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Next year Star Trek It will turn fifty. Fifty years ago, the world got acquainted with a brilliant work that determined the future of many. And it is not only about technology (although the mobile phones-rally, for example, was invented in this series), but also about the fate of people.

Universe Star Trek -An ideal world where there is no money, there is no violence where the internecine wars of mankind is put an end-this is a world in which we all would like to live someday. Thanks to " Star path "Many of us became interested in science fiction, and some went to serve science in the name of the future of mankind. By "us" I mean people. Any skin color, any religion, any gender, any age. Star Trek Out of any time. Out of time. Out of space.

Leonard Nima died yesterday. Symbol of the entire geek culture that we have dedicated to ourselves. “Life is similar to the garden,” he wrote on Twitter for the last time in his life. – wonderful moments happen in it, but they cannot be preserved for a long time, except in memory. Live for a long time and prosper ".

Yesterday, Leonard Nimo stepped over the last line and went to where the man's leg did not step. At least I really want to believe in it. However, I would like to believe that somewhere in another, better, universe he is alive.

Where did not step a person’s leg

It would be a hypocrisy that Leonard Nimo is a popular actor. No, it's wrong. During his career, he starred in many films, good and not very (" Invasion of the abductors of tel "," Katlow "And others). In addition, he directed films " Three men and baby " And " Holy bonds of marriage ". But that's all – nonsense. Leonard Nima was an actor of one role, one cannot but admit.

Another thing is what role. Great role. The roles that inspired. The role that forced to live and enjoy this life. The roles that made us better. The roles thanks to which we dreamed of a peaceful, bright future and dream of it still.

► Mr. Spock. The Vulcan, who, despite the feuds between his people and humanity, joined the team U.S.S. Enterprise, where there can be no discrimination. Where there is only the world.

" Space. The last line. This is the trip of the Enterprise ship. Five years of study of unknown new worlds, the search for new life and new civilizations. A trip to where the foot of a person did not step ” – I remember these words by heart. Each new series began with them Star Trek. When I first heard them, I was trembling: on the one hand – fear of the unknown, on the other – awe of unknown. I do not believe that we are alone in the universe, and never believed. I always believed and will believe in the future. Leonard Nima taught me this in the role of Spock, an officer in science on u.S.S. "Enterprise". Lord, I even have a sewn -in -law form of the star fleet!

All volcanoes, including half -breeds like Spock, must undergo a special ceremony of rejection of emotions, but, no matter how we want to refuse these pernicious “parasites” in the same way, we have to experience emotions anyway. This was familiar, including Leonard Nimoy. This is familiar and Caucari Kuinto, who plays Spock in the new alternative universe Star Trek.

► From CARARI Kuinto turned out a brilliant spock. Sky Vegas sister sites But still this is a completely different, alternative, universe.

“My heart is broken. I love you with all my heart, my dear friend, and I will miss you constantly. May the angels lull you with their singing, – wrote Zari Kuinto as a farewell word. Many followed his example, including Barack Obama, who wrote this: “Long before being Nerda became cool, Leonard Nimu was already”.

I consider the words of Obama to be inappropriate, but I agree with Zakari Kuinto – there were few people in the world, after whose death I really worried. And Leonard Nima is one of these few.

► In the original Universe and the Universe of the New Spock and Captain Kirk, they changed places. Thank God, Spock survived in both cases. But I worried about them in both worlds.

In the end, Leonard Nima died in eighty -three years, not many live up to this age. Vulcanes like Spock have been living for three hundred years, but people who play the Vulcanians in the cinema – no. Nimo managed a lot: to leave the house at eighteen years, to get married twice, to raise children, to organize a fund named after yourself for the support of artists of that time, to put a bunch of films and series, to play in both, to write a lot of poems, to play in “ Star Way ", And then play in it, only in the alternative universe J. J. Abrams.

But still, Nimo is primarily Mr. Spock. The same Vulcan that he presented, for a couple with William Shatnner as Captain Kirk, all of us faith in a bright future. Set a direction for film fiction for many years to come. Spock, despite his racial affiliation, accepted the foundations of mankind and always read them. Spock, even abandoning emotions, showed them. Spock repeatedly saved the United Federation of Planet and Humanity in particular. The same spock with which we all need to learn.

