Parkan 2

Parkan 2
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75
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65.066
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$3.99
Release date
16 April 2014
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75 (264 votes)

Parkan II is an original concept game that will allow you to feel as a pilot of a spacecraft lost somewhere in the universe. Become a pirate or mercenary, get money to buy the most powerful cruiser and show them all who is to be the new master of the galaxy. Unforgettable adventures in the Parkan II universe await you!

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Parkan 2 system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP/7/8
  • Processor: Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

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Recommended requirements are not yet specified.
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289400
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Cybro
Cybro

This game needed more polish. I got the feeling while playing it that it must have been created by a bunch of amateurs after watching an episode of outlaw star. I'm going to play it a bit more but i am unlikely to finish it in all honestly, plus if i ask myself do i recommend it the answer is no i can't.

azmeangreen
azmeangreen

Flight feels boring and fake. Voice acting is robotic and horrible. (Oh. no. I. am. under. attack. by. this. hu.man.) Find a copy of Freelancer and play instead.

Drunk Pilot
Drunk Pilot

Plot is sort of convoluted, and voice acting is fairly terrible.

Where it get interesting is the gameplay, though mainly a fairly good space trading sim, it allows you to board enemy ships and loot them. You can also land on bases on planets In an FPS manner. These aspects are flawed and unpolished, but manage to give this game a unique charm.

As far as the technical of things is concerned, sound is average, graphics are colourful, but also average.

Buy it on a sale. It'll offer you a fairly good time

Ricardo A. Badani
Ricardo A. Badani

The game is quite good (I played it time ago), but the Steam Version crashes on landing on a planet. Let's hope this issue is solved and it doesn't add itself to the "forgotten old bones" Collection. NOTE: As I comment in my May 28 posting, all the bugs were promptly solved by the developers and the Game works fine now! :^)

Barbazu
Barbazu

Interface too small and dialog is really really bad.

Penroth
Penroth

Don't bother...Just don't...

Not at all what it's craked up to be, you MAY be lucky to get it to work for 30 minutes without a crash, but it's unlikely, and both the gameplay and features are amateurish at best.

Lord von Fleck
Lord von Fleck

Very addictive game, great game concept! Fly the galaxy in a "ship", land on planets and take over outposts, board ships and plunder the loot, upgradeable combat suit and ship(s).

Yes, the game crashed, once, and not once since. Easy (enough) to read displays. Decent graphics for its time (and for most indie-level games today), wide open play, great sandbox feel (after you play awhile, it opens up).

Faceless
Faceless

I've played for about an hour and thought I would post a quick review because there isn't many so far. I'm running windows 7 with a decent system and haven't had a crash yet. I haven't gotten to the open world part yet so far its been pretty much guiding me along but its been a ton of fun.

The story doesn't make a lot of sense so far. The movie seems sort of confusing but I think I got most of it. The voice acting while not great is horrible either. The little messages telling you want to do and explaining the game can be vague and sometimes you will get three or four of them right in the middle of a fire fight and don't have time to read them. Thankfully they save them all so you can go back and read them. All in all it did a pretty good job of teaching me how to play it a short amount of time. If you've played freespace or anything like it you should pick up the dog fighting quick.

You start out fighint some pirates and then land to secure some data from a crashed ship and get your first taste of FPS combat. So far it seems passable. Nothing new or awesome but seems to do the job. There are ports that you will be able to take over and then defend agaist pirate attacks which seems like it could be cool.

Your ship seems like it will be pretty upgradable. There is atleast four different systems you can change out also four gun spots and four missile spots. You can only have one gun spot and one missile spot active at a time but can switch between them at anytime.

Also they have a energy system that I remember having fun with back in the x-wing/tie fighter days. You can switch power between your systems(shields, weapons, engines, and I think the last one was sensors).

Over all I've had a lot of fun so far and will keep playing. I may or may not update this review based on how lazy I feel.

pooboo trapstar
pooboo trapstar

Bad, monotonous voice acting, too much information for me to care about to read, I don't even know what the hell to do.

