May 29, 2009 - Last year, developer Tilted Mill tried something different with Hinterland, a downloadable fantasy-themed hybrid game that combined light city building elements with a basic action-RPG component. Though the game had plenty of rough edges and technical issues, the approach worked pretty well and provided a good bit of fun for a budget title. Got Game Entertainment has recently released the game at retail under the title Hinterland: Orc Lords.
The new version comes with two new player characters, both Orcs, who run towns made up of Orcs rather than humans. Other than that, there are no practical changes between the original download version and the new retail package. With that in mind, we're running the original Hinterland review to introduce new players to the joys of this interesting hybrid game.
A game of Hinterland doesn't follow any kind of storyline or linear format. You set a number of parameters for your game map, such as length, difficulty, and starting character class, and dive in. The ultimate goal of each map is to wipe it clean of enemies, something you do through hack-and-slash gameplay and city building. Both components are closely linked, which serves as the game's primary strength as it gives you the feeling that regardless of what you're doing, you're making progress.
Cities are built by paying money to NPC visitors to settle, at which point a house is set up around your town center. Each NPC has a specialty that ranges from producing food, to buying back items, to raising skeletons. To get the more powerful NPCs to settle in your town or to upgrade those already settled, you need more money, fame, special items obtained from the combat field surrounding the town, and access to specific resources.
Windows XP (SP2) / Vista
• Pentium IV 2 GHz / AMD Athlon 2000 ,
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB for Windows Vista)
• 500 MB free hard disk space,
• GeForce 3 or Radeon 8500,
• DirectX 9.0c,
• DirectX-compatible sound card-
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Download Link
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http://rapidshare.com/files/310739601/Hinterland_Orc_Lords__English__PC_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/310738561/Hinterland_Orc_Lords__English__PC_.part2.rar
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