► hot heart and cold mind. Captain Kirk and senior assistant spock. Without one another simply cannot exist.

“With deep sadness, I learned about the death of Leonard Nimoy,” said Patrick Stuart, the performer of the role of Captain Picard in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. – I was lucky to spend many happy, inspired watches in his society. Eternal memory ". But Patrick Start is not one: with Leonard Nimu, many fans spent many inspired hours Star Trek. I spent. Maybe you did.

You and I learned a song of love and sing it folding.

The song does not get old, only transmitted from the heart to the heart with those,

Who saw what we see, who knew what we know – and all the lovers who sang to us.

We are free to own and share our love,

And the miracle believes in what more we give … the more we get.

Such a poem was published on Leonard Twitter last, and we allowed ourselves to translate it into Russian. He wants to convey such an idea. The more we give, the more we get. You need to love other people, even unfamiliar. Leonard Nima teaches us this. Spock teaches us this. “Live for a long time,” he says. – And prosper ". Let's follow his advice.

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I can’t perceive Leonard Nimoy separately from Mr. Spock, no matter how hard I try. But I'm not sure that this is needed, because Leonard Nima as Spock has not actually died. Star Trek – True science fiction, and everything in it is justified, including travel travel and alternative universes. Next year, the cinemas will be launched by the next " Star path ", And Spock there – Zakari kuinto. But in that other, original, universe, Spock is still Leonard Nimo. And he, like a Vulcan, will live the smallest couple of hundred years. He is still there.And he is alive.

Happy Life to you, Leonard. Live for a long time and prosper! Even in another, parallel, world. For the United Federation of planets. For us. For my sake. For the whole universe.

Thank you.

Passengers and members of the crew of the fashionable liner "Oceanus" suddenly begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The carpets in the corridors are stained with human giblets, the paintings are smeared with bloody imprints, in an unemployed elevator, a disfigured corpse of a man is lying around for several days, and the lackey, which was transported by the cabins yesterday, was imprinted in the wall of his own cart ..

► Miss Monica Florence gives the impression of a rich girl from high society. But in fact, she is a simple student and works as a waiter.

The people who find themselves in a closed space among the endless ocean begin to suspect each other and gradually fall into paranoia. The heartbreaking children's crying is added to the fire, coming from somewhere at night.

Meanwhile to swim for almost a week – God forbid on the ship will begin panic.

Scissors chick-chick

“I was afraid that times had changed and Project Scissors It will seem outdated to people, ”Khono said when he only planned a new game. Ultimately, the gamed-designer undertook to make a classic adventure of the subspecies Point-And-Click, with the search for objects and hide and seek from the monster. The game should become a successor of the ideas of the series Clock Tower.

If you are little familiar with the heritage of SNES and the first PlayStation, this series of magnificent treasures in the knees of horror films could pass by you. Moreover, the first games in the Old World were not officially published. However, in their homeland a series Clock Tower known no less than Silent Hill.

Its part of it connects mainly the ugly monster Scissorman. It is easy to guess that this monster knocked on its victims with huge limbs-ceremonies. At the same time, he, like a pyramid-headed one from Silent Hill, could not be called a purebred evil.

► such an artist Masakhiro, who came up with a pyramid -headed from Silent Hill , I saw Scissorwalker.

IN Project Scissors , which, after the successful completion of the crowdfunding campaign, was renamed NightCry , The monster with blades will return instead of hands. For his updated image, Masahiro himself is responsible, who came up with a pyramid -headed one Silent Hill. Now the designer works in an independent Nude Maker studio with Kono-San.

The developers even shot a short film about the origin of Scissorwalker – this is what the main villain is now called. The artistic value of the video in question (shot deliberately cheap, and in places it generally resembles a artisanal remake of the film "Call" ), but from the video we learned that the monster changed the floor. Behind the veil of poisonous black vapors enveloping the figure in a hood, a woman's disfigured face is hidden.

