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GRAV 2 ====== A game by Martin Brownlow. Music by Dave Gymer. This program is shareware. It may be freely copied on condition that if you wish to keep it, you send a £5 registr- ation fee to the following address: Martin Brownlow 89,Marples Avenue Mansfield Woodhouse Notts. NG19 9EZ In exchange for registering, you will receive a disk of programs, including a playable demo of "SPUD", which I will release as shareware if it is shown to be profitable by your responses to this game. At a time when many software houses appear to be deserting the ST in favour of other 16 bit computers which MAY or may not be inferior,and when many games are overdue, overhyped, and, basically, crap and not worth the money, shareware stands out as being a way forward. Please support this game. Thankyou. Martin Brownlow. 1:09 am, Monday 27th July,1992. Instructions. ------------- 1. The Blurb. Many years ago, a being known only to us as the Enemy appeared in our universe from parts unknown. It tainted the hearts of men, and from these men, a new empire arose to chall- enge our society. An attack was launched on the Earth, and was only stopped from destroying the mother planet of our race by a sin- gle fighter craft, codenamed GRAV. The GRAV pilot destroyed the Enemy's follo- wers' two base planets, but the Enemy escaped back to its own dimension. Now from the ashes of the old emipre, a new force has arisen. The forces of the Earth had grown lax and ignored the build up of weapons and bases on the outskirts of our galaxy until it was too late; The empire had returned. The Earth's only hope against a supe- rior attacking force is again the GRAV fighter. Updated and upgraded, the new GRAV command ship left the Earth to fight the empire once again. 2. The game. GRAV 2 is, like its prequel GRAV, a game of the type generically known as "rotate and thrust". What this means is easier to see during play than it is to explain, but the basic gist is this: Your ship can only move forwards. To get it to move in a specific direction, you rotate the ship and then thrust. To stop, you turn the ship around and thr- ust in the opposite direction. It sounds hard, and at first it is, but once you get used to it (and it can take some time) it becomes second nat- ure and you wonder why all games aren't written this way. Anyway, on with the instructions. 2.0. High Scores The high score table can be saved from the title screen by pressing S. When GRAV 2 loads, it looks for the file GRAVHS.DAT in the folder DATA. To return the high scores to their default values, just delete GRAVHS.DAT. 2.1. Ship Controls. The GRAV fighter can be controlled by either the joystick or keyboard. To select the control method desired, sim- ply press fire on the title page. The joystick works as expected, with left and right rotating the ship, forw- ard activating the thrusters and fire to fire the cannons. The keyboard controls are as follows; Control Thrust Alternate Fire : Left ' Right There are several controls which are common to both control types,these are; Space Activate secondary weapon. Return Select secondary weapon to use with space. Q fire bomb A use defense laser S use computer aided retro Z use cloaking device X use timer shield P pause Backspace scuttle ship(suicide) T teleport up The controls are slightly different when on a menu screen; for the joystck, the directions move the cursor and fire selects an option. For the keyboard, control becomes up and alternate becom- es down and space becomes select. 2.2. Secondary weapons The GRAV fighter has several upgrades available to it in the form of seconda- ry weapons. These are, in the order they appear in the shop screen; Bomb A powerful explosive device which can take out several installations in one shot. Defence Laser Like SDI, the defence laser will des- troy all nearby projectiles. Computer aided retros A very handy device that simply stops you dead. Cloaking Device Real Star Trek stuff! What the enemy can't see, they can't hit!! Timer Shields Heading into a rough bit? Timer shie- lds protect you from any number of bul- let hits, but only for a short time. Impact shield Not strictly a secondary weapon, as you can't willingly activate it. An impact shield will protect your craft from one bullet hit. Timer shields take hits for impact shields, if you have both on at once. 2.3. The planet select screen This screen allows you to choose the planet you wish to attack next. Simply position the cursor over the planet you want to attack and press fire. If there are more than 4 planets ava- ilable to you, you can scroll the scre- en by trying to move off the top or bo- ttom. 2.4. The shop screen To buy an item,press select while the cursor is on its cost section. This buys the item and puts it in your stor- es. To load an item onto your ship, press select while the cursor is in the sect- ion marked stores. This loads the item onto your ship. To unload an item that you don't need anymore, press select when over its lo- adesd section. To alter your ship's handling, press left or right while the cursor is poin- ting to the relevant handling characte- istic. 3. Playing the game. 3.1. The panel The control panel on the bottom of the screen holds the following informa- tion: FUEL SCORE IMPACT SECOND LIVES AMMO Where impact is the number of impact shields remaining and second is a small icon representing the secondary weapon currently selected and the number of this item left. This can be cycled through all your current load by press- ing return. The weapon will be used by pressing space or a specific weapon can be used by pressing Q,A,S,Z or X. 3.2. The aim The aim of each level is to disable the base. This is done basically the same way for every base; destroying 80% of the emplacements, but some levels have specific objectives, such as dest- roying the cargo cannisters. When you have finished a level, you will hear a unique beep and you will see a flashing T in the bottom left of the screen. This means that you can leave the base at any time by pressing T, but you might want to hang around to get the C (see below). There are 3 types of enemy which are beneficial to you. These are fuel dump ammo dump and computer. To take advan- tage of these bases, simply land next to them. The computer is especially important. When you land next to it, you will see a flashing C in the bottom right of the screen. This means that you have downloaded the bases the comp- uter knows about, and these will be fed into your data when you leave the level in other words, it is a way of finding new levels. Every time you use one of these faci- lities, your position is recorded so when you lose a life, you will start again from there. HAVE FUN. PS Some bases are quite ATTRACTIVE, and others are quite REPULSIVE, so don't be scared if you don't know whether you're coming or going! PPS Please register your copy of this game!