4.8 /10 1 Votes
6/10 Steam Publisher(s) Semanoor International Artist(s) Mohammad Khaleel Initial release date 29 May 2013 Engine Unity Mode Single-player video game | 3.6/5 Google Play 11% Metacritic Director(s) Ahmad Jadallah Writer(s) Ahmad Jadallah Developer Semaphore Genre Action-adventure game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Macintosh operating systems, Ouya Similar Badiya, Devastation, Worms Crazy Golf, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Ravensword: Shadowlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nerd s hell unearthed trail of ibn battuta
Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta (Arabic: الركاز: في أثر ابن بطوطة) is an episodic action-adventure video game developed by Saudi Arabian game developer Semaphore, and published by parent company Semanoor International. The game's episodes are planned to be available on the PlayStation 3 (via PSN), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X (both via Steam, and the latter also via Mac App Store), as well as iOS, and Android devices.
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- Nerd s hell unearthed trail of ibn battuta
- Unearthed trail of ibn battuta worst game of 2014 so far
- Plot
- Development
- Reception
- References
The game was originally planned to be also available on Xbox Live Arcade and WiiWare, but Semaphore had since silently delisted those platforms. A different version of the game was also planned as a Facebook app. It has been announced for a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita release.
Unearthed trail of ibn battuta worst game of 2014 so far
Plot
When Arab fortune hunter Faris Jawad and his archaeologist sister Dania receive a call to visit Morocco they embark on an exotic adventure throughout the Middle East on the trail of the famous Muslim explorer Ibn Battuta. The trail would not be clear however as Faris will have to overcome an unholy alliance of a militia leader, a weapons dealer and a wealthy antiquities smuggler who are after the same goal.
Development
Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta is one of the first games for the PlayStation 3 featuring Unity game engine. Episode 1 was released on May 29, 2013 for the PlayStation 3 (PAL version only), and iOS. The PC and Android versions were also originally announced for that date, but both failed to launch on the respective platforms; in the former's case, it was mainly due for not being approved by Steam's Greenlight community before suggested date. On January 3, 2014, the game was eventually released worldwide for the PC platforms under the title Episode 1 – Gold Edition, in which the developer claims this new edition has addressed and improved some of the game's technical issues. The previous releases on PlayStation 3 and iOS received the Gold Edition version as a free update. The newer version later became available for Android platforms by May 28, 2014. Despite the initial updates, the Gold Edition has been patched multiple times.
Reception
The first episode of Unearthed: Trail on Ibn Battuta has been panned by critics and players alike. Main criticisms towards the game were directed at broken gameplay mechanics, graphics, clunky animations and its unoriginality with most critics comparing the game unfavourably to the Uncharted series. It currently holds a score of 11 out of 100 on Metacritic.
IGN Middle East gave the game a 3.0 out of 10; "With its clunky controls, poor level design, and horrible writing, Unearthed: The Trail of Ibn Battuta Episode 1 is an awful mess. The game did get a bit of negative attention for being a blatant Uncharted ripoff, however somewhere deep down I had hoped that it would force us to reject those prejudices, and stand high in its own right. Unearthed, unfortunately, does none of that and fails resoundingly." The Sixth Axis gave the game a 1 out of 10; "It’s all just laughably bad, so much so that there were a few times I couldn't help but explode with laughter at how terrible the animations, gameplay or everything else was."