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- |2-ALiEN BREED
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- ßudda/NFA
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- The final of the 'three Doom clones' is at last released, maybe not to
- the public yet. hehe. But hey, is it the best or just a feathered bird
- (turkey)?
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- Lets jump in: title screen projects a beefy piccy and a rather nice
- lookin' alien. OOh scary! But what's this? = shit menu that looks
- like it's been ripped from some sort of PD release (not that there's
- anything wrong with PD ;*)
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- The selection of options is a little confusing and it all looks so
- messy. Better jist hit on the PLAY THE GAME choice and hope for the
- best!
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- |1-THE GAME BEGINS
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- A nice little bit of text flaps itself across the screen to reveal part
- of the story line and set the scene, you know like all the Alien Breed
- games before it. Just this time there's no nice background picture,
- just a nice bit of 'blackness' as it were.
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- But we're not playing all this let me see now...the game. It bumps up
- onto the screen and looks slightly 'chunky' and a little messy with the
- colours. From what I can see there's NO choice of screen size nor
- resolution so you're stuck with a small cardboard box in the middle of
- the screen even if you own the beefiest of the beefy Amiga's. Shame
- really as I reckon the graphics would look alot tidier if the screen was
- bigger. Anyhow just giving the mouse a little touch they seem to update
- fast and move okay so nothing too bad.
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- |1-COMMANDING THE HERO
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- Like Gloom you have a choice of controls, cursor keys, mouse or joystick
- (along with various keyboard stuff for all control options). Functions
- such as duck and sidestep have to be done via keyboard although
- (hopefully) the CD³² version will offer more with the multi-button
- joypad.
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- The plucky young bloke bobs up 'n' down rather alot and it seems to be a
- little over done or else this geezer walks in one hell of a queer way!!
- Anyhow he zips around fine. Using the mouse is annoying because you
- have to keep rolling it up the mouse mat then lifting it up and moving
- it down and repeating this to walk forward which is, honestly, crap. Of
- 'pants' if you like that word.
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- |1-LEVELS
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- The text at the start of every part of the map sets the scene and tells
- you where you are. The game takes place in a building complex and your
- mission is to find a way in and do something. Even the bloke doesn't
- know what he's gonna do. Dumb ass. Anyway you ramble through service
- bays, store rooms and down in the sewers (which is as far as I've got at
- the mo) looking for wee beasties to blow. The maps are excellent and
- you have stairs and stuff to run up and down giving you alot more height
- and also the chance to blow the aliens away from above or below them
- BEFORE they see you.
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- Some levels have sections that are just - dark. A good way to get away
- with no graphics? Well they are pretty spooky when you can hear the
- alien dogs howling and heavy breathing in the distance! Excellent.
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- Sadly there's no way of designing your own levels but hopefully there
- will be add-ons or even an editor released in the future.
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- |1-GRAPHICS? WET ONES?
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- Unlike other Team-17 games I feel that the graphics are a little
- 'lacking' in that magic touch. They seem a little cack. The aliens
- look impressive but with the small screen they appear to be all poo.
- Poo in my pants. The textures on walls and ceilings and floors and
- doors and and and are nice. There's plenty of them and a good variety
- on each level so they don't all look the same.
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- A nice little touch is as the textures change on the ground so does the
- sound when you walk. As you plonk your way onto metal walk ways and
- such there's a solid clank whilst on the stone you get the eerie foot
- step type noise. Lots of different floor types and nice effects too!
- As you creep around the different graphic areas the sounds are adjusted
- to match so they're always a changin'.
-
- |1-BAD BOY - GOOD BOY
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- Yes Alien Breed 3D installs to hard drive although the installer I used
- sucked big time. It required the disk to be in DF0: and for some
- reason only installed one of the disks! I had to manually install the
- rest of the game using DOPUS until it would work which is pretty lame.
- Suprising really thaat the game only requires 2 disks but yet looks so
- good. But then all the Doom clones so far have been living on 2 disks.
- HD space is nice and small and there's not that many files for the game.
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- The game features a two player link-up via the serial port although this
- feature didn't seem to have been implemented in the version I used??
- Anyway I don't have two A1200 to test it on but I guess it would be
- wicked fun!
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- The game screen, as mentioned earlier, can't be adjusted in size,
- however you may remove or change the textures on the floor and ceiling
- to give the game that little extra umpf! However I thought it chugged
- along at a perfect speed anyway.
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- |1-DID YOU HEAR SOMETHING
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- To be honest not alot in the way of music. No title tune - just
- silence. But when I got into the game the sound effects where amazingly
- well done and very spooky in certain parts of the levels. The howling,
- breathing, crunching - yum, yum. However when you die (you get just one
- life!) there's a really tacky 80's sounding jingle sample which plays
- and spoils it.
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- Talkin' about 'spoils' when your hit by an alien the top of the screen
- flashes a nasty red copper which goes all the way across (not just in
- the game screen) and looks a bloody mess and not very tidy at all.
- Shame boy. Down boy.
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- |1-ENOUGH TELL ME
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- Okay here goes:
- GRAPHiCS 88%
- SOUND 92%
- PLAYABILITY 88%
- LASTABILITY 85%
- SHAGABILITY 90%
- WANKABILITY 70% (for Welsh peeps & sheep)
- OVERALL 90%
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- ENd
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