10/1000

BrianRubin
BrianRubin

This is a great game. Sure it's a bit quirky, but it's got so much about it to love. If you like space gaming AT ALL, give this one a shot. Seriously, I say this as an expert. ;)

teking66
teking66

This is actually a pretty good game, kinda slow at the start and there is a learning curve, but if you stick with it the game is quite enjoyable. Though one thing that can be quite a pain is that at times the story can be a little hard to follow, but the log book can save the day there. There's quite a bit of space in this game, and the landing and moving about on the planets is quite unique (and quite well done to boot)! Let me say that I am a big fan of the X series (X Beyond the Frontier, X2, X3r, X3TC & X3 AP), and while is ain't X, nor is it ment to be, the fact remains that I find this game just about as interesting and enjoyable (and in some ways more maybe even).

All in all this is an interesting take on a space sim. So, if your in to that, then you just might want to give this a try.

Braxt
Braxt

This is one of the better indie games out there. If you like fast paced free roaming Space Sim/FPS Exploration, this game might be for you.

Kelleyheman42
Kelleyheman42

I really enjoy this game.. When it ISN'T crashing on a loading screen, which happens maybe every half hour? It's an incredibly fun space-sim-ish type of game, and I would really recommend it to anyone into that kinda thing, but only if they don't mind the added inconvenience of having to boot it up again every half hour.

Ember
Ember

jack ****. this game is terrible. 0 stars

Anticept
Anticept

Very interesting, yet simple little game. The translations aren't perfect so there is a little bit of the backstory lost from it, but it definately kept me busy for many hours!

It's actually pretty well polished for what they put in. Rather than a lot of games that try to blend multiple genres poorly, this one actually kept each part of the game simple, and working properly. I do wish there was more to it, but I'd take a complete game that works as expected.

ZeeHtaa
ZeeHtaa

I was surprised by the possibilities in the game, especially considering it's a 2007 title. Definitely worth giving it a try if you like space sandbox games.

Scharmers (Qt3)
Scharmers (Qt3)

The Russians can be weird cats when it comes to open-world gaming. Their strategy seems to be "throw everything in". Sometimes, this works, as in the case of "Space Rangers" and "The Precursors". In the case of Parkan 2, it doesn't. What you get here is an open-world sci-fi thing that combines both a poor, repetitive space shooter/trader, and a really poor FPS. Combine that with low-budget, constant asset reuse, and remarkably bad translation and voice overs (the same guy literally voices over multiple characters, and it's beyond terrible) and you have a real dog. If you really want something like Parkan, head over to Gamer's Gate and pick up "The Precursors" -- while it has a similar lack of polish typical to Russian games, it is far better at doing what Parkan 2 tries to do, plus there's a community patch that fixes most of its problems.

RockstarCRO
RockstarCRO

When I first started playing Parkan I had no idea what the heck was going on. I started my first mission, landed on my first planet and still didn't know what was going on.

After actually reading and listening to a bit of AI that speaks to you within the game, she gave me some good pointers to go look at my mission log book. The game is pretty cool, and reminds me of Star Trek Online way before it was even a thought. Parkan goes as follows, you have a ship that can be modified in many different ways. The suit you use when you transport to worlds can also be customized and weapons changed. The game is a FPS/RPG type game where you are able to build diplomatic ties with certain factions.

The gameplay itself is first person in the ship and first person on the planet. The ship controls are done with the keyboard and mouse and provides for a decently rewarding firefight. This game provides it's own unique approach to FPS/RPG. It's not FULL OUT customization on the ship and suit (colors, decals... bla bla) but shooting rockets or lazers, go ahead and go nuts choose which one you'd like to shoot.

Would give it an 8 if it was substantially different but due to it's age :

RATING : 6.95/10

Gameplay C+
Story / Campaign B+
Visuals / User Interface C+
Sounds / Music C+
Replay-ability C
Overall C+
ŲanquishedĻight
ŲanquishedĻight

if baught with a sale price, it's a OK game nothing spectacular.

there are some things that seem wonky in game play, but nothing to the extent of ruining the game. there are some things with controls that took me a while to find like the greatly used "use" button. there are no key bindings for it from what i seen in controls so because of this i had to skip the tutorial.