Once the occultists drowned the unhappy with the child in the forest well, and now her spirit in droplets of water wanders around the world, looking for either revenge or repose. And wanting to find your child. And along the way, chopping objectionable to the huge steel mellets-tests. Especially women and their children.

Deadly dangerous cruise

► this is better than nothing, but if the monster is teaching the girl, only sheslings will remain from the box.

Monica Florence, a puppet blonde in an evening dress of indigo, has no her child yet. Where is there to think about children, while she is forced to earn extra money to a waitress to pay for her studies at the university … Therefore, the girl is used to traveling alone and while while sitting for a bar for a bar and on a dance floor. The question is, why would Scissorwalker, having made it on a ship on the water, name it to choose her main victim?

We will have to find out.

One thing is obvious: if a girl wants to go on the shore of a lively and unharmed, she will need, without thinking about a gorgeous outfit, to run a lot and hide a lot. The main character has no weapon, and she has nothing to repulse the monster, so she will have to think on the fly where to hide from the persecution. Alien cabin, a bar counter and even the boot drum of a large washing machine in a ship laundry is suitable. If only the pursuer did not turn on the "washing" ..

► small (dead?) a girl – an extremely hackneyed image in horror. But thanks to the efforts of Japanese developers, we will probably be scared before the loss of the pulse when we first meet it in the liner deserted corridor.

If the blonde in the last second hid, say, in a wardrobe, and the monster was a couple of meters from the door, the main thing is not to give herself out with increased breathing. At such moments, a mini-game begins-you need to "catch" a frantically pounding heart. Otherwise, the busty blonde is doomed.

In the moments of the lull, we will engage in the standard things for interactive adventure: to scrape the decks in search of all kinds of usefulness, clocks and keys to locks and cases. For example, putting in a floor freezer casket in the kitchen, the girl stumble upon torn human limbs and something else that will be able to adapt to the matter. And if she manages to get hold of a smartphone of a dead man from the elevator, you can go to the internal social network (not GTA 5, of course, with her Internet, but still) and even write a post with a call for help. Suddenly someone will see him and believe him. In extreme cases … just "like".

► Kill even a machine gun with soda.

“When I worked on Clock Tower, I was about twenty, and my ideas about the ideal woman were largely imposed by society. It seemed to me that it should be obedient, meek, weak and all that spirit, ”Hifumi Kono argues (his heroines were so). – By the age of forty, I reviewed my views and now I understand that an unbending will can also be an attractive female line. Yes, this is my new ideal woman, viable and decisive – and such will be Monica Florence ".

According to the developers, at later stages, Miss Florence will even learn how to place traps on a monster and gradually turn into a hunter from the victim.

More victims

In addition to a young student under our management, other heroes may be also. The developers have not yet decided to make them just the interlocutors of Monica or let players personally play for them.

Khifumi Kono believes that the lion's share of the atmosphere and fear is transmitted through the images of half -crazy inhabitants of the liner. They promise us that goosebumps will begin to run from them on the skin. After all, words or, conversely, underfire frighten much more than a sudden clap of the door behind. The player begins to wind up himself, and the nerve cells in the end are burned more.

► Now the main thing is not to move. And do not breathe. Maybe it will leave.

So, a professor of anthropology travels on board the ship, part -time – what a coincidence! – Cultural science specialist. All his life, Leonard Cosgrove dreamed of facing face with supernatural face to test his theories in practice. He waited.

There is also a strange Frenchman Jerome Terue, hoping to find peace on board the liner and fill in memory failures. Presumably, he had something to forget. Terue burns behind Rooney Simpson, an unlocked brunette with a dark past and suicidal inclinations. Something tells us something-it was not by chance that the girl turned out to be the namesake of the main character Clock Tower.

The authors promise many Luck of Spins sister sites references to the classic series of horror films, and the attentive player will certainly find them. In addition, several endings are declared, one another is. Most likely, the characters will suffer and die in them. Painful. Differently. Like before.

