使命山羊 沉默的山羊

相信不少玩家都接触过**人称射击游戏，从《反恐精英》到《穿越火线》，再到《CS：GO》，**人称射击游戏一直是电子游戏中经久不衰的类型。相较于**游戏亦或是那些3A大作，射击游戏似乎一直是市场的主流，特别是竞技类射击游戏，从未退出过玩家心中的舞台。但**人称射击游戏来来回回也就那么几种形态，难免会有玩家感到厌烦，这也是近年来此类游戏一直不能大火的原因。而笔者今天向大家介绍的这款游戏，则是**人称射击游戏的创新之作，那就是《使命山羊Goat Of Duty》。

我们说这款游戏是创新之作，那么其肯定有着特殊之处。从游戏的简介我们就能看到，游戏的特殊之处就在于游戏中的角色均为山羊，而由于山羊灵活而又快速的走位，这也是一款快节奏射击游戏。同时游戏还是一款纯粹的射击游戏，也就是说游戏中只有射击模式，玩家可以在游戏中体验到酣畅淋漓的战斗。这点在当前射击游戏中普遍存在琳琅满目的模式下，是非常难得的，我们需要这样一款纯粹的射击游戏。

山羊的复仇？山羊的崛起！

通常来说竞技类射击游戏的背景都是千篇一律且没有内容的，而我们在玩此类游戏的时候也并不会关注其剧情背景。但《使命山羊》却有所不同，它的背景是一个脑洞非常大的故事：在不远的将来，发生了一场诡异的核事故，受到核辐射影响，所有的山羊都发生了变异而产生了智慧。它们学会了使用武器、使用人类的科技，而他们还拥有本身的能力：强力的冲撞、灵活的跳跃，很快便**了人类的**。至此，地球上仅剩下一群孤*的山羊。而在游戏中，玩家将扮演一只武装到牙齿的山羊，在一张张不一样的地图中，与同样是山羊的敌人进行战斗，*终决出胜负。

无厘头的**人称射击游戏

在前面我们就曾介绍过，玩家在游戏中扮演的是一只山羊，而就视角来说，也是以山羊的视角进行的。不过这个区别倒不大，毕竟是一款**人称射击游戏，玩家是看不到自己的角色的。但是游戏中的情形还是非常怪诞：一只只武装到牙齿的山羊从你眼前飘过，或是头顶武器、或是背驼武器，这不免让玩家感到非常滑稽。作为一款**人称射击游戏来说，这样的设定是非常无厘头的。

同时游戏无厘头的设定还体现在其他各个方面：就比如说R键，我们都知道在大多数射击类游戏中R键的作用是更换**，但是在《使命山羊》中，R键的作用你**想象不到，那就是装死；可以说装死也是我们常见的射击游戏中没有的设定，毕竟大多数玩家在游戏中都是体验战斗的，谁会想到这样的玩法；但在游戏中，装死并不意味着你可以远离战斗，恰恰相反，装死状态下你的身体轮廓会发亮，而敌人一眼就能够辨认出来。可以说无厘头也是本作的一大亮点，你可以在游戏中体验到别的游戏没有的怪诞操作。

经典射击游戏的创新玩法

除了无厘头的游戏设定外，我们也说过《使命山羊》是一款纯粹的射击游戏。首先由于山羊的角色设定，玩家的移动速度是非常快的，这也就决定了本作是一款快节奏的射击游戏。就射击游戏而言，相对与其他游戏，节奏本就比较快，而在此基础上进行节奏的提升，给玩家带来了**的游戏快感。

其次就是游戏经典的设计玩法与地图设计，就玩法而言，游戏目前包含了四种玩法：经典混战、羊怒、羊群战争以及羊吼竞技场等等，这些都能够让玩家体验到惊险刺激的战斗。而每*游戏中可以有2到10名玩家，游戏的经典玩法并非是团队竞技，而是类似于吃鸡那样的游戏，玩家需要战斗到场上只剩下一名玩家为止。而在地图设计方面，游戏的地图还是非常丰富的，从休闲的未来农场到高耸的山脉，从荒芜的羊羔沙漠到充满尖叫的**之井，从空*的空间站到中世纪的村庄，历史与未来的反差，荒芜与生机的对比，总而言之你能想到的枪战场景在这个游戏中应有尽有