pro's:
1: was cheap
2: controls are okish
3: steam cards

con's:
1: horrible voice overs (like listening to actors in a B rated movie)
2: tutorial is lacking infermation on controls
3: graphics

liller_per
liller_per

Hmmm.. It all seems kinda, lame? .. Kind of confusing and frustrating. The intro is meaningless, dosn´t give you a clue about anything!.. The spaceship battles are boring, it dosnt even come close 2 the thrill a classic like Elite gave yoy.

trekie122
trekie122

a game i want to like. however the random but steady freezes requring a forced sign out of windows kill's it.

chris_terry001
chris_terry001

WTF? No idea what's going on in this game or what you're supposed to be doing. Allows you a lot of control over ship systems so might be a decent game if you can get past all the terrible voice acting and strange AI of your ship. I wouldn't recommend purchasing.

jeff.trammell
jeff.trammell

The game will not load and run on my computer under windows 8.1.

DragonClass
DragonClass

Game seemed promising but the mouse control was terrible making it almost unplayable.

Peak Imouto
Peak Imouto

I bought into this game based solely on it's concept. I want to love this game so much, it has, at least in theory, everything I want in a space game. Spaceships that you can walk around in, planets you can visit, multiple factions you can join, a free roaming (but sometimes limited for story reasons) sandbox universe... It even has in-ship fighting where you can get boarded by enemies or board enemy spacecraft to comandeer it yourself.

The game is a few years old, and the mileage doesn't give it any compliments. It has aged, and it hasn't aged well. It most likely wasn't even very visual-heavy back when it was first released back in 2007 either. But that can be forgiven. The real problem with this game is how the awesome concept is being executed. It's executed poorly. I walk around, doing stuff, going, "Ah, wow, this would have been cool if they had made it like that," or "this is kind of amazing, I wish they had expanded on that" etc. Also, the planets and stations feel copy pasted and empty, defeating the purpose of being able to visit them anyway.

In short, though it has many features, none of them feel fleshed out, and some are flat out stupid in their lack of polish. The story isn't anything to write home about either, possibly due to poor translation and sub par voice acting. Want to spend 5-8 hours tops fooling around in a semi open sandbox space sim thingy? It's 5 Euros or your regional equivalent. Is it worth it? Your call. I bought it, played it for a bit, kinda liked it, it was average. But I left it feeling unsatisfied. I would recommend waiting for another game that does this but better.

Pros:
Great concept
A few hours mindless fun

Cons:
Poorly executed concepts
It ain't no looker
Feels empty

RolanDecoy
RolanDecoy

The game looks polished and smooth; Elements fit together and I never got the sense that something just didn't fit somewhere. You have a some freedom as to how you operate and what you do, but there were still some things missing. The ability to fly to asteroids and mine them for instance is an example, but I can accept that as this game is more a combination of a spaceshooter and fps.

Things that really bring me down about this game is the bad English used, and how that creates some confusion about some missions. Nobody apparently looked over item and object descriptions before or after publishing the game, as it is full of spelling errors and wrong choice of words. This is weird, because the actual spoken text sounds (and with subtitles on, read) a lot better.

Some thing that really worried me during installation from Steam was the download and installation of regedit.exe....a very dangerous tool that shouldn't be installed by a game, especially concidering you can make changes to the registry from C++ / C# (not sure where this was written in). Each and every Windows version can then make sure only certain parts of the registry can be changed, much more secure. And once I turned on fullscreen and full resolution the resolution bar stated 666 as the only available resolution. Probably a dev-joke, but definately something you might want to worry about.

The game itself shows a pretty good attempt to combine different genres, but feels repetetive quite fast and therein lies its greatest drawback.

A product of interest for people that like games outside 'normal conventions', but other than that it has suprisingly little to offer. Concidering myself such a person, I will still recommend this.

PanzerSchmit
PanzerSchmit

This game is so cool, so I even bought steam version, while I had DRM free ones - still dont regret, this game might seem to be old but it has a great story which will suck you in after first 10 minutes of playing.

Rail/ slave
Rail/ slave

Far be it from me to run this into the ground.

If this is their own engine, then obviously a lot of works gone into it, Its all very shiny (for the sake of it ??).

I guess I was looking for some sort of No mans sky fix (before its out) landing on planets ect..

This is not that fix.

