Zdarova, boys. I am finishing a series of games on the games that I passed in 2021. There were few of them, but they were cool. Today I want to not just remind you of the next classic, but rather introduce the first time with one of the classic games. This game is a selected Japanese game. If you describe it very simple, it is about the battles of large humanoid robots. It is called Ring of Red or, into Russian translates "in the Red Ring". Under the “red” obvious hint of the USSR. To all this, Ring of Red is a tactical strategy. In addition to the fact that it is a tactical strategy, it is simultaneously the robot simulator. Plus, Ring of Red was released among the very first wave of games on the PlayStation 2 in the fall of 2000, when there was nothing on PS2. Not only was one of the first to go to the PlayStation 2, and also turned out to be one of the last games for the PlayStation 2, which came out not on DVD, but on 700-megabyte CDs. And this is a rarity. And she also distinguished himself that there were not even reviews on her Russian YouTube. So I will share a subjective opinion. Now when I scared all the haters of the Japanese, there were only mine, I can start. Behind the keyboard Pavel Vasilevich from the channel fans from fans. After this release, you will regret that you did not subscribe to the channel before!
I doubted whether a review of this Ring of Red was needed so? Probably there were those who overwhelmed her before me! He looked at YouTube and found that in the age of lovers of retro-game there are few reviews on her. There are two English -speaking from Avalanche Reviews and Salokin, 2 and 5 years ago, and there is one Russian -speaking from Holybigoranread – as much as 8 years ago. And that’s it! Moreover, ours was more likely to take his soul more than he looked around: in his review he swore like a shoemaker, this influenced that his video on Ring of Red is as much as 37 views for 8 years. And in general he has a racist review. And I realized that it is necessary to remove the review. And since I also love Ring of Red and even went to the end, God himself ordered to introduce her to her who wanted Russian -speaking players.
I will describe first impressions of Ring of Red to understand whether the clip is to the end. Ring of Red is fascinated by the fact that it makes it possible to feel like a large general on a tactical map and at the same time an ordinary pilot of an armored robot in combat mode. That is, Ring of Red is like two games in one. During the tactical regime, the game shows a schematic map of the terrain, divided into squares with all trees, mountains, bridges and rivers. And also robots. It was as if an important general leaned over this map and only one has the right to decide where to move the revived blue robots-pins and have the right to order them to attack. Your robots on the map are always blue, and the enemy has red. As soon as you decided to attack the enemy, the game switches from the tactical regime to the combat. In combat mode, the game takes you to the robe of the robot. Now there are only two: you and the enemy. You understand, of the two of you there is a place for only one. You feel your robot even through the screen. Here is an unevenly growl of its diesel engine, the screen shakes when walking. Here you are ordering to charge a special shell. Shot! Here and the weapon of the enemy is on fire. While the shell flew, it was shown a close -up. And how the shell damaged the enemy weapon was also shown in detail. Why only weapons, and not the whole enemy robot burned down? But try to aim at first at night yourself! While you aimed, the enemy robot went to rapprochement to confuse. On the knee of the enemy’s robot with large red hieroglyphs it is written "Courage". What will happen if robots are suitable for an outstretched hand? The battle began. Our robot was mentioned by iron sides, we gave an enemy car on the tower. For his robot was not ashamed. 90 seconds of battle times ended and you are returning to the tactical regime on the map. How much I managed, I managed so much in 90 seconds. You, as a player, are delighted with Ring of Red.
I would not touch the Ring of Red if the warhead had not bribed me. Say honestly: in which game will you have the opportunity to steer a real combat robot? And so that it is felt realistic! In the UOO mode, robots from Ring of Red do not flutter like butterflies and do not sting lasers like wasps. Humanity in the game barely figured out how to teach to walk a piece of iron on its two and shoot from a tank gun from the shoulder. Everything is extremely rude. You see how the diesel engine of the robot is growling from behind, and the giant gears on the legs of the robot help him bend. Nanotechnologies in Ring of Red and does not smell. But you believe in such a clumsy robot. You believe that this could exist.
