We remember those heroes games, that have really extraordinary abilities, trained in the unique tricks and skills. Not a single superpower!
Superpowers haunt figures of popular culture. Comics about the fantastic characters relive the golden age, Hollywood pore over new stories about supermen, video games without the incredible skills at all difficult to imagine.
Running the game, we are already prepared in advance for all this super strength and super agility, they occur in every second project. What about strength and agility?: in any Call of Duty, many soldiers are trained in regeneration and can digest a dozen bullets, sitting around the corner! This is all familiar and even commonplace, even Spider-Man's flights on the web are no longer dizzying (especially after the brilliant action from Insomniac Games, closed the topic of web acrobatics for a long time). Today we'll talk about those games and those heroes, who surprised us with something unusual. With such skills, which made us sincerely wonder and sometimes envy.
And if we remember superheroes from comic books, then among their skills you can find something interesting. for example, from Wolverine Logan, except for the annoying regeneration, have a super-acute sense of smell. Wolverine's Scent, All jokes aside, fits perfectly into games like X-Men 2: Wolverine’s Revenge (2003) и X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Everything ingenious is simple: we were given the opportunity to smell and see a visual representation of smells, as well as their direction. So Logan, under our leadership, identified cunning enemies and walked through a minefield.
Acute, like the blades of both his swords, feelings helped the witcher Geralt a lot. Especially in the third part, where we were given a huge open map for hunting. Calling on your Witcher Senses to help, The gray-haired man quickly marked interactive objects and sources of noise with bright colors.. Polish developers showed off the witcher's heightened hearing very coolly: It was worth a good spin of the game camera, and we could overhear the conversation of the guards at the gate. Or hear, how hungry wolves growl in the thickets.
And Wolverine, and Geralt are mutants, and mutations can provide a lot of additional super options. In games, at least. So, Dark Sector action hero Hayden Tenno is hit by a biological weapon. In Eastern Europe, who would doubt it. But instead, to die quietly, Tenno mutated into a deadly ninja. Armor, that grew right on the skin, you won't surprise anyone. But the game is remembered for its wonderful weapons, growing out of the agent's hand. A mixture of boomerang and shuriken hack, shredded and set enemies on fire, returning after throwing back. A special chic is the ability to control the boomerang in slow motion. Dark Sector with its mutants became in many ways a training session for developers from Digital Extremes. They later carried some of the design decisions straight into Warframe, monstrous power shareware action. If you want to see the full range of space ninja abilities, take a look at Warframe. Running on walls is less, what tenno warriors are capable of (to him, this is the name of the hero from the previous game).
Do not forget, that there is no greater power, than the mind. Superpowers of the mind are no less common in games, than mountains muscle. According to the profile of their work, game detectives often delight with miracles from the depths of consciousness. Paul Prospero from The Vanishing of Ethan Carter has the gift of literally seeing past events. With all its ghosts and dramas. Approaching the corpse, Paul - with the help of the player - can restore all those events, which led to a sad outcome. And David Young from D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die can literally transport you back in time. To do this, you need to pick up a special object - a key., eg, Dead cop badge. David doesn't just see what happened, but also participates in those events. I.e, Kennedy's assassination could not only be solved, but also prevent. The price of such an ability is a bullet in the head; not cheap, Let's face it.
John Tanner in the arcade racer Driver: San Francisco is generally in a coma. What does not prevent his free mind from demonstrating superpowers?. While Tanner is lying in the hospital, studded with pipes, his spirit soars over the metropolis. You can easily inhabit other people, adjusted for game genre - drivers. This is how you need to stop a psychopathic criminal. And also explore a large-scale sandbox metropolis and complete dozens of story and side missions. Flatbed spirit, flying at the height of an eagle - sounds a little crazy, but it was precisely this ability that brought Driver: San Francisco in the category of hits.
