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The Orphanage Demo (Updated)

Author:

ben mercer

Submitted:

11th March, 2007

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Genre:

Shoot 'Em Up

Downloads:

951

Rated:

44th Place

(4.6 / 5)

Edited By ben mercer on 3/12/2007

Hi,

I uploaded a demo of "The Orphanage" on Daily Click a while back. Since then I have made so many improvements to the game that I thought it would be a good idea to re-release the updated demo level.

The Orphanage puts you in the shoes of a Black Operations Commando sent to investigate a mysterious uprising in an isolated town in north russia. Intelligence has revealed that a recently disappeared renowned biochest, Dr. Adam Cornwell, played a part in this uprising.

The game is designed as a tribute to games such as The Half Life series, FEAR, System Shock 2 and Far Cry.

It features:

- Intelligent opponents that work as a team to take you down
- Spectacular visual effects
- A chilling atmosphere and plot
- BULLET TIME! Yeah baby!

Getting Started
===============

Requirements

The game's ballistics, AI and visual effects make it quite hefty on the CPU. I would reccomend at least a 2Ghz processor to play, but feel free to try it on something lower end, i'd be interested to find out how well it plays.

Controls

WSAD - Move
Left Mouse - Fire primary
Right Mouse - Fire secondary
Q - Next weapon
R - Reload weapon
G - Grenade
F - Flashlight
Spacebar - Use/Swap weapon
X or Middle Mouse - Slowmo
Left Shift - Sprint/Kick grenade

If you are having difficulty getting anywhere with the game, check out the tips section in the readme. If you are new to this kind of ranged combat driven game you will find them invaluable.

All that is left for me to say is... Have fun!

EDIT:

WARNING: This game features extreme violence and some strong language.

Review This Download

http://stuckengine.sitesled.com/Orphanage_PublicDemo2.zip (10 mkb )

Posted by axel

12th March, 2007

Woo, yay!

Posted by renneF

12th March, 2007

FEAR-Life: 2D complete with pseudo-HDR.
awesome,

Posted by Blake

12th March, 2007

Great demo, I really sucked at it the first few times of playing but I caught on pretty quickly.

Posted by ben mercer

12th March, 2007

Glad to hear that you people are liking it. I was worried that people might not "get" the tactical aspect of the combat.

So, would anyone be so kind as to give it a thumbs up/down?

I'd be interested to hear if you guys completed the demo, and what level of difficulty you were playing at.

I'd also be interested to hear how you reacted to the triggered events (without posting spoilers please). Did they scare you? Make you jump? Or not have an effect on you whatsoever?

Posted by Johnny Look

12th March, 2007

Unbelievable

I want the full version !!!!

Posted by Johnny Look

12th March, 2007

oh and btw try changing the hud color, it really looks like a hl clone.

Posted by axel

12th March, 2007

Things I liked:
- It's very well presented. Loved the intro, and the music. So cool

- It's very realistic, and the atmosphere is just great.
- Effects, details. All the lighting effects, and the audio. Don't think I've ever seen anything like it in a Klik game.

Things I didn't like:
- It's frustratingly hard. I think most people will probably be put off by just that. It took me many tries just to get past the first enemy, and it didn't get much better after that. Or maybe I just suck at this kind of games, meh

- Another thing that adds to the frustration was that it was... Yeah, realistic. Too realistic. You take one hit from an enemy, and you're practically dead because your accuracy gets so screwed up you can't see a thing. Yeah, that's how it works in real life, but it didn't make it any more fun to play IMO.
- The movement engine. I was actually quite surprised, that after all those really cool effects and nice enemy AI, the guy still bounced off walls like he was using the built-in movement engine

- The controls were a bit hard to get used to. I'm not a noob who has to look at the keyboard while typing, but I always had a problem hitting the right key to reload or activate bullet time, especially in combat.
- When you run out of ammo, it should reload automatically when you click the shoot button >.<

As a combat simulator, it was very well done. But for the average casual gamer who just wants to kill some time, it's frustrating and difficult. But I'm really looking forward to seeing the full game. Thumbs up to you!

