's hardly a master stroke of originality either. The cinematic cut-scenes are poorly voiced, the characters unconvincing, and the plot is so-so at best. Where the game is different, sadly, it's generally for the worse. Hands up who's played Doom 3? Hands up who wants to play it again? Now that's not an entirely fair comment on this first-person shooter - it's not exactly the same, but its dark corridors, sci-fi setting, completely linear path through the levels (ooh another locked door) and the odd puzzle thrown in which involves shifting boxes around will remind you strongly of the realm of the cacodemons. Game play will be a varied balance of combat and more technical activities such as hacking and remotely controlling robotic devices. At its core is a Science Fiction story written by the foremost Czech Sci-fi author Ondrej Neff. Or so it seems.īuilt around the Enforce2 engine, Alpha Prime is a first person action game with an emphasis on the single player experience. Walking down the empty halls and eerie corridors of the industrial complex the player will meet several survivors willing to help. Using the ship's radio he will talk to the navigator of a cargo vessel, one of the few people from the surrounding area to somehow remain alive. On his quest to discover the secret of the asteroid the player will fight not only the robots, but the station itself. The story leads the player through several distinct environments - the inspector's spaceship, damaged by enemy fire from within the asteroid, technical facilities, laboratories, crew quarters, mining shafts and more. However, more pressing is why the mining robots and other autonomous systems are trying to put an end to his inspecting, permanently. As a mining inspector the player is tasked with exploring an illegal asteroid mining base to investigate the disappearance of its inhabitants.
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