Adds realism to the robot control panel and the ability to personally click with incomprehensible buttons. As if you were again at work in childhood at work and you are interested in what all these burning buttons affect. In the robot menu for each indicator, you can honestly affect personally. On the left you will have a gear lever. He switched forward – the boot slowly crawls to the enemy, switched back – the robot will begin to run away from the battlefield. And the first mode and the other will come in handy for the game more than once. There is also an indicator of speed, it is made as a speedometer by a car. There is an indicator of the shell charge, it will light up when the crew of the robot will charge the gun. There are indicators of special attacks of the robot and crew. They are for each their own. There is a strip of your lives, the position of the ground war groups, the percentage indicator of accuracy and the scale of the distance to the enemy. This all excites the imagination and makes you believe that everything is actually on the screen. You will get used to it and start playing. These devices in no case are not scared of the desire to play. At the same time, Ring of Red allows you to choose yourself: whether to stay at the level of the amateur and communicate with her on “you” or learn what these indicators mean, begin to manage personally and switch with it to a close “you”. I will never believe that in the first passage you can switch to you. In Ring of Red, the first passage of the game is like one big training.
There will be no moment in Ring of Red when you get confused in your robots. Maximum of them will be 8. Artists tried to draw robots as plausible and at the same time memorable. The lightest of them resemble tanks of the Second World War, only on chicken legs. They do not even have a decent gun, they are only able to approach a close distance and shoot the enemy from a machine gun. The average robots are more like what is proudly called furs. They still resemble tanks, but already with full -fledged arms and legs, and there is also a normal cannon’s gun. These robots are able to show themselves at close and medium distances, and not yet fools to put cast -iron fists in close combat. The most heavy robots are like tanks on spider paws. They are heavy, from this slow and clumsy. It is best to start a battle from afar. Their gun is huge and is not able to aim at close range. If they gave me a choice of which robots to take, I would choose medium alone, but the game shows that we are not in those conditions to choose and palm off the robots myself. The graphics in Ring of Red are not the level of PlayStation 2, rather resembles a picture of the PlayStation 1+ level, that is, the maximum power of the first "Sonya", but a little better. But it only goes into the hands of robots in Ring of Red. They thought cast iron, clumsy and square. This was what the old consoles were capable of.
There are only three https://goldenpharaohcasino.uk/ classes of work in Ring of Red, but there is enough visual diversity. There are Japanese production robots, hieroglyphs are often drawn on them, such as “courage” or “Banzai”. There are Soviet robots with shields with a ridiculous inscription in Russian letters "fight". There are robots of the American and German assembly. At the same time, you will begin to see the difference between robots of different countries. For example, Soviet robots always have a square tower, they look like cubes with handles and legs. Japanese closer to the style of Japanese nanotechnological robots.
The main thing today is not a graphics, but a beautiful design. Will you say after this screenshot that the game is ugly?
The first missions five you play in Ring of Red on a full relaxation. But when the missions for 6-7 cars begin to take you to your weaker, you understand that not everything was told to you and not taught everything to you. Does the game stop leading you by the handle? This excellent moment is coming to think that the combat system in Ring of Red is much deeper than you thought. You thought that “go and shoot”? In battle, not only robots, but also accompanying human detachments play a big role in your losses. We must not forget about your robots skills. It is very important at what time of day the battle is going on. Do not let the light robot in a heavy battle in a night battle, the light will tear it. And in Ring of Red there is also an increase in level. I said that with Ring of Red you can be on "you" or "you"! All this is manifested in how deeply you have studied the mechanics of the game.
I will also focus on the accompanying infantry detachments in Ring of Red. The fact is that robots alone are huge mammoths and light detachments of bugs-people are able to throw it almost stones. Robots are very expensive toys to scatter them right and left. So that the tragedy does not happen, support from three military detachments is assigned to each robot. There are doctors, snipers, detachments with anti -capacity bazuki, infantry and technology. For each robot, you can assign any three to your taste. If you do not appoint any of them to the robot, it means weakening yourself. At first, Ring of Red will forgive such errors. Enemies will also come across without support for infantry. This is for the time being. Over time, the enemies will come across more and more in borders from robots plus soldiers. Some will entangle the robot’s legs with a cable, why it will not be possible to walk, others will be fired from the basis of your fur. And third blind in light shells. And the enemy robot will fade in the forehead from the anti -tank gun. For a long time you will hold out so? It will be a shame if you are not able to show your teeth to these people-bugs. But for this you will need your own support units. Snipers will be well shooting doctors, mechanics, detachments with bazuki. The infantry will shoot all snipers. Mechanics are able to entangle the legs of someone else’s robot and prevent him from moving. And doctors drink special pills and are not afraid of pain. Everything in Ring of Red works on the principle of stone-bumge. If you think that I have shared now everything that concerns the detachments, if not so sure the game will prove that I did not tell a tenth of its capabilities with support units.
