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- From: dmccarty@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu (Daniel McCarty)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
- Subject: Terminal Velocity Shareware Walkthrough
- Date: 5 May 1995 03:17:16 GMT
- Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
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- Well, this game is over (shareware, at least; I'll still death-
- match with my friends). Anyway, for those of you who want to
- see how to finish the game, read on...
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- This first mission is, weirdly, probably the best one. At
- least the game makes you blow up the targets. It's basically
- fly-to-your-target,-blow-it-up.
-
- The first two tunnles are simply flying, and it's cool to
- afterburn through them. The mission 1 boss is really annoying.
- To injure it, though, first you have to blow up the four square
- boxes that are in front of the doors. Then you can hurt it.
- It's tough to hit it. What you have to do is fly fast until
- you're in front of one of the doors, stop (as much as you can),
- turn around and fire at him a few times, then repeat the
- procedure.
-
- By this time you've accumulated a LOT of afterburners. Make
- sure to use saved games, since the afterburners come in handy,
- real handy.
-
- On mission 2, just afterburn it through all the checkpoints
- until you get to the main tunnel. Then fly through the main
- tunnels. I think it's really cheap that the game lets you do
- this, but hey, it does...
-
- Another problem I have with the tunnels, is that you're flying
- in a jet. They're not meant to fly in the tunnels, and you
- have no strafing ability for when ships fire at you. You just
- have to fire back and take their hits. That's real dumb.
-
- When you're in the clouds on 2-2, don't try to go down, you'll
- just smash your ship into a mountain. How in hell you're
- supposed to find the secret tunnels when you can't come down
- from the clouds is beyond me.
-
- On 2-3, with the boss there is a big bug. As soon as you see a
- big building ahead, blow it up. Then you'll see this big black
- ship slowly ascending. Get underneath it and just blow the shit
- out of it. It will never fire back, since it has to get to a
- certain height before it can take off.
-
- In mission 3, you can do the same afterburning stupid stuff.
- There's a part where there's all these rockets taking off. You
- can blow up the rockets, or you can blow up the rocket launchers,
- but the rockets still launch anyway. Or, you can just fly by
- the rockets and nothing happens. I thought this was supposed to
- be some machine going to kill earth and you don't have to stop
- the rockets? Oh well...
-
- Anyway, at the end of the level just blow up the big satellite
- dishes, then fly to the end thingy. You have to watch out for
- those ion ships, though. They can really hurt you if they get
- a few good hits in.
-
- The tunnels in this mission are really stupid. All you have to
- do is keep firing (since you have infinite ammo) down the hall
- and nothing will ever be able to shoot at you, since the hall-
- ways are totally straight. This should be definitely fixed
- before the next release.
-
- On the third level, you can still afterburn through the check-
- points (if you have afterburners left) and get into the tunnel.
- These tunnels are still the stupid ones, but in these tunnels
- you can get to a hanger with all the ships on the ground. Blow
- up these ships and go through the next tunnel.
-
- When you get to the boss, go to the area where the missiles are
- being launched. There will be two boxes at each of the two
- missile areas. Blow up these boxes so you can hurt the boss.
- After the boss dies, another secret boss comes up. But this
- one is so stupid. If you fly directly towards him both of his
- missile thingies that he fires at you will pass by you to your
- left and right and WON'T EVER HIT YOU! It will take about two
- passes but then it'll die.
-
- Oh well, the game is over. Initially I gave this game a 6 out
- of 10. After playing the whole thing, I've dropped that to a
- 5 out of 10. This game needs a serious overhaul before it ever
- can compare to Doom or Descent.
-
- Daniel.
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