It's Hard To Be A God

The film and the game are based on the novel by Strugatsky brothers, who are one of the most famous sci-fi writers in Russia. Btw, Stalker movie is also based on their novel "Roadside picnic". And the STLAKER game also has some themes from it.

The book "It's hard to be a god" is cool, the game is shit. I have nothing more to say :) It's a typical Russian B-class game, totally uninspired and uninteresting.
 
GreyViper said:
While browsing few Akella games I came upon It's Hard To Be A God. My question is, has anyone played it and whats their opinion?
link to game info http://pc.ign.com/articles/803/803099p1.html
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I have played and reviewed it.

It's a bit of an insult towards fans of the book, otherwise it's a middling RPG with a lot of major flaws. As I put it in my conclusion:

Hard to be a God sets up some hard entry barriers for you to get past. The most significant ones are the awkward combat mechanics, the annoying camera angle and the shoddy localization. These are bad enough – especially combined – to make the game simply unplayable for some people, so I would definitely not advise anyone to whom this may sound like a problem to buy the game without trying the demo.

Now what I'd like to says is “but once you get past all that there's a real gem there”. But there isn't. If you scratch the surface to get deeper into the game, you won't find a masterpiece hidden under the muck. The RPG hidden under there is solid if a bit too linear for my tastes, with some really good world building, an intricate plot and a wide variety of RPGs. It's solid, hell, it's pretty good, but it's not great.

So that begs the question, is it worth it? Hard to be a God is actually a bit of a difficult game to answer that question for (and as such the rating below is not all that meaningful). I really enjoyed it, but for me the only real issue was the camera, the other flaws didn't really bother me. And I think that's the best conclusion for this game: it's worth a go if its glaring flaws don't bother you too much, but don't grit your teeth and try to bear them hoping the game will get better. It really won't.
 
Thank you Brother None that was the feedback I wanted.

13pm I was aware most of the info you posted. The game may have sucked but the film was okay.
 
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