Release Review for Rise
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Diskmagazine AGA Chipset required - interviews | Darkage Avenger - Cheetah - Corrosion - ... | a6/98 |
Rise Mellow Chips-TRSI #1 at The Gathering'98 Like in a dream... A beautiful girl, Jane, in a yellow bikini walks to you in a dark tunnel. Then stops behind the entrance of this cave covered from falling water. The camera flys around her wonderful body and she's ready to jump into the waterfall, a big jump in a kind of little paradise with great and colourful flowers and a temple with a big portal. Another scene: Under the water in a dark and obscure room a trap-door opens and an octopus exits. Into its hole a blade is rotating as an evil mechanism activated. But this time the evil forces are too late! Jane has just entered into the temple and she's looking around: Big windows show a blue sky and green trees, and in the last room there's an altar to the goddess (the mother goddess?) with two templars standing before and a stained glass ceiling. Jane arrives on the altar and she's ready... to rise in a cone of blue light with an explosion of colourful spots. This girl is not for the evil forces and the snake can only wait for another victim, but not this one! Yeah! Finally a demo which can define a new standard in design! All in this demo is made keeping in mind a very storyboard. And also if some particulars are not completely clear (what represents the octopuss? ;-) or the effects are nothing new on your screen, you don't mind! You are seeing a brief story with a concrete sense! That's what I call "Design"! The 3D engine by Aivo is the same of other productions such as Divine and Dim, maybe a bit improved, but with the same 2x2 pixel graphics and the same persistance effect. Interesting, but in some parts such as the paradise, the persistance effect is a bit annoying. Probably without this effect could be more cpu time for a 1x1 pixel resolution! The graphic work by Ola, Lich, Tequila and Aivo for 3D objects is really incredible and the Jane gait remember Lara Croft (but Jane is more sexy! ;-) Noteworthy is also the title parts with sparkling stars joining in the word "present" and a laser beam writing the word "Rise" on a marble plate amid sparks and lens flares: very impressive! The 2D pictures by ReWired are very good and technically valuable. Of course also the rendered title picture by Asa, Lich and Ola are great with a wise use of translucency and colours. The Kalsu's musics are not only functional, but very atmospherical and give the right enphasis to the various scenes. Coding : Very good - maybe to improve a bit 2D Graphics : Very good - functional, but very accurate 3D Graphics : Fantastic - at least something new and not only torus! Music : Very good - especially the little final scrolltext tune Design : Fantastic - a new horizon! Overall vote: Very Good - A must for your collection!