What is Giants: Citizen Kabuto?

Giants : Citizen Kabuto, jeu d'action/stratégie sorti sur PC et Mac.Vous propose de vous plonger dans un monde où les Meccaryns, les Marines, et Kabuto se battent pour avoir la possession de l'île. Accompagnez successivement les trois camps dans la campagnes solo. Le mode Multijoueur permet de choisir votre espèce  et de jouer jusqu'à dix en réseau local ou en ligne.

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Like a modern-day King Kong, the title character in Giants: Citizen Kabuto is over 30 feet tall, controls a monster-laden tropical island, and carries around curvaceous females in his fists. But Kabuto’s cuties aren’t his love interest. They’re his lunch. We liked this game at once.

Giants is a peculiar game, a blend of hot-and-heavy action, off-the-wall British humor, and some real-time strategy elements, such as building bases and managing resources. The RTS components will make you stop and think, but frenzied action rules.

Giants takes place on a chunk of some lost planet, floating through space. The sojourning chunk contains an incredible set of islands, once the home of a beautiful ocean-dwelling race called the Sea Reapers. The Reapers, seeking security, created a giant to protect them. Unfortunately, the giant eventually turned against his makers and drove them back to the sea.

As you play the game, you progress through three species. First you’re one of a small band of five Meccaryns: high-tech geeks with cockney accents. The Meccs are supposed to be on holiday, but after getting swallowed, digested, and evacuated by a giant space fish, they migrate to Kabuto’s island to rest and repair their ship. Big mistake.

After surviving as a Mecc, you join the Sea Reapers — ethereal, bluish-green women with plenty of charm, looks, and magical powers. They’re also evil. You play Delphi, daughter of the queen meanie, Sappho. Delphi isn’t exactly an innocent, but she’s less wicked than the others.

Rnally, you play Kabuto, the solitary giant, wandering around his chain of tropical-island paradises, stomping, destroying, or eating anything that gets inhis way. He’s a ferociously mean dude and ten times taller than other characters. He roars a lot and munches a variety of imaginative indigenous creatures to keep up his strength.

As each of the main characters, your choice of weaponry will vary. The hightech Meccs use raw firepower, such as pistols and missile launchers, and occasionally take to the air with flying jet packs and a gyrocopter. Sea Reapers rely more on swords, archery, and a wide array of magic spells, while Kabuto uses strength, speed, and a sharp set of teeth. All three fighting approaches are fun — and beautiful. Giants may be the prettiest game you’ll ever play. The graphics are drop-dead gorgeous, with brilliant colors, surreal islands, tropical trees, rippling water, and sunlight glare.

The game isn’t perfect, of course. We can’t wait to try Giants in multiplayer mode, but we’ll have to wait; according to MacPlay, a patch is underdevelopment. Also, like a growing number of today’s games, it lacks an in-mission save. That’s OK in some of the shorter missions.

If you goof up, it’s easy enough to play through again. But when missions get longer, dying inches short of the final goal is maddening. The game’s strenuous requirements may frustrate you as well: The stated system requirements are definitely minimum requirements, and Giants is built exclusively for Mac OS X.

But hey, maybe that’s a plus. If you’ve been putting off upgrading, start digging for your wallet. Giants may be your best excuse yet.

Lee, John. (February 2002). Giants: Citezen Kabuto. MacAddict. (pg. 48).

Download Giants: Citizen Kabuto for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU