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热门网游《坦克世界》靠出众画面和技巧性玩法取胜

发布时间:2011-04-14 15:33:25 Tags:,,

《坦克世界》是近期出现的最流行硬核网游之一,玩家可以在壮丽的环境中驾驶二战坦克与敌军展开对决。4月12日,这款免费游戏正式在欧洲和北美发布。下面游戏邦编译Dean Takahashi在试玩游戏后的感受:

这款出自伦敦Wargaming.net之手的游戏极有可能在网络上营造满足硬核玩家诉求的次世代游戏体验,与其他硬核游戏相比更易入手。或许这正是为何游戏自去年在俄罗斯发布起便拥有多达170万注册用户的原因,在该题材游戏中显得格外出众。美国视频游戏公司过去经常制作这种战争模拟游戏,但随后都认为战争游戏的市场不大,他们的退出让这个市场流入富有开拓性的东欧国家。(游戏邦注:Wargaming.net的开发团队位于白俄罗斯。)

坦克世界战斗画面

从截屏中可以看出,华丽的图像是本作一大特色。玩家可以通过两支各拥有15辆坦克部队间的在线对决重现二战时的坦克之战,环境颇为真实,屏幕上满是燃烧的车辆和滚滚浓烟。你可以免费体验这个大型多人在线游戏世界,也能够花钱用更好的装甲、武器和装饰物升级坦克。

我用开发者提供的新手坦克和车辆参加了几场战斗。游戏玩起来有点难,你需要精于用坦克上的大炮开火才能赢得胜利。地图上离你1英里或更远的敌军坦克可以轻易用精准的射击将你击倒,因而你要十分小心,在准备开火之前不可暴露在敌人视野之内。你身处坦克之中,可以感觉到正驶过牧场、城镇和山丘,还能听到隆隆声。视野中干扰物很多,但只要用准心锁定敌军,就应该开火然后转移。如若不然,遭殃的便是你自己。如果敌军没有成功炸毁你的坦克,会听到弹头与装甲碰撞的声音。如果你消灭了敌人,也会看到炫丽的爆炸和熊熊大火。(游戏邦注:在游戏中反应时间是制胜的关键。)玩家可以通过家族战系统与他人一决高下,全球数千个家族通过战斗争夺对世界的控制权。俄罗斯单个服务器玩家数量达到91311人,创下历史记录。在欧洲和北美测试版中,《坦克世界》也拥有超过70万的玩家。

Wargaming.net首席执行官Victor Kislyi表示这款历经4年多时间开发而成的游戏前景非凡。目前游戏中共有来自美国、德国和苏联的150多种坦克供玩家选择,你可以自由尝试不同的选择或武器来升级自己的坦克。Kislyi说道:“Wargaming.net团队利用所有之前开发所获得的技术和经验来制作这款独特且令人称奇的游戏。然而,真正的工作在游戏发布之后才开始,我们为支持《坦克世界》制定了长期计划,在适当的基础上增加游戏模式、坦克种类和许多高端内容。”

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你需要付费才能使用游戏内置的Vivox语音聊天系统,因为包围靠技巧战胜敌人需要大量的团队协作。独自外出探险很容易就会被击败,我觉得这是最难的地方。

但最令人印象深刻的是公司在快节奏动作网游中成功提升了图像的质量。高档电脑和控制器游戏上的图像看起来很棒,但这些通常会成为网游的累赘。尽管高档的PC能够让这款游戏的效果尤为出色,但游戏在较老的PC上同样可以运行。你可以在游玩和逐渐升级坦克中学到些许历史知识,增强了游戏的耐玩性。

Wargaming.net在白俄罗斯明斯克有个250人的开发团队,自1998年起公司共发布13款游戏,其中大部分以二战战斗为背景。2009年和2010年,该公司在俄罗斯游戏开发者大会上被评为前苏联最好的开发公司。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

World of Tanks takes online game graphics to a new level

One of the coolest hardcore online games to come out recently is World of Tanks, which lets you drive World War II tanks around gorgeous environments and pummel enemies in duels between armored columns. The free-to-play game formally launched today in Europe and North America.

The game from London-based Wargaming.net shows that it is quite possible to create a next-generation gaming experience on the web that appeals to hardcore gamers and yet is much more accessible than other kinds of hardcore games. That may be why the game has built a huge audience of 1.7 million registered users in Russia — surprisingly large for this kind of title — where it has been available since last year. This is the kind of war simulation game that American video game companies used to make; but one by one, they all concluded that war games were a narrow market. They dropped out, leaving the market to pioneering Eastern European companies (Wargaming.net’s development team is in Belarus).

The big draw of this game, as you can tell from these screen shots, are the gorgeous graphics. You can recreate World War II tank battles in online duels between two teams with 15 tanks each. The environments are realistic, allowing you to take cover behind burning vehicles or smoke screens. The game is a persistent universe, or a massively multiplayer online game world. You can start playing for free but can pay real money to upgrade your tanks with better armor, ammo or decorations.

I’ve joined battle on a few occasions with a starter tank and a tricked-out vehicle provided by the developers. It’s a tough game to play, since you have to be an expert shot with your tank cannon. Enemies that are a mile or so away on the map can easily take your tank out with a well-aimed shot, so you have to be careful not to expose your tank’s profile on the horizon unless you’re ready to shoot. When you’re inside your tank, you can feel and hear the rumble as you drive around pastures, towns and hills. Your field of view is obstructed, but as soon as you get the enemy in your cross hairs, you have to shoot and move. Or else you’re toast. The shells thump on the armor when they don’t actually blow up your tank. And you see a nice explosion and fire when you take out the enemy. Your speed and reaction time really matter. Players can compete against each other using the Clan Wars system that unites thousands of clans from all over the globe in a battle for global dominance. In Russia, players set a record for getting 91,311 players onto a single server. In the European and North American beta tests, World of Tanks recruited more than 700,000 players.

The title has been extremely ambitious, with development lasting more than four years, said Victor Kislyi, chief executive of Wargaming.net. Altogether, there are more than 150 armored vehicles to play from the U.S., Germany and the Soviet Union. You can flexibly upgrade your vehicles to try out different options or weapons. “We used all the skills and expertise the Wargaming.net team gained while developing our previous titles to create a truly unique and compelling game,” he said. “However, with the game’s release the real work has only begun for us as there are long-term plans of supporting World of Tanks by adding new modes, vehicles and a lot of other high-end content on a regular basis.”

It pays to play this kind of game with voice chat systems such as Vivox, which is integrated into the game, since it takes a lot of teamwork to outwit or surround enemies. If you venture out on your own, you’ll be picked off easily. I discovered this the hard way.

But what’s most impressive is that the company chose to push the outer edge of graphics quality in a fast-action online game. Cool graphics look great on fancy computers and consoles, but they can often drag down the performance of an online game. You need a decent PC to run this game the right way, but it is built to scale so that people with older PCs can play it in some fashion. You can learn a little history as you play and upgrade your tank on a path, so it’s not just a tin can on tracks.

Wargaming.net has a 250-member development team in Minsk, Belarus. Since 1998, it has shipped 13 games, many of them based on World War II combat. In 2009 and 2010, the company was named the best developer in the former USSR at the Russian Game Developers Conference. (Source: Games Beat)


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