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The star composition of the developers is both luck and the misfortune of any game. On the one hand, they are a master of their craft, on the other hand, players and the press automatically expect a masterpiece from them without five minutes. Khifumi Kono gathered in the walls of Nude Maker exactly such a team.

Bend your fingers. The director of the film helps him to work on the script "Curse" , as an animator – a person who was engaged Bayonetta , For an acoustic component, so important for any horror, composers are responsible Metal Gear Solid , Final Fantasy And Castlevania. And the already mentioned Masakhiro results, which, like no other, is able to draw terrible figures, works with them.

► Khifumi Kono and Takashi Simizu presented the main props from the short films – giant scissors – a generous donor with Kickstarter, who invested more than ten thousand dollars in the development of the game.

It turns out that the ideological heiress Clock Tower Take it to the list of the most anticipated games of the year. With good chances, it may be a truly terrible game. After all, scare the way the Japanese can do, no one else knows how.

Success factors

Risk factors

• the return of the legendary series;

• Use of the atmosphere in the best Japanese traditions;
• an experienced team of developers who are not for the first time to make horror;
• Several endings and the choice of character increase the chances of reigree.

• the mechanics are quite typical, and it will be insulting if the exit NightCry Such games are bored with everyone;

• Great hopes are entitled to the game: “Veterans” can be disappointed, and “newcomers” can not be imbued.

We will wait?

NightCry – In many ways a typical Japanese horror. There is a well here, there is a dead girl, a drowned man and a ghost ship from which there is nowhere to escape. And the whole game as a whole is a rethinking of the cult series of horror Clock Tower. It is impossible not to wait!

The struggle for a whirlwind in ** Total War: Warhammer 2 ** is conducted by four main fractions (higher and dark elves, Skavens and cannibals), however, nine races will also meet from the previous part of the game on the global map. Each of them in the desktop Warhammer: Fantasy Battles The Code of Game Rules with a description of the troops and a brief history of the peoples that are part of the army was allotted. So that in the jungle of chandelier you do not forget about the Old World, we will remind you of its inhabitants.

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Order forces

Order – these are races and states of free peoples, which have not yet fallen under the influence of chaos; honor, conscience and prudence for them still mean something.

The main stronghold of order on the continent is very similar to the sacred Roman Empire of the heyday: independent nobility, German toponyms and dark forests full of monsters as if from the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm. Ancient history Empire has long turned into a myth. The legendary leader Sigmar united twelve tribes and, together with the Sanctors' gnomes, fought for a long time with the orcs. In gratitude, the underground king Kurgan presented the commander with a hammer Ghal Maraz, a crusher of skulls (in whose honor the universe is called Warhammer), and his generals were magical swords.

Sigmar ruled for a long time and wisely, and everyone who was not agreed with this, sent to the cold – to the cold Norsk. The leaders eventually became columns, a small village turned into the capital, and in the memory of people this time remained a golden age.

As usual in decent legends, Sigmar did not die with his death: in the declining of years, the first emperor went east and went missing. Around his person, a new cult has grown through the generation, which quickly became the official religion of the empire (although the old gods continued to read).

Sigmar did not leave the successor, and, after conferring, the counts decided to choose the following emperors with a common congress. The tradition is still alive, although the capital princes have long been obtained, and the current emperor Karl-Frants is no exception. The elected power costs the empire – the Electors adore civil wars – and it has already managed to miss two provinces: the orcs burned out, and the vampire family appeared in Silvania.

Bretonia It is more like medieval France in a version of knightly novels, but it is difficult to find another country with such a strong gap in the levels of income between the estates. While the noble knights check their strength at the tournaments, look for the Grail and make feats in the name of the lady’s mistress, thousands of peasants bend their backs on the Lord’s fields, paying the brilliant life of the Breton bohemia.

Empire and Bretonia are friends with most human states (especially with cranberry Slavic sour). Together with Tsar Boris, who saddled the bear, and his hussars imperial crossbowkers repeatedly stopped the army from the wasteland of chaos. The skill of engineers allowed people to build powerful artillery: Karl-Franza guns in caliber and efficiency surpass even dwarfs. Knight's orders learned to tame the Pegasus and Demigribov, and the emperor himself enters into battle, dive on the griffin.