(And by the way, how did you do that blur effect (you know, when you die)? I've seen it in a few other klik games, but I've never actually managed to duplicate the effect

)

Posted by axel

12th March, 2007

My entire emotional spectrum, right there;

Posted by Johnny Look

12th March, 2007

hey dude you can change the game difficulty.

Posted by ben mercer

12th March, 2007

Heh it is a hl clone!

Thanks for your feedback axel.

I think your first two comments kind of reinforce the importance of taking cover in this game. If you take a hit, your accuracy gets screwed up, so you need to take cover instead of trying to fire back. You should always position yourself near cover so that you can quickly dive behind it if an enemy gets the jump on you. You should find that on normal difficulty you can usually quite easily zip behind cover without taking too much damage. The AI do exactly that as soon as they are hit, outclassed by a bot eh?

I'll confess that the movement uses bouncing ball movement, but the bouncing ball movement is only used to translate vectors, the movement is essentially custom. Besides detector movement just wouldn't work for this game, the shaping of the level architecture would screw it up completely.

The controls were pretty much the best option I could find; They were pretty much copied directly out of commercial first person shooters. I think its just a case of getting used to them really.

I'll explain why I didn't go with auto reloading: Some heavier weapons you get later in the game have long reload times. The M249 machine gun takes 4 seconds to reload, and during this time you are a sitting duck. If you run out of ammo in a dire situation, you'd want to quickly switch over to your secondary weapon, not get buggered senseless when you automatically try to reload.

I hope i didn't come across as unappreciative, thanks for the criticism!

The blur is done by taking a screenshot, blurring it using the image manipulator extension, then fading blurred picture over the original.

Posted by Del Duio

12th March, 2007

The blur is done by taking a screenshot, blurring it using the image manipulator extension, then fading blurred picture over the original.

Hey, that's pretty ingenious!

I have to wait until I'm back at work to D/L this, as it'd take 3 days on my home computer. I remember playing Metal Gear Solid for the first time and quickly figuring out that you can't just blindly blast your way out of a situation many times as the guards will just keep coming and kill you in a few shots.

That said, I think having a realistic game like this is a very good thing in the Click Community. There are already a bunch of clones and uninspired projects- At least this one's attempting to do something different by being this true-to-life, so to speak. I know that if I took a bullet the first thing I'd do is roll around and cry on the ground, yellin' for mommy, and not Rambo'n it up like I just skinned my elbow.

I think you have to have a certain # of thumbs up / down in order for any to show up Ben, I think it's 5 total votes or something.

Posted by renneF

13th March, 2007

Impressive game, especially the AI.
I can't wait to fight gun emplacements, bosses etc

The way an enemy appeared out of a different door the second time I played was cool, wasn't expecting that.
Annoyances:
You can't throw the grenade that far and the crosshair can be hard to see especially when it's moving all over the place.

Posted by jpSoul

13th March, 2007

impressive effects !!!
the controls to move the character are very strange... why don't use ZSQD ? that would be more intuitive...

Posted by steve

13th March, 2007

Amazing graphically, presentation-wise. Awesome intro, the game itself is great too, although in my opinion it is let down by a few things which are just too annoying to over-look, such as the "realism" when you are shot (camera goes wild, cross-hair and targetting is completely lost)- as Axel said above, it just makes the game too frustrating to play.

It's a shame because it feels like an enourmous amount of effort was poured into this creation and i'd like to have explored further but after the 5th time of dying because the camera was shaking/targetting was lost, I hit ALT+F4.

I give a Thumbs UP for the special effects, intro/atmosphere etc (despite the use of default movement for the collisions on walls *shudders*).

Overall a great piece of work - just needs a few adjustments to be playable.

