One thing's for sure: Consortium isn't afraid to hide one of its chief influences. Mere minutes in, responding to a quip from the pilot of a futuristic craft crammed with quasi-military types, I jumped on the best of three possible responses: "So you're the ship's joker, right?" Had it used a capital "J," developer Interdimensional Games might as well have shouted out its inspiration. Indeed, Consortium is partly Mass Effect stripped of all that business of exploring worlds and drilling planets, opting instead to unfold events in an aircraft from 2042 that feels like the Normandy and looks strikingly similar to a Boeing 747. L. Ron Hubbard would be proud. But this isn't some soulless rip-off; look past crippling bugs and visual oddities, such as water faucets that seem to spit mercury and the Tomb Raider-circa-2003 faces, and you'll find a role-playing game experience that's at least worthy of breathing the same air as BioWare's space saga.
Consortium presents us with a distinctly European vision of the future, down to quips about how Americans no longer make the best stuff in 2042. It's populated with a motley selection of nationalities and races that work for a peacekeeping organization that may or may not have sinister intentions, and the entire concept hinges on a military hierarchy that labels people with the names of various chess pieces. You, for instance, take on the role of Bishop Six, a warrior enforcer of sorts on his first day on the job, and your presence leads you to butt heads with the knight in charge or tease unfortunately named pawns about relieving themselves in the brig toilet. As the plot reveals, it's a fun job, and you end up investigating murders, sniffing out traitors, attempting to tame mercenaries with diplomatic skills, and sometimes even fighting.
OS: Windows® XP SP 3 (32-64 bits) / Windows Vista® (32-64 bits) / Windows 7® (32-64 bits) / Windows 8® (32-64 bits) CPU: (Minimum) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.7GHz (Recommended) Intel i3 2100T/AMD Phenom II x4 or higher Memory: (Minimum) 4 GB RAM (Windows XP) / 4 GB (Windows Vista and Windows 7/8) (Recommended) 4 GB for Windows ® XP, 4 GB for Vista / Windows ® 7/8 Video Memory: (Minimum) NVIDIA GTX 260/AMD Radeon HD 4890 series (Recommended) NVIDIA GTX 460/AMD Radeon HD 5830 series or higher HDD : 7 GB of free Hard Drive Space
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