*后就是游戏中的武器了，在武器装备方面，游戏中也是多种多样，初始的装备就是驼式56冲锋枪了，这把枪伤害*低。不过大家完全不用担心，还有威力更加巨大的火焰喷射器、锯片发射器以及其他各种炮类武器等等。可以看出游戏中的装备也是脑洞大开，这些在常见的射击竞技游戏中大多都是不可能出现在竞技模式下的武器装备，在《使命山羊》中似乎成了*基础的装备，而玩家也可以在游戏中尽情放纵。当然游戏不仅仅是射击游戏的快感，还有武器装备带来的快感。

传统射击游戏创新的典范

其实这些年来尽管**人称射击游戏从未退出过玩家的视线，但是相较于其他moba类竞技游戏以及近年来逐渐火热的**游戏，经典的玩法显得有些乏力了。就国内而言，在2013年以前，传统射击游戏可以说是*热门的游戏类型，从《反恐精英》到《穿越火线》，无一不是***枪战游戏。但随着时间的推移，这些火遍全网吧的游戏都逐渐退出游戏市场，可能还有一部分玩家在坚持，但是玩家的日益减少已成事实。

而这类游戏显然已经进入了一个瓶颈期，经典且乏味的竞技玩法早已不能满足玩家的需求，想要拯救这一类游戏，游戏的开发商就必须寻求创新。但是大多数开发商的创新都将游戏偏离了核心的竞技玩法，比如《穿越火线》近年来推出的创新玩法，无一不是偏向**化的，但核心的竞技玩法却始终没有改变。所以《使命山羊》对于传统射击游戏的创新，可以说是近年来创新的典范之作了。

游戏的缺点

尽管游戏有着众多令人耳目一新的玩法以及无厘头的设定，但我们还是要面对游戏中目前所面临的问题，作为一款抢先体验版的游戏，游戏中的问题还是有不少的。首先就是游戏优化问题，这几乎是所有抢先版游戏都需要面对的，毕竟抢先版的意义就在于发现并解决这些问题，而本作抢先版的问题就在于游戏体验不够流畅，无论是玩家的游戏过程，还是游戏中的动画，都有着此类问题。比如说玩家在游戏过程中会出现卡顿或者延迟过高的行为、游戏中山羊的动作以及死亡的动画不够流畅等问题，这些都需要制作团队在后期进行优化。其次就是游戏的玩家目前还比较少，尽管发行商做了一系列的活动，但是由于缺少必要的宣传，游戏的玩家还是比较少的，这一问题也亟需解决。

写在*后

我们不能根据一款游戏的玩家数量去判断游戏的好坏，可能这是一块等待发现的璞玉呢？总而言之，本作对于此类游戏做的创新都是值得肯定的，而玩家以及传统射击游戏，都需要更多这样的创新，希望传统射击游戏有一个更好的未来。

In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family. 1945年，一个12岁的男孩在一家商店橱窗里看到一样令他心动的东西，但是——5美元——远不是鲁本?厄尔能付得起的。5美元几乎够买全家一周的食品呢。

Reuben couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made through fishing in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Canada. Reuben's mother, Dora, stretched like elastic to feed and clothe their five children.鲁本不能向父亲要钱。马克?厄尔的每一分钱都是靠在加拿大纽芬兰的罗伯茨湾**挣来的。鲁本的母亲多拉，为了不让五个孩子冻着饿着，差不多是一个钱当两个钱用。

Nevertheless, he opened the shop's weathered door and went inside. Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding,“But I don't have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?”尽管如此，鲁本还是推开商店那扇久经风雨的门走了进去。他穿着面粉袋改做的衬衫和洗得褪了色的裤子，站得笔直，丝毫不觉困窘。他告诉了店主他想要的东西，又加上一句：“可我现在还没有钱买它，您能为我预留一段时间吗?”