And these are Bretons.

Bearded Dwarves , Mountain warriors of the world Warhammer, by the standards of fantasy, look standard: stocky strength, proud and jerking, good miners and the best artisans who, in addition, are very fond of hunting. In battle, gnomes rely on hammers and axes, adore heavy crossbows. But with magic they are bad, except for the magnificent runic weapon. Potato does not grow in underground galleries, so gnomes have to exchange food for ore and gems. If the war burns all the fertile lands around the gnome of the fortress, enterprising residents sculpt buns directly from stone flour (other races do not perceive them at all).

And the gnomes are noble people, but very vindictive. The most serious misconduct before their birth is recorded in a huge book of grievances and recalled for centuries. It is easy to insult the proud people: it is quite disrespectful to speak out about the length of their beards. A beard for a gnome – like a work book! In the best craft guilds, they do not let the desired length without a beard, and at the wedding the groom should at least once wrap the beard around the waist of the bride.

Dwarves have long proved: below growth – does not mean weaker.

In the world Warhammer Forest elves Appeared later the rest. Four thousands of years before Zigmar, then the unified people of the elves of the rules of all the seas around the island of Ultuan. The high towers of their buildings were drawn to the sky, but when the cult of pleasure attacked the very center of the state, dividing the elves into bright and dark, those who did not want to participate in this war were found. They stayed in the Old World even after the king withdrew the army back to the ultuan.

The fugitives settled near the forest atel-Loren. The elves sent more and more expeditions to the thicket, but only a few returned, and they lost their minds: the forest turned out to be a living creature. But when the dwarf detachments were almost half cut by him, the forest had to be trusted witty. Abandoning spontaneous magic, they began to serve nature. Forest elves rarely participate in wars outside their family thickets, but if they are angry, entes and dria will come to the aid of archers.

In Total War: Warhammer 2, hardworking Lyudo -shows and majestic Higher elves.

The forces of chaos

Chaos in the old world is an unconditional evil, although it is from it that the winds of magic are taken from it, in which wizards draw the forces. Only the constant enmity of the four gods saves humanity from this evil. Clothing khorn, rotten Nurgl, mysterious tsinch and depraved (th) Slaanes are fighting each other more often than with the rest of the fractions.

Desperate in life, eager for revenge, forbidden knowledge and pleasures addresses the chaos. Among them are not only people: many creatures living in the backyard of the world are evil by nature. Even proud gnomes fell into the network of four treacherous gods, and over the zikuns of the eastern city of Jarr-Brun, the wind wears screams of dying slaves. It is these gnomes that punch the armor, in which the best warriors of the chaos fractions are then put on.

Mutans frost is not terrible.

The influence of chaos in the north, where the earth will give birth to poorly and residents prefer to take their strength from the southern brothers. Barbaras Norski accepted the gods of chaos as their supreme patrons and enter the battle, not afraid to lose: they have nothing to lose. Those who hear the call more stronger than others begin to change. They have horns, eyes blackened (or a veil covers them), the need for food and water remains in the past. Dressed in heavy armor, chaos warriors are able to withstand the attack of the whole detachment before silently fall on the battlefield.

At the time of the start of the game Total War: Warhammer, more than ever, the end of the time is close than ever, and if the champion of darkness and the lord of the chaos, the powerful archana, will not be able to stop, all dark prophecies will become a reality. Horde of chaos , Mighty demons, embodied in the worst human nightmares, march from north to south.

Chaos far handed out his tentacles: Katya’s great wall will be stormed by nomads-hungs, and in every city of the empire there is a secret cult of one of the gods, because the temptation of power is also amenable to the high-born nobles. In dense forests and on unusual trails, an unlucky traveler can stumble upon the village Beasts.

They have nothing to do with animals: once their ancestors were ordinary people, but the supernatural power of the warp-stone deprived them of the human essence and endowed with bestial habits. These rude creatures are subordinate to the shamans collecting tribes around herd stones. The gods of chaos whisper orders to attack people's settlements, but no less often they fight each other. The horned mountains and their smaller brothers of the Ungors go into battle with the unstable rows of infantry: centighors are attacking from the flanks, and mighty minotaurs are rightfully considered the elite of beasts.