Memory Hunter Nilin from the game Remember Me uses the original ability to correct people's memories. Penetrating into someone else's mind, Nilin changes their memories. As a result, one tweaked detail changes the entire behavior of the subject. This process provided a truly interesting new experience.: I had to find a key memory moment, rummaging through memory, like a film editor. And then Nilin was cleaning something up, rearranged, switched - and a new memory arose. False, for obvious reasons. Let's omit ethical issues.
And Nick Scryer from the hit 2004 year Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy showed the triumph of extrasensory perception and the victory of the mind over the body. Nick had every talent imaginable, what the yellow press loves so much. He possessed pyrokinesis and telepathy, throwing environmental objects at terrorists. He left the body according to the method of Indian shamans and saw the aura with secret vision. He drained psychic energy from his enemies, literally exploding their heads. Nick, finally, could control people, like puppets; a number of interesting puzzles were tied to this. Такой набор приемов обеспечил игре очень теплый прием и армию поклонников. Pity, продолжение не последовало…
For unknown reasons, game creators constantly ignore such a popular method in science fiction., like mind reading. But there is, Luckily, such rare games, how Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga from the Belgians, beloved by the people for the entire rather large Divinity franchise. The Larian Studios team has kept the process simple, but tasteful: you can find out for experience points, what kind of thoughts hover in any head. Among the banalities and nonsense you can find valuable hints and even entire quests.
Game developers don't forget about the more familiar aspects of the superhero craft.. It’s interesting to apply even the usual super speed, that is, time dilation, it will break. Half-vampire Rain from Bloodrayne was remembered not only for her shooting in Playboy. Rain's time slowdown sparkled and began to play, all the developers from Terminal Reality had to do was remove the limitation on its duration. There, where old Max Payne quickly ran out of steam, Raine fluttered smoothly like a latex butterfly. You can envy a vampire, after all, such speed did not leave the Wehrmacht soldiers a single chance. Raine also drank blood and thus regained her strength, but we won’t be jealous here: biting Nazis sweating with fear - that’s another thing, apparently, pleasure.
A lot of attention in games is paid to the method of movement.; regular walking or running is boring! C 1999 Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series wanders the twilight paths for years: Soul Reaver. Raziel was never a simple man before., and he was a lieutenant in the vampire army. And after that, how he was betrayed and thrown to the bottom of an enchanted lake, he has become a completely obscene monster. true, At the same time, he learned to swallow souls and go into the Dark Dimension at any moment. And in Twilight Raziel could have walked there, where in the real world they stand, for example, fortress gate. Then you need to return to our world and - voila! - you can please your enemies with your scary face (blue skin and severed lower jaw).
French developers demonstrate good old teleportation, adjusted for high-speed action, in the famous project Dishonored: the distances are small, but you can make jumps instantly, confusing opponents. Levitation, which is common in science fiction books and movies, is rarely seen in games - this year the Finns from Remedy went overboard: You can try out levitation in the third-person action game Control. Jesse Faden, red-haired boy-girl, shows a lot of tricks in Control, and among them - finally - flight or levitation, которой даже джедаи не обучены. А есть в играх и совсем уж забавные способы перемещения. В стильном инди-экшене Deadbolt ваш протагонист (наемный убийца в мире оживших мертвецов, оцените иронию) will be carried by a light breeze through the ventilation shafts, which is very convenient for entering houses with security. true, the same breeze will sweep through the sewer pipes, and it's not that fun anymore…
Quantum tricks - or superpowers over time - are also on the minds of game developers. Often this or that hero tries to mess with the river of time. Everything has been said about slowing down, all greetings to The Matrix have already been sent. Everything is much more interesting in Life is Strange. Girly Max gains the ability to reverse a short period of time and change the past, although the universe is against, as authorities like Stephen King say in 11.22.63. At such moments people walk backwards, Speech is heard in reverse format, physical laws are reversed. Jack Joyce from Quantum Break is more free to choose his actions. As a result of an accident (to him, in the laboratory) Jack has become a true master of time. The owner, true, local, small-town. With stunning visualization, Jack stops time, makes chrono-jumps and chrono-jumps, hits mercenaries of a villainous corporation with chrono explosions… Quantum Break doesn't have any truly fresh mechanics, but the main thing here is not what is shown, and as shown. The best chrono special effects in gaming history.