I make sense to tell me much how to make your life easier in Ring of Red, the perfect tactic does not exist. But still I will not leave the newcomer without advice. Light tanks hit heavy with a nearby or night, but lose during the day from long distances. On light tanks, use the reception of the shell more often. If there are 10 seconds left, shot with an average robot from a gun, and then come to the distance of the blow and give me a fist in close combat – so you will conduct 2 attacks instead of one. If you are completely new, take more detachments with bazuki to your robot.
I was so carried away by the battle mode in Ring of Red, which I forgot about the general regime on the map. This regime does not serve as an appendage to the combat regime to move the robots and start the next fight. You will spend an average of 3-4 hours over each mission. Of these, you will devote 2.5 hours to battle and for 1.5 hours on the map or read briefings. Spending time on the map is not at all boring, and sometimes even necessary. For example, in Ring of Red on the map you can extract resources. Resources are not fantasy gold with crystals, but people. Drinks that accompany robots do not take from nowhere, they need to be recruited in cities. If you do not have time, enemies will do it for you. What is more profitable for you: so that you or others? The map also schematically shows the landscape, it affects the speed of movement. Once I climbed into the wooded mountains with my flagship robot and thought that my robot walks only one cell, while my slowest robots galloped on plains with 5 cells? The map gives space for a maneuver and a sense of war.
For some, an additional plus will become the Spartan military design of Ring of Red in the spirit of wartime. There are no beautiful screensavers, everything is stingy and in Armenian. The initial video shows the archive black and white shooting, which shows the frames of World War II, but with robots. During briefings, we are shown a military map with circles and dryly explained the military-political situation. After each battle, the battle statistics show: that the robot failed, how many lives remained, who died in which detachment. After the mission, show a folder with military documents. There should not be any screensavers. The maximum conversation on personal topics between the crews of robots while they are put in the hangars. But explains to us the goals of the operation (you will not believe who!) the former Nazi, who pleaded guilty and is now working out the deadline and instructs the Japanese how to fight. Constantly breaks down and screams at subordinates.
I can’t help but compare Ring of Red with another series, its direct competitor, this is Front Mission. This is also a tactical strategy and also about robots. She has many parts. Our friendly channel "The Radio of the Last Family" told about these parts, so you can get acquainted with him. At the time of Ring of Red in 2000, the 1999 Front Mission was already. It was better in pumping, robots could be painted in favorite colors, it was possible to modify and configure at will. On the battlefield, use different tactics – to attack on the forehead or go from the back, enemies could still attack from above or below. All this was not in Ring of Red. Did it mean that it was worse than Front Mission 3? Ring of Red had only slightly improved graphics and model. But it is unfair to say that Ring of Red for a more powerful console is a step backward compared to Front Mission 3. Ring of Red draws a robot control system to a new level. If your tactical genius was manifested in Front Mission 3, and after that you can put the joystick aside and watch the prefix does everything beautifully, then there was no time to relax in Ring of Red, he ordered the robot himself, now he himself brought him to the victory! In Ring of Red, the combat part supported the tactical. The Ring of Red has more interesting, and Front Mission 3 has tactical and setting. So they are equal. 1: 1!
When you spent a dozen hours for Ring of Red and got used to the game, you started paying attention to secondary things, like the benefits of pumping, the crew settings at the robot or that the plot in Ring of Red explains that the game is not about the future, but about the distant past, it is about the times of the youth of our grandfathers or great -grandfathers. Everything went wrong in the world, instead of tanks they began to develop robots, there was no war in Vietnam, but there was a war in Japan. The entire northern island of Hokkaido grabbed ours and made the city of Vostokoyask out of it. Assessment of the name! Vostokoyask! Nice. The whole south of Japan to Tokyo was occupied by the Americans and called this part of the country southern Japan by analogy with South Korea. But no one took Japan north of Tokyo and it remained a neutral zone between the USA and the USSR. They called it northern Japan. Geographically it lies between Soviet Vostokoysky and Southern Japan. Northern Japan does not seem to belong to anyone, but they are fighting for it. Guess for whom we play in the ring of Red we? For the USSR? Nope! We are for the USA? Also by! We are for southern Japan. They are good guys in the game. It is immediately clear that ENT Ring of Red thought either an experienced person or a fan of history.
The characters in a tactical game could not have been mentioned at all. What’s the difference for whom to play! They hooked me with their questions in dialogs. Vedden and unspoken. They need to answer “yes” or “no” and you will receive interesting comments on them depending on whether you have justified someone’s expectations. For example, a Japanese girl may ask if it is possible to trust a semicircle in battle? And you have to choose the answer. From this she will either say, I said! either warn that in the future the hero will still show in a bad light. From such dialogs, I remembered that the main character, a fair -haired guy, is called Masy Weizger. Japanese name, and the name is German. And he will not be able to figure out the whole game Japanese he or German. There is an American with a caricature bully jaw, he feels the whole game and apologizes for the bombing of Japan with nuclear bombs. And the direct head of our group is generally a former fascist. Although he was defeated, but his manners remained the same and he constantly shouts with bulging eyes on the heroes that they are crookedly and do not know how to fight. Ring of Red unobtrusively makes the heroes remember, in 20 missions I have already distinguished everyone perfectly.
Ring of Red remained the only one. In order not to forget her, I started this review. I would like to imagine what if Ring of Red was very successful and it would still be done in 2022? Where could Ring of Red develop further after the first part? Let’s find together! The answer is obvious that the schedule would be painted newer. And also? I think that now the conditional Ring of Red 7 would compete with XCOM 2 on equal terms. XCOM 2 is now very fond of and warmly respond, but they do not do it anymore. Be sure to come to mobile phones. Would be sold on androids and iPhones. But inside everything has changed? In Ring of Red there were strictly 1 on 1 battles, but in reality such ideal conditions are rare. Perhaps there would be battles 1 on 2, or even 1 to 3 or any other combination of a group battle. To three classes of robots, someone would have been added to someone, at least flying robots, which the average robot would not have taken out to hit with his hands. It would also be complicated so that you can rebuild the database for robots. In Ring of Red, it was impossible to repaint robots and hang up new weapons, in continuations all this would be taught. And it would also be possible to arrange the battles of the robots by the armies, ten robots at a time and more on each side. But all this will not happen. Khnyk-Khnyk! Ring of Red left and stayed there at the junction of generations PlayStation 1 and 2.
Ring of Red as a game would still be in demand, nothing similar in this genre has come out in 20 years. All the famous Japanese tactics about robots were closed for a long time. In the conclusion, it is customary to say goodbye and say all garbage, like the one that you will see on the channel or subscribe, but I will advise interested how to launch Ring of Red. I will teach. There are 3 ways to play Ring of Red. You can run on the PlayStation 3, on the original PlayStation 2 or on the PlayStation 2 emulator through the computer. If you have PlayStation 3, go to the store and buy Ring of Red for $ 10. The game is still there, there will be no problems. The PlayStation 4 Ring of Red store was not reprinted. If you decide to play on the original iron, you need PlayStation 2 and a blank. Just cut an image on a one -time disk and you will be happy. But keep in mind that you need an empty 700-megabyte CD-Disk, not DVD. The disk recording program will spit if you decide to cut the Ring of Red on a DVD-disk and you will spend money in vain. The third option is the most acceptable who has a computer or laptop and there is no PlayStation 2 and 3. To do this, you need to configure the emulator. Do not worry, I will teach the emulator how to set up. You see the link right now on top right, will still be in the description under the video. I will teach how to tune correctly there. I will even say that the emulator is better than the PlayStation 2 for Ring of Red, on the emulator you can persist at any time, and on the prefix of the mission in 3-4 hours. Given that the mission lasts a long time, it is very useful. I will also throw a link to the image on the Google Disk in the description of the video. I pay attention, all links to YouTube! Now that’s it! I did not give an abyss in the unhealthy with a gorgeous game and is now satisfied. So take care of robots and play the best tactics. Behind the keyboard Pavel Vasilevich and you were on the channel fans from fans. Keep in mind, after this release you will regret that you did not subscribe to the channel before!