“I'll try,”the shopkeeper smiled.“Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while.”“我尽量吧，”店主微笑着说，“这儿的人买起东西来，一般不会花那么大一笔钱的，一时半会儿卖不出去。”

Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked out into the sunlight with the bay rippling in a freshening wind. There was purpose in his loping stride5. He would raise the five dollars and not tell anybody.鲁本很有礼貌地碰了碰他的旧帽沿儿，走出店外。阳光下清新的微风吹得罗伯茨湾的海水泛起阵阵涟漪。鲁本迈着大步，下定决心：他要凑齐那5美元，而且不告诉任何人。

Hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea.听到街边传来的铁锤声，鲁本有了主意。

He ran towards the sound and s***ped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails purchased in hessian sacks from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.他循声跑过去，来到一处建筑工地。罗伯茨湾的人喜欢自己建房，用的钉子是从本地一家工厂买的，都用麻袋来装。有时干活时忙乱中麻袋就被随手丢弃，而鲁本知道他可以 5分钱一条把麻袋再卖给工厂。

That day he found two sacks, which he took to the rambling wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails.那天，他找了两条麻袋，拿到杂乱的木材厂，卖给为钉子装袋的人。

The boy's hand tightly clutched the five-cent pieces as he ran the two kilometers home.两公里的路程他是一路跑着回的家，手里紧紧攥着两个5分硬币。

Near his house stood the ancient barn that housed the family's goats and chickens. Reuben found a rusty soda tin and dropped his coins inside. Then he climbed into the loft of the barn and hid the tin beneath a pile of sweet smelling hay.他家旁边有个颇有年头的谷仓，里面圈着家里的山羊和鸡。鲁本在那里找到一个生锈的装苏打的铁罐，把两枚硬币放了进去。然后，他爬上谷仓的阁楼，把铁罐藏在一堆散发着甜香味的干草下面。

It was dinnertime when Reuben got home. His father sat at the big kitchen table, working on a fishing net. Dora was at the kitchen stove, ready to serve dinner as Reuben took his place at the table.晚饭时分，鲁本跨进家门。父亲正坐在厨房大餐桌旁摆弄渔网，多拉在灶台边忙碌着，准备开饭。鲁本就在桌边坐下了。

He looked at his mother and smiled. Sunlight from the window gilded her shoulder-length blonde hair. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together.他看着妈妈，笑了。窗户透进的夕阳余晖将她棕褐的披肩发染成了金色。苗条、美丽的母亲是这个家的中心，她像胶水一样使这个家紧紧粘结在一起。

Her chores were never-ending. Sewing clothes for her family on the old Singer treadle machine, cooking meals and baking bread, planting and tending a vegetable garden, milking the goats and scrubbing soiled clothes on a washboard. But she was h***y. Her family and their well-being were her highest priority.母亲的家务活永远也没个完。用老式的“胜家”缝纫机为一家人缝缝补补；要做饭、烤面包；要照料菜园；要挤羊奶；还要在洗衣板上搓洗脏衣服。可母亲是快乐的，全家人的幸福、健康在她心中是*重要的。

Every day after chores and school, Reuben scoured the town, collecting the hessian nail bags. On the day the two-room school closed for the summer, no student was more delighted than Reuben. Now he would have more time for his mission.每天放学，做完家务事后，鲁本就在镇上搜寻装钉子的麻袋。只有两间教室的学校开始放暑假的那天，没人能比鲁本更高兴了。现在他有更多时间去完成他的使命。

All summer long, despite chores at home weeding and watering the garden, cutting wood and fetching water—Reuben kept to his secret task.整整一个夏天，鲁本除了干家务——给菜园锄草、浇水，砍柴和打水外，始终进行着他的秘密任务。

Then all too soon the garden was harvested, the vegetables canned and stored, and the school reopened. Soon the leaves fell and the winds blew cold and gusty from the bay. Reuben wandered the streets, diligently searching for his hessian treasures.转眼菜园里该采收了，蔬菜被装罐腌制后储藏，学校也开学了。再不久，树叶飘零，海湾吹起阵阵寒风。鲁本在街头徘徊，努力寻找着被他视为宝物的麻袋。

Often he was cold, tired and hungry, but the thought of the object in the shop window sustained him. Sometimes his mother would ask:“Reuben, where were you? We were waiting for you to have dinner.”他经常是饥寒交迫，疲惫不堪，但是一想到商店橱窗里的那样东西，他就又有劲儿坚持下去了。有时妈妈会问：“鲁本，你上哪儿啦?我们等你吃饭呢!”

