Protecting your freighter in swirling dogfights, clearing mines and incapacitating passing ships with EMP before nicking their goodies. You'll soon find yourself taking on basic assassination missions, You can opt for a smooth FPS-based control system or, if you're a purist or entirely mad, you can switch realistic physics on that severely limit your craft's manoeuvrability and turning circle. The missions themselves are what sell the game. Gradually you become part of the gang, running missions both for them and for various sailor types you meet hanging around the sub-aquatic city's docks. Straight from the off, a bunch of gruff pirate types take over your ship and force you into working for them. The game takes place in the far future where human life exists only in the deep ocean and your character, William Drake, is the last of a great merchant-shipping dynasty searching for adventure beneath the seven seas. Badly translated, badly acted, badly made and stupidly green, the only people that liked it were the Germans.Ī year and a bit later we have Aquanox 2: Revelation, and a distinct improvement it is too. And last-year's underwater-shooter Aquanox continued this trend. Stingray and The Little Mermaid - all of which were complete plankton-poo. For proof we only have to look as far as Seaquest DSV, Flipper. It's not surprising we pump so much sewage and radioactive waste into the sea since it's never really given us anything half-decent apart from fish - Ed. Hopefully this will make for a more compact, well-paced playing experience. Likewise, the game has gone from offering 80 characters and lots of stupid dialogue to 12 characters (and much better voiceacting). With lots of enemy grunts to having fewer, more intelligent enemies.
Like the first game the action sequences play like a first-person shooter, but there’s been a shift from spamming the player
So why should Revelation be any better? Basically the designers read all their bad press and went back to fix their errors, which is how things should be. Instead we relaxed into the aquamarine ambience of Aquanox's visuals, disturbed only by the "music in the style of Nu Metal like Limp Bizkit and Slipknot." Sick. "In Germany we have great success, only Max Payne sold more than Aquanox." So says Ingo Frick, technical director on the project, as we resist the temptation to tell him that in England that’s not a selling point. Revelation is the successor to the beautiful but disappointing underwater shooter that took Germany by storm. A standalone game but not exactly a true sequel.
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