Alpha Prime: looks like a good Doom 3 clone

ToryS · Post by **ToryS** » 01 Nov 2007, 03:18

http://www.alpha-prime.com/

Has anyone played this? I'm surprised i've never heard of this, but im wondering if theres a reason.

Edit, heres some videos, this looks pretty good. Good sounds, from what i can tell.

http://www.sprocketidea.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13

Dem Pyros · Post by **Dem Pyros** » 01 Nov 2007, 05:43

I played a demo of it, didn't seem that great.....

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 01 Nov 2007, 09:10

Yeah it is pretty good but nothing fab ... a wee bit of a discussion here ...

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/7614t=alpha+prime

Frag Maniac · Post by **Frag Maniac** » 01 Nov 2007, 10:33

I agree with Pyro, played the Check demo, had to translate just to bind keys. LOL It's not nearly as good graphically or in gameplay as Doom3. It has a cheap arcadish feel and not mood setting or inspiring at all.

Games I'm looking at are CoD4, Crysis, TimeShift, and Far Cry 2.

BlueMak · Post by **BlueMak** » 01 Nov 2007, 13:18

Where can I get the demo of it?
I am thinking buying the game from Totalgaming since I have 2 credits there.

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 01 Nov 2007, 13:24

Try the link in my previous post ... :wink:

BlueMak · Post by **BlueMak** » 01 Nov 2007, 15:48

Ah, thank you :)
I would love a good new or "new" FPS. After R6Vegas I can't find any that I like enough to buy.

ToryS · Post by **ToryS** » 02 Nov 2007, 07:46

Just finished the demo. Well, i thought it was kind of intresting, but yes, its not very polished i guess, felt like a very promising early beta.

On the positive side, i liked the ability to walk really slow, while aiming, which for me is a huge immersion booster because it feels/looks so real and is, of course, exactly what humans do in real life. I wish more games had that.

The music didn't agree me, so i turned it off, which turned off any ambient sounds, so the game went silent except for regular triggered sounds (gun shots, footsteps, etc)

The scripted scene with the voice acting between the two men was like trying to fit a square block into a round hole with a bit of chalkboard scratching on the side. Why did the guy just hand the "do everything" device right over??? ...and why am i mass murdering all these people?

BlueMak · Post by **BlueMak** » 02 Nov 2007, 09:00

...and why am i mass murdering all these people?

What kind of a peace loving tree hugger asks a question like this?

:-p Just teasing.
Isn't the story about you trying to survive some alien infestation?

skeeder · Post by **skeeder** » 02 Nov 2007, 17:16

more like some element made everyone insane.

I have it...its okay, never got into it.

ToryS · Post by **ToryS** » 02 Nov 2007, 20:58

Yeah, yeah, i wasn't listening to all of the dialogue.... They're pretty lively zombies then. :) I like what the game's trying to do, maybe ill by it to support further development.

Post by **Abram** » 03 Nov 2007, 11:48

I was rather disappointed in it, myself.

After seeing all those nifty preview videos and such aI damned near bought it, but thankfully I downloaded it first. (yes, i said downloaded - spank me) Another waste of $60 dodged..

I'd say other than better physics, it doesn't look as nice as Doom does...

At least it did WS okay.

Tolyngee · Post by **Tolyngee** » 08 Nov 2007, 04:05

FWIW - it was just released on Steam today:

http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=2590&cc=US

Not a very good Metascore...

BlueMak · Post by **BlueMak** » 10 Nov 2007, 05:46

I got it from Stardock.

I posted some screenshots at driverheaven. Forgive me but I will just copy and paste that post cause I can't take new screenshots or anything.

The first 3 pics are with the use of the printscreen & Paint. Unfortunately the game does not return to normal if you alt tab a couple of times and you have to close it. So for the rest I had to use FRAPS. Also for some reason the FRAPS fps numbers do not always appear or appear half, so don't give too much notice to them.

The quality of all the pics is lower than of what you actualy see in the game. The game looks great and the animation with the physics is just beautiful to look at.

This first one is from a corridor that I just loved the colours.

Reloading weapon while fired upon by robots. Have I mentioned how much I love the lighting in this game?
BTW, for the first 2 pics I don't know why but the HUD refuses to appear with the printscreen button. The rest are normal though.

Bad day at the office.

Lights!

Be very very quiet!

Right in the (back of) the face!

Zooming in with the very cool sniper rifle, hint, that red thing, is not kitchen towels.

They have reinforcements! Also that is the normal view of the sniper rifle.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four. Unfortunately the grenade only took out one of them and I had to finish off the other one with my shotgun.

Health restoration points, aka Half Life 1 rip off.

A forcefield. On the other side you can barely see an automated machine gun. It can't shoot through the forcefield, but it is covering your only way out of this room...

After normal play at 1.5 hours I reached the third level of the game. Normal difficulty setting.
It feels alright so far in terms of how long it takes.
So far I like the game a lot.

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