UberSoldier

Published by CDV Software Entertainment AG
Developed by Burut Creative Team
Released 2006
Genre Action

Description :

ÜberSoldier is a first-person shooter that takes place during World War II, when the Nazis have found an ancient Tibetian technique to revive the dead. This technique gives the subject special powers, and the first person that speaks to the subject will be the one that he/she obeys. In their struggle to win World War II, the Nazis have started to use this technique to turn dead German soldiers into super-soldiers called "UberSoldiers" that take advantage of these special powers.

In ÜberSoldier, you play as Karl Stoltz, a German officer who was killed in a French ambush. Stoltz is now one of the ÜberSoldier test subjects. Unfortunately for the Nazis, the French discovered the lab that the ÜberSoldiers were being created in, and the first person that speaks to Stoltz ends up being a French soldier. You guessed it -- Stoltz joins the Allies and is seeking revenge against his former masters.

Along the way, Stoltz will depend on his ÜberSoldier powers to help him survive. Headshots will power up his bullet shield, which will temporarily make him invincible to enemy fire. Slashing enemies in the head with his knife will give him extra health.

Gameplay is traditional run-'n-gun. You have five weapon slots for a pistol, rifle, machinegun, rocket launcher, and grenade. If you happen to come across another version of the same gun, but you already have that gun, you will need to swap the gun you have for the gun you are picking up by pressing the use button.

ÜberSoldier uses a weapon selection system similar to Half-Life. When you select a weapon, there will be five boxes at the top of the screen that show which weapon is in the corresponding slot, and which one is selected. You then switch to that weapon by pressing the fire button. At all times, you have a knife that you can quickly slash enemies with by simply pressing the melee button. Dead enemies will drop a health pack and their weapons/ammo when they die. There is no friendly fire, and enemies die easier when they are shot in the head.

Requirements :

Min.CPU PIV
Min.OS Win 2000
Min.RAM 512MB
Min.DirectX 9.0b
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD ROM
Offline Players 1
2.5GB Free HDD Space
3D Accelerator

Trivia :

• What is the relation between the game Ubersoldier and the movie U-571?
  
  In the submarine level, when Karl Stolz - the game's hero, calls the allies to pick him up he says "...This is the seized U-571...".
  
  Clearly this is a joke from the programmers, as no other reference from the well known movie is to be found in the game.

Cheats :

Create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the "config.ini" file in the game directory. Add the following line to the end of the file:

bindc+DIK_GRAVE(console_showhide)

Then, press ~ during game play to display the console window. Enter sv_cheats 1 to enable cheat mode, then enter one of the following codes at the console window to activate the corresponding cheat function.

Effect	Code
Toggle God mode	game_godmode <0>
Set invincibility with indicated health	game_godmode <2-number>
Suicide	suicide
Toggle flight mode	g_fly <0>
Toggle no clipping mode	g_noclip <0>
Level select	map
Quit game	exit
Toggle framerate display	cl_drawfps <0>
Toggle debug information	cl_showinfo <0>
Display weapon names	addwpn ?
Spawn or recharge weapon	addwpn
Ammo for indicated weapon	addammo
999 ammo for all weapons	addammo all
Save game	save
Load game	load
Add life to player	damage player -
Remove life from player	damage player +
Toggle developer mode	g_developer <0>
Set total panel energy in developer mode	emotion_ctrl s e 100

Level names:
Use one of the following entries with the map code.

hospital
factory
institute
black_shark
submarine
prison_outside
prison_inside
bunker_surface
bunker_underground
ze8_complex
ze8_core
ze8_incubator