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REVIEW
CYBERIA from INTERPLAY
FORMAT: PC/CD-ROM
DATE: DECEMBER
PRICE: N/A
You take pleasure in beautiful graphics with fine textures and all
in three dimensions? You also enjoy arcade games where you are in a superb
space ship and you must destroy all sorts of wicked creatures while
zig zaging more or less majestically in the air? But do you also enjoy
adventure games where in order to stay in one piece one must have some
flair? If you answered YES to these three questions, no need to search
any longer, "CYBERIA" is what you need!
"CYBERIA" is effectively a savory mix of action and adventure which sends
you, like all science fiction games worthy of this name, to the year 2027 on
Earth to play the role of an above-the-law humanoid working towards a good
cause. In effect, after various economic upheavals, the global sharing of
power on Earth has been slightly modified: we find the good guys camp
of the "Free World Alliance" which strives to conserve the power against a
few dangerous coalitions ready to try anything to obtain it.
Why does the "FWA" need you? It is simple, as we have told you, you are a
humanoid named Zak who has certain special powers linked to the glasses
that you wear! They are called "BLADES" (Bi-optic Low Amplitude Displayed
Energy System) and they permit you among other things to:
* detect all infrared sources or thermic energy
* use the magnetic resonance phenomenon which gives you the possibility to
see through objects
* use a scanner which identifies all types of organic matter.
These functions, as expected, will be of great use during your quest, and
can only be used by a well trained person, hence the reason you have been
chosen! You also hardly have a choice to refuse the mission that the "FWA"
is entrusting you with because they have accused you of betrayal and
espionage. Your only other alternative is death.
Your mission will be the following: reach the operations base named RIG,
run by a mercenary called Santos, and take possession of a TF-22 space
vehicle which will permit you to reach the CYBERIA complex. Once inside the
complex, it is your move, but you first need to reach it!
Interplay spent two years on the development of this game, and it was time
well spent. The characters look particularly sharp and realistic. The
scenery is fabulous, and the scenario places the player in atmosphere of
suspense and anguish.
The game permits many possibilities regarding the story line, according to
the actions set out upon the main character Zak, and you must not forget
that the slightest wrong move will often cost you a life in CYBERIA.
Character control is accomplished with the keyboard when the game is in
an adventure style and with the mouse or joystick when you enter into
action and air combats.
On that subject, the only reproach that I have to say about this game is
the insufficient maneuverability during arcade phases. In effect, we
can deplore a lack of precision when we use the mouse or the joystick.
Oh well, you can not win them all!
The player can choose the difficulty level out of three before starting his
game, for both the arcade or the adventure (puzzles etc...) sections.
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What more can be said. The music and the sound effects are also
tremendously well done, rendering this game even more attractive.
Therefore, once more, if you want to enjoy yourself, give CYBERIA a try and
adopt it into your video game library!
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: │
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386 SX-25 MHz or better,
Min 4 MB memory,
MS-DOS 3.1 or later,
Hard drive required,
Single speed CD-ROM drive (150 Kb/s) or faster,
VGA 256 color graphic card and monitor,
Microsoft Mouse or 100% compatible and joysticks supported,
Sound Blaster and compatibles.
───────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────
┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │Interplay Productions Ltd.
│GRAPHICS├─────────────────┤ 95% │ │71 Milton Park,
│SOUND ├─────────────────┤ 91% │ │Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RR, England.
│MUSIC ├─────────────────┤ 91% │ │Tel: +44-(0)235-821-666
│GAMEPLAY├─────────────────┤ 86% │ │
│INTEREST├─────────────────┤ 90% │ │Interplay Productions Inc.
└────────┘ └─────┘ │17922 Fitch Avenue,
┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │Irvine, CA 92714.
│OVERALL ├─────────────────┤ 90% │ │Tel: 714-553-6655
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