hex11
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other: Hired Guns (Amiga version)
It's not a "fluid" 3D shooter like Doom, but rather more of a realtime dungeon crawler like Dungeon Master but with guns, cool gear, 4-player coop mode, puzzles, exploration, lots of missions, weird alien/giger style monsters... The engine is full 3D with lifts, stairs, and you can even lob grenades down to lower ground, or go underwater. It doesn't take itself completely seriously because in one of the missions you fight lemmings (yeah Psygnosis also published THAT game too). There's no in-game music, but the Amiga version's sound fx more than make up for that (they're atmospheric and location based, like in Quake). The coop mode is not networked but rather like early console games where you all huddle around the same monitor and control your own dude (that you can choose from about a dozen types, each with their own pros & cons), as the screen is actually split in 4 views/quadrants. Now and then some (often humorous) message relevant to the game scrolls across the middle of the screen. There's an automap. Sometimes you fight lots of monsters at the same time. :)
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01-31-12 17:16 