Posted by axel

13th March, 2007

"I think your first two comments kind of reinforce the importance of taking cover in this game. If you take a hit, your accuracy gets screwed up, so you need to take cover instead of trying to fire back. You should always position yourself near cover so that you can quickly dive behind it if an enemy gets the jump on you. You should find that on normal difficulty you can usually quite easily zip behind cover without taking too much damage. The AI do exactly that as soon as they are hit, outclassed by a bot eh? "

Heh, yeah. I didn't play it that much before posting though (I know, I should have, but I'm an impatient bastard!). Or maybe I just suck at this.

"I'll explain why I didn't go with auto reloading: Some heavier weapons you get later in the game have long reload times. The M249 machine gun takes 4 seconds to reload, and during this time you are a sitting duck. If you run out of ammo in a dire situation, you'd want to quickly switch over to your secondary weapon, not get buggered senseless when you automatically try to reload. "

Then just make it so the player can switch weapon even while he's reloading (ie, he'd stop reloading and switch weapon instead)

"The blur is done by taking a screenshot, blurring it using the image manipulator extension, then fading blurred picture over the original."

That sounded terribly inefficient, but I'm actually quite surprised that it works so well. Many thanks!

Posted by Eternal Man [EE]

13th March, 2007

Why in the world would you like to use ZSQD?

Posted by Johnny Look

13th March, 2007

btw is there any site when we can get the latest infos about the game ?

Posted by ben mercer

13th March, 2007

On a QWERTY keyboard WSAD works fine. Perhaps you don't have one of them.

Axel, again it's kinda a realism thing. You wouldn't be able to whip out your sidearm whilst carefully feeding an ammunition belt into a machinegun... you'd drop the whole lot on your foot! Then i'd have to implement a speed penalty

Gameplay wise, it forces players to think more carefully about their position before opting to reload, just as you would have to in real life.

The blurry effect isn't really innefficient since it prerenders the blur before executing the fade. The fade is just one active picture decreasing transparency over another.

Steve, I think you would benefeit from reading the tips in the readme. I had a free lesson at college today, and me some mates (some of whom don't game) went into an empty classroom and had a great laugh playing the game on the big projector screen. They found it difficult at first, but I gave them tips and they got the jist of it fairly quickly. It is very much playable, just maybe not in the conventional space invaders sort of way.

Posted by ben mercer

13th March, 2007

@Johnny Look

Fraid not... I might make a small website for it nearer the time of release.

Lately I'm working on the multiplayer engine alongside making the singleplayer levels. I'm really exited to get this working in multiplayer. I'm going to add different game modes because I personally don't really like deathmatch (although it will be included).

One mode I thought of is called "Assassin hunt" which is played in the dark. A squad of soldiers have the objective to hunt down and kill the "Assassin" who is a player armed with a stealthy assassin skin, suppressed pistol and nightvision goggles. This gives the assassin a big advantage, because the squadies have to rely on their flashlights, which give away their position. Whoever gets the kill dissappears and respawns away from the squad as the Assassin, whilst the original Assassin respawns as one of the squad.

Points are earned for shooting the Assassin, killing the Assassin and killing soldiers as the Assassin. Soldiers won't respawn again until the entire team is down, making for some suspenseful gameplay if your the last guy left. If you take out the entire squad whilst playing as the assassin, then you earn a large number of points.

Posted by Attan

13th March, 2007

Great great great!!! The realism was the best of it! Maybe you should improve the graphics a little (like adding four more directions to the caracter) and work more on the movement engine, but otherwise it was wonderful! I would like to have some savepoints. I'm soure you could figure out a realistic way to save the game

What about the granade effect that i saw in a demo video?

Posted by ben mercer

13th March, 2007

You can see the grenade effect when a grenade explodes when you are in slowmo.

The game will save in between maps. Mostly each level comprises one map, but larger levels are split into several maps. I think allowing the player to save too often leads to players not really caring about dying and therefore taking a different approach to the game.

