Contract JACK
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| Studio |
 Monolith Productions
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Sierra Entertainment
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| Senior Developer | Craig Hubbard | ||
| composer | Nathan Grigg | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Windows: November 11, 2003 November 21, 2003  |
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| platform | Microsoft Windows | ||
| Game engine | LithTech Jupiter | ||
| genre | Ego shooter | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Mouse , keyboard | ||
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| medium | CD-ROM | ||
| language | German | ||
| Current version | 1.1 (November 11, 2003) | ||
| copy protection | SecuROM v4 | ||
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| information | German version cut. | ||
Contract JACK (spelling: Contract JACK , abbreviation for Just Another Contract Killer ) is a first-person shooter and offshoot of the action games No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2 . Like its predecessors, it was developed by Monolith Productions and released for Windows on November 21, 2003 . Instead of Agent Cate Archer, the player controls this time John Jack , a hired killer , the Archers nemesis Volkov to orders for the terrorist organization is hired HARM perform.
action
The protagonist Jack wakes up after a night binge in an apartment in the "Drunken Scotsman." He is tied to a chair and in front of him are two thugs who were hired by his competitor Louie Franco to kill him. Before they can do the deed, Jack can break free and fight his way through the building. At the reception he receives a call from Dimitrij Volkov, the director of the criminal organization HARM. He offers him a job and invites him to take an application test in the Roman ruins on Malta. He exists and is hired for an assignment.
He is supposed to infiltrate a military facility in Czechoslovakia to find out why an Italian syndicate called Danger Danger is interested in the base. Jack digs deeper into the base and finds out that it includes a missile launcher. With the help of this, Danger Danger Dr. Bring Harij back to earth. Dr. Harij is a former scientist from HARM who, after the explosion of HARM's space station in the first NOLF part, built a new small space station on the moon from the remains , in which he now lives and researches. Jack manages to get into a rocket and flies it to the moon .
Once on the moon , Jack fights his way through the space station where Danger Danger's people are trying to stop him. He should be Dr. Find Harij in front of Il Pazzo, the head of Danger Danger, since Dimitrij Volkov Dr. Harij wants to work for HARM again. However, he does not succeed and Il Pazzo flees with Dr. Harij in a rocket. To stop Jack, however, he has the space station blown up beforehand. Jack is thrown into space by the explosion, but can float to a small rocket between the wreckage of the space station, with which he flies back to earth.
He crashes with the rocket in a rural region in Tuscany directly into the Danger Danger headquarters, where Il Pazzo and Dr. Harij also landed. He first escapes on a small boat and escapes with Harij into a small castle. Jack fights his way through there and can find Dr. Free Harij. Both go to the HARM headquarters, where Dimitrij Volkov is waiting for them. He tells Jack that he has no permanent job and shoots him down with a gun. The shot Jack, lying on the ground, now overhears a conversation between Volkov and Dr. Harij, in which Volkov talks about his planned ski trip. After they are both out of reach, Jack gets up again and looks at Volvok's skis with a sneering grin, which happen to be in the same room, while he hears Volkov and Harij's voices again: “ I've never been skiing before, isn't that dangerous? - Not at all! "
Gameplay
Unlike No One Lives Forever , Contract JACK is based on a pure first-person shooter, in which the player has to concentrate less because there are no hidden secrets and exchanges of fire with large opponents cannot be avoided. The player also has to do without gadgets for the most part. There are no more stealth deposits. The game runs on the same graphics engine ( LithTech Jupiter ) as No One Lives Forever 2 and uses many assets from its predecessor, such as 3D models and sounds .
reception
Unlike its predecessors, Contract JACK received mixed reviews. The simplified gameplay, the undemanding gameplay and the very short playing time were criticized . Gamespot rated the offshoot with 59% and IGN with 61%. In the German-speaking countries, on the other hand, the game was received more favorably, with PC Games awarding 81% for Contract JACK . The Gamestar rated the game with 72%, 4Players with 68%. Based on 20 reviews, Contract JACK has a mediocre metascore of 56.
Web links
- Official website for NOLF2 and Contract Jack ( Memento from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Contract JACK at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contract JACK Review on gamespot.com, accessed July 9, 2017
- ↑ Contract JACK Review on ign.com, accessed July 9, 2017
- ↑ Contract JACK Test on pcgames.de, accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ Contract JACK (PC) on gamestar.de, accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ Contract JACK on 4players.de, accessed on July 9, 2017
- ^ Contract JACK Metascore on metacritic.com, accessed July 9, 2017