In Total War: Warhammer 2, hordes will join the forces of chaos Skavenov.

The forces of destruction

Where civilization ends and where the tentacles of chaos have not yet reached, the lands spread out green -skinned. This name is understood at once several close races: orcs, goblins, snowballs, trolls and giants. In the early editions of the board game, most of them were included in the army of chaos, but they were very quickly allocated as independent power.

It was Warhammer that introduced fashion on green orcs: at Tolkien and in Dungeons & Dragons They are mainly brown and gray. Above a person, with huge toothy faces, these creatures are distinguished by phenomenal survivability. If the orc is chopped off, he only needs to put it to the wound, and over time it will grow back.

To rob and kill for orcs is not just a way to get food, but a hobby and a lifestyle. When the orcs attack the village, in its place there remains a clean field with dug pits, in which the attackers of fried cattle and local residents, as well as … huge idols from manure: the religion of the orcs is as simple as they themselves. Gorka and Morka, one “insidious, but stronger”, the other “strong, but insidious”, do not require strict vows: know robe and kill yourself.

Another orc tradition is to put all the trophies in a large pile. The empire is still in a whisper about the Gorbad of the Iron Cogue, the leader, equal to Sigmar itself. According to rumors, the treasures made by him were formed in heaps above the mountains. And in an orc language there is a word VAGH, it is not translated into any human language and means something between the war, pilgrimage, favorite work and drunkenness in nature.

In Total War: Warhammer 2, another representative of the destruction forces will appear – malicious Dark elves.

The forces of undead

Undead – these are all who lingered in the world of the living: skeletons, zombies, vampires and mummies. These creatures are not as powerful as the forces of chaos, but almost always as dangerous. Relatively peaceful tombs of tombs rule in deserts far in the south, and Total War developers: Warhammer has not yet reached them. Therefore, in both games, only vampire counties represent undead.

Silvania, where the most terrible undead of the Old World lives, has always been a gloomy edge. Even at the time of Sigmar, robbers and apostates gathered here, who did not want to join the empire, and after the rain from the warp-stone spilled over the province, everything got worse. The dead got out of the graves and devastated lonely villages, cultists, necromancers and other dashing people settled in the vague principality. But truly terrible Sylvia became the rule of Vlad von Karshtein and others Graf-vampires.

Forty -five centuries ago, in distant khamia, the sorcerer Nagash revealed the secret of immortality. Starting the war with all the surrounding lords, he and his followers soon were erased from https://sister-site.org/twinky-win/ the face of the earth … But the memory of them lived. Many tried to re -open the secret of the elixir. For the drug, human blood was required, and a distorted recipe also caused a terrible dependence on it.

Vlad was the first of the great vampires who ruled Silvania. He came out of nowhere on a thunderstorm night, when the cruel Otto von Drak, the previous count, died in his castle from illnesses. The charming stranger convinced the dying father to bless his marriage with the child's daughter and became the ruler of the castle.

For almost two hundred years he ruled, capturing more and more possessions. Wolves ate disagreed in a dark night, the dead rebels from the graves killed – or they simply went missing. And when another feud broke out in the empire, Vlad intended to rule not only the principality, but the whole country.

The vampire was killed twice, but each time he returned to life. When the undead finally besieged the capital, the miracle saved people. The great theogonist of the church of Sigmar Wilhelm III saw in a dream the source of Vlada, a magic ring, and the best thief of the kingdom managed to steal him before the decisive battle. But even after the defeat of Vlad, the empire had enough things: the vampire counts threatened its existence for a long time.

Division into fractions is a very conditional thing. Nothing prevents the Imperials and Bretons to wage a long war of extermination, and the green -brown -legged is constantly fighting with the Norski tribes. Choose for yourself who to lead the battle: slender rows of spearmen or screaming Vatagu Berserkov. Take a closer look at the new fractions, but when conquering the shores of Ultuan and Nagarot, do not forget about old friends.

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