Zaru
11-12-2012, 04:05 AM
Hi folks.
Once again I seek your wisdom. :)
A colleague of mine asked me to find an oldie for him. I looked up Moby, as usual, but couldn't find anything similar to what he says. And what he says, is it's a PC game from 1990/2000s in which:
1. Player controlled a yellow/gold bipedal robot. He was shootin' only one variety of projectiles.
2. Action took place on seven up to nine different planets.
3. Enemy forces consisted of other machines: vehicles (hoover-crafts?) shooting spherical projectiles, turrets launching rockets, mobile rocket launchers. He also remembers some spider mechs that shot spherical bullets as well. Additionally amongst the enemy machines there were copies of player robot. They were identical, but blue coloured.
4. Mission objectives on most of the planets was the destruction of enemy bases. Usually there were a few smaller ones the player had to vaporize in order to power down the deflector shield of main enemy base. On one planet player had to intercept and destroy enemy convoy before it reaches the base. In the mission before the last one, player had to defend his base from enemy forces. The last mission was yer usual boss fight.
5. Colleague says the game had electronic music (techno?). He doesn't remember if it was a MIDI, MOD or AudioCD.
6. There were red minefields laid out on specific approaches towards enemy bases. He says that one mine took about 25% of life.
7. 2D graphics from isometric camera (Fallout, Diablo, etc.).
And no! It's not Bedlam. I asked him already. It's not that easy. :D
P.S. For my fellow countrymen: He claims the game was on one of the "Enter" magazines' cover CDs. The problem is, that "Enter" has been discontinued in 2010. The site is long gone now (though forum is still maintained by "Chip" mag). So the only way of checking what exactly was on those CDs is digging through Internet archives. And unfortunately the archive.org Wayback machine doesn't seem to be working well when it comes to checking the contents of databases. Not to mention that snapshots of '99-~'03 miss some months. So even checking "what's on current issue's CD" may not be accurate. Nevertheless, I will be sending him a link to those archives for browsing.
Once again I seek your wisdom. :)
A colleague of mine asked me to find an oldie for him. I looked up Moby, as usual, but couldn't find anything similar to what he says. And what he says, is it's a PC game from 1990/2000s in which:
1. Player controlled a yellow/gold bipedal robot. He was shootin' only one variety of projectiles.
2. Action took place on seven up to nine different planets.
3. Enemy forces consisted of other machines: vehicles (hoover-crafts?) shooting spherical projectiles, turrets launching rockets, mobile rocket launchers. He also remembers some spider mechs that shot spherical bullets as well. Additionally amongst the enemy machines there were copies of player robot. They were identical, but blue coloured.
4. Mission objectives on most of the planets was the destruction of enemy bases. Usually there were a few smaller ones the player had to vaporize in order to power down the deflector shield of main enemy base. On one planet player had to intercept and destroy enemy convoy before it reaches the base. In the mission before the last one, player had to defend his base from enemy forces. The last mission was yer usual boss fight.
5. Colleague says the game had electronic music (techno?). He doesn't remember if it was a MIDI, MOD or AudioCD.
6. There were red minefields laid out on specific approaches towards enemy bases. He says that one mine took about 25% of life.
7. 2D graphics from isometric camera (Fallout, Diablo, etc.).
And no! It's not Bedlam. I asked him already. It's not that easy. :D
P.S. For my fellow countrymen: He claims the game was on one of the "Enter" magazines' cover CDs. The problem is, that "Enter" has been discontinued in 2010. The site is long gone now (though forum is still maintained by "Chip" mag). So the only way of checking what exactly was on those CDs is digging through Internet archives. And unfortunately the archive.org Wayback machine doesn't seem to be working well when it comes to checking the contents of databases. Not to mention that snapshots of '99-~'03 miss some months. So even checking "what's on current issue's CD" may not be accurate. Nevertheless, I will be sending him a link to those archives for browsing.