AquaNox是一系列在不久的将来设定的基于潜艇的第一人称射击/模拟视频游戏。 该系列包括AquaNox，AquaNox 2：启示录和AquaNox：天使的眼泪。 该系列的前身和开篇是MS-DOS标题“阿基米德王朝”。 AquaNox is a series of submarine-based first-person shooter/simulation video games set in the distant future. The collection includes AquaNox, AquaNox 2: Revelation and AquaNox: The Angel's Tears. The predecessor and the starter of the series is the MS-DOS title Archimedean Dynasty.

概念

Concept

在22世纪中叶，地球上的原材料变得越来越稀缺，并且随着资源的迫近迫在眉睫，人们开始在海底寻找资源。这导致在太平洋，大西洋和印度洋下面建造了采矿站。许多国家/地区建立了这些深海站，工人和工程师在这里提取海洋的宝藏。然而，产量远远不足以满足不断增长的需求。当地球表面的自然资源枯竭时，破坏和战争就开始了。在争夺地球上剩余资源的斗争中，同盟破裂，各国陷入敌对状态，老冲突爆发了。

In the middle of the 22nd century, raw materials on Earth became increasingly scarce and as the end of the resources loomed, people began to prospect for resources on the ocean floor. This resulted in the construction of mining stations beneath the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Many countries set up these deep-sea stations where workers and engineers extracted the oceans' treasures. Nevertheless, the output was far from enough to cover an ever-increasing demand. When the natural resources on Earth's surface were depleted, a time of destruction and wars began. In the fight over the planet's last remaining resources, alliances fell apart, countries became hostile and old conflicts flared up.

随着残酷和无意识的增加，人类摧毁了地球表面上生命的基础。在一系列资源战争之后，核武器完成了人类尚未完成的工业污染破坏。当对人类生存的最后一线希望灭绝后，人们逃到了海洋深处。

With increasing cruelty and senselessness, man destroyed the very basis of life on the surface of the earth. After a series of resource wars, nuclear weapons completed the destruction that man had not yet finished with his industrial pollution. When the last glimmer of hope for humanity's survival was extinguished, people fled into the depths of the oceans.

以前的提取站成为了那些有幸能够支付进入水下世界的代价的人的最后避难所。穷人中的最穷者被抛在了身后，被注定要死在一个被放射性污染的荒凉世界中。由于各大洲被海平面上升淹没，而严酷的核冬天覆盖了大部分海洋和地球不断缩小的陆地，并覆盖了几米厚的放射性尘土，雪和冰，海洋之外的生活变得不可能了。 40米厚的死亡有机物层，即所谓的POM层，覆盖了海洋。没有一束阳光穿透致密的颗粒层，该颗粒层使世界陷入了前所未有的黑暗。然而，人类在死去的新世界中最后一次复活是唯一的生命。这个世界是人类的创造，现在被称为水世界。以下事件发生在27世纪中叶。

The former extraction stations became the last refuge of those fortunate enough to be able to pay the price of entry into the underwater world. The poorest of the poor were left behind, condemned to die in a desolate world polluted by radioactivity. Life outside the oceans became impossible as the continents were flooded by rising sea levels and a harsh nuclear winter covered most of the oceans and the shrinking surface landmass of the planet with a layer of radioactive dust, snow and ice many meters thick. A 40-meter thick layer of dead organic matter, the so-called POM layer, covered the oceans. Not a single ray of sunlight penetrated the dense particulate layer that plunged the world into a darkness like none other. Nevertheless, mankind rose one last time to a new life, the only life, in a dead new world. This world was humanity's creation, and was now called Aqua. The following events take place in the middle of the 27th century.

今天，在2661年，人类生活在水下巨大的城市中。 Aqua分为政治权力集团，例如资本主义，民主统治的大西洋联邦的Aquatoria，阿拉伯氏族联盟的寡头政治和君主制的日俄幕府。在南太平洋上有龙卷风区，在地面风暴的刺激下，无政府主义者雇佣军，海盗，海盗和and徒聚集在那里，随时准备卖掉他们的朋友和灵魂。

Today, in the year 2661, mankind lives in gigantic cities underwater. Aqua is divided into political power blocs, such as the Aquatoria of the capitalistic, democratically governed Atlantic Federation, the oligarchy of the Arabic Clans Union and the monarchist Russo-Japanese Shogunate. In the South Pacific lies the Tornado Zone, stirred up by surface storms, where an anarchist pack of mercenaries, pirates, buccaneers and outlaws gathers, ever ready to sell their friends and their souls.

