Betonov
06-28-14, 04:33 PM
Stumbled across this gem a few days ago and bought it yesterday. I love puzzle games.
Ubisoft decided to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI by releasing Valiant Hearts. A puzzle platform game set during the great war. And don't let the cartoon style fool you, it can be gritty.
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You play as French soldier drafted from the farm, an American volunteer in the French army with a personal vendetta, a German soldier with a wife in France and a hot veterinarian student from Belgium that became a medic.
And Walt, the main hero of the story
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2014/06/Capture-610x336.jpg
If that dog dies in the end I'll need a bucket.
You got some lighthearted puzzles like finding a tobacco pipe in a POW camp to exchange for a piece of ham and the taxi chases where the Germans are bombarding you to the tune of Brahms Hungarian rhapsody...
...to searching for wounded in a pile of dead bodies, the bombardment of Rheims and seeing how you helped kill someone who saved your life one mission ago.
And I shot down a Fokker plane with a tank at the Somme :doh:
No shooting (apart from some cannon shots), though you do knock out a couple of Germans with a gravy scoop :)
And last but not least, there's a lot of souvenirs to be found trough the game, everyone with a description what it is and how it's connected to the period and a diary with some historical facts that pop up as you go along.
So, if you like puzzles and would play a war game with no run'n'gun but a good story, buy it. It's only €15 on steam :03:
Ubisoft decided to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI by releasing Valiant Hearts. A puzzle platform game set during the great war. And don't let the cartoon style fool you, it can be gritty.
http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_medium/1197/11970954/2503972-2237877-730867_20130910_001.jpg
You play as French soldier drafted from the farm, an American volunteer in the French army with a personal vendetta, a German soldier with a wife in France and a hot veterinarian student from Belgium that became a medic.
And Walt, the main hero of the story
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2014/06/Capture-610x336.jpg
If that dog dies in the end I'll need a bucket.
You got some lighthearted puzzles like finding a tobacco pipe in a POW camp to exchange for a piece of ham and the taxi chases where the Germans are bombarding you to the tune of Brahms Hungarian rhapsody...
...to searching for wounded in a pile of dead bodies, the bombardment of Rheims and seeing how you helped kill someone who saved your life one mission ago.
And I shot down a Fokker plane with a tank at the Somme :doh:
No shooting (apart from some cannon shots), though you do knock out a couple of Germans with a gravy scoop :)
And last but not least, there's a lot of souvenirs to be found trough the game, everyone with a description what it is and how it's connected to the period and a diary with some historical facts that pop up as you go along.
So, if you like puzzles and would play a war game with no run'n'gun but a good story, buy it. It's only €15 on steam :03: