Frost punk Console Edition short test

Last year appeared with frost punk , a real-time strategy game for the PC, with its fresh, thrilling Survival approach to inspire you could. A few days ago, the title is now also available for consoles, and we have drawn for you is the comparison to the Original.

Together against the cold

The Story and the gameplay in the console version of frost punk , nothing changed: After an unexpected downturn in the new ice age rotten the last Remnants of humanity together and try, in the bitter cold to survive. For this purpose, it is in the best building strategy style, first of all, to provide the necessary infrastructure: generators must be fueled in order to create heat, accommodations, food, and more is needed to keep your people happy, health and alive, and further developments ensure that you always fiercer cold defy, and even send troops you can to find forgotten machinery, or even other settlements, whose members are allowed to join your people. The highlight of frost punk is, in fact, that your not here, how else in the Genre is common, getting new units, players can create, but instead to make sure that your existing people, not to the cold loses.

Here is yet another important Gameplay is also the same-to wear factor: your choices, what is the social terms of living together in your settlement. Except for the construction of buildings you are entrusted to also in order to make crucial decisions, such as whether the children are working hours (children in addition to workers and technicians, your third ethnic group, the completed simple activities) for the benefit of the supposed General interest, to be raised or not. The decisions thus taken will have an affect on your hope and dissatisfaction, the values which keep it always under control – which is easier said than done when most of the ends decisions to be taken with the proverbial choice between a rock and a hard pose. But that’s exactly what makes frost punk then again so different and interesting …

Nice implementation for consoles

Anyone who has played one or the other-building strategy game that knows how important a well implemented control system for the Genre, especially when things are a little more fragile, and quick Action is necessary. The usual PC input with mouse and keyboard is, of course, the classic par excellence, at least in the Console Edition of frost punk has it, but also managed, the concept is nice on the Gamepad to transfer.

Actions are not selected, for the most part via Aktionsrad, which not only makes for a great Overview in terms of opportunities, but also quickly out of Hand, while categories such as building types via the shoulder buttons are switched. Small AIDS such as the automatic call of useful actions, for example, the road construction menu the construction of a new building without a street connection, help to keep the Gameplay fluid and easy, and also between city management and expedition screen can quickly be switched back and forth.

What is the actual presentation is concerned, shows frost punk for consoles are also just as pretty, melodious and atmospheric, as on PC; only minor mistakes in the German localization fall a little negative on.

Finally, the Console Edition, even with a small Bonus in comparison to the PC Version: Here are all the Updates since Release have been published, integrated.

CONCLUSION

Frost punk has to tell the excited and the Console Edition is the only version of basically nothing. The new Society Survival approach breathes life into the long-established structure of strategy-a Genre on PS4 and Xbox new the Wind and the exciting theme in combination with the social decisions to cases, pulls you in, literally in the Story and even something like real responsibility advent. The control, however, was transferred to first class on Gamepads and the game fun, the PC Version also nothing. Of us there are, therefore, also for the frost punk Console Edition clearly two frosty thumbs up.

What frost punk is? Ersters Society Survial Game and as such it is a building strategy with a focus on Story and social decisions
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One
Tested: PS4-Version
Developer / Publisher: 11 bit Studios
Release: 10. October 2019
Link: Official Website