一家公司很早就垄断了水下人类生存所必需的许多行业，即EnTrOx，它代表“能源-运输-氧气”。新技术可以实现极快的水下旅行。但是，许多旧技术丢失或变得无用。例如，由于大气中大量尘埃落定，尽管一些组织正在寻找恢复这些能力的方法，但卫星通信和全球定位是不可能的。

A single company has long ago monopolized many industries necessary for human survival underwater—EnTrOx, which stands for "Energy-Transportation-Oxygen". New technologies allow extremely fast underwater travel. However, many old technologies are lost or have become useless. For example, due to the high amounts of fallout in the atmosphere, satellite communication and global positioning are impossible, although some organizations are looking for ways to restore these abilities.

玩家的任务是完成一系列与故事有关的战斗任务。在执行任务的过程中，辅助角色会显示更多的支持和故事元素。敌人的范围从敌对船只到外星人或人造生物，例如Bionts。

The player's task is to complete a series of story-related combat missions. During the course of the missions additional support and story elements are revealed by the secondary characters. The enemies range from hostile vessels to alien or artificial life-forms such as Bionts.

集数

Aquanox系列包括以下游戏，该游戏按发布时间从高到低依次列出：

阿基米德王朝

主条目：阿基米德王朝

AquaNox

玩家再次跳入Emerald“ Deadeye” Flint的角色。在击败碧奥特人之后，弗林特再次成为雇佣军，担任碧奥特狩猎工作队的负责人。当他的潜艇“魅魔”在其中一个车站上被盗时，情况变得更糟。游戏开始于弗林特的一位可疑熟人，他给了他一个旧的，几乎没有工作的小潜艇，并执行了几次使他入门的任务。

The player once again jumps into the role of Emerald "Deadeye" Flint. After the Bionts are defeated, Flint goes back to being a mercenary as a leader of a Biont-hunting task-force. Things turn for the worse when his submarine, the Succubus, is stolen on one of the stations. The game begins with one of Flint's dubious acquaintances giving him an old, barely working sub and several missions to get him started.

在整个游戏中，弗林特通过完成任务来赚钱，使他能够购买更好的潜艇，武器和设备。随着玩家在故事情节中的前进，新设备会出现在整个游戏中，可以购买。一般来说，允许玩家每章购买新船和新武器。在站上时，Flint可以与各种角色说话，以获取新的任务并加深游戏的气氛。

Throughout the game, Flint earns money by completing missions, allowing him to purchase better subs, weapons and equipment. The new equipment appears throughout the game, available for purchase, as the player progress in the storyline. Generally speaking, the player is allowed to buy a new boat and a new set of weaponry per chapter. While on stations, Flint can speak with various characters in order to get new missions and deepen the atmosphere of the game.

通过将玩家的视线固定在驾驶舱上，并且只允许在船体安装的大炮上使用两个，简化了以前用各种防御性炮塔升级船只的系统。更改的结果是，潜水艇的控件已经适应了第一人称射击游戏基于鼠标的布局，从而不再需要操纵杆，因此游戏为了提高战斗强度而牺牲了战术深度。这种变化引起了评论者的批评，他们指出开发者的注意力不足以关注视觉效果，而不是其前身的实际游戏玩法。

The former system of upgrading the vessel with a variety of defensive turrets has been simplified by fixing the player's view to the cockpit as well as permitting the usage of only two on hull installed cannons. As the result of this change, the controls of the submarine have been adapted to the first-person shooter's mouse-based layout, removing the need for the joystick, thus the game has compromised its tactical depth in order to increase the intensity of combat. This change has raised critique among the reviewers, stating that the developers' focus fell inadequately on the visual performance rather than the actual gameplay of its predecessor.

