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Uropa²
Review by Ben Gaunt
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Uropa² is a combination 3D isometric and 3D light sourced vector game which is
based on the moon of Uropa. Battle the evil Kapones and seek out the mastermind
of their operations!
The Plot
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During the interstellar wars against the alien invasion forces, a vast majority
of earths colonies sustained major damage to their structures and defence
systems. The invasion force was repelled at great human loss, the earth
colonies were slow to develop to their former civilized position.
To prevent such wide spread destruction from being forced upon the Earth
colonies, they banded together with mother Earth to form a peace keeping force.
This peace keeping force is known as Intercorp.
Intercorp is the military arm of the Earth Colonies and is funded by a user pay
policy. Any action that Intercorp engages in, is paid for by the colony or
colonies making the request.
Intercorp is structured into three main Task Forces. The Central Task Force is
made up of Humans and Intelligent droids known as Tekites. The Humans are the
command and both Humans and Tekites provide the main attack and counter attack
forces of Intercorp. The Key Task Force is made up of intelligent droids known
as Kapones. The Kapones provide ongoing defence at major or important
installations owned by the Earth colonies. The third section is the Centurion
Task Force. It numbers 100 of the elite Tekites. You are the newest addition
to the Centurion Taskforce.
The Centurions are a covert strike force which are mainly used in covert
intelligence operations or tactical strikes against enemy installations prior to
the Central Task Force arrival.
The colony of Uropa² is based on a small moon revolving around the planet of
Jupiter, at one time known as Europa. The moon was almost destroyed during the
wars, but due to the rich resources on the moon, the colonists re-built the moon
and renamed it Uropa². The moon is situated on the outer reaches of the Earth
controlling zone and because of its strategic position, has been set up as a
major link in communications and detection of hostile fleets entering the zone.
There are twelve bases, scattered across Uropa² , which are networked together
providing a unique system of integration. Each base is capable of space and
sub-space surveillance at different detection levels. Only the central
communication base, Castalia, is capable of direct contact with Intercorp.
Uropa² detection systems were placed under the control of human colonists.
These colonists have no weapons or defence training and as a result of their
peaceful nature, the protection of the colony was charged to Key Task Force of
Intercorp.
From suspected reasons of greed, the Key Task Force on Uropa² has rebelled
against Intercorp and has gained command of the moon. Communications with the
moon have ceased and the fate of the colonists is unknown. The Kapones are
acting as mercenaries for one of Intercorps interstellar enemies and have been
tasked with the destruction of Uropa².
On with the review
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The first thing that hits you when booting the game is the graphics, there very
smart and easily of a commercial standard. Now if your around 20-30 the next
thing that you can't help but noticing is the 3D isometric view.
Remember those classic spectrum games like Fairlight, Knightlore and a whole
host of games published by `Ultimate - Play The Game'. Well thats the sort of
view you get but with many more colours and jazzed up gameplay.
The game takes the form of missions that have to be completed to finish a
section of the game and advance to the next mission. A mission may have you
doing many things from making a raid on an enemy base to rescueing hostages.
The game is split into two main theatres, below the planet and on the planet
surface. When below the planet you have the 3D isometric view as described
above and when on the planet surface you have a 3D light sourced vector view
much like a flight sim.
The below planet part has you controlling a droid that can hover round the
various rooms searching objects for things that might help you in your quest.
You can also use various object within the rooms like teleporters, switches and
computers.
Your droid is a sort of hovering R2D2 but with a bit more speed and thankfuly a
better arsenal, even if its still rather puny to start with. Through out the
many rooms you will come accross many objects from money to extra weapons and
key cards. You will even come accross colonists that need rescuing, and belive
me they need help as there is nothing they like more than walking in front of a
armed enemy droid and geting themselfs blown away in a cloud of blood and guts.
This part of the game could easily become tedious but the puzzle solving and
action is just about the correct mixture and the whole game runs along at a
steady pace.
The above planet part has you piloting a craft not much unlike Luke Skywalkers
hover speeded in Star Wars - A New Hope. This part of the game is basicly used
when you need to travel from one base to another but don't let that fool you
here is probably where most people will find plenty of action. While on the
surface you will find there are plenty of enemy craft just desperate for a fight
and who are we to deny them ;)
While on the surface you can find some object to help in your quest much in the
same way as below the planet. Though I must admit all I've found so far are
some extra weapons for the craft.
The graphics for this part of the game are very good and on slower Amigas the
detail level can be turned down (or up on faster Amigas) so as to keep the frame
rate at an acceptably rate.
The only bad thing I can say about the game is its a bit tough at first and
maybe the authors should have put an easy few missions in to start with ;) But
then again it might be my crap gameplay!
This game is a shareware classic so what are you waiting for go download it now!
(yes I know its a big game to dl 6*800k files, but its worth it!)
For more infomation on the game contact -
Stephen J.Smith: steve@ph4227b.jcu.edu.au
Paul N.Goulding: paul@ultra.net.au
Website -
http://ph4227b.jcu.edu.au
Available from -
Aminet in games/misc
and on Channel X BBS +44 (0)181 943 5187 (24 hrs)
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