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From: watters@sphere.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters)
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Subject: Lemmings from Psygnosis     (Best new game in years, IMHO.)
Keywords: A playable game from Psygnosis, -=gasp!=-
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Date: 29 Dec 90 04:38:47 GMT
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If you look through AdWorld (AmigaWorld) you will see a full page ad for
a game called Lemmings.  Odds are you blew by this while flipping through
this rag, but take note...
 
Finally, a game that lives up to the playability of many incredible games
that were available for the 8-bit machines during the 80's.  I was able
to get a Demo version of Lemmings from a European disk/magazine and this game
is not only playable, but it is also dangerously adictive!!!  The character
animation and gameplay match such greats as loadrunner, jumpman (jr.), and
many more.

A Lemming is a little character that gets dropped into a hostile cave
environment.  At first he is a "walker."  All he does is walk along until
running into an obstacle that either turns him around or kills him in many
gruesome, yet hysterical ways.  Somewhere in this cave-like world there is
an exit, and between the Lemming and the exit are numerous obstacles such as
mountains, pools, fire, cliffs, and traps (many different kinds).  But don't
fret too much because you can change the Lemming from a "walker" into something
that helps him get passed the obstacle, such as a "digger", or a "climber", or
a "builder", ect.  
It sounds easy, but it's not.   You have a fixed number of times you can turn
a Lemming into a "builder", or "climber", ect. and it varies from level to
level.  This is not the worst of it though, you see the Lemming is not alone.
A new Lemming gets dropped into this world at a certain rate, one after the
other.  Over 100 Lemmings can be running around, and the goal of each level
is to save a certain percentage of these Lemmings by getting them to the exit,
alive.

The demo version had three levels.  The first was easy, but the second was very
hard and the third is impossible... so far.  Besides the single player game
I have described, there is an even better two player game in which a green
Lemming is dropped and then a blue Lemming, ect, ect.  There is a green exit on
one side and a blue on the other.  Whom ever gets the most Lemmings out his
exit wins the round.  There are three main tactics in the two player game;
worry about your own, save your own and try and kill you enemies' Lemmings, or
save you own and try to kill your enemies' Lemmings.  Unreal! The game was 
written by DMA design a company I have heard of, but I don't think this is 
who does the usual Psygnosis stuff.  I can't wait until this game come out, 
and I strongly suggest you take a look for yourself.

Enjoy!
-=-
"All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. 
 All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH
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