I did think about giving the characters 8 directions... but it's so much work. It might happen it might not I guess.

Posted by nim

14th March, 2007

Great presentation, atmosphere and visual effects. The flames in the intro are very nicely done. I played through it a bunch of times to appreciate everything more. I particularly like the fact that you can't see enemies unless they're within your field of vision.

Although you're taking all of your design cues from FEAR and Half-Life, you've done very well to recreate the action in 2D and with the tools we use.

So, be assured that this whole thing is looking very impressive so far, but here are a couple of things I think could be improved:

I'm standing with the other guys who say that the reaction to being shot (i.e. twitching the gun aim) could do with a re-think. Definitely, some kind of feedback to the player to indicate that they've taken a hit is a good idea, but I think it could be toned down a little. The system works well if the player has time to dive behind cover and correct the aim, but more than once I was in a situation where an enemy would decide to chase after me while I fumble around for the R button to reload. But even if I do, I'm as good as dead because my gun aim is already doing somersaults. I understand what you're trying to do, but when you're out of ammo and the AI is in still chase mode, there's not much else the player can do other than look forward to the inevitable death screen with the nice blur/fade effect. You want to make sure that the player only ever feels frustrated at their own lack of skill or judgement, not because of a gameplay decision by you.

Someone already suggested this, but I think automatic reloading would be a huge improvement. Half-Life and FEAR have this feature without any disruption to the realism. If your gun is empty and you press fire, the game should be able to figure out what you want to do.

Or how about a auto-melee attack on mouse1 if you're close enough, or the ability to fire your other weapon with mouse2 if the primary weapon is out of ammo.

One other thing: FEAR and Half-Life are great games, and as I said you've done a great job combining key features from them all. It would be nice, however, if it wasn't so much like FEAR in terms of storyline, presentation and some in-game scenes. I don't have a problem with taking aspects of the combat system from each game, but when I saw the figure appearing and dissipating exactly as Paxton Fettel did in FEAR I wondered if the line between "inspiration" and "copy" had been crossed. You already have a great combat engine, but why not create your own paranormal effects. It's obvious that you have the skills to do it.

The WASD set up worked well and I can't think of a better alternative. I'm left-handed so I often have to reconfigure FPS controls anyway, but at least you assigned slo-mo to the middle mouse button. I don't think FEAR even did this by default, but it seems obvious to me.

As for the triggered events - I really liked them! Perhaps including longer breaks between the combat would help to increase tension - especially for the second to be really effective. I liked that the first was in a random place each time. Replay value FTW!

Good luck with the rest of the game!

Posted by renneF

14th March, 2007

I am was just playing Metal Gear and I'm wondering, will there be any stealth sections in the game, or are the enemies just too perceptive?

Posted by ben mercer

14th March, 2007

Ok i'm going to tone down the getting hit gun aim effect. What I will do is make it so that at normal difficulty, the aim doesn't wander too much so that average players won't become totally incapable of firing back. On realistic modes though, it will be jacked right up to what it is currently. On piss easy mode it will be barely noticable. I think that is a fair compromise, do you think so?

I suppose then people who want to play through the game can then play less realistically, with more opportunity to be like Rambo whilst skilled or just masochistic players can go all out and play in the more realistic modes. It's kinda like microsoft flight sim in that respect

I could assign a melee attack to spacebar (use key) when you are close to an enemy.

The game is heavily derived, I used the FEAR dissipating effect because I think it looks cool basically. I could change it I spose though, good idea. I'll assure you though that the storyline isn't THAT similar to fear.

Posted by ben mercer

14th March, 2007

ⓕⓔⓝⓝⓔⓡ To answer you comment, in short no. This comes down to making the game fair really. I think extending the line of sight system to fade out enemies behind you would be too confusing, so if you can see behind you so can enemies basically.

This doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for stealth in a firefight. First of all flanking and popping up somewhere a good distance away from where an enemy last saw you will increase their reaction time to seeing you, so you can get the jump on them to some extent. Using the desert eagle also makes you more stealthy, although these features haven't been fully implemented.

@Nim

Sorry forgot to say; I'll make auto reload optional.

Posted by Johnny Look

14th March, 2007

There's something I'd love to see:
some kinda fog of war. Sometimes I don't have a clue of where I'm looking at.

I agree with Nim, don't make to similar to HL and Fear, the game has a lot of potencial to be much more than a simple clone.

Posted by Del Duio

14th March, 2007

For a melee weapon you should have him use a big Maglite Ben. Those things are brutal- Plus, it doubles as what it actually is- a flashlight in case you need to see in the dark later on in the game.

Think of it, how many games have a flashlight as a weapon at all?

Posted by AsparagusTrevor

14th March, 2007

As a whole this is really good, the presentation is really professional and the effects are brilliant. A few things I didn't like, the line of sight was really confusing, the enemies fading out in the middle of a firefight made it a bit unfair. Maybe they should stay visible as long as you know they're there or something, I dunno. I agree with everyone else about the recoil when you're shot. The enemies are intelligent enough without having anything else adding to the difficulty. Also, I hope you plan to have customizable controls for those of us who don't like using WASD keys. All in all, it's coming along really nice.

Posted by

14th March, 2007

About the fading out, just make the enemies stay visible for a short while after loosing them from your line of sight before they fade out again?
Just a suggestion, nice game btw. :] A bit too hard for noobs like me though V_V; Heh

Posted by Attan

14th March, 2007

"more than once I was in a situation where an enemy would decide to chase after me while I fumble around for the R button to reload"

You don't need to reload. Just switch weapon. The beauty of the game is that you have to think before you approach an enemy. Don't attack more enemies then you can take out with your current ammo.

Posted by nim

14th March, 2007

Good point

Posted by Willy C

15th March, 2007

wow, pretty damn cool. It lags just a bit on my computer, but it's impressive that it's playable at all on it! Two thumbs up!

Posted by Willy C

15th March, 2007

Does this use the stuckengine of yours? Update your stuckengine site!

Posted by ben mercer

15th March, 2007

Nah it doesn't. StuckEngine is pretty much dead at the moment. I started making it for MMF 1.5, and as an MMF 1.5 engine it would be really good. But then MMF2 came along, so there was no point in releasing it on an outdated platform.

The problem at the moment is that half the decent extensions weren't ported to MMF2, so I'm not going to work on it again until I have the tools to make it proper good

The trouble with a delayed fade out of the enemies would be that you would be able to see where they were going and it would make it too easy. The reason why I put the line of sight system in is that it would be unfair not to; enemies can't see you when you are behind a wall, so why should you be able to see them behind a wall? Also the system will make the online multiplayer so much better.

Posted by

15th March, 2007

Yeah, I understand that ^^; but what about adding a small time-delay on the easiest mode only? For us n00bs x)

Posted by Dustin Gunn

15th March, 2007

Coming from someone that hated the first demo, this is pretty much awesome.

It's cool that you're pushing the limits of MMF, and now that the controls are fixed, it's actually pretty fun. To the people dying from the dazing after getting hit, I recommend liberal use of bullet-time.

Posted by ben mercer

16th March, 2007

The first demo was terrible your right. Ugh I even played it the other day to compare, and it really is shite. I'm glad I decided to improve it rather than going and making all the levels in crappyvision.

CheezeDragon, fraid I think I'll keep it how it is. My advice to you is listen to the soldiers' speech. If they say "cover me" they are going to try and storm you, if they say "grenade out" they have thrown a grenade at you.

In a first person game you cannot see enemies around walls. The only real difference is you have to remember not to assume that there are no enemies present if you can't see them.

Posted by Bo Fu

16th March, 2007

This is brilliant, but I can't get into it because of the absolutely wicked recoil. I'm glad you're fixing it, because right now, firefights are very frustrating - too frustrating to make me want to practice and get better.