Sometimes, as superpowers, we are given the opportunity to set some living creature on the enemy. for example, in the plague-ridden capital of the aforementioned Dishonored, we could summon a pack of hungry - and vile - rats. Тех же крыс — еще более мерзких! — сделали центральной темой отличного приключения A Plague Tale: Innocence (не будем спойлерить, как именно меняется отношение к ним в финале). It is no less pleasant and fun to command a swarm of bees, causing the enemy to dance from the bites. Plasmids in the unforgettable BioShock give us such abilities.. In the same game you can try out Hollywood classics: we freeze the villain to the state of an ice statue and break our creation into small fragments with a blow from an adjustable wrench! Perfectly complements standard techniques with fire and electricity.
by the way, about electricity. The console gives you the feeling of being a shocker, PlayStation-exclusive open-world action series InFamous. According to the plot of the first part, the young man Cole finds himself at the epicenter of an explosion, endowed him with electric power. Next, hero - or villain, the game gives you a choice - you have fun to the fullest extent. He uses electric current as a weapon, learns charged parkour and even flying, or rather a controlled fall with electric propulsion. A special feature of InFamous is the opportunity to fly along electrical wires over neighborhoods, like a surfer on a wave.
If many video game heroes use the power of conditional Light (eg, Crusader in Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade restores health through prayer), then some originals turn to a very specific darkness for strength. Not necessarily capitalized. Young mafioso Jackie Etakado from The Darkness carries a family curse within himself. Except for the nasty voice in my head, it gives unprecedented power to the hero and interesting mechanics to the player. Jackie is strong in the dark: there his wounds heal, from there come the faithful gremlin minions. And there you can grow two bloodthirsty anacondas behind your back, which we manage, like hell's sword and shield. The game was criticized for its unsuccessful work with the open world, but all the mechanics with snakes from the dark delighted critics too, and players. A good stealth action game Aragami (2016) entirely tied to teleport jumps from shadow to shadow. Our hero is there, Spirit of Vengeance, invisible, invincible and generally feels comfortable.
The mastery of supernatural disguise can be appreciated in Prey (2017). Morgan Yu, protagonist, trying to survive on the orbital station, where the aliens went wild. Luckily, Earth technologies have made it possible to adopt the skills of the Typhon aliens. Among the many skills, it is worth highlighting mimicry. Лучший способ спрятаться — превратиться во что-нибудь безобидное. В кружку, eg. Подобных трюков в играх до Prey не было.
Бывают в видеоиграх и совсем уж крышесносящие способности. Хидетака Суехиро, он же SWERY, скромный безумный гений дизайна из Японии, gave players the most unusual set of talents for the heroine of The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories. Long-legged blonde Jackie died in this game, but did not lose the desire to get away from the damned island. Jackie can't die for the second time, and now solves puzzles, dismembering your cute body. It’s easy to tear off your hand and throw it into a narrow passage, so we get to the desired lever. Girl crawling without legs, her uprooted head rolls around, like Kolobok from a fairy tale, things are constantly happening in the frame, dangerous for fragile minds. Unknown, what exactly did SWERY use?, working on this extraordinary game. they say, special mushrooms grow in the northern forests, and here they are… But let's not talk about Suehiro's sources of inspiration. A potential hit for Switch called Skellboy will soon offer somewhat similar mechanics. There the hero will insert trophy limbs instead of his own. This is not a slender beauty, a cartoon skeleton, so you don’t have to worry about your psyche.
That's the beauty of video games.: we're not just watching another superhero, we ourselves can test abilities beyond the real. Write in the comments, What superpowers from games do you find the most interesting?. Which ones would you like to receive in real life??
