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~Depth Dwellers
3
DEPTH1.PCX
DEPTH2.PCX
DEPTH5.PCX
Doom Style Game from Tri Soft.
Level of Difficulty - Moderate
No. Of Players - One
Sound Cards - Adlib, SB, SB Pro, SB 16
Graphics - VGA
Controls - Joystick/Mouse/Keyboard
Memory Required - 4Mbytes
~Intro.
~------
Here comes another Doom type game, this one from TriStar , obviously
trying to cash in on all the publicity and hype around the whole
Doom Series.. Unfortunately its no where near as good as Doom from
ID software , but i'll go into that in a minute. First of all, the
game is fairly easy to install, and is quite small [1.3 disks] ..
The Setup program is easy, and i was looking forward to a good game.
There are 3 different missions to choose from - The Quest, Operation
Cut Off and Exterminator.. All 3 are basically the same, and you get
bored of them very quickly .. The game alos has alot of other
problems, which make this game not very good..
There was also another EXTREMELY annoying bug in this game, after
every time I exited the game, all colour's were gone and I had to
reboot! Controls are not that easy as well.. for some reason my
Gravis game pad did not work very well with the game.. There's not
really much esle to say about the game.. If you are looking for a
Doom type game, then i would suggest getting a few of the add on
wad's and stuff.. I would suggest that you not bother with the
game, unless you are bored and you want to fool around with
something for a while ..
~Grafix
~------
The graphics in Depth Dwellers are very unoriginal and dull.. All 3
missions have basically the same backgrounds, enemies etc, except
for some slight differences.. The graphics lack sharpness and clean
scrolling.. It is a rather sad attempt at copying the Doom
backgrounds and graphics..
~Sound
~-----
The sound FX in Depth Dwellers are not very good.. the back ground
track is terrible, repetetive and doesn't match the game..
~Playability
~-----------
Depth Dwellers is basically a poor imitation of Doom, and not really
worth your time.. I deleted it as soon as i finished playing it ..
The controls are not easy [on my gravis gamepad anyway] and there
are some annoying bugs as well.. My advice, stick too Doom! It kick's
ass, and poor imitations like this make it stand out even more as one
of the greatest games ever!
~Finally
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Check out the screen shots , so you can see for yourself what this
game is all about!!! Cya in our next great review!!!
` 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score
` ┌─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┐─────────
` │ │
` Graphics │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 55%
` Music │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 60%
` Sound FX │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 70%
` Detail │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 60%
` Challenge │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 70%
` FunFactor │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 70%
` Overall │▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ 65%
This was tested on 486dx 50mhz, 8 meg ram, Gravis Joystick , SB pro
and SVGA.
~The Shareware Version of this game is available on Cheet Sheets CD
~Volume One.