I got this game for free when a friend installed a new 4x CD drive on my PC. He said, "I have a tradition of when I upgrade or get a new computer I buy a new game." So he gave me the game and installed it for me. I barely remember it now, it's been so long. I do remember going through caverns. I remember Sierra giving this out as a freebie but it was the Floppy Disk version NOT the CD version. I remember the combat was cell rendered and turn base. Other then that I don't really remember anything about it. Maybe because I was so use to Sierra doing adventure games I thought Dynamix would follow the same theme. It must of not made a big impression on me.
Just another city simulator. Enough said.
I'm a huge fan of the Space Quest series. I already own the whole series and paid a pretty penny on Ebay for boxed versions. I'm tempted to buy just to see if they are the talkie versions. Yep, there are different versions of the games. There was diskette versions for each of them for people who didn't own a CD-ROM drive because they were so expensive. I bet your saying, really? Yep, it's true. Now onto the games. They are all constructed the same way of adventure games from that era. It was way back when the maximum potential of the home PC was 50 to 100 mhz and before that 8 to 25. So you can imagine they had limited means to display and perform functions on the computer. Enter point and click adventure games where you direct the action of a character. Not in a sense of heightened danger but in innocence. Everything in PAC adventure games are pre-scripted but that doesn't make it any less amusing. For instance say you want to plunger a toilet, back in the day you had to type what you wanted to do. Like, Use plunger with toilet, "You spent an hour plungering the toilet but it does no good maybe someone should give you a hand for wasting those precious moments of your life which you'll never get back." In the computer giving you guff for your effort lies the clue to solve the puzzle. In later days they switched over to a mouse interface where it was easier to perform actions but took away from the human element. It just made it seem more robotic to have a mouse doing all the work and more like a GUI (Graphical User Interface) then a game. So now you have our hero named Roger Wilco. He was born into a long lineage of janitors but the universe has something great in store for him. Mind blowing adventures with out of this world aliens and the Two Guys from Andromeda. Wait a second you'll have to check out the first 3 games if you want to get a back-story of the Two Guys. On your way there stop by the local Monolith Burger and get a bite to eat. See how many spoofs and parodies you can spot at the local Galleria Mall or sit back and pump buckazoids into Astro Chicken in the Arcade. Yes, these games have it all adventure, romance, and comedy. If you've never played them before buy them now because you've missed out on some great entertainment.
This is the soul reason I bought an XBOX and was deeply disappointed. I had no preconceived notions or reviews to cloud my judgment. I just slapped down $50 and played it all the way through. To my surprise It was just another shooter. Some might say a HALO rip off but I can't stand HALO either. So play it knowing its fun for being a shooter, that's all.
I played this when it came out. I'm sure it's as bad now as it was back then. It was released when everyone was cashing in on Command & Conquers fame. Lots of bugs horrible interface. If GOG ever gets KKND play that instead. Enough said.
When I first saw this game I was at Comdex in Vegas (before E3). My friend was in the Intel booth watching some promo film and when he came out I showed him all the junk I got from the different booths. He showed me his copy of O/S 2 Warp and a game called Under a Killing Moon. I looked at the back of the box and I had to have it. Keep in mind that all we had to play was Wolfenstein and DOOM. My friend told me they gave it away for FREE. So I got it home and it wouldn't run on my computer. The system requirements were to steep. I went over to another friends house that had the best computer I knew of with 4 mb of ram and a 100 mhz Intel. We plugged it in and were immediately drawn in by the story and dark humor. The game was incredible for it's time with full motion video in it with a 3-D environment. I had never in my life seen a game like it. I have yet to see a game that can match it. It has an 80's pop culture feel to it with a sci-fi spin. There are alot of colorful characters and mutants to talk to not to mention a case to solve, lots of fascinating puzzles and side interests. If you’re a fan of Fallout or Wasteland then this game is for you. Where as it's not a free to do what you want environment but the story is along the lines of being campy post nuclear. The controls are a little clunky where you have to press the spacebar to switch to the walk mode and press it again to switch back to the rendered environment. That's the only downside that comes to mind. It is a SOLID GAME, back when they still knew how to make them. It even has an in game hint system if you get stuck. I'm sure Sierra would of killed to have this game as part of their catalog of adventure games. Bottom line if you love adventure games and have a place in your heart for a good mystery BUY THIS GAME.