Like alot of the reviewers, its hard for me to pin point one thing.
The team are obviously very talented and ambitious and what an indie tech demo (circa 2004) !! but Its a case of very generic art direction.

I should have trusted my gut instinct on this one. I considered getting this for WEEKS

I can imagine people that like stuff like Chrome might get into this.

Alt Muller
Alt Muller

This game hasn't aged well graphics-wise but the visuals are tolerable; ironically, it's the performance that makes me give it a thumbs down. To the best of my understanding, every time you board an enemy ship its interior is somehow connected to your own's and isn't properly cleared afterwards, which means after a few hours the game starts to lag while inside the player's ship and quickly gets unplayable even on reasonably powerful rigs. This glaring oversight hasn't been fixed in all those years since initial release so I wouldn't bet on them fixing it now.

Дмитрий
Дмитрий

Идея хорошая, но компоненты не доведены до ума.
Можно было бы играть в игру, какая она есть, но графика отталкивает.

fader48080
fader48080

holy crap that is the worst voice acting ever

Rogue309
Rogue309

I get the feeling that who ever the person was that translated this game had to be drunk or have no idea how the English language is actually used. I started the game, i tried to make it past the beginning of the game and i just couldn't stop laughing or cringing! And the casual way they game tells you that your totally screwed over is just to much. Lay off the vodka lol. I'm recommending this game for the fact that i couldn't stop laughing at the poor voice acting and Engrish use, not the fact that its a great game lol

psypersona
psypersona

SADLY.. EVEN IF OLD... THIS GAME SHOWED POTENTIAL... UNFORTUNATLY IT KEEPS CRASHING.. NO POSIBILITIES OF REFUND FOR IT CAME IN A PACKAGE...

TRY IT.. IT IS OLD.. BUT IT SEEMS LIKE GOOD STUFF.. BUT IT WONT STOP CRASHING IN MY CASE.

Wiktorpolak
Wiktorpolak

Destroy and capture 5 planets of some clan - 5 minutes later I'm their best friend. Best game ever :D

Jet Kong [oLDY]™
Jet Kong [oLDY]™

Sorry, after the way too long intro with the 14 year old reading lines it just felt like a game i didn´t want to involve myself in. Sure it was cheap so no real harm done.

Monkie
Monkie

this game is terribad, i forgot i had it until i saw it in my played list, don't, just don't, it's not even worth fifty cents,

Russell
Russell

This game is enjoyable but has a steep learning and wonkiness curve. By wonkiness I mean for instance that the default control settings make it impossible to play the game. Make sure to go to the settings and click 'default' to return the controls to a playable setting.

Parkan 2 is an open world hybrid game. After a fairly lengthy intro segment of the game you are set loose on the world and can do as you like. However, you are given a series of missions which push the story forward and ultimately lead to a relatively linear and singular objective. The game itself is broken down into three main parts. Space segments where you fly around and dogfight against other ships or space stations, landing segments where you fight against machinery and humanoids, and indoor segments where you fight only against humanoids.

The game is much greater than the sum of its parts. The individual components of the game are all relatively mediocre, but they actually work together to create an enjoyable and engaging experience. I had a great time upgrading my ship(s) and battle suit while progressing through the game. The downside is that the game lacks any sort of exploration incentives. It may boast hundreds of sectors but by the time you've seen 10 of them you've seen all of them. The translation job on the game was also a low level of quality with incoherence and typos more the rule than the exception. This is made even more frustrating given that the story is actually quite interesting and thought provoking.

In spite of its flaws it's a game that somehow will keep drawing you in for more if you can fight through the intial learning curve.

CeeJay232
CeeJay232

I am quite dissapointed, as this seemed to have everything I wanted in a game, but it crashes at least every 15 minutes. Also, the directional control will sometimes pull to a random direction out of nowhere, the only way to fix is to reload a save. These two bugs make the game unplayable

StarDroid
StarDroid

Pretty old space exploration game, that has aged pretty well over the last 10 years. Could say its a lite version of space exploration games, but it has its charms and really funny voice acting. Voice acting is so bad its great.

