Echt ein tolles Spiel. Ist zu empfehlen, auch wenn es nicht das neueste Spiel ist und weckt Kindheitserinnerungen.

Before I begin, I must tell you that I’ve spent +200 hours on the multiplayer of this game , there’s nothing wrong with the "giants fan page" Giantswd.org, where you can download the 1.497 patch and several mods to be able to get into the multiplayer and improve the game experience.

We have a 24/7 Very stable server right now. also, join GiantsWD steam group, everytime theres an event we launch a hard to miss popup and announcement to reach the best amount of players!

Now grab your bag of chips with ketchup and get a good dictionary because I write like pure ♥♥♥♥.

So, I will only talk about the playable characters and the multiplayer. Now let’s begin!


This is a totally different experience from the Singleplayer. Where you will be able to do almost anything you like. Just around the corner there’s huge ass armory with all kinds of weapons and tools, that provide you hell a lot of possibilities to crush your enemies, such as invisibility cloaks, machineguns, deathly spells, rockets, vehicles, magical bows and turrets.

Every kind of damage and tactic has a counter, there’s no instant damage and nothing that you cannot evade, from rockets to sniper guns there’s a shield to block them, for the giant beast's claws and speed, there’s a jetpack upgrade that boosts you into the air to evade any threat, which combined with the power of other explosives expansive waves, such as mines and rockets, they can boost you even further at the pure style of quake! AND THERE'S A LOT MORE!


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812544142

Take the appearance some sort of British space soldier with his martini, some rocket launchers and a basic jetpack to aid him in battle. One of the weakest races that relies on their technology to survive all the challenges. These fellas can fight each other in an MvM death match or battle against the giant monster on MvK mode.

The most common build for Meccs in mvm it’s a bunch of rocket launchers, a shield and explosives. Sounds like they will only be flying around and pew pew ‘in everything, but it is far more fun and trickier than that. The gameplay of this guys consists in being on offensive, defensive and being able manage your resources at the same time (as you probably saw on the video I posted before).

The MvK mode where you fight the beast it’s totally different.

You will need your aerial vehicles to kill the beast, along with machineguns and mortars. There’s a lot you can do here, many possibilities to die or kill in hilarious ways. The thing that helps the most here its jumping like a flea with the propulsion of a rocket and a mine's expansive wave.



Oh the reapers, THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ REAPERS. You take the appearance of some sort of exotic female creature, like an avatar but this one has lightning fast attacks from sword and bow to extraordinary huge spells. Like the "clock" that slows the time to whatever it gets in (even bullets and Kabuto).

So, as the Meccs these sea reapers have a lot of weapons, but instead of tools and jetpacks, they have spells and a turbo mode which allows them to fly from hill to hill, bombarding everything in the floor with explosives and spells.

They feature mostly in 3way battles and RVK.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812544141


My favorite character. It’s a lot of fun killing 5 guys at once in a single slam. Well, this 100 feet tall/unknown gender beast can perform wrestling-like attacks to slam its enemies that either die crushed against its 900 tons or being ripped down to pieces by the expansive wave caused by the collision with the ground. The millenary scrolls tell us that “When big Kabuto ass drop from sky, run like your nuts are on fire”, so just take your mines and jetpack and fly far as you can! (Ye you can kill things with your butt cheeks)

Anyways, this also has its mechanics, not only just walking and stomping things. You can use the Full power of the adrenaline attack that will catapult you into the air, allowing you to destroy all the things out of your reach, like helicopters. And a lot of other things that you need to try for yourself.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812544116

-One of the best games ever made, ahead of its time and a master piece in game programming, even spending time finding its bugs (in multiplayer) is fun to do. It has some good physics on it and a sense of scale, especially when fighting Kabuto. That gives that feel of stress, knowing that you are fighting an overwhelming enemy.

-Its mechanics are flawless, use your tools, weapons and the environment as your favor. Dodge missiles by jumping like a flea, grenade jump to a hill then rocket jump back, aim your missile trajectory to the enemy’s trajectory, or fight Kabuto in slow mo while being inside a slowing time spell. And there’s lots of other combinations that will probably end up as spontaneous moments of epicness!

-No unlockable things, everything at your hands!

-Its graphics are amazing for that generation of games, just take a look for games that were made in 1999-2000, it was like the VR of that era. Anyways, you can find skins and HD models on giantswd.org, just take a look, it’s not a fishy website!

-Its only 10 bucks.

I give a 10/10 on this multiplayer, one of the most underrated in gaming history and the best ive ever played. This game deserves a remake.

A fantastic gem that nobody remembers

I've played this game for 15+ years. One of the best shooters I've ever played and base building is a lot more fun than you would think. there's only 3-4 of those levels, but if you can get friends to play. This game is not only worth it for the campaign being funny as hell, but multiplayer is worth it with friends!

If you wish to play with friends online download the 1.497 patch.

Nostalgia.

One of my first ever online multiplayer experiences. And one of my favorites to this day! I've played the singleplayer over and over again when it first came out and really enjoyed it. I've owned the game all these years but just recently got to buy it on steam.

The fun game from 2000 that we’d all forgotten about. What’s nice to see though, is that it’s retained a compact interest keeping the Giants wick burning across two decades.

I love the fun and silliness of Giants , many cherished memories of being younger with my cousins playing this. We probably didn’t know what we were supposed to do, other than messing about in-between cutscenes and laughing at the design/dialogue.