...虽然阿基米德王朝是一个复杂的，基于任务的模拟交易和私有化，但AquaNox是一款街机风格的动作游戏，它放弃了或大大简化了这些元素。相比其他水下模拟游戏中更具战术性的战斗，战斗节奏快，与Quake（甚至是铁路射击）的风格更相似。
-Desslock（2001-11-30）。 “ AquaNox评论”。 Gamespot.com。

该游戏是支持NVIDIA Geforce 3 Ti图形加速器的第一个完全使用T＆L效果的应用程序之一。

The game was one of the first applications to fully use the T&L effects by supporting the NVIDIA Geforce 3 Ti graphics accelerator.

考虑到游戏引擎已经被用于推销Nvidia的旗舰GeForce 3视频卡了几个月，因此出色的图形也就不足为奇了。该游戏的设计充分利用了GeForce的所有高端功能及其最新一代的显卡，因此环境看起来很棒。纹理是丰富多彩的，并且非常细致，并且有许多图形上的小细节，例如从您的投射武器击中的水下山丘上剥落下来的碎屑。
-Desslock（2001-11-30）。 “ AquaNox评论”。 Gamespot.com。

该游戏包含有关海洋的大量真实信息，例如不同物种的起源，其特征以及人类对潜艇生命的适应性。游戏手册由两章组成，解释了整个故事过程中提到的各种术语和事实。

The game includes a vast amount of true information on oceans, such as origins of different species, their specifics and man's adaptation to submarine life. The game manual consists of two chapters explaining various terms and facts that have been mentioned throughout the course of the story.

AquaNox 2：启示录

游戏的情节集中在威廉·德雷克（William Drake）身上，这是古老的贵族工业家的最后残余。在家族企业破产和主人公的祖母去世之后，年轻的威廉·德雷克（William Drake）在最后一艘德雷克企业号货轮上驶向大海。货船很快就被一群佣兵接管，而德雷克则赶出接听遇险电话。在保留自己的生命的同时，由七个入侵者组成的小组抓住了这艘船的控制权，将威廉姆斯的命运束缚在自己的手中。德雷克别无选择，只能与自己的新成员结盟，以期追求最好。

该游戏共有四个独特，可玩和可升级的武装直升机。玩家很可能会根据给定任务的参数切换船只。虽然某些任务需要速度和隐身能力，但其他任务实际上需要重型武器库和厚板。该游戏具有多种射弹武器，一套鱼雷和一系列定向能量武器，包括激光和EMP发射器。鱼雷的战斗与大多数飞行模拟器和太空射击者的导弹交战相似，飞行员有望在其中释放耀斑并执行经典的躲避动作。

通常，跟随在游戏中分布的导航点很简单。可以通过预定义的快捷方式将船上的控件从FPS模式切换到模拟模式，后者的转向方案将鼠标的水平滚动从水平旋转驾驶舱切换为围绕其轴旋转船体。由于深度范围限制，无法到达水面，这将玩家绑定到水下世界，但在战斗中却带来了某些缺点。

为了回应有关在AquaNox中与其他角色互动不佳的批评，在续篇中增加了新的对话系统。在两次任务之间，玩家可以在货轮上以及在大洋城中发起对话。对话的发起是强制性的。但是，由于对话期间没有互动，因此游戏的结果不是开放式的。对话和人物是许多评论家不满的焦点，他们批评它写得不好，最终毫无意义。Gerstmann，Jeff（2003-09-29）。 《 Aquanox 2启示录》。 Gamespot.com.Deim，I。“ Aquanox 2 Revelation评论”。 Gamershell.com。

AquaNox：天使的眼泪

AquaNox：《天使的眼泪》是AquaNox 2：Revelation的PlayStation 2重制版。标题没有通过索尼的软件质量保证测试，并且由于JoWood Productions已关闭Massive Development，因此该版本被取消了。

AquaNox：后裔

在2014年Gamescom上，Nordic Games展示了Aquanox系列新迭代的技术演示。北欧运动会官员证实，他们正在开发新的游戏版本。该演示是使用虚幻引擎3创建的，展示了一些环境和一个船模型原型以及机库界面。[1]该游戏于2015年9月11日通过Kickstarter成功众筹，筹集了95,979美元，超过了其目标75,000美元。[2]