Game cover: Subworld

Subworld

Description

You are playing a freelance underwater photographer, tasked by various magazines to take pictures of certain fish. However the competition is not sleeping and will try to blind you before you can take the perfect shot.

The game mostly revolves about taking the pictures, but also contains some repetitive managerial tasks. Each assignment has to be executed in the following sequence:

  1. On your yacht select the laptop and choose any of the 10 assignments.
  2. On the world map travel to a spot where the commissioned fish can be found. The fish population on the world map is random for each dive, so there's no educational aspect.
  3. At the target location equip your submarine with the underwater camera, the ink canon, oxygen tanks and lamps and move it into the water.
  4. When underwater try to take a sharp photo of the commissioned fish; on success go up again and use the laptop to send the photo to the magazine, on failure you won't receive any money.

In the subway there are some basic controls to turn on the light or show the oxygen and energy level. The viewfinder for taking the pictures can be controlled via a small virtual joystick in the middle of the console, the same goes for the crosshairs of the ink cannon to blind rival subways before they blind you. Additionally it is also possible to adjust the speed of the joystick. The camera can store up to 10 pictures, but like with a regular digital camera it is possible to free space again by deleting old shots.

You can also use the laptop on your yacht to check your bank account balance, though the amount will never be reduced, but only increased when you finish an assignment. When quitting the game it is possible to save the score (based on the account balance) into the highscore table.

Game Info

Platforms
Perspective
Side view
Gameplay
HuntingManagerial / business simulation
Interface
Point and select
Visual
Fixed / flip-screen
Setting
Contemporary