Sub Culture
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- For the term in sociology, please see Subculture.
Sub Culture is a submarine action/adventure computer game, developed by Criterion Studios and published by Ubisoft. It was released on 1997, and was often praised as a solid title, but received little recognition and had only limited sales.
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[edit] Story
In the opening sequence of the game, a soup can discarded from a boat smashes the home of what seem to be (and are) a race of tiny submarine humanoids. The player takes the role of the survivor of this disaster, a freelance sub captain who must buy, sell, trade, and pirate his way to the top in a cutthroat world of underwater adventure. When you start the game, you will discover that the Bohines, a nation from the game, is at war with the Prochas, another nation. To survive on that game, you need to catch and sell thorium, a mineral that generates oxygen. You need to complete missions, and defeat your enemies, like the pirates, ships that will defeat you if you don't defeat it first. another danger on the game, is the mutant fishes, that gives you some troubles, like electric shocks.
[edit] Gameplay
The gameplay is rather straightforward, placing the emphasis on buying and trading goods found in the environment for weapon, shield, and utility upgrades. There are also missions available, but they serve only to give the player more money, and have no value to the plot.
[edit] Graphics rendering
Sub Culture was one of the very first games, if not the first game to support both Direct3D and the most popular 3D-accelerators of the era straight out-of-the-box. Not only is there support for software rendering and Direct3D, but also native 3Dfx Glide, Rendition Verite RRedline and PowerVR PowerSGL. This plethora of options allows the game to be run in hardware-accelerated mode on almost any platform, provided operating system and graphics card driver issues do not arise.
[edit] Availability
Sub Culture has since gone out-of-print, and is no longer distributed in retail stores. New and used copies occasionally pop up on eBay and other auction sites, as well as on video game trading communties such as Game Trading Zone. A demo version of Sub Culture can be found at Gamespot and 3DGamers.