“Playing, Mum. Sorry.”“玩去啦，妈妈。对不起。”

Dora would look at his face and shake her head. Boys.这时候，多拉总会瞧着他的脸，无奈地摇**，心想：男孩就是男孩。

Finally spring burst into glorious green and Reuben's spirits erupted. The time had come! He ran into the barn, climbed to the hayloft and uncovered the tin can. He poured the coins out and began to count.春天终于来了，带来片片绿意，鲁本的精神也随之振奋。是时候了!他跑到谷仓，爬上草垛，打开铁罐，倒出所有硬币清点起来。

Then he counted again. He needed 20 cents more. Could there be any sacks left any where in town? He had to find four and sell them before the day ended.他又数一遍，还差20美分。镇上哪儿还会有丢弃的麻袋吗?他必须在今天结束之前再找4条去卖掉。

Reuben ran down Water Street.鲁本沿着沃特街走着。

The shadows were lengthening when Reuben arrived at the factory. The sack buyer was about to lock up.鲁本赶到工厂，厂房的影子已被夕阳拉得很长了。收购麻袋的人正要锁门。

“Mister! Please don't close up yet.”“先生!请先不要关门。”

The man turned and saw Reuben, dirty and sweat stained.那人转过身来，看到了脏兮兮、汗涔涔的鲁本。

“Come back tomorrow, boy.”“明天再来吧，孩子。”

“Please, Mister. I have to sell the sacks now—please.”The man heard a tremor in Reuben's voice and could tell he was close to tears.“求您了，先生，我必须现在把麻袋卖掉——求您啦。”那人感觉到鲁本的声音在颤抖，知道他快要哭了。

“Why do you need this money so badly?”“你为什么这么急着要这点儿钱?”

“It's a secret.”“这是秘密。”

The man took the sacks, reached into his pocket and put four coins in Reuben's hand. Reuben murmured a thank you and ran home.那人接过麻袋，手伸进口袋，掏出4个硬币放在鲁本手里。鲁本轻轻说了声“谢谢”就往家跑。

Then, clutching the tin can, he headed for the shop.接着，他紧紧搂着铁罐，直奔那家商店。

“I have the money,” he solemnly told the owner.“我有钱啦!”他一本正经地告诉店主。

The man went to the window and retrieved Reuben's treasure.店主走向橱窗，取出鲁本梦寐以求的东西。

He wiped the dust off and gently wr***ed it in brown paper. Then he placed the parcel in Reuben's hands.他掸去灰尘，用牛皮纸把它小心包好，然后把这个小包放到鲁本手上。

Racing home, Reuben burst through the front door. His mother was scrubbing the kitchen stove.“Here, Mum! Here!”Reuben exclaimed as he ran to her side. He placed a small box in her work roughened hand.鲁本一路狂奔到家，冲进前门。妈妈正在厨房擦洗灶台。“瞧，妈妈!瞧!”鲁本一边跑向她一边大叫着。他把一个小盒子放在她因劳作而变得粗糙的手上。

She unwr***ed it carefully, to save the paper. A blue-velvet jewel box ***eared. Dora lifted the lid, tears beginning to blur her vision.为了不损坏包装纸，她小心翼翼地把它拆开，一个蓝色天鹅绒的首饰盒映入眼帘。多拉打开盒盖，泪水顿时模糊了她的双眼。

In gold lettering on a small, almond-shaped brooch was the word Mother.在一个小巧的心状胸针上刻着金字：母亲。

It was Mother's Day, 1946.那是1946年的母亲节。

Dora had never received such a gift; she had no finery except her wedding ring. Speechless, she smiled radiantly and gathered her son into her arms.多拉从未收到过这样的礼物；除了结婚戒指外，她没有别的饰物。哽咽无语，她把儿子一把揽入怀中，脸上洋溢着动人的光彩。