Instead of having enemies instantly disappear, perhaps they could very slowly (slower than they currently do) fade into invisibility. That way, you don't lose track of an enemy just because you moved a miniscule amount north.

Posted by renneF

16th March, 2007

I second CheezDragon and Bo Fu on fading.
Peer pressure!

Posted by ben mercer

17th March, 2007

Ok... I'll bow to your damned peer pressure

I think what I'll do is make them fade slowly, but then fade more quickly whilst they are moving.

Posted by

17th March, 2007

Hah, I knew it would work ;D

Sounds awesome :]

Posted by ben mercer

17th March, 2007

Hehe well I wanted to make the game a realistic experience (despite being 2d) but I suppose not everyone has instincts of a supercommando

Wonder who voted thumbs down? If you are going to do that at least tell me why...

Been working on some multiplayer with mooclick recently. The online engine is coming on pretty cool; it's fantastic to see characters walking around in the control of a human player.

Posted by

17th March, 2007

I know, but just dont make it too realistic

For example; in real life you dont have a health meter, and you dont know exactly how many bullets are left in your weapon. But you still have a HUD in the game... and I hope youre not removing it

So, just dont overdo the realism, gameplay is more important. :] So far, its a pretty awesome game.

Posted by Del Duio

17th March, 2007

Ben, it's INQUIRY not ENQUIRY. (Sorry, but those things bug me haha).

The begining is AWESOME. The effects & music remind me of the creepy beginning (for then) of Super Metroid in a way.

I can't get anywhere in the actual game, however. I can cut the fence with the best of them but the first guy is hard. My main problem was the mouse control for the guy's viewing. It's too sensitive IMO, especially compared to the realitive slow walking speed of the guy (which is not a criticism). I spent more time trying to control the crosshairs than getting killed by the enemy- which happened a lot!

Other than that, everything seems largely amazing with what you've managed to pull off. I could just suck at these types of games though since nobody else had a problem with it aside from me. Grenades are cool, but not when they bounce off the sandbags and blow me up hahaha. Great fun, thumbs up!

Posted by ben mercer

18th March, 2007

Well cheezedragon I'm kinda going on the fact that your combat suit has health and ammo diagnostic scanners built in. I suppose a health meter replaces actually feeling unhealthy like you would if you really got shot.

Yeah I think mouse sensetivity needs a slider. Haha yeah grenades are quite bouncy, but this is so that you can rebound them off walls into a room or something.

The full game will actually have an extended intro done using the game engine.

Posted by JFrudy

18th March, 2007

I'll confess that the movement uses bouncing ball movement

he dude, doesnt the clickteam movement controller extension have a vector movement thingy? try that

Posted by ben mercer

20th March, 2007

Vector movement has poor support for multiple objects.

People underestimate the bouncing ball movement, it is actually pretty powerful. The only problem with it is that it doesn't give silky smooth collisions, but unless your a big zelda fan or something i really can't see that being too bothersome.

Posted by Neuro

31st May, 2007

Fantastic! I played through it properly and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I didn't mind the dodgy collisions, to be honest. I'd rather 'bounce' off of obstacles than get snagged on them.

What I didn't like where the random 'surprise!' moments where a soldier would just burst out of a door - React a little too late and you're pretty much screwed, with no cover and no easy way of taking them out, what with aim going haywire. Being left-handed, the controls were a little awkward, but not too bad - an arrow key configuration would be nice, though.

I think a slight flaw with this realistic gameplay is that encounters become predictable - if you see a bunch of sandbags up ahead, you know there's going to be trouble. That being said, it's nice to have time to prepare for a very intense and enjoyable gunfight!

I downloaded this (or the previous version, I don't remember) quite a while back, and I can't believe I never pushed myself to get the hang of the style of play that this game demands. I was immersed from start to finish, disappointed when the demo came to an end!

