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- {subhead} Alien Escape{def}{p}
- Review by Chris Seward
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- Alien Escape is a game from 1996 which has just recently been uploaded
- to the Aminet archives. It is a German game and the documents only came
- in German. I only have a very limited amount of knowledge of the German
- language but could make out that this game was not originally uploaded
- to the Aminet but now is.... ermm.. useful I know!
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- The idea of Alien Escape is to shoot the Aliens that come from left to
- right before they reach the other side (right side). As far as I could
- tell there where two types of Alien and one human i'm sure.
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- The graphics are terrible and the sounds are just the basic Amos boom,
- ping and shoot noise so nothing especially outstanding there. You can
- collect some bonus items which randomly appear on screen although some
- appear outside your mouse limits so you can't actually get to them. As
- an Amos coder from many years ago myself I know this problem could have
- been fixed in little or no time at all considering the author managed
- to make this 'game' in the first place. The bonuses rarely seemed to
- do anything except the one Commodore (R.I.P.) logo which freezes the
- aliens currently on screen at that time.
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- Its not like you'll need to pick up that bonus any time because the
- game is so damn easy. Picking up what I could from the German text
- once completing a level you go onto a harder one which incidently has
- exactly the same background and aliens. I didn't notice any increase
- in hardness, maybe they forgot to put it in.
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- Saying all this the game does have some good qualities... well... one.
- The title music is a nice little tune which probably accounts for
- 60% of the total archive size. The actual game executable is 162k where
- the music is another 200k, go figure! The music contains a sample
- of 'something, something, out of space, to find another race'.
- Unfortunately I don't know the full words. Although this song is nice
- i'm sure i've heard it somewhere else.. but I could be mistaken.
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- Overall a terrible game that I wouldn't even consider downloading. Save
- yourself some time and effort and just avoid it on your travels.
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- {bold}Available from{nobold}: Aminet:game/shoot/AE.lha ({link ftp://de.aminet.net/ftp/aminet/pub/game/shoot/AE.lha}Download This{end})
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- {bold}Graphics{nobold} : 12%{p}
- {bold}Sound{nobold} : 3%{p}
- {bold}Playability{nobold} : 11%{p}
- {bold}Lastability{nobold} : 8%{p}
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- {bold}Overall{nobold} : 9%