Captain X (PhoenixX)
Captain X (PhoenixX)

Although the game is quite dated, it fits in my "runs on old laptop on rainy day" category.
It fits into the the evolution of of the space trader genre nicely. So long as you understand this represents an earlier but still ground breaking innovation to space games; it is still fun. This game takes the old idea of Frontier First Encounter; where you can explore a universe or land on a planet. Takes a bit from privateer; and adds in elements of Battlecruiser. Games like this influenced more modern games like Mass effect, Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous, Even planetside a little. With this in mind understand that it /is not those games/ merely inspired elements of them.

Basically you can fly your ship, walk around your ship, attack other ships, or board and raid them. You wear an upgradable battle suit, and whatever space ship your find yourself on can be upgraded too.

On top of this you can build a squadron of drones, to act as wingmen in space, or mobile combat platforms in the style of x-com for ground based missions on planets. Although not critical you can ignore the plot and trade for a while to upgrade ships or weapons.

The space combat works, but the temptation to simply board each ship steal their cargo and kill everyone on board is usually too great - particularly as the faction missions often need items you steal from enemy ships.

Overall i dont regret buying this game, but dont be expecting star citizen or no mans sky in this game, take it as it is, an example of the progression of detail in virtual universe games.

grim_jack1
grim_jack1

the tutorial sucks., the open worlds are not...glad i only paid 3.99

hkennyrules101
hkennyrules101

Pros:
-Open world space flight
-Faction system
-Own your own planets, upgrade infrastructure
-Space combat and first person combat
-Buy ships, customize loadouts
-Lots of content
-Logbook keeps a record of every interaction, helping with several smaller frustrations

Cons:
-Repetitive on all fronts
-Bad, bad voice acting
-Can't steal the ships you board =(
-Dated graphics
-Poor storytelling and passable plotline
-Learning curve

Overall: Parkan 2 is a charming little game. It has a lot of issues. The voice acting is abysmally bad, and the game play gets very repetitive. Each planet has one of a few prerendered environments and some cloned base layouts. The game is open ended, but often it just feels like running in a hamster wheel, redoing some of the exact same things over and over. Additionally, there is a steep learning curve, and a wide array of little nitpicky aggravations that aren't worth really getting into. Despite this, the game is fun, really really fun. It manages to be challenging in the right ways, and comes together as a coherent whole, even if it doesn't do so with the most style. It won't win any awards, but you won't regret playing it.

Bottom Line: It's only $3.99, that's a small price for a fun game that will give you hours of fun.

MrBowen
MrBowen

Couldn't get into this, spent too much time with X series already I think. This game is very slow at the start, controls need tweaking to remove aggravation. Vintage hardcore gamers might like this but I just couldn't get myself into it (I love the scenarion/theme though)

Boxa
Boxa

Overall, the game looks good and also sounds good. Most of the game is pretty okay and even the graphics being a bit antiquade it doesn't make it worse.
The voice acting is average, some is okay, some is awful, but at least you see most of them trying, so it is a good job
The controls of the spaceship also works fine and you can control it pretty easily, although, the major flaw of this game, and also the reason that I can't recommend it, is the aim system.
Once you automatically aim at them, your missiles will reach the enemy, which is ok, but your main weapon, the laser/gatling gun, won't be automatically aimed at them and you will need to manually aim at them and shoot. Which is really horrible, it is not precise, it doesn't have a good hitbox, it doesn't even show you that well if your shot was good, you can see, but it is not that good. It is awful, and it is the main objective of the game, so, not recommended because of it.

If you want any more reason, well, it also tends to crash sometimes, so you'll be at risk playing this game if you don't save often.

King Weeman
King Weeman

Sale material only, IMO, and here's why:
Instructions are not clear or more likely not right, whoever is instructing you tells you "Do this" you do just that, and sometimes nothing happens.I got stuck with the game in a mission where I had to clear the robots from a building(after another time I was stuck and googled a walkthrough cuz the instructions told me it should work but didn't) so I killed all the enemies, then proceeded to go through the building and search every spot of it 3 times only to find nothing(killed 2 robots at the exact same time maybe that stuck one of them marked as existent or idk) so I can't advance with the game.
Besides that:
Graphics are shit(didn't get it for the graphics though)
Voice acting is shit(don't even get me started lmao)
The game has good parts too, and the concept is nice.

gartheastwood
gartheastwood

Absolute BOWLOCKS. SImple as. Not even worth it for free!

