Silvery falls

So, I got an email from the people behind the WolfQuest game which said that they had released a new version of their game..

I played the old version and I wasn’t very impressed due to increasing amounts of crashes and just overall bad performance from the game engine, though I am happy to say that they have really been hard at work on improving their engine to the point where the game is actually playable..
To tell a little about the game play. You play as a loner wolf which has just left your birth pack to venture out into the mountain range and find yourself a mate..

In the game there are 3 pack zones of the map (zones which belong to other wolf packs) and you can visit those three to “talk” to other wolves, now the game isn’t very informative on what you have to do, because you kinda have to visit all three zones before you even have a change at finding a mate..
After you have found yourself a mate and done a little courtship for your prospective mate, you get to name your mate and he or she will follow you around on your journey through the Yellowstone National Park..

The AI is okay, though sometimes I have had a few problems with my mate, getting him to follow me around but after a howl or two, he usually comes running back to me..

After you get yourself a mate, you don’t really have many other things to do in the game. You can go rabbit and elk hunting, you can also try and hunt down a few of the coyotes in the game and even try your paw at hunting one of the Grizzlies in the park, but the Grizzlies aren’t really that easy to hunt down..

And that’s basically what there is to the game, get a mate and hunt.. There is also an multi player part of the game that I haven’t tried yet, due to some annoying lag/timeout issues with their network engine, so I cannot talk very much on the multi player part of the game, but the single player part is quite lacking really..

I am sorry for the lack of pictures in the post, but I haven’t gotten around to take some yet, when I have I will put them up on my gallery page where you can check them out, but right now there aren’t any images from that game yet..

I will also say a few things about game performance.. Sure the game can be rather pretty when your play on the highest setting, but with my computer (not the newest but not the oldest) I get down to 3 fps when there are more characters on the screen other than my mate and me, so if I wanted to do some serious elk hunting, I have to set the game down 2 notches over the lowest setting, which makes all the game graphics mediocre at best..

Though I have not even had one crash yet, so they have done a lot to improve that at least..
Last but not least, I will recommend the game for others that are interested in such games, because it is an okay game and best of all it’s free, so there is hardy anything I can complain about in regards to price.

I’ll give the game a score of around 5/10, it’s an okay game but there could be done a lot to improve the game play and the graphical rendering (engine).. I know they use a commercial engine called Unity and I know that the Unity engine can do a lot of nice things, so I guess they really just need to look into using more shader accelerated routines and maybe cut a bit back on the poly count of the models that they use, or the sizes of their textures..

But all in all, try it out, it is at least worth 20 minutes of your time.

Thanks for reading and I hope you liked my review of WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountain Deluxe..
I look forward to seeing other newer episodes of the game when they are released and I’ll probably write reviews about those as well..

Score: 5 / 10
Homepage: WolfQuest Homepage