showing 3 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Shock | Electronic Arts;Origin (Looking Glass Technologies) | 1994 | The game has difficulty levels separately for combat, puzzles, cyberspace and plot. At highest plot difficulty, the game has a real-time limit imposed which is perhaps the greatest challenge you face and certainly not something you want on your first playthrough. Cyberspace also has timelimit on highest difficulty, but this only causes you to eject from cyberspace and nothing more serious.***The CD-ROM version (1994/11) added optional SVGA mode - 640x480 resolution instead of the original VGA 320x240 - with improved graphics and full speech for the logs and SHODAN. The CD-ROM version requires the CD to be in drive during play, but this can be easily circumvented by copying the CDROM folder from the CD to HD and editing both [code]cyb.cfg[/code] and [code]cdshock.bat[/code] to point to the folder in your HD instead. | labelimagesubject |
| EarthSiege | Dynamix | 1994 | They also released a "Speech Pack" (directly included in the CD-Version). | labelimageminimize |
| I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream | Cyberdreams;Acclaim Entertainment (The Dreamers Guild) | 1995 | Assume the roles of five different characters, each in a unique environment. Challenging dilemmas dealing with powerfully charged emotional issues. Provocative psychological and adult-oriented themes. Based on Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language. Fully digitized speech with over 40 different characters and state of the art animation. Harlan Ellison as the voice of the insane master computer, AM. - FIVE DAMNED SOULS: Buried deep within the center of the earth, trapped in the bowels of an insane computer for the past hundred and nine years. Garrister the suicidal loner. Benny the mutilated brute. Ellen the hysterical phobic. Nimdok the secretive sadist. Ted the cynical paranoid. ONE CHALLENGE: The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of the five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the master computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing. Compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!*** [84]***Great atmosphere, an incredible narrator (voiced by no other than the original writer, Harlan Ellison) and well done sense of unease and fated misery; nonetheless it includes confusing controls (for example walk to vs. use, and how only one or another should be used in different doors/passages), many plot holes and very frustrating random solution puzzles. It saddens me see that is not up to the quality of the original short story. 4 of 10 P.S.: The best part is Nimdok's chapter.***Requires DOS 4.0+, 80486 CPU, 4MB RAM, 2xCD-ROM, SuperVGA/VESA, (Ensoniq Soundscape/General MIDI/Gravis Ultrasound/Ultrasound ACE/Pro Audio Spectrum/Spectrum Plus/Spectrum 16/Roland MT-32/Roland LAPC-1/Sound Blaster/Sound Blaster 16/Sound Blaster AWE32/Sound Blaster Pro) sound card, Keyboard and Mouse Original version shipped with a mousepad with a 3D picture of the box art on it. Due to German laws, The story involving the nazi scientist has been cut in the German version. This cut includes an entire chapter. Harlan Ellison sued because he didn't 'get my share of the prophets'. Turns out the game lost money. Ellison was not counter sued for the difference. [Zerothis] | labelimagesubject |