Throw in the Russian mafia-esque Parkan 2 community, who hate anyone from west of the imaginary line drawn from St Petersburg to Rostov-on-Don, and you have one of the worst games and worst ever bunch-a-( )*( ) on Steam!

petersly
petersly

Great concept, poor execution... The game really tries to mix politics, space combat, shooter, colonisation, exploration and RPG together into one epic package. It actually more or less delivers in all espects - there are factions and some politics between them, you do fight in space, you can colonise planets, you do customise your ship and equipment, you can capture ships or planets in FPS game... But most of the puyyle pieces are of quite poor quality.

Game was quite bugged on release, it was not possible to finish main quests.

Still I do recommend a game, for a price it is quite an experience and there is definitely enjoyment worth 4 bucks in it. And you can dream of the game with the similar refreshing concept, yet much better execution.

Anterk
Anterk

-Laughable story that I assume you need to have played the first game to appreciate
-Enemies that take forever to die and lack variation
-Ship and player combat are both janky and not particuarly engaging thanks to a lack of fundimental control options for the ship or interesting combat options overall.

+It didn't crash. Counts as a positive I guess.

Tempus
Tempus

Clunky and boring. Also, planetside feels incredibly empty.

(СБЭY)GachiMixer
(СБЭY)GachiMixer

Игру Паркан 2 я купил со скидками в стиме и купил я пак игр 1С решил скачать т.к у брата тоже была ну и вообщем игра шедевральна хоть и 2007 года. Хочу поиграть и в паркан 1 но загрузчиков найти не могу

BanOphobia My Struggle
BanOphobia My …

A hybrid space shooter mixed with planetary FPS it kind of a neat concept and idea. Not played this for a while and now I remember why. This has got to have some of the worst voice acting for sure.

The story is about some mysterious anomaly in space and something about time travel elements, ( don't care ). The combat is so underwhelming more so on planet. The gameplay is kind of meh and nothing really excites.

The visuals if a little bit dated and simplistic are quite colorful and bold. So the game looks nice, but doesn't sound nice or play nice.

John Warosa
John Warosa

This game is not good. Nothing is implemented correctly(the AI is dumb, the FPS(on land) segments are pretty dull and boring with some pretty bad controls and every planet's a cookie cutter copy of the last one) the game is vast open and completely empty(the landscape of every planet literally has not a single living being on them), and worst of all, there are no humans. Not a single human being in the game as far as I have played it other than a few cutscenes. It's just.. boring. It's like a dollar-store Elite. The voice-acting isn't good either.

It's a good game if you want to simulate crippling loneliness, though. Me, however, I found it average and pretty much a huge waste of time. I kept it because I imagined I'd probably play it a few more times than just once, though.

Rod
Rod

Game crashed when I fire a missle into a turret.
Must have been a nuke.

Seddrik
Seddrik

Controls are horrible. Even on the lowest possible setting you cant manually line up shots for anything... but the AI can sure shoot you. Meh... uninstalled.

david3907
david3907

Struggling at start as resolution is set to 666 whatever that is. All I know is everything is small.

ScreamingCloud
ScreamingCloud

Short verdict: I think the very low price makes the game worth buying for the sake of trying it out, even if you drop it after a short while.

The general concept is great: you have an open world populated by several different factions with which you can interact as a trader, a mercenary, or a pirate; you can buy upgrades to your ship and battle suit, get combat drones to help you in combat, and, occasionally, capture some planets to feature permanent bases. The number of hours I spent in the game indicate I found it lots of fun, but you should be cautions of the following:
1. The majority of combat is a mediocre FPS experience, where you go alone (without your drones) against a number of very dumb enemies. Welcome diversions are the space dogfighting and battles on the planet surface; unfortunately, boarding enemy ship yourself is a better alternative to the former, and the latter don't last very long.
2. Don't expect the story get better with progression, its end will leave you confused and lacking answers to many questions.

If you are ready to overlook this you will find Parkan 2 a game that is quite good in conveying the feeling of being a lone space wanderer.

