OneScreen Solar Sails

Let's consider the casual arcade game OneScreen Solar Sails from Indie-developer Anti-Ded, released in the spring of 2017. One of the disadvantages of modern entertainment on personal computers, unlike consoles, is a relatively small list of projects for gatherings at the screen of the Monitor in the company of friends. The Local Hot Seat, popular in the 90s, is now practically gone. It is more interesting to watch the attempts of independent developers to create a simple multi-user ubivalku time. The Legacy of slot machines Game OneScreen Solar Sails-This is an elementary arcade, supporting up to 8 people for one PC. Control is flexibly changed in the settings, you can connect the controllers and choose the most comfortable layout for each user. The control of the ship, aspiring to destroy opponents, or to perform some other task (depending on the mode), is carried out with the help of three buttons-turn left, turn right and shooting. Stop the boat will not come, it is constantly moving, and reaching the edge of the field-automatically transferred to the opposite side of the screen. About game Modes Start screen OneScreen Solar Sails includes a lot of game settings: The choice of the control required to win the number of points, scored goals, captured flags, etc. There you can mute the sound to run in the background Winamp with your favorite Music. So, the first mode is "Everyone for himself", the name is obvious. During the set of points collect a variety of bonuses, including amplifiers of guns, boosters and other buns. The Second mode is Team Play. One team tries to beat opponents. In Addition to the standard map there are additional, drawn in the form of islands, clouds, shores, lakes and rivers. The Choice is small, but for an hour or two of a joint game this is quite enough. Command mode is especially effective against bots, but annoying because of the stupidity of the latter. Yes, there is almost no AI here: computer-controlled enemies can only sail in a chaotic direction, watering you fire of guns. Next is "Football", in which the ball from the center of the field should be brought to the goal of the enemy. Once the author of the game allows you to run this mode with bots, it is good to teach them the rules of this very football. But They do not touch the ball, only stand still, spinning around their gates and in every possible way depict the turbulent activity. And the last-classic Capture The Flag: Grab the flag of the enemy and dragged to his base, simultaneously fighting against counter attacks and defending their own flag. Exciting, but annoying as fast as anything else in the OneScreen Solar Sails. On the schedule and system requirements In the list of recommended configuration is specified CPU Intel Quad Core 2.5 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM, 550 MB of space on the HDD. The Graphics card, fortunately, can be integrated. Uh, it's kind of run. And If in addition to jokes, the visual performance of critics does not withstand-style is not, everything is too simple and sketchy. The Design of objects is inferior to the majority of slot machines of 80s, some individuality is not felt. Summing up, the game will be either a very drunk company, no longer able to play in something more complex, or for the full fans of retro. The Gameplay monotonous, variability is almost no, artificial intelligence in bots is absent. Of The pros I note the support of controllers and up to 8 players for one monitor, the presence of several modes, cards and bonuses on them. OneScreen Solar Sails is more of a demo than a full-fledged product for money.