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翻译自：http://www.gamebanshee.com/previews/spacesiege.php
Space Siege is going to be the third Siege game from Gas Powered Games, following in the footsteps of Dungeon Siege (released in 2002) and Dungeon Siege II (2005). Recently, Gas Powered Games made a demo available for Space Siege, and while the demo is relatively short (it only includes the opening cinematic sequence and the tutorial level), it gives a few ideas about how the game is going to work, and that’s what I’ll be covering here.
《太空围攻》系列是Gas Powered Games继2002年发行的《地牢围攻》和2005年发行的《地牢围攻2》系列之后的第三款游戏。近期，GPG已经放出了游戏的DEMO版本，不过由于
DEMO的内容仅仅包含了开头部分和新手教学部分，所以游戏流程相对较短。尽管如此，我们还是能够透过DEMO来对不久之后的正式版游戏内容和性质做一个简单的了解和设想。
One thing you can say about Gas Powered Games -- they never stick to a formula. The first two Dungeon Siege games weren’t anything alike, except for their setting, and now Gas Powered Games is changing that as well by sending the player out into space. Space Siege takes place in the future (2202 to be exact), in a universe where humanity has finally figured out how to explore the stars -- but where they’ve also bumped into another space-faring civilization, the Kerak, who don’t like to share.
GPS的游戏制作风格是崇尚多元化的，不会拘泥于某种固定模式。早期的两款《地牢围攻》系列除了游戏设置之外，其他的内容均彼此不同，而如今，GPS更是力求改变，将玩家搬入了太空。《太空围攻》的故事发生在大约2202年的太空星球上，在那里，人类终于弄清了如何来勘探星球资源——但是，他们同时也陷入了另一个空间－Kerak的统治区域，Kerak不乐意和人类共同相处。
As the game opens up, the Kerak launch a surprise attack on humanity, and the battle doesn’t go well for the humans. You play as an Allied Security Force soldier named Seth Walker, and when Kerak assault troops board your ship, you have to eliminate them so that your ship and crew can survive to fight another day. The demo only includes the battles on your ship, so it’ll be interesting to see how a single human soldier can defeat an entire assault force and save humanity (because you know that’s where the game has to be going).
游戏伊始，Kerak就对人类发动了突然攻击，战况对人类极为不利。玩家将操控名为Seth Walker的安全卫队的士兵来对付敌人，在Kerak的攻击部队登上玩家飞船后，要快速消灭他们，这样就可以保证飞船和其他人员的安全，并准备第二天的战斗。由于DEMO仅仅包括飞船上的战斗，这样一来，也同时会激起进一步的游戏兴趣，比如看看孤胆英雄是如何独自对付一整队敌人的火力攻击并顺利救援人类的（因为你其实很想知道游戏的进程该往哪里发展）。
Space Siege seems like it’s going to be a little bare-bones. From what I can tell, you’ll only be able to play as Seth Walker, and you won’t have any options for what he looks like or how he starts out. The game is going to use a classless system, where you’ll pick the skills you want to build up, but it looks like the only major decision you’ll have to make is whether you’ll stay completely human or if you’ll add some cybernetic components to your body to become more of a machine. Your status in this way will determine which skills you can learn, which weapons you can use, and perhaps which quests you’ll be able to go on.
《太空围攻》起初看上去似乎有些粗糙，因为你只能使用Seth Walker这一名角色，而且也没有其他的选项来描绘他的形象和造型。游戏使用的是一种无差别的系统，在该系统的作用下，玩家可以选择想要升级的技能种类，但是无论你是处于完全的人类状态，还是通过给身体增加一些机械部件来更多地进入机器的状态，你的角色身份才能够决定你哪些技能可以学习、哪些武器可以使用、甚至是哪些任务可以接收。因此游戏系统似乎不太灵活，给玩家的自由度不太高。
Similarly, there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of equipment. There isn’t any armor at all, and the interface only shows room for ten weapons (five melee weapons and five guns). I only saw three weapons in the demo, including a chain gun that you can only use if you install some cybernetic parts onto your body. Otherwise, enemies only drop “upgrade parts,” which you can collect and use to improve your weapons and defensive ratings. You can also use the upgrade parts to construct health kits and grenades, but this probably won’t be too necessary since those items seem to be in plentiful supply.
另外，在装备方面也没有太多的选择余地。游戏中根本没有防护性装备提供，只能透过菜单看到10种武器（5种近战武器和5种手枪）。在DEMO中只能使用3种武器，其中包括一把速射炮武器，要想使用的话，必须要在身体上安装必要的机械部件。此外，敌人只会爆出“升级部件”，玩家将这些升级要素收集之后用于提高武器和防御等级。玩家还可以使用这些升级要素来制作体力补给包和榴弹，但是这些物品在平时就显得非常充足，觉得没有什么必要再耗费升级点来额外制作了。
The nice thing about limited equipment is you won’t have to juggle it around and repeatedly return to a base to sell the excess. You’ll be able to just concentrate on killing bad guys. The bad thing about the equipment is that it leaves something of a black hole in the game. With character development looking sort of basic, and with no equipment to search for, can the combat alone keep the game fresh and fun to play? From what I saw of the demo, it’s tough to say, but Gas Powered Games has been good in the past, so I’ll stay cautiously optimistic.
当然，游戏对于装备的限制做得不错。玩家不得不在场景中四处搜寻各种装备，还要不断回到基地将过剩的装备卖出。玩家也许会专注于杀怪，这样一来，某些装备就会产生坏处，它会在游戏中留下某种黑洞。试想，如果角色的发展到最后成了某种基本的固定模式，或者没有装备可以继续搜索，那么单纯的战斗还能够继续维持玩家对游戏的新鲜感吗？至少从试玩版来看确实有这些感觉，但是毕竟GPG在过去创造过辉煌，还是保留谨慎乐观的态度来对待正式版。
Finally, even the interface is streamlined. Everything is controlled using the mouse. You left click to move and interact with objects, and you right click to engage enemies. You can zoom in pretty close to your character, but oddly you’re not allowed to use the keyboard to move him. With enemies always shooting at Seth, I kept wanting to use the WASD keys to dodge their fire, but all I could find was an “evade” key, which always makes Seth do a forward roll, which doesn’t seem particularly useful. I’d rather be able to dodge side to side.
最后提一下，菜单选项有些简化了。每一种操控都由鼠标来完成。鼠标左键负责移动、和周围目标产生联系，鼠标右键负责攻击敌人。玩家可以将镜头拉伸，但是无法使用键盘来控制角色的移动。在敌人不断朝Seth射击的同时，我只能不断使用WASD按键来躲避火力攻击，但是我所能做的只有一个“回避”按键，可以让Seth做出向前翻滚的动作，但是这个动作的效果不太大。我只能来回躲避。
The demo only lasts for about 20 minutes, and it doesn’t allow you to gain a level. It also doesn’t show much in the way of character interaction, so while I’ve seen that you get to use some sort of a sidekick robot named HR-V, the robot didn’t make an appearance in the demo, and so I don’t know what it adds. And thus I have no idea if there’s any sort of interesting story involved in the game, or characters you can care about, or even some HK-47-esque moments to chuckle over.
DEMO的游戏时间只有20多分钟，而且无法让玩家提升等级。另外，角色之间的互动也不太多。玩家可以使用某些名为HR-V的机器人，机器人在DEMO中并没有路面，因此不太清楚它多了那些要素。还有就是不清楚游戏还会包含多少值得期待的故事情节、包含多少新的角色，甚至是一些结局时刻的到来。 |
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发表于 2008-8-2 10:16:51
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