Alpha Prime (2007) PC

Alpha Prime is a first–person shooter released in 2007 from the offices of Black Element Software studio, which tried to combine:

• futuristic setting;
• a fantastic novel;
• PhysX physics engine;
• motion capture technology;
• own game engine Enforce 2 Engine.

Hubbard

The State Federation has discovered a drifting asteroid, interesting by the presence of an expensive mineral on it – hubbardia. Thanks to him, cosmetic flights are possible on the one hand, and hallucinations for an ordinary worker on the other. The corporation assembled several expeditions and launched an operation on the extraction of valuable matter on a space body.

Soon it turned out that the mineral captures miners. Because of its effect on people, they lose their minds, become addicted, go crazy. The development was instantly shut down, and many people remained prisoners of the asteroid. It is almost impossible to get out of the mines, and even more so, to return home. In addition, the asteroid is being attacked by drug dealers in order to take possession of habardium in order to trade it.

The main character, at the request of a friend, goes there to save a mutual acquaintance. Here he meets many obstacles in the face of people and unexplained phenomena for them, and at the end of the plot, when he takes possession of the artifact, he himself will succumb to the influence of habardium.

Setting

The gameplay is a classic first–person shooter with a dozen long detailed levels and a total of 15 types of opponents. Game mechanics copied from the best shooters:

• time dilation – F.E.A.R.;
• interaction with objects, in particular their capture and throwing – familiar from Half Life 2;
• jogging on the surface of the planet in an oxygen mask was seen in Doom 3.

A new device thanks to which it is possible to blow up pipes at a considerable distance, distracting