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| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
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| Descent | Interplay (Parallax Software) | 1995 | Originally the levels were to be on board space stations. The use of a spacecraft and the micro-gravity nature of the environment actually do make a lot more sense this way. I mean, who flies a spacecraft into a mine? And why is there no evidence of gravity in the mines? (I vaguely recall the story of the game actually contrived something to explain the lack of gravity in the mines). The creative people decided that navigating space stations, although not in 3D, had been done to death already (and specifically it had been done in the FPS genre). After deciding on the new setting, game was refereed to as [i]Miner[/i]. Both documents and the source code used this title. Nobody much liked this title. The editor was name Med ([b]M[/b]iner [b]ed[/b]itor) but the dev team refused to call it anything but "The Editor". Based on the official designated title being chosen as [i]Inferno[/i], The dev team integrated inferno into source code. This official title only lasted 2 days however, as it was discovered that Ocean was releasing a game by that title and it would be published before [i]Miner[/i] could be. And there was an [i]Inferno[/i] episode of Doom.***Comes on 5 3½ disks. An identical version comes on 1 CD-ROM***[b]Minimum:[/b] * MS-DOS 5.0 * 33 MHz 386 CPU * 4 MB RAM * VGA GPU * MS-compatible mouse [b]Recommended:[/b] * 33 MHz 486 CPU * 8 MB RAM [b]Forward compatibility:[/b] * Runs under OS/2, Win3.x, Win95 and Win98 with expectedly higher system requirements.***The source code was released to public in 1997 under a proprietary license with a non-commercial clause.***Deep in the mines of Pluto, an unknown alien race has taken over the Post Terran Mineral Corporation and all intelligence shows that the planet is on a collision course with the Earth. Fly through over 30 levels of high speed, full 360° action in your attempt to stop the Earth's destruction. * Play against up to 4 players over the network * Scream down 3D texture-mapped passages * Locate and use hidden power-ups and repair stations * 'Morphing' Aliens * Intelligent Alien creatures that 'learn' your strategies * Plunge headlong down mine shafts * Multi-channel digitized sound effects and rock score [Box blurb] | labelimagesubject |
| Final Doom | id Software (TeamTNT) | 1996 | Two New, 32-Level DOOM II Episodes. Evilution: Far from earth, the UAC recommenced their experiments on on of the moons of Jupiter. A spaceship, mistaken for a supply vexxel on radar, hovered above the base. Hideous demons poured out, blanketing the base with death. All your comrades were quickly slaughtered or zombified. This time, it's not about survival. It's about revenge. The Plutonia Experiment: Every effort has been made by the nation's top scientists to close the seven interdimensional Gates of Hell, but one portal remains open. Alone, you must infiltrate the ravaged complex, defeat the demon Gatekeeper and seal the last Hell-hole before the undead are prepared to, once again, take over the world. [?]***Includes two "campaigns": * [i]TNT: Evilution[/i], with the events set on Io. * [i]Plutonia Experiment[/i], with the events set on Earth. Oddly it seems neither of the storylines take the player to Hell unlike in all other Doom games. | labelimagesubject |
