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The Ship Single Player - Review
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Craig
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The Ship Single Player



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Info
Title: The Ship Single Player
Genre: Action, RPG, Indie
Developer: Outerlight Ltd.
Publisher: Blazing Griffin Ltd.
Release Date: 20 Nov 2006




Synopsis
The Ship is owned by the mysterious Mr X and as one of many "lucky" recipients of a free ticket you arrive on board The Ship to find there's a catch to your luxury cruise. The passengers are coerced into a brutal Hunt to indulge Mr. X's fantasies. Can you survive the voyage? Can you unravel the mystery of Mr X and ultimately can you escape his clutches? This single player mission based campaign provides a good introduction to the world of The Ship.




Gamplay
Gameplay is very slow and long winded in this game, it is very hard to navigate your way around the ship whilst looking for people. The aim of the game is, kill or be killed. You are given a target on the boat with their last known location, but while you're hunting them down, you have to avoid the person hunting you. There can be no witnesses of the attack and have to avoid security camera's. So it is very hard to get it right first time. Took me a while to get used to, but it's fun when you do. If you treat this game in the right manor, it can become quite scary, you're always checking behind you for people sneaking up on you and when the light go out, it's even more scary. So if played right, it can be very scary.




Graphics
The graphics are not very impressive at all, now don't get me wrong I wasn't expecting new age graphics or anything like that, but at least some more detail on the textures and colors. Everything is very plain and very bland, especially for a cruise ship, they're usually done up all fancy, but this isn't at all. But from the graphics it does have the colors are deep and a bit bright in some cases, but overall pretty good. Nothing more fancy is needed, but I feel it would make the game feel better to play. If I can concentrate on the models of the people in the game, they are so out of proportion it's untrue. Some don't even look like what I'm guessing are humans, now I'm not saying this is a bad thing as this game isn't meant to be true to life at all, but better models would have been nicer on the graphical style.




Controls
The controls are very easy to use, everything is where it should be and where you'd expect it to be. Now the main control is the mouse as that is what you use to action everything to look in cupboards for weapons and also to look where you're going. The keyboard actions are also very easy to get the hang of, only a few that took about 4 or 5 minutes to get used to. But an overall great layout for the controls. All you need to play this game is basic knowledge of a mouse and keyboard, if you know where the keys are, you'll be perfectly fine. Now like I said before, the game isn't fast paced so you won't be looking for controls within the blink of an eye. But if you really can't get on with the buttons, it does include a mapping option for you to change them to your specifications.




System Requirements
Minimum:
1.8 GHz Processor
512MB RAM
DirectX 8 level graphics card (1024x768)
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse & Keyboard
Internet Connection
DirectX 9.0c

Recommended:
2.8 GHz Processor
1024MB RAM
DirectX 9 capable Graphics Card (1024x768)
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse & Keyboard
Internet Connection
DirectX 9.0c




Ratings
Gameplay - 6/10
Graphics - 5/10
Controls - 8/10
Overall - 6.5/10


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