Himem
Himem

No Fire Weapons button mapped to Joystick. Mouse controls a joke. Keyboard mapping nightmare. Great concept. But again, as in so many titles today, execution makes the game more of a chore than a joy.

Smackm0nk3y
Smackm0nk3y

The best thing about this game is the voice acting, and not in a good way. I would literally lol when the woman voicing the AI's voice would crack. The guy in the beginning sounds like hes on the phone in a soap opera.

Horrible tutorial. Horrible control, and i'm not referring to the mapping. Not worth reviewing further really. Skip this.

redq92
redq92

Put so much time into this game. Would truly be amazing if all the bugs got fixed/ AI got tuned up. Worth a purchase despite problems it innovative for what it is.

johan
johan

uhm... good for laughs with really drunk friends not much more

=CrimsoN=
=CrimsoN=

Gameplay: 7/10
Story: 4/10
Graphics: 8/10 (for the time)
Performance: 9/10

Overall: 7/10

Parkan 2 is not a bad game, but it hasn't really stood the test of time either. Parkan 2, at its core, is an open-world Freelancer clone space game with its most notable feature being the ability to traverse small portions of planets, moons and even your own starship. In addition, Parkan 2's store description doesn't lie, and you can largely play as any type of character you want (unless the main story requires otherwise). Don't expect something in the realm of No Man's Sky or Star Citizen though. You are limited to only a single location on each planet and moon and there is little to do outside of interacting with the spaceport interfaces. Don't expect an array of characters either as for whatever reason, this galaxy is inhabited entirely by robots (hey, it’s Parkan 2). Also, you can board enemy ships at anytime, but they will always self-destruct, unless it is related to a story mission. So it seems like a simple, budget space game title, right? Well yes, that’s exactly what Parkan 2 is, so where are the real negatives? Remember when I stated that Parkan 2 failed the test of time? That couldn’t be more true. The UI is pretty bad. Text can be very small at higher resolutions to the point where it is a struggle to read, even for people with the best of eyes. Joystick control is poor, but the game plays well enough with a mouse (à la Freelancer). The story is convoluted and ambiguous, but this has more to do with the poor translation. Sound design is meh and unremarkable. But for all those negatives, I imagine that Parkan 2 was an amazing game for its time.

This is one of those instances where Steam really needs a "mixed" recommendation, because as I stated, Parkan 2 is not a bad game, but it's not a good game when so many better games exist at this point. I see little reason to invest my time in Parkan 2 much longer, but for the price, I’d still recommend it for the diehard space game fan who wishes to re-live the late Freelancer era.

Tomtores
Tomtores

It has a great idea - spaceship exploration, ability to walk inside ship etc.
But, the visuals have dated really bad.

Regretfully, I put it back on my shelf.
Not getting a refund, even though I'm eligible - the game is exactly what advertised - a very old take on interesting idea.
Sadly, steam does not have a "neutral" option for review, so I tend toward negative as "not advised to purchase, unless you are ok with very very old game.

BaronFel
BaronFel

Любимая игра с самого детства.

Не буду расписывать насколько она хороша, других отзывов достаточно. Расскажу как она работает на современных системах.

Intel 10100F + 1080
Windows 10 (последняя версия на момент написания отзыва).

Без шаманства конечно нормально не поиграть:
1) запускать только в режиме совместмости с XP SP2
2) не прописываются записи в реестре, нужно прописать самостоятельно (в корне игры выполнить файл DefaultSettings.reg)
3) по умолчанию стоит музыка не та, которая была на официальном диске, но поправить легко (в папке Music\track два файла с номерами 01 и 02, поменять их местами, переименовать их 01 в 02, 02 в 01)

Albatross
Albatross

I freakin' love this game, and I wish there was a fix for the bug that makes it get super slow the farther you get in the game.

✠DFSpecter
✠DFSpecter

This game blew my mind more in the span of a few seconds than any recent AAA game has done over the course of several years.

The fact this game came out in 2007 mind-screws me even more.

Also: My autopilot flew me sideways into an asteroid and I commit die. 10/10

END OF RUSSIA - KING CENKRIS
END OF RUSSIA …

As bad as the fact russian tanks and military vehicles are "parkan" on Ukrainian soil!

Слава Україні!
GLORY TO UKRAINE!