From Dust Review

Whoever ponders over gods simulations can, inevitably the name of a man like chocolate melt on your tongue: Peter Molyneux! He is considered the father of the genre and is the grand creator of such brands as Populous and Black & White. While Peter but now prefer to chat about his fabulous worlds, uses the Montpellier studio of Ubisoft, the opportunity and created from the former mix an almost divine work. From Dust, the title is, and also extremely entertaining and have to download games for Xbox Live, PC and Playstation Network.

The earth quakes, thunder rumbles deep murmur of the Dolby system, while the water boils and glowing hot lava destroyed the vegetation, the trained eye can see in the distance, a huge tsunami waves, which were rolling slowly but surely on the tranquil paradise. At least now everyone uses one to believe and tried singing, rhythmic drum beats and a lot of hope to turn his fate for good. Divine assistance offered by the players, the whole move mountains with his breath as Moses or even to share the water. With just a few steps, the small bustling world's inhabitants are motivated, helpful knowledge engraved on ancient stones and acquired one secured the survival time after time - and that is a visually stunning and contaminated by natural disasters gods simulation.


Become the God of the Old

From Dust is similar in its basic concept of various other gods simulation, the player but flatters with his unique charm and a completely especially for a downloadable titles look really detailed. A group of tribal people surrounded a fire and ruminates about her future. Actually, they want to build away from the dreary island and a new life. The chief narrator as a simsichen Brabelsprache with German subtitles lets us from "the old man" to know their divine power and its mystical abilities at all, which defied all laws of nature and physics. Schick, with elaborately staged scene, the players pulled into the adventure and now provides a bird's eye with the necessary assistance so that the industrious residents found a place to stay next totem and colonize the country.

As a newly created God with the power over life and death, it is now our task of ensuring the survival of indigenous people dressed in masks, with their oblique secure and reliable transport to residents through portals from one island to another. For this purpose, our divine hand serves as a guide. Select a totem, or mystery artifact is sufficient to show the people a path that must go to it. But not without obstacles and pitfalls. The time required to reveal passages, but at high tide make for a deadly undertow. If it comes to heavy rain can be a puddle of a raging river and to make matters worse come to fires, volcanic eruptions and other disasters that make even the sometimes impassable vegetation alongside the survival of a challenge for young and old. The contrary, it is sent to work to shape the island with sand, rocks and water, and the people to offer a direction - to handle everything fairly intuitive, especially with the controller!

Getting started is not difficult. With some input from a sand dune, we collect and dump it on a raging river that until recently blocked the path to the goal and reach the portal - the exit to the next world, or the next island paradise, if you can cope with surprises. The transition will unfortunately always heralded with a similar sequence, but to achieve our lively believers to the next place over the underground passage, we expect the next task, which is far easier. In the later sections of the 13 worlds you must first meet certain operations before the portal opens, and various natural disasters are committed to constantly, so you have to use skills learned cleverly used to make the island accessible. As an example of the Advanced Level: You start on a small island with a totem as the base. This is in a cycle of further plateaus, but are still under water and only with rubble and ashes must be increased. In the middle of the circle is piling up a volcano, the "build" is consistently larger and more dangerous, but important to spit out lava islands.

Natural Disasters, Churning Out

With increasing game play, especially at the level of difficulty also increases exponentially and one has been truly bring the back room at full speed in order to brave the many dangers and rough terrain can. Not always the people end up in paradise, after all, promised to deserts and arid areas Lavaschluchten at least not a good beginning for a new settlement. Nevertheless, the people will eagerly try to survive and celebrate each success together with you. In addition, natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions change and tsunamis from almost every minute. Who is not fast enough to initiate counter-measures failed and must be handed over many of its believers the ferryman - the loss is too great, you're also inglorious history as God!

To prevent this, it is sacred to accept help. Capture the teeming faithful sacrifice on our behalf shrines, we have different special abilities, which act downright and thoughtful use of miracles. Separates a raging, wild river relentlessly flooded the island from the portal of hope, the suction is too strong and fast, that one could only throw up fine sand, one must resort to other means. Before this can wash away the sand within seconds, the water simply for a few seconds, frozen in a slow motion. Already vanishes the power of natural forces and you can build turrets, or pick up but the solidified water by hand and then just cut out a trail. At least now you feel the omnipotence of God over life and death, and tells Moses to the water to reveal the path to happiness. It looks not only biblical, it's just terrific divine.

During some disasters can be against the tribal people by mystical forces itself even without their God pours water on the fire, the plant takes advantage of some special or simply redirect a flow accordingly. People can gain certain artifacts, such as a tsunami devastated the flora and fauna, but not the village, which would inevitably have been razed to the ground. Does one just in time before the arrival of a natural disaster, the respective gain knowledge, people survive and you do not build it all again troublesome. Such thoughts Fallen From Dust is particularly useful in the second half of the adventure, which represents powerful natural disasters in the merciless way and this paved with huge stumbling blocks. When bombarded with all sorts of things together and we have to do when God hands full, but the title unfolds its full potential and can be justified from a simple downloadable titles hardly the equivalent of one full-price!

Fast! Because the game is still not very high extent and is held only on the basis of a total of 30 additional, but extremely tricky challenges fairly high. They know but to inspire and provide yet more evidence that we think about given situation and must find solution to the puzzle! For the most hard-boiled every island is in the adventure mode is always stored for the time at which you left them. So you can also go back later and continue to play a world. There are at least optional objectives, such as flora and fauna to expand to 100% or secret knowledge of the ancients, which can be viewed as a compendium of the menu.

Great Look

Graphically, From Dust is also its best side, but has also added a small blender, which serves mostly with fancy effects to look at. At the first glance, the swirling mist on the menu, which our senses flatters almost done, but then one usually very bright, with deep green, contrasting colors embossed paradise, which is then alternates laced with dusty deserts and fiery red Laver. A second glance reveals the extensive use of blur, which was also garnished with a little flicker and dust particles. This gets the title but his own style and together with the population of its own clumsy charm. Especially when you look at the goings out of the area, correctly drawn animations are scurrying around the citizens!

The title looks impressive from a download game and also has really alive. Has fallen to us beyond the physical playing with lava flows, killer waves and the sand trickles through our hands really well and is overgrown with a lush, detailed shortly flora & fauna, only to then be washed away by water. We pour a stream somewhere and jam on it, it will inevitably wash the sand over time or to pave its way elsewhere. Changes in nature must therefore be handled with caution and may affect other again - a threat, which one should be aware and watch it as well. Giant waves and volcanic eruptions also change the look of the entire island within seconds, there is no Verschnaufspause for travelers!

The final section of the adventure is sometimes the most creative, because there have total freedom to shape their own island, with placement of water wells, mountains, rivers and everything you would expect in this way. You feel not only the divine power, but a piece of creation. For this element could have been but make considerably more. An appropriate editor to create their own worlds and the user can define any disasters this as possible and offer downloadable content via the network! Ubisoft had already had a title that would have grown beyond the adventure and the challenge mode and might entertain you for months!

Graphic:8
Sound:7,3
Control:7,6
Gameplay:8,6
Overall: 8,5