Instinct

by Red Frog Group

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000VPNSKS
• Item Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 21, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,582 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

INSTINCT encompasses fear on a whole new level - you don't just experience it yourself but through the eyes of three different playable characters whose fates' coincide. They are members of an elite American military squad specializing in covert ops and complete annihilation in enemy territory. Their relationships are torn apart and fade away as the three are separated to face Korea's own special ops forces alone. The Korean government has been experimenting with a new protovirus capable of decaying the mind while strengthening the body - a new form of warfare. When the virus backfires and is unleashed on the complex you were assigned to infiltrate and secure all hell breaks loose and hope is lost. There is danger and mystery around every corner and any mistake could bring corruption or death. FeaturesAn internally-developed state-of-the-art 3D game engine capable of real-time depth of field amazingly realistic physics and dynamic lighting and shadows. A story driven by powerful cinematics and a full-length graphic novel both ensuring a powerful connection to the characters and action. Witness vivid imagery so intense and realistic that you'll find yourself wrapped up in it - until you're sucked into the next firefight. Artificial intelligence that counters your every move; enemy commandoes will actually flank your position bombard you with grenades or pummel your cover until you're flushed out into the open. INSTINCT is a game created in Russia by the country's premiere game developers. Voices throughout INSTINCT are in the original Russian in an effort to showcase their culture and to maintain the true feel of the game. English captions are provided.System Requirements:WIN XP SP2 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent processor 512 MB RAM 8 GB hard disk space. Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 898237001064

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Far better than the critics say ..., July 4, 2008

By 

Robert L Griffith "samson" (Westchester, CA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Instinct (Video Game)

This example, another from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia, is a

Very good, long and absorbing First-Person-Shooter.

Game-site critics have little positive to say about it; I suspect a bit of

negative-post-cold-war bias on their part and also surmise that many of

these critics did not play the game clear through.

CONS: Somewhat dated graphics and a stuttering story-line that is

difficult to follow.

PROS: Exciting and fun to play, with excellent replay value, mindful of

other top-drawer games such as F.E.A.R.[though not as scary] and Iron

Storm.

Would highly recommend this game to any and all FPS fans!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Low budget zombie shooter, March 25, 2009

By 

David R. Krueger (Huntsville, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This game would probably be ok if it came out in 2004 and if some of it's shortcomings were rectified.

Basically, it takes place in kind of an underground bioweapons lab environment. Stuff went wrong, so now the place is crawling with zombies and bad guys. All speaking is in Russian and you have to bring up a "journal" to translate it. I would have preferred subtitles to the journal thing. I read much of the translations and watched most of the story-board style cut scenes, but you could probably play the game without knowing much of was said.

You play three different characters, one after the other, that are in different places, but in voice contact with each other. However, time jumps around, so you repeat some time frames as a different character in a different place. You hear the same things being said on the radio, but this time from the perspective of the person on the other end. While the time stamps are hard to follow, the game plays like a simple linear FPS. I thought the switching of characters was novel way to introduce a bit more variety to the game. Each have different weapons, too.

Graphics and setting were dated. You'll notice that there is a distance slider in the video setting menu. I thought that might be a "field of View" setting, but it doesn't change field of view. I noticed there's a check box for DOF, which would be Depth of Field, so it must be for that. In any case, I didn't see any change when I moved it. I might have been doing something wrong, though. In any case, distant objects all seemed a bit fuzzy which I found to be a little annoying.

I had a lot of trouble getting the game to run. The Starforce security system asked for a "disc key" and there was no disc key included with the game. After many emails, returned games, I found out that the game is not supposed to ask for a key. It's supposed to read it from the disc. I found that out by loading the game successfully on another computer. I finally got help from Starforce who sent me a link to a program that read the key from the disc. I sent them that key and they sent back a key that I could enter manually to run the game. Everything worked fine after that (sort of). This is not an uncommon problem because in searching the web I came across several complaints of exactly the same thing. I think it has to do with an incompatibility with Vista and Starforce or something

Overall, I'd say this game is ok for $10 or less. I didn't find it particularly long or challenging, but it was still fun in a mindless kind of way. I played the game right out of the box without checking for or installing any patches and had no crashes or lockups. I didn't get stuck in the game where I couldn't move. Overall, it played fairly smoothly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Instinct Game is OK, July 21, 2010

By 

President Charley "Noneeno" (Springfield, MO) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Instinct (Video Game)

I haven't finished playing this XP based game yet, but so far it is OK. It is a typical XP style game with FPS characteristics. You are some sort of a Russian commando and you have missions to accomplish along with another one (or two) helpers (sort of like Soldier of Fortune) that show up and drive trucks so you can shoot the bad guys. They are speaking in Russian and it has English subtitles so the language hasn't been an issue. Pretty much straight forward shoot, move, pull levers, shoot, shoot. A decent game I bought out of curiosity as the XP game era is closing out but I'm keeping my old XP platform for posterity.