Ant Attack
published by Quicksilva in 1983, running on ZX Spectrum
type: adventure, action/reflex, platformer
perspective: bird's-eye (axonometric)
player options: single player
game engine: Soft Solid 3-D
languages: eng
perspective: bird's-eye (axonometric)
player options: single player
game engine: Soft Solid 3-D
languages: eng
4.3/5
Personal review
For the time, Ant Attack had possibly the best graphics seen in a Spectrum game using a technique devised by Sandy White called Soft Solid. It was also one of the few games of the era that allowed you to play as a female character, although your choice of gender made no difference to the gameplay.
arrgh - # 2000-02-05 00:54:15
arrgh - # 2000-02-05 00:54:15
Official description
The Walled City of Antescher has rested for a thousand, thousand years in the midst of the Great Desert inhabited by only the deadly Ants who have made it their home.
The sands have piled up at the walls but for some reason have never encroached upon the city proper.
The City rests dreaming of past glories, solid and unmoving; the signature of a long dead race.
The City washed clean by the sun's rays.
The city lost from the world of men for days without number.
Then one day, one year, one hour, He arrived and She arrived, some say that they are descended from a race of wizards, some say that they are descended from a race hidden in a green valley at the North Pole.
Who can really tell these days, how much do we really know about the world as it was, or as it is, after so long in the cold Dark Ages.
Only Antescher seems to stand inviolate after all this time, teeming with secrets, yet silent.
He and She arrived to play their games through the wind-swept streets, ousting the ants from their exclusive occupation.
He and She are now wreaking havoc through the ants who for their part kill and kill again without thought or consideration, just carrying out a biological imperative.
He and She run to and fro, climbing in and out the buildings, the sound of their feet stretching from block to block.
They laugh and cry out in fear walking with each other just ahead of the Ants and Death.
And above all the drama within it's walls the City of Antescher watches and watches waiting for the next renaissance and the next Golden Age.
The City seems to have a presence, a huge brooding entity which hangs over the buildings and which in some mysterious way controls the destiny of those below...
# 2021-11-07 08:23:22 - official description
The sands have piled up at the walls but for some reason have never encroached upon the city proper.
The City rests dreaming of past glories, solid and unmoving; the signature of a long dead race.
The City washed clean by the sun's rays.
The city lost from the world of men for days without number.
Then one day, one year, one hour, He arrived and She arrived, some say that they are descended from a race of wizards, some say that they are descended from a race hidden in a green valley at the North Pole.
Who can really tell these days, how much do we really know about the world as it was, or as it is, after so long in the cold Dark Ages.
Only Antescher seems to stand inviolate after all this time, teeming with secrets, yet silent.
He and She arrived to play their games through the wind-swept streets, ousting the ants from their exclusive occupation.
He and She are now wreaking havoc through the ants who for their part kill and kill again without thought or consideration, just carrying out a biological imperative.
He and She run to and fro, climbing in and out the buildings, the sound of their feet stretching from block to block.
They laugh and cry out in fear walking with each other just ahead of the Ants and Death.
And above all the drama within it's walls the City of Antescher watches and watches waiting for the next renaissance and the next Golden Age.
The City seems to have a presence, a huge brooding entity which hangs over the buildings and which in some mysterious way controls the destiny of those below...
# 2021-11-07 08:23:22 - official description
Technical specs
software: Soft Solid 3-D,
display: raster
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External reviews (7) - average: 86.4% - median: 85%
review source | issue | date | score | |||
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C&VG (Computer & Video Games) (011-084) | uk | 26 | 1983-12 | 7/10 | 70% | view |
Crash | uk | 1 | 1984-02 | 85/100 | 85% | view |
Home Computing Weekly | uk | 31 | 1983-10-04 | 5/5 | 100% | view |
Personal Computer Games | uk | 3 | 1984-02 | 7/10 | 70% | view |
Tilt 1-38 | fr | 11 | 1984-04 | 6/6 | 100% | view |
Tilt 1-38 | fr | 17 | 1984-12 | 6/6 | 100% | view |
Your Computer | uk | 27 | 1983-11 | 4/5 | 80% | view |
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