The idea of this post came to me during the game NEED For Speed 2015. This game has many problems with directly racing gameplay, but nevertheless it remains unique and standing at the expense of the concept chosen by the authors.
The authors of NFS, using various tools, tried to load the player in atmosphere Strezing as a subculture, demonstrating its various sides in addition to racing proper. Hence the huge, by the standards of the Arcade, the number of parts for tuning (namely tuning, not styling), each of which is accompanied by a brief description of how it works and is answered, and each of which must be installed with handles, without the magical button “pump everything”. Hence the detailed setting of the behavior of the machine through the adjustment of the suspension, differential, steering, brakes and other parameters (all this, however, is reduced to the creation of a universal assembly and only, possibly, to allocate a separate car for drift). Hence the atmospheric and the most believable city: due to well -chosen post -effects and configured lighting of the schedule, it looks photorealistic and impressive even after 9 years (on the iron of the original Xone and PS4!), and local roads, instead of the highway and springboard characteristic of arcade races, consist of overpasses, branchy interchanges and narrow winding streets that are not very suitable for racing (or I’m just looking for excuses for left-handed designers who made so Location unsuitable for local physics). And it was precisely from the desire to load the player to the skin of a street racer, Ghost Games paid a lot of attention to first-person videos, combining CGI and living shooting, and telling the history of the path to the success of the alter ego player and his teammates.
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The logical development of the last point was the addition of real celebrities from the automobile world to the game, the attracting attention of which is the ultimate goal of the local career.
And in this place I would like to stop in more detail.
Celebrity has long and fruitfully interact with the game industry. It can be the voice acting of characters, the use of appearance, the use of a popular name in the name of the game, or even a full -fledged game named after yourself beloved.
But NFS 2015, due to its immersion and a mundane setting, gives a special experience – the experience of meeting you, here are personally you With a star. If you have come for the scenes of the concert of your favorite musicians, visit Meet & Greet or just meet your idol on the street – you understand what I’m talking about.
In this post, we will speculate SlotoNights Casino how well it turned out to be particular NFS, another Nidforspid and one much more old and now forgotten game. Well, in general, about the potential of such an element of video games, let’s say a few words. So, they drove.
Need for Speed (2015)
In this game, the gamer will meet with five popular representatives of the automobile party: Porshe Tuner Akira Obai, Porshe collector Magnus Walker, Drifter team (not on Porshe) Risky Devil, Lamborghini tuner Shinichi Morokhoshi-San and Rally pilot and performerTricks on cars Ken Block.
I certainly cannot call myself a person who is sophisticated in a car culture, but also to say that it is completely alien to me, it would be wrong. Some personalities from the automobile world are familiar to me (not personally, but in the sense, I know who they are and what are famous): the canonical trinity of Top Gear (plus stig), Steve Salin, John Dulorian, Carroll Shelby, Sebastian Lyob, Carlos Sains and others. Of the NFS heroes, I know only Ken Night, Sweet Prince, and then, frankly, in many ways because at the turn of the zero-tens it was actively flashed in video games, and in particular in the DIRT series. But his tricks on Impreza and focus look really impressive, this cannot be taken away. The names of the rest of the "celebrities" did not tell me anything, and even after their appearance in the game and the search for information about them, only Otai-san caused me some interest and sympathy for me. Well, like, the fact that Magnus Walker has a rare Porshe collection is certainly cool, but the same Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson also own fairly well -known collections of the car, but in addition they take large -scale entertainment shows and participate in many third -party projects. A lover of glamorous Lamborghini Morohas who boasts with his connections with Yakudza and caused antipathy at all-on the other hand, it is clear that it was necessary to invite some Outlaw-star to the police champion, and it is not an easy task (it is time to write a comment that it would be better to cut out the misunderstanding that is present in the release version of the game).
But from the personal assessment of the stars we will move on to how interaction with them is implemented in the game. The first intersection at least some of them occurs at the starting stages of the game, when the main character visits the club and notices them out of the corner of the eye. This is quite atmospheric and believable – personally, at concerts of foreign groups, I also sometimes noticed domestic Seleb in the crowd. Further, either personal calls from the idol begin or one of the comrades of the GG begins to measure with the star pussy via the Internet, throwing it off our records of circles and selection of tricks. At the end of his branch, each star will have to pay a personal visit to us with the team, shake hands, throw a respect and hand over the keys to his branded car as a sign of this respect. And, I admit, with Ken Blok this trick personally turned out to me in some ways.
