异度历险
Hexplore

Heliovisions Productions, 1998
Windows

Heliovisions Productions, 1998
Windows

异度历险(Hexplore)是一款法国产的等距视角小队制 RPG。它在技术和玩法层面上提供了一种有趣的思路,但并未能获得太大的成功,甚至在此类游戏的资深玩家群体中也是鲜为人知。

游戏背景设定在某个魔幻版地球上的十字军东征时期,故事主要围绕着主角麦克·布莱德(Mac Bride)去寻找失踪的圣骑士而展开,当然了,路上他顺便也拯救了世界。在游戏第一关中,会有弓箭手、战士还有法师这三位同伴加入队伍。

每名角色都有自己一套独特的武器和可用道具。主角麦克是个可以使用炸弹、肉搏以及近战武器的多面手;弓箭手可以远程攻击并且能揭示出地图上的隐藏区域;战士可以使用众多强有力的近战武器以及爆炸物;法师可对团队施加治疗、隐身等效果或是施法降下“火雨”。随着游戏推进,角色的每种武器都可以获得三次额外升级,这不仅可以大大提升其威力及实用性,甚至能在某些情况下左右角色的行动方式。

游戏内的十二个庞大关卡囊括大片开放区域以及可探索场景。关卡内的海量谜题要靠每个角色发挥自己的专长(像是通过狭窄通道或者操纵机关什么的)才能解决。为了完成谜题,大多数情况下需要把队伍成员分成几个小组来事先侦察或者为较弱的队友吸引火力。由于有个高效简洁的游戏界面,这使得队伍管理起来非常容易。

不同于 90 年代其他的等距视角角色扮演游戏,《异度历险》不仅是全 3D,而且允许玩家自由旋转游戏的镜头视角。有时候你需要经常旋转视角才能在构思巧妙的场景中发掘隐藏其中的宝藏、钥匙以及秘密。

Hexplore is an isometric, party-based RPG from France. It had a number of interesting technical aspects and gameplay solutions, but never achieved much success and is relatively unknown, even to veterans of the genre.

Set during the Crusades in a fantastic version of Earth, the game follows Mac Bride, an adventurer, as he tries to track down fellow missing knights and, of course, save the world in the process. During the first level he is joined by three other companions – an archer, warrior and sorcerer.

Each character has a unique set of weapons and utility items at their disposal. Mac is a generalist that uses bombs, melee and short-range weapons. The archer uses long-range weapons and can reveal hidden places on the map. The warrior uses a number of powerful melee weapons and explosives, while the wizard can heal, make the party invisible or rain fire from above. As the game progresses, characters gain access to three additional upgrades for each weapon which increase their damage/usefulness and even change the way they behave in some cases.

There are 12 huge levels spanning many open spaces and explorable interiors. Each level also features a number of puzzles where each character needs to use its unique skill (fit through a tight opening, operate mechanical devices, etc.) to complete it. Party members often need to split up in order to solve the puzzles, scout ahead or draw fire away from weaker allies. Managing the whole party is quite easy, thanks to a simple and efficient interface.

Unlike other isometric RPGs from the late 90s, Hexplore is fully 3D and allows you to freely rotate the camera – something you'll need to do a lot to uncover all the treasures, keys and secrets hidden in its cleverly constructed environments.

若在现今的电脑设备上运行该游戏,你需要打上 民间爱好者补丁,否则游戏隔几秒就会崩溃。

To run Hexplore on modern PCs you're going to need the fan patch, otherwise the game will crash every few seconds.

《异度历险》也是少数使用体素[1] 而非多边形[2] 引擎的游戏。即便领先于时代,但以当时眼光来看游戏的画面却非常杂乱,不过手绘的过场动画以及令人难忘的配乐上倒是弥补了这一缺点。

游戏同时也支持四人联机,但并未流传开来。总之,《异度历险》作为一款有意思的小众游戏,尽管未能改变现如今的行业标准,但仍不失是一次有趣的尝试。

Hexplore is also one of the rare games that uses a voxel-based engine (instead of polygons). It was pretty fast for its time, but even then the graphics looked muddled. This was made up for somewhat with handdrawn cutscenes and a memorable soundtrack.

The game also supported 4-player multiplayer, but it never became popular. Overall, Hexplore is a fun, niche game that didn't improve upon existing standards, but remains an interesting experiment.

游戏后半程更侧重于解密和探索,迷宫中充满了陷阱、钥匙以及隐藏开关。

The later areas of the game focus heavily on puzzles and exploration, with mazes full of traps, keys and secret switches.

战斗系统简单纯粹且采用了实时制,又有点类似《暗黑破坏神(Diablo)》。你可以调整游戏速度以便横扫弱小的敌人,或是小心翼翼地应对难以对付的强敌。

Combat is simple, real-time and a bit Diablo-like. You can change the game's speed to plow through easy enemies or carefully battle tougher foes.

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1 译者注:体素(voxel-based),即像素的三维版本。一般在二维空间内可使用颜色的二维数组从而构成图像,但在三位空间内也可以用给予像素三维数组表示一个栅格化的三维空间,多个垒起起来从而构成立体模型,而这便是体素。
2 译者注:多边形(polygons),使用三维三角形网格(3D triangle mesh)构建起的模型。

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