Hogs of War [1] (literally "Pigs of War" ) - a strategy with step-by-step controls, released on June 5 and 8, 2000 on the Sony PlayStation , and on November 3, 2000 on the PC . The title plays up the phrase “Dogs of War” ( Eng. Dogs of war , first found in Shakespeare’s play “ Julius Caesar ”). In Russia it was published by the Fargus Multimedia company as “Pigs in battle” [2] .
| Hogs of war | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | Infogrames studios |
| Publisher | Infogrames europe |
| Release dates | Playstation  06-06-2000 PAL 08-06-2000 PC PAL 03-11-2000 |
| Genres | strategy artillery |
| Age ratings | ELSPA: 11+ ESRB : PEGI : 12 USK : |
| Technical details | |
| Platforms | Sony PlayStation , PC |
| Game modes | single user multiplayer |
| Carrier | CD-ROM |
| Control | gamepad keyboard |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 gameplay
- 3 reviews
- 4 Hogs of War 2
- 5 Cultural references
- 6 notes
Story
On the archipelago of the islands of Sostralia (Swinland), there is a war between six nations for the possession of the “mud island”. Over 25 missions, the player will have to either fight off the encirclement from enemy soldiers, or go on an assault with a certain number of wards. The player will be given a choice of various enemy soldiers in the face of pigs stylized as French (blue), German (gray), British (green), Japanese (yellow), American (blue) and Russian (red) soldiers.
Gameplay
The game is made entirely in 3D, the gameplay resembles the games of the Worms series, for which the Hogs of War was often called "worms in 3D, only with pigs." However, the gameplay of Hogs of War is quite different from Worms due to the possibility of developing classes, the lack of destructible terrain, as well as the ability to use equipment and buildings. In the game, each soldier can be upgraded to a certain rank in one of the branches of development, which gives its own unique weapons and abilities. There are four main classes:
- artilleryman - specializes in powerful long-range weapons (bazookas, mortars and missile launchers);
- engineer - specializes in explosives;
- spy - uses a sniper rifle as the main weapon, can disguise itself as boxes or trees, becoming invisible to opponents, as well as on a minimap;
- Medic - which can heal friendly (and enemy) warriors.
Regardless of their class, any soldier can pick up and use any weapon found on the battle map.
For the PS1 European version of the game, there is a save for the inaccessible As rank in the Game Guru The Best collection. On the console, up to four players can play through the PlayStation Multitap .
Reviews
| Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Summary rating | |
| Aggregator | Rating |
| Gameranks | 74% [3] |
| Metacritic | 62/100 [4] |
| Foreign language editions | |
| Edition | Rating |
| Allgame | [5] |
| Egm | 7/10 [6] |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 [7] |
| Game revolution | C [8] |
| Gamespot | 5.5 / 10 |
| IGN | 7.4 / 10 [9] |
| OPM | [10] |
| Play magazine | 90% [12] |
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Hogs of War received mixed reviews from critics at Metacritic . [a] [4] Hogs received more favorable reviews with 74% on Game Rankings . [b] [3]
Hogs of War 2
On February 13, 2008, Infogrames announced the Hogs of War 2 for Nintendo DS , Wii , PlayStation 2 consoles , as well as for PCs [13] . The exit was scheduled for April 2009, but the game was canceled due to lack of finances [14] . During development, Infogrames experienced financial problems and was transformed into Atari, SA.
Cultural references
- The poster of the game mimics the poster of the Stanley Kubrick film “ Full Metal Shell ”, also on the helmet instead of “born to kill” ( born to grill) ( born to grill or born to fry ). Two tubes were trimmed to the helmet with a strap: apple sauce for pork ( apple sauce for pork ) and barbecue sauce for ribs ( BBQ sauce for ribs ), and on the strap there was an icon with the inscription Team Lard ( Team "Salo" ).
Notes
- ↑ Hogs of War - MobyGames
- ↑ game covers on scan-pir.narod.ru
- ↑ 1 2 3 Hogs of War for PlayStation - GameRankings . gamerankings.com . Date of treatment August 7, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Hogs of War for PlayStation Reviews . Metacritic . Date accessed August 18, 2017. Archived September 11, 2017.
- ↑ Barnes, JC Hogs of War (PS) - Review . AllGame . Date of treatment August 18, 2017. Archived November 15, 2014.
- ↑ EGM staff. Hogs of War (Eng.) // Electronic Gaming Monthly . - 2000. - November.
- ↑ Ellis, Keith "DNM" Hogs of War Review (PSOne) . Eurogamer (July 23, 2000). Date of treatment August 18, 2017. Archived January 27, 2001.
- ↑ Radakovic, Nebosja "Brian" Hogs of War Review (PS) . Game Revolution (November 2000). Date of treatment August 18, 2017. Archived on September 19, 2015.
- ↑ Steinberg, Scott Hogs of War Review (PS) . IGN (September 29, 2000). Date of treatment August 18, 2017. Archived August 18, 2017.
- ↑ Hogs of War Review // Official US PlayStation Magazine . - 2000. - November.
- ↑ Hogs of War Review // PlayStation: The Official Magazine . - 2000. - July.
- ↑ Hogs of War Reveiw (unknown) // Play UK . - 2000.
- ↑ Infogrames Confirms Hogs of War 2, Airborne Raiders Return, NWN2 Expansion 2 News Archived January 30, 2013.
- ↑ Company revenues for 2007-2008 Archived February 6, 2009.
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