Need for Speed: Unbound
In the last (at the time of writing this material), part of the “speed thirsty” as a star invited rapper a $ ap Rocky. The musician is the organizer of the Takeover racing mode (in fact, local Jimkhan), acts as one of our opponents in several races, and also participates in one exclusive plot mission. We will dwell on it in more detail.
At one point, the rakim (the real name of the rapper) calls us, throws respect, and asks to call after him. After that, we must first demonstrate our driver’s skill, having traveled the route for a while, and then masturbate the rocks to the point he needed. And both of these races are accompanied by a dialogue of our hero with a musician. More precisely, almost a monologue a $ AP Rocky in the style of a typical motivating cart with a pinch of “I am the same as you, it is also difficult rich”.
And you know, specifically with A $ AP Rocky, this event did not make a proper impression on me. First of all, because I am not a fan of him: in the game his tracks served as a good background and did not want to switch them, but in the soundtrack to Unbound were performers that I much more like. The same Amir OBE.
At the same time, if such a mission with some star of the Golden (in my opinion) era of the NFS soundtracks-for example, Wayne Statik, Ched Gray, Mike Shinoda or David Draiman-I am sure that such a trip would make a very strong impression.
Therefore, given who Today The target audience of the current nfs’s – EA did everything right.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Meanwhile, Rockstar leeds in their second PSP exclusive from the best game series in the world went to a step uncharacteristic for the studio and added a real celebrity to the parody-satiric world of GTA. Of course, well -known musical compositions sounded on the radio back in GTA III, and the real IGGI Pop and Max Cavalier in the role of themselves performed in the GTA IV. But in VSC, we will have to work as a driver and bodyguard of Vsemelish Phil Collins in the skin of Viktor Vance!
With the transmission of sensations from the "meeting with the star" here is the situation twofold. On the one hand, one of the main advantages of the Grand Theft Auto series games is the transmission of the atmosphere of the chosen era, and the corner about Wais City, according to many fans, copes with this best, and Phil and the cult “In the Air Tonight” atmosphere of the eighties perfectly complements. On the other hand, the world of GTA (especially 3D-united) is too grotesque, and even a real star will not be able to “ground” him enough so that the player feels behind the scenes of a real concert precisely in the image of himself, and not a caricature gangster.
Therefore, I believe that Fila in this game could be replaced by someone like Love Fist without any losses.
Mention are worthy
In this section, I would like to recall two more games that are one way or another trying to organize a meeting of a player with a star. And again we will have to return to automobile culture.
In Dirt 5, in career mode against the background of the menu, podcasts constantly sound, the content of which changes depending on the progress of the player. In addition to the fictional heroes, the rider Jamie Chadwick and YouTuber Slaptrain become guests (in a quick search, the impression is that this is someone like a Canadian Bulkin). There is no interaction with the player as such, the podcasts as a trend got me already five years ago, and the fifth dirt itself is so default and dull game that I do not want to talk about it for a long time.
However, the leaders of this podcast are guys from the Donut Media YouTube channel, and we personally come across them in another racing series-Forza Horizon. And here it would seem like with NFS UnBound-painstakingly created in the alter ego editor, realistic setting and stars, communicating personally with us. However, firstly, the Donut Media themselves personally do not know me, and they do not cause any emotions at a meeting (although they seem to be popular on the English-speaking YouTube-a kind of Zumersky Top Gear). Secondly, in the Fores (at least in the currently available two parts), we initially act not in the role of a simple kid (or girls), which begins his racing career, but on the contrary, we themselves find out the star that everyone around is loved and knows. Maybe in the previous chorazons (from the first to the third) it was not so, but now you will neither buy them nor feel in the Gamepass.
In my opinion, such a technique of gamemesign as the transfer of experience with a star with a star has great potential in certain settings and genres. People tend to fan to someone, and many of us have idols.