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#AGE OF SAIL 2 MOVIE#
It mostly sounds like stuff you'd hear during the closing credits of a movie (one track in particular sounds like it came from Shakespeare in Love), and it doesn't inspire at all the right sort of mood for naval combat.One part of the game that Akella designed really well is the interface. It's not bad, really it's just inappropriate. However, the real culprit for the sound is the background music.
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I think the game might have sounded better (and seemed a little less impersonal) if Akella had added more human sounds / voices. Those sounds are done about as well as can be expected, but the overall effect still seems a little sparse. You'll hear things like the boom of cannon fire, the splash of cannon balls that land in the ocean, the crackling of fire, and the blub-blub of sinking ships. Less impressive are things like how fire is handled - it doesn't look anything like what is shown in the screenshots included on the game box - how sailors are modeled, and how ships sink.The sound for the game is fairly uninspired.
#AGE OF SAIL 2 PLUS#
Plus the day and night cycles are handled nicely, and you can watch the sun set if you feel so inclined.
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However, there are some nice visual effects, like when ships lose a mast and you get to see the mast topple over and sink into the ocean, and when cannon fire creates a lot of smoke, and the smoke drifts in the direction of the wind. Ships are rendered well, but as far as I could tell there are only two ship models - sloops and frigates - and so even though there are supposedly over 1200 ships represented in the game, they'll all look pretty much alike. However, it does come with 118 historical scenarios, four hypothetical scenarios, and six campaigns, and those combined should include most of the situations people are likely to be interested in.The graphics for Age of Sail 2 are good but not great. The most notable subtraction is that Age of Sail 2 does not have a scenario editor.
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Other additions include the ability for ships to shoot high or low, the inclusion of land masses and forts in some game maps, the explicit need to form boarding parties to capture ships (a feature that doesn't work), and a whole set of ship formation options (a feature that isn't implemented yet). Age of Sail 2, meanwhile, has a nice 3D graphics engine that is able to bring several ship types and locations to life. Age of Sail had fairly pedestrian 2D graphics, even by 1996 standards. For example, ammunition still comes in four types (round, chain, grape, and double), sails can still be placed in three settings (furled, battle, and full), and ships are still rated in four categories (hull integrity, sail integrity, crew, and guns).The most obvious difference between the two games - again surprise, surprise - is the graphics. They also share most of their gameplay elements. Both games have the exact same focus: naval warfare between wooden ships during the years 1775 to 1820. In short, I think we can finally let Ultima 9 off the hook and designate Age of Sail 2 as the new poster child for ‘Game That Was Released Way Too Early’.Age of Sail 2, created by Russian developer Akella, is the sequel to - surprise, surprise - Age of Sail, which was released at the end of 1996. In future launchings, I found that whole sections of the game weren't implemented, that various elements were implemented (I guess) but didn't work right (I guess), and that there was a long list of bugs, problems, and quirks involving just about every aspect of the game. The second time I launched the game, everything worked fine until I tried to start a scenario, and then my computer locked up again. The first time I launched Age of Sail 2, my computer locked up.