You’ll find yourself progressing through different storyline perspectives: as Baz of the Meccaryns, Delphi as the rebel Sea Reaper, and finally a Giant known as Kabuto. Each have their own unique twists and comedy value.

There is an active, welcoming community alive in Giants through GiantsWD dot org. You can find the community patch v1.5 on that website or through the Steam Community Hub. It enables DX9, resolution improvements, and allows multiplayer – you’ll find they have a community discord where you can participate in weekly multiplayer events.

It's a beautiful trip down memory lane, modernised.

Oh my God, I FORGOT THE WIFE!

Below is a video review for the new version, as well as a written version below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UaQmVf-4A8
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a very odd story. 16 years ago, this now legendary game was born and developed by Planet Moon and published by Interplay. Although it didn’t sell well initially, critic reviews were incredibly high and over time Giants garnered a fiercely cult following. I was one of them, and this was my generation. And now it’s available on Steam for PC players.

It was a game ahead of its time, both in its ideas and in its gameplay. In it’s most basic form, Giants is a third-person shooter with real-time strategy elements folded in.

Background and History
Three very distinct species occupy the Island: The Kabuto, the Sea Reapers, and our trusty friends the Meccs. Searching the planets for their missing friends, the Meccs, as you probably guessed, landed onto the island as space castaways. But like all intruders, their presence is very much unwelcome to the native Kabuto and Reapers and the tenuous fighting between them.

The story of Giants is a fusion of these three separate race stories combined into a single storyline, and spend several missions with each race as the story unfolds. The game begins with the player taking control of the Meccs as they try to reassemble their scattered group after their unscheduled stop on the Island. You are treated some hilarious dialogue and a cutscene that would look good next to any Michael bay movie.

Gameplay
Giants blends the shooter genre with the real time strategy genre, and then adds base building on top of it - an ambitious mash-up for a 16 year old idea.

When you first step out of your aircraft you’ll see the Island for yourself and the stage is composed d of 24 lush, beautiful islands. Friendly and not so friendly indigenous life roam the land under the rule of the evil queen Sappho, her evil magic-wielding Reapers and their guards. Wild-life is out to get you too. Danger is always present, yet it sits right next to such beauty. The waters glisten, the sun radiates with light and the tree branches sway in the wind. But there is ni-time for drooling over the beauty - it’s time to find your friends and get off this island!

You begin the game as Baz, laser gun in hand and British cheeky humor in the other.
These guys shoot machine guns, throw grenades, plant bombs and use jetpacks to for limited flight. They're also an organized lot - you can command your fellow Meccs to defend, attack and retrieve, making them formidable and fun to play.

You’ll spend several missions and hours playing as Baz, growing your mecc army, building bases and commanding your buddies to do your bidding. You can capture native creatures called Smarties to bring home to your base and do your ♥♥♥♥♥ work as long as you continue to feed them vemp meat, collected on the island from you guessed it...vimps. If you fail to collect proper amounts of this delicious meat, the little smartie bastards will protest and refuse to work for you. But if you’re good to your little slaves, eventually you’ll be able to build a party house - yeah i’m not kidding it’s literally called a party house - that will permanently feed your smarties and give you a host of kick-ass deployable weapons and defenses.

Once you complete the section of the campaign devoted to the Meccs, you’ll move on to what a lot of people consider the most enjoyable section of the game: the reapers.

You’ll be playing as Delphi, who was genetically created by Queen Sappho to be the purest form of Sea Reaper. She’s a deadly, damn near naked avatar look-alike who can travel at insane speeds and use special abilities to absolutely wreck enemies. But you’ll still be needing to build bases as Delphi, which is why the Meccs and the Repears are at odds with each other - they are competing over the smarties.

It’s under a similar umbrella as Aliens vs Predator and Evolve - games where power differences can be equalized by tipping the scales of how many players occupy each team. Do people like this, or was it the reason that Giants never took off?

Graphics And Fidelity
It’s 2016, and this game still looks great. That’s saying a lot for a 16 year old game. It’s all in the little details, the unbelievably atmospheric music, the faint sounds of the strange dinosaur-looking birds that gently fly over head, and the whispering sounds of the water hitting the sand. But it’s more than the sound. It’s also the tiny slide animation when you go down a hill - completely unnecessary but such a welcome touch, fully featured destruction and the cutscenes that just drip with humor, polish and a real since of cinema. Such forward thinking went in to the camera angles and the cinematography - cutscenes just feel like an immersive movie - exactly how they should.

Cons and Opportunities
Unfortunately, bugs reer their ugly head in Giants. The game has not been re-done, this is not a remake or an HD upgrade, this is the game as is 16 years ago. And with it comes the bugs and the absolutely god awful optimization. It took me hours of adjusting my Nvidia settings to get a constant framerate in this game, and that’s just not acceptable in 2016.

Secondly, the elephant in the room. Where is the quick save feature - it was missing 16 years ago and it’s still missing today? Some of the missions in Giants can take over an hour, and if you don’t properly strategist from the start and manage your NPC companions, you could easily have to replay many of the games’ missions. The idea behind Giants is a gentle mission progression, and that is negatively affected if players have to continually re-start missions from ground zero.

What they game does have, however, is an auto-save feature peppered at various points in the levels. I can’t remember if this was in the original base game, but if not it’s a nice addition all things considered.

Overall
An amazing game with the same problems as the 16-year old/GOG version. But totally worth it for 10 bucks!

this is the best game in the entire history of games.