Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!mapjilg From: mapjilg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Comment on Psygnosis playablilty Message-ID: <1990Nov14.183635.6237@gdr.bath.ac.uk> Date: 14 Nov 90 18:36:35 GMT References: <3426@corpane.UUCP> <3637@corpane.UUCP> Organization: Bath University Computing Services, Bath, England Lines: 49 I've just started playing AWESOME, the latest shoot-em-up from the writers of the BEAST trilogy (yes, Beast III is on its way...). It is a VERY playable game. The intro animation of a dogfight between two spaceships is AMAZING!!!. The program makes use of external floppy and uses any RAM expansion as a RAM disk, which cuts down on the (still substantial) disk access. Anyway, start the game, and there you are, a green spaceship a third the size of the screen! Move joystick up/down, so does the ship. Move left/right, and space (and the encroaching nasties) rotate about you...it's very confusing at first! There are several soundtracks complementing various patrs of the game. Anyway, you blast your way through the first wave, and then warp factor 1, cap'n, as the stars become streaks, and off you go to the next mission, a similar encounter with asteroids. After that, the landing ship detaches from the main ship, and you fly "into" the screen, to shoot at a large space monster that rips at a fair old speed towards and away from you. Then,...even more shooting, this time in an above view 8-way scrolling shoot-em-up : shoot as many ships as you can to gain extra time for the last mad dash into the starbase. You get 3 tries at that once you've landed, a man (woman? person?) runs at the whim of your joystick shooting yet more baddies and avoiding traps (or not, as the case may be!). Finally, into the base, sell your cargo, accept a contract mission, buy some weapons, stay in a hotel...off to your next destination, with a bewildering selection of aliens to dispatch...phew. The object of the game is to escape from the solar system before some real baddies blow it to f**k with a mega-weapon. To do this you need fuel, which is (surprise, surprise) rarer than pregnancies in eunuch land. In fact, to get fuel, you MUST take on a contract, and balance your hotel bill, the distance to the destination planet (and hence the fuel needed to get there), the money spent on weapons etc etc, so there is a fair amount of tactical juggling to do, as well as joystick-wiggling. AWESOME comes on three copy-protected, drive-grinding disks, and I highly recommend it as THE shoot-em-up for Ami. A final note... the game runs fine on my A500+A501+A590+1/2 Meg+external floppy, but on my friend's A500+1/2 Meg expansion (not A501)+ external floppy, the game crashes just after the landing craft detatches from the main ship. Weird.... Ratings:(/10) Graphics: 10 Sound : 9 Gameplay: 8 Overall : 9 -- # J.Gold | mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr # # University of Bath , UK | jilg@uk.ac.bath.maths # # The more improbable an event is, the more likely it is to happen :-) #