There is one good way to distinguish between a PC fan and a console owner. It is only necessary to give him a disc with a game about large fighting robots. Ideal for this genre of "Achille War Machine."
The owner of the game console will say that he is already tired of these mechanical creations, and the player on the PC will be only happy with this acquisition.
"Achille War Machine" - the successor of the genre?
The creation of the company called Incoming came out a very long time ago, but still has no successor in its business, such that adrenaline overtakes during the game, there are beautiful landscapes around, and you ride on a dashing horse. He came very close to this Gun Metal, but, unfortunately, he was extremely aristocratic and monotonous, for which this product was long forgotten by many players.
“Ackilla 2 Fighting Machine” has every chance to become a winner in the nomination “The Most Clockwork Arcade”. This game came to personal computers from consoles and has all the similarities with Incoming.
Gameplay
In this creation of the Atari company there is also a robot airplane, as well as a huge map. You should completely plunge into the thick of the armed conflict, where you will have the whole plot. In some cases, lags occur in the game, but this is not so critical.
For an uninterrupted game, your PC must have a video card that is no worse than the GeForce 4 or Radeon 9600. In the game, your device will not be so easy, since it will have to process the drawing range in a couple of kilometers and several hundred units around you.
Technical side
The graphics of the game are not so outstanding, which will help facilitate the work of your PC. In the “Akilla War Machine” there is no elaboration of small objects, such as trees. Forests exist in the game, but upon closer inspection, all the flaws of the models are revealed. A similar situation is with the clouds, which are just painted on the dome of the sky.
The game lacks those graphic chips that were present in Gun Metal, where you could just surf the sky in airplane mode, admiring the sun's glare and charming snow. In addition, in Gun Metal there was a third-person view, since the robot model looked stylish and was not ashamed to show it. In the game "Achille War Machine", you can look at the world only through the eyes of the machine, since its model can plunge a player into shock when you turn on the 3rd-person view.
Porting from the console
Games that have been ported from game consoles do not always have good optimization for a personal computer. But in the "Battle Engine Aquila" there are all the necessary amenities for PC players. It has extensive graphics settings, mouse control support, as well as the absence of a Press Start button at the beginning of the game.
The iron hero is controlled using the classic WASD keys and the mouse. The robot does not even know how to jump, but only moves and shoots. In terms of weapons, there is a modest selection of blue guns.
In a battle, a player’s car is determined by only two parameters - this is health and energy. The health reserve can be restored at its base, and the energy can be replenished by itself, for this it is enough to just stand in one place for a while. It is spent on moving and shooting, so it will not be possible to spend the whole battle soaring in the air and hitting enemies with its bullets and missiles. The player will have to periodically go down from heaven to earth and replenish energy reserves, and sometimes return to base for repairs.
Like Gun Metal, the game "Achille War Machine" is not very diverse storyline. The most interesting moments in BEA are water missions, where the battle takes place over the expanse of ocean waters and you have to constantly think about where to land in order to replenish the car's energy supply and recover a bit.
To summarize, we can say that this game is inferior in many areas to similar products in the genre. There are no beautiful models in it, although this drawback will be visible only upon closer examination. In any case, it is worth playing a little and then decide whether to delete the game or play on.