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[BranjoHello]

This game is absolutely fantastic...remake version is nothing better from this one, only thing I noticed is that it has music and this version don't(I know it's a rip )!
Str8 to favorites! :amused:

Abuse really is a cool game, I got hooked into it once when I was a kid, 'bout ten years ago

Funny thing, it's 2009 already and the game predicted things quite accurately with the science related stuff, gene, cloning, etc. Haha, the only thing is that there are no hi-tech guns and illegal facilities in real life.. Or is there?

Lol

Has anyone tried multiplayer for this game?

[patryckslasher]

This game has multiplayer mode??

[Aarontu]

Whoever took those screenshots had the brightness WAY up! (way to ruin the mood!)

I remember spending hours making different levels for this game; the WYSIWYG style editor was awesome.

[zirkoni]

I captured a short gameplay video of this game with dosbox but for some reason the video lacks the music although I could hear it while playing. I tried different dosbox versions with same results.

Is it just me or is this a common problem?

EDIT: Abuse uses HMI for music. HMI is an alternative (and incompatible) MIDI format and DOSBox's internal video capture doesn't record MIDI. You can record raw MIDI commands with DOSBox (Ctrl+Alt+F8), works also with Abuse.

[DarthHelmet86]

I think there is something about DOSBox were it does not record sound at all, but I can'r remember if that was just for people talking over it or for all sounds.

[Lazy Lion]

I love stumbling upon games I couldn´t remember but recognize when I see them... happens a lot here ^^ The atmosphere in this game is just incredible!

Very weird how every game on this page ends up with an 3.x score...

€: This game is just addictive somehow... with most games like this I´d play some levels and forget about it, but this one always draws me back to play some more

[Lazy Lion]

Sorry but PUSH!

Does anyone know where I can get the version with the real story line? This one just babbles something about ants in the beginning and that´s it... in the other one you´re an inmate fighting mutants and there are more cutscenes when you finish levels, elaborating the story. This version doesn´t seem to have any story besides the beginning text.

I found a demo of the other version here:
http://www.acid-play.com/download/abuse/

€: Okay I´ve learned that this one has the original story line(with the A.N.T. aka Aggressive Non Terrestials), but the other one is still much more interesting I think.

€²: Abuse 1.0 is the one with the Ant story and abuse 2.0 is the one with the inmate story. I´ve found 2.0 but it doesn´t seem to be for dosbox but windows and I can´t get it to run under Vista. Okay I guess the story isn´t *that* important

[The Fifth Horseman]

How about taking the demo's executable - which was built for DOS - and trying to run it with the full version's data files?

[zirkoni]

Abuse in 1280x1024 resolution



You can almost see the entire level on the screen at once. The game was meant to be played at 320x200 resolution but if you want to cheat you can use higher resolutions (helps finding secret areas, enemies can't really sneak attack you, ...).

You can select different resolutions with the -size parameter although my version of the game (2.00) can use other resolutions only in the edit mode:

abuse.exe -edit -size xres yres