MONACO

Monaco is an independent production focusing on the adventures of a group of thieves. The gameplay is based on the cooperative mode, and the production is the responsibility of the Pocketwatch Games studio. The developer, founded by Andy Schatz, has so far produced two management-focused titles. The first was Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa, released in 2005, and the second was Venture Arctic, created three years later.

Monaco's plot is set in the titular city. Players take on the role of thieves who escape from prison and decide to carry out a series of thefts. They are quickly joined by new characters, each of whom we only know by their trade. The plot twists are presented in short intros to the tasks, "so as not to interfere with what is most important in Monaco: the cooperative gameplay.

In each of the several dozen available tasks, cooperating players (up to four people) must avoid traps, obstacles or guards to reach the indicated item. After successfully obtaining the item, you still need to escape from the place of theft. The stages have been designed in such a way that both friends at a party and players looking for a challenge can have a good time with them. The latter will have to work hard to get through the mission in perfect style.

The key to success is to take advantage of the unique abilities of each thief, of which there are a total of eight in the game. Available among them are: lock expert (quickly open doors and safes), hacker (quickly deactivate security systems), spy (ability to disguise yourself as a guard) and medic (heal colleagues and incapacitate opponents). It is also important that coins are hidden in the missions only collecting all of them allows you to unlock additional stories of the thieves.

The graphics are quite simple and look chaotic in the pictures – the action is shown from above the head of the character. However, the creators made an effort to make the game readable. This was achieved by the appropriate use of colors and simplification of many elements of the environment. In Monaco, you can play with four players; both on one computer and over the Internet.

language version: ENGLISH

hardware requirements:

Pentium 4 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB graphics card (GeForce 7600 or better), 450 MB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7

The game is new in foil