French comics with Asterix and Obelix have been my sweetheart since childhood. I read, watched and played stories about a pair of brave Gauls. Yes, video games with these characters are an integral part of digital history and have left a fairly significant mark. A few years ago, the award-winning brand was taken over by a French company Microids even though the remasters of the older games started somewhat embarrassingly, apparently he means it with the comeback Asterix and Obelix.
We will go not only to Gaul, but also to other famous places and we will fight with Roman legionaries or pirates.
In addition to improved versions of games Asterix & Obelix XXL 1 a 2 Microids released a brand new game in 2019 Asterix & Obelix XXL 3 – The Crystal Menhir od Osome Studio, even though it has not made a big hole in the world. Now they can try to repair with the title Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All !. Its authors go back to their roots, because they rely on classic two-dimensional graphics and styling corresponding to the original comics.
We will go not only to Gaul, but also to other famous places and we will fight with Roman legionaries or pirates. The novelty is not a platform game like some older games, but a classic beat ’em up, that is, as I like to say walker-thresher. We will naturally play for both Asterix and Obelix, and there will also be indispensable local cooperation. It is said that we can look forward to a completely new story, hundreds of enemies and hours of fun. In arcade mode, you can compare results with the best thanks to online leaderboards. Each hero will have his own moves on a unique combo. But during the journey we will also come across various mini-games.
The development of the title is in charge of the Mr Nutz Studio team, and the authors want to get as close as possible to the original. They also express respect for the original through stylization, where all scenes, characters and animations were created by hand. She has something about her homage to two-dimensional classics and something that suits the tastes of lovers of retro games. Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All! will be released at the end of the year on PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. Backward compatibility on new consoles is a matter of course.
Naturally, I have no idea how the title will be handled and how it will all work, but the pictures look really magical. A short preview of the game is no longer so convincing, but it’s just a small snippet, so it doesn’t make sense to draw premature conclusions.
Asterix started as Taz in the video game world
The first game with Asterix was released in 1983 on the Atari 2600 and it was basically a European version of the same game Taz. It originally featured the famous Tasmanian devil from Looney Tunes. One character just replaced another. In 1983, Obelix followed to change for the same platform. Since the mid-1980s, titles inspired by this series have been published regularly by various developers for all possible platforms. In recent years, however, the brand’s fame in the field of video games has unfortunately declined somewhat.
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