Big thumbs up. I eagerly await the full release. In fact, I'd quite happily pay for it

You seem to really have your head screwed on tight for this sort of thing (having also read your articles and bits of your webpage). I can tell the Orphanage is going to be a hit.

Posted by Tomssuli

4th August, 2007

First I tried on realistic and forgot that there was bullet time... It was evil hard, then on normal and checked the key for the bullet time, and it was fun

I liked the enemies tendency to go hiding... and the surprises sometimes that they weren't there where you last saw them

I also like the Half-Life style text theme. Nice work!

Posted by denfilade

2nd October, 2007

omg

!!! Someone beat me to making a game like FEAR and half-life! o well..back to the drawing board!

Posted by Fadex

9th November, 2007

Rated :

I completed demo on Realistic mode

this is so unbeliveable game

and so hard

Posted by Fadex

9th November, 2007

Rated :

Extreme Realistic is more fun

the guys are following me

Posted by Fadex

9th November, 2007

Rated :

And of course i completed it without bullet time

Posted by Trooper_959

15th January, 2008

Rated :

I love shootem up so i give this 5 out of 5 really awsome game impressing ai.Awsome graphics and sound effects.Your game is just all over awsome.

Posted by Moonyjacob

6th March, 2008

Rated :

really good

Posted by alastair john jack

4th April, 2008

Rated :

I think it would be good if your health could regenerate after a while. Instead of always looking for the next health pack.

Posted by ben mercer

6th April, 2008

I have now implemented a halo style health system into the game amongst many other things

Posted by alastair john jack

7th April, 2008

Rated :

Thats good, it was really hard trying to get to the next health pack on 3 health with 2 guys in the way.

Posted by Bricnic

20th June, 2008

The game is really well made and cool, but here are some minor problems I found:

The .exe has the name "Orpanage" instead of "Orphanage". Pressing ESC in the game does nothing, I think it should bring up a menu- having to press ALT+F4 to quit a game is bad design.
The controls aren't visible anywhere within the game, you would only know how to do anything if you read the readme, and since there's no tutorial or anything, just straight into the action, it can be a little confusing.

Posted by Blue66

20th June, 2008

The game looks really nice and the engine is well made, but I have to say that the disorient thing what happens when you get hit completely kills the gameplay for me.

It's no fun at all running behind sandbags all the time to avoid any kind of damage to be able to shoot back. And all of a sudden jumps a commando out of a house shooting the shit out of me and I can't do ANYTHING AT ALL against it. Sorry, but I don't see where the fun is...

Posted by Jarl Fenrir

20th June, 2008

Difficulty looks strange for me. HARD mode seems to be the easiest for me, while i caanot play on easy... strange. But game is really good.

Posted by s-m-r

21st June, 2008

Rated :

The effects and graphics are all jaw-dropping. But I can't understand why--when you're aiming for realism--that a battle-hardened commando's crosshair ends up spinning around to the back of their field of vision while in the middle of combat. Even Gordon Freeman--a scientist in one of your chief inspirations for The Orphanage--never had his aim thrown in the opposite direction, and he wasn't a battle-trained soldier. I suspect Valve (and other FPS shooter designers/coders) had to wrestle with the same realism dilemma, and in most cases they opted for the side of gameplay. I hope you do too.

Although the game is a joy to look at/listen to and I'm itching to play it, I don't want to endure the ordeal, since the crosshair flying all over the place is so incredibly, incredibly frustrating. Normal, Piss Easy, it makes no difference.

In the interest of full disclosure: use a trackball mouse, so it may be more affecting to people in this same hardware situation.

At the very least, PLEASE make this sensitive feature an option as opposed to required for play. It would be a wise design choice.

Posted by asfadfgdabg

22nd June, 2008

Please give a dload for a file which isnt fullscreen because i cant set my widescreen 1440x900 screen too 320x200

Posted by Fish20

23rd June, 2008