Year of construction: 2009
Genre: RPG (Rogue/Action) / 3D / 3rd Person
developer: ClockStone Studio
Publishing house: HeadUp Games
System requirements for maximum rendering quality recommended by the gameGPU website:
The minimum
Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 4470 or GeForce 8600GT
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 6.86 GB free space
Effective
Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2,66 GHz
RAM: 1.5 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 4650 or GeForce GT 220
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 6.86 GB free space
Optimal
Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MBRAM Radeon HD 4690 or GS GeForce 8800 260
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 6.86 GB free space
Official description of the game
Greed: Black Border is a game in the best traditions of the genre. Make your way through crowds of robots, alien creatures, improve your weapons and costume
Features:
– A wide variety of levels, each available in 3 levels of difficulty and divided into 3 different scenarios with several monster types as well as large end bosses
– 3 completely different playable character classes
– Diverse, scalable Skills in 3 categories per character class – simultaneous use of all categories offers the most compelling combinations
– Increased properties with immediate effect on Gameplay
– Composite-cash and base-cash weapons, weapons and Items
– Online capable Coop multiplayer mode for 3 players
Review: Playability
In anticipation of such a long release of Diablo 3, many developers are not at a loss and have recently been actively increasing the pace of releasing games on this topic. Well, it would be dishonest to consider this product a purely Diablo clone. If you take a closer look at the storyline, then another project will begin to flash in your mind, namely Dead Space.
As in all games of this genre, we make our way through clusters of monsters, find all kinds of objects and level up our character.
But there is also a little bit of ointment that spoils this barrel of honey. The controls in Greed: Black Border are simply terrible. When you need to show maneuverability, God knows what happens. Destroying monsters does not bring any pleasure – they are not easy to kill and you always have to run from them across the game map, suffering from poor controls.
But if you are a fan of this genre, you will certainly find something unique and interesting in this game, and armed with an indestructible mouse, you can safely conquer this project.
Review: Game Graphics
The game graphics of Greed: Black Border did not lose face in front of the gaming audience and looks quite good by modern standards.
The detailing of the characters is a little lacking when you zoom in on them, but playing from such an angle is almost impossible due to the inconvenient location of the game camera.
But in general, we can conclude that the graphics in the game are quite pleasant and will not disappoint demanding gamers.
Review: Resource-intensive game
For a comfortable game, you will need a dual-core Core 2 Duo 2,66 GHz processor and 1,5 gigabytes of RAM.. The game is either poorly optimized, or optimized to run on processor resources rather than video cards, but the fact remains that the game has minimal requirements for video cards, while the requirements from the processor are maximum.
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by the Fraps program in the most resource-intensive part of the game. We tested video cards from the lower price segment at a resolution of 1024×768, video cards from the middle price range were tested at a resolution of 1280×1024, and video cards from the upper price range were tested at a resolution of 1680×1050. We tested processor dependence on the HD5870 video card with maximum quality graphics settings.
Testing at maximum Low End quality settings at 1024×768 resolution
In the lower category, only a small number of video cards are not capable of handling this game.
Testing at maximum quality settings Midle End at 1280×1024 resolution
Testing at maximum High End quality settings at 1680×1050 resolution
In the lower and middle segments we see absolute parity, and only with increasing resolution the average number of frames drops slightly.
Testing processor dependence at maximum quality settings at a resolution of 1680×1050
It is very clear that the game is only capable of using the resource of dual-core processors. It is also clear that the entire performance of video cards depends on the central processor. From this we can conclude that the requirements for the graphics subsystem are minimal and everything depends on the frequency of the dual-core processor. And the higher it is, the correspondingly higher the frame rate will be. Of course, we can’t say that the game is unplayable on any of the processors we tested. But such a low frame rate on the most advanced models is a little alarming.
Conclusion: This product would be quite good if it were not for the terrible controls and poor optimization in relation to the central processor.
