FLASHBACK™, the hit action-adventure game with over 2.2 million units sold, is back!
2142. After fleeing from a space ship but stripped of all memory, the young scientist Conrad B. Hart awakens on Titan, a colonised moon of the planet Saturn. His enemies and kidnappers are snapping at his heels....
FLASHBACK™, the hit action-adventure game with over 2.2 million units sold, is back!
2142. After fleeing from a space ship but stripped of all memory, the young scientist Conrad B. Hart awakens on Titan, a colonised moon of the planet Saturn. His enemies and kidnappers are snapping at his heels. He must find a way back to Earth, all the while defending himself against the dangers he encounters and unravelling an insidious extra-terrestrial plot that threatens the planet…
On its 25th anniversary, rediscover this classic, consistently ranked among the best 100 games of all time! It was one of the first games to use motion capture technology for more realistic animations, with backgrounds that were entirely hand-drawn and a gripping science-fiction storyline.
Travel back to the early 90’s and reunite with Conrad to rediscover this cult classic.
Choose to play with the original graphics and sounds from the 90’s and face an unforgiving difficulty.
Or go with the Modern mode. You can also fine tune your experience by turning on Modern mode options independently and on the fly.
Enhanced content:
For the first time ever, play the Director’s Cut version featuring 2 exclusive cutscenes
White or pink? Choose among the two iconic colors of Conrad's t-shirt
Want to practice on a specific level? You can now play any completed level during the main adventure
Replay any cutscene that you unlocked from the menu
Jukebox: listen to the game's soundtrack
Street Art gallery: earn points in the game and unlock street art pictures in the gallery
Modern mode:
Post-FX graphic filters,
Completely remastered sound and music,
A brand new "Rewind" function, variable according to the level of difficulty
.... to make a great game even better.
You want a vanilla experience - here you go!
You want a closer to the modern standards game - give it a try!
On a personal side - I've noticed I keep playing the same games I've played back in 90's, and have a problem with enjoying these I didn't had a chance to play back then. You have to have it in your veins to get back to these old games - otherwise it becomes a chore. Thus 5/5 for "modernization" of this beautiful gem.
Originally released on the Amiga and a year later on the PC. This is an awesome game that shows how platform games should be made. No silly mushrooms here only instant death either by the guards or drop falls. Can you make it back to earth and take part in the game show?
High skill and patience are needed for this , I’ve personally never finished it even I had the game on an Amiga 500 back in 1992!
Flashback is possibly one of the best 2D adventure games of all time, that is widely overlooked by the majority of game media. If it were not for the last level, the game would be pretty much perfect.
Across the first 2 levels the game gradually introduces you to the basic mechanics of the game, in no time you will get a feel for how far conrad jumps and where he will end up at the end of a roll. All of which will become crucial to finishing later levels without too much difficulty. The last level however, despite being one of the best looking scenes ion the whole game, is a bit of a crap fest. Laden with cheap enemies, akward areas to fight them in, very long periods between save points...it's almost like they didn't actually test this level all that much or just chucked in the enemies after the fact. Either way, even after completing it numerous times over the last 25 years, it's a pretty disappointing end to a fantastic adventure and leaves a bit of a bad taste.
In regards to this port, it's fairly decent but has some glaring issues.
-No Key Rebinding
-No proper Direct Input support (Odd button layout, D-Pad doesn't work)
-Only contains the DOS sounds, which are inferior to some other versions
-Bloom effects haven't been used very creatively.
It's still worth buying if you love Flashback or haven't had a chance to play it yet, just be aware that it's not quite the best version to play. I greatly appreciate that it has finally been released on modern formats, it's been long overdue.
The game is essentially the same as the original, the enhanced graphics are just the original ones with a bilinear filter on top of it, i.e. they are worse.
There is also a new intro that makes the game crash about 50% of the times, especially if you launch it from the GOG interface.
I've contacted the support service and, although the guy has been very nice to me (even more than I deserved, I'd say...) he just said I had not enough dedicated VRAM to run the game and otherwise had no clue on how to fix my problem.
Now, my point is: 512 MB of dedicated memory is a silly requirement for what's essentially a video game from the '90s. In fact, the intro is a normal video I can watch on my media player (by the way, who cares about the intro?) and once the game gets past it without crashing, I can play it no problem.
In the end, I've got the original game for free from another source and played it on a DOSBox without problem. You should do the same.
I mean, I'm a software engineer and I can say it's just a poorly developped product, even if you have enough memory and the game won't crash on your PC, they just don't deserve your money. I know it's less than 1€, but it's less than 1€ that your thouwing to the bin.
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