Review: Afrika
It's like Pokemon Snap, but with fewer snorlaxes and more elephants.
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It's like Pokemon Snap, but with fewer snorlaxes and more elephants.
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Review: Afrika
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They finally released it?
Looks fun if you're the patient type. I'd rather photograph real animals, but budgets are a pain in the ass.
If I finally get a PS3 someday, I'll check it out.
Looks fun if you're the patient type. I'd rather photograph real animals, but budgets are a pain in the ass.
If I finally get a PS3 someday, I'll check it out.
Says right there that "death" will just send you back to the camp and remove all the photos you collected in that run.
IGN also complained that you could only take one photo assignment with you (instead of a todo list of several assignments so you can take a picture of whatever you encounter) and that the map was very small and purpose built (e.g. a hippo pond and such instead of a large map where hippos could show up in any body of water), was that an issue for you?
IGN also complained that you could only take one photo assignment with you (instead of a todo list of several assignments so you can take a picture of whatever you encounter) and that the map was very small and purpose built (e.g. a hippo pond and such instead of a large map where hippos could show up in any body of water), was that an issue for you?
It was a bit annoying at first, but I got in the habit of just taking lots of pictures of everything whenever I went out. That way, I could clear a bunch of missions back at base camp, because I'd already have a photo meeting the requirements. This only worked for easier assignments, like "Get a picture of a water buffalo," and you won't receive certain assignments until you do something specific. But it's really not a big deal.KDR_11k said:
You're also right about the animals only showing up in specific places for specific reasons. This isn't the broad, sprawling safari that you might want. While that's somewhat disappointing in some respects, it definitely helps cut down on the "where the hell do I look *now*?" factor. If you had to find, say, hippos, it's nice to know where the assigned hippo pool is, as opposed to searching blindly all over the various map locations.
Eh, I dunno, this seems to be more of a simulation then a game. Meaning that it's more concerned with realism than gameplay.
WOW. You get $30,000 just for photographing a merecat standing on its hind legs? Well, I'm moving to Afrika.
NOT
It looks like another Demon's Souls level "fuck you" to Europeans.LazerFX said:
Shame, my roommate would have LOVED this, and I could have used it to legitimise gaming to the handful of people I know who still think that video games are nothing but sprawling kill-'em-ups...
I know so many people here in the UK who would get this game... myself included.
Why in the lords name they can't just make a PAL version is beyond me.
Why in the lords name they can't just make a PAL version is beyond me.
