Lost Horizon 2
| Lost Horizon 2 | |||
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| Studio | Animation arts | ||
| Publisher | Deep Silver | ||
| Senior Developer | Marco Zeugner | ||
| composer | Thorsten Engel | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
October 1, 2015 | ||
| platform | Microsoft Windows | ||
| Game engine | Unity | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| medium | DVD-ROM , download | ||
| language | German English | ||
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Lost Horizon 2 is a computer game from the Haller development studio Animation Arts from 2015. The successor to Lost Horizon , published in 2010 by the same studio, is also an adventure game and takes place 20 years after its predecessor.
action
Germany in November 1942: The researcher Dr. Brunner made a discovery that he would like to hide from the authorities. He was just about to burn his papers in the fireplace when an SS detachment stormed his apartment to arrest him and his family.
The actual game action begins in 1956. Fenton Paddock, a British soldier and adventurer and protagonist of the previous game, is used in the Suez War to determine coordinates in Port Said for an imminent British bombing raid. Paddock's daughter Gwen, whom he thinks is in a boarding school in Germany, is on the trail of a Viking artifact that was once supposed to help the Nazis to their final victory and that Brunner researched. The KGB is also after the artifact and kidnaps Paddock's daughter. Together with the Israeli secret agent Anne, who is also interested in the artifact and turns out to be Brunner's daughter, Paddock goes in search of Gwen. The player visits locations in Bavaria, Moscow, Sandhurst in England, Jersey , Gotland , Iceland and finally the mythical Asgard .
Game principle and technology
Lost Horizon 2 is a 2.5D point-and-click adventure. For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures to act in some pre-rendered, partly hand-drawn, two-dimensional scenes, which by animations , projection mapping and parallax scrolling are visually broken up. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Fenton Paddock can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . Dialogues run automatically. As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked; At certain points the player also takes control of Anna and Gwen. The camera shows what is happening from a variable perspective; If the player leaves the field of view, the camera follows the player and takes a new, better position. Occasionally, the action is interrupted by so-called mini - games , which do not require a talent for combination, but as a rule skill.
Production notes
The game was announced at Gamescom 2013. The release was delayed due to commissioned work that Animation Arts had to prefer to its own development, Lost Horizon 2 . The role of Fenton Paddock was spoken by Stefan Günther , as in the previous game in the German version .
reception
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Lost Horizon 2 received mediocre reviews from game magazines as well as adventure magazines. From 5 aggregated ratings, the game on Metacritic achieved a score of 58. The German magazine GameStar praised an "absurd but exciting adventure story in the style of the 'Indiana Jones' films", "imaginative" puzzles and the voice recordings, but criticized the boring camera work , the “cheap plastic look” of the game environment as well as the cutscenes, which, due to the low resolution, would come across as “blurry pixelated mash”. The trade magazine Adventure-Treff assumed that Animation Arts originally wanted to benefit from the success of the games from Telltale Games and wanted to produce an action-heavy, shallow adventure with Lost Horizon 2 , and for this thesis it introduced game elements that are untypical for adventure such as time-limited scenes, sneaking elements and quick-time events on. The magazine positively emphasized the graphics and the variety of the places to be visited, but criticized the character models and cutscenes and assessed that "it tries (...) too much and fails". The trade magazine Adventure Gamers praised the approach of a graphically appealing, solidly researched adventure game that takes the player around the world. However, it criticized the implementation with the help of "outdated" technology as well as weaknesses in the script with regard to the dialogues and character development.
Lost Horizon 2 was nominated for the German Developer Award 2015, but did not win any award.
Web links
- Lost Horizon 2 at MobyGames (English)
- Trailer on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Youtube.com: Interview with Marco Zeugner from Animation Arts. Retrieved September 10, 2017 . (1:05)
- ↑ GamersGlobal.de: Lost Horizon 2 Test. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b AdventureGamers.com: Lost Horizon 2. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Adventure-Treff.de: Lost Horizon 2. Retrieved on September 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b GameStar.de: Lost Horizon 2 in the test - archaeologist with old age. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Lost Horizon 2. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Adventure-Treff.de: German Developer Award - the countdown is on. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .