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- BIOFORGE by ORIGIN
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- Animated Adventure
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- Reviewed by Lu Richardson
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- Marvellous! Brilliant! Just watching the intro gives you the
- screaming heebee-jeebies... The actual game is even worse!
-
- This is a very original product, with most excellent graphics,
- sounds and animation and also tremendous atmosphere. The thing
- which I expect will grab you, though, is the action. The plot, too,
- will interest you immensely.
-
- It all starts, as so many games, with you locked up in a cell - and
- you are a very strange character this time. Plus, locked in with
- you, is a murderous robot. You have to fight it before you can
- start doing anything at all, and that's when you discover the
- interface.
-
- As in all those wonderful games, such as Alone in the Dark and
- Ecstasia and their like, it's all very well - but can you manage
- your 3-D hero? They not only stretch your mind, but your fingers
- too (in this game, you press C for combat then CTRL or ALT plus the
- numbers of the keypad). And the perspective doesn't help at all;
- you might rush in to fight for your life only to find that you are
- heartily punching fresh air, while your opponent never, never misses.
-
- However, if in the first scene you manage by mistake to kick the
- robot into touch, you can proceed to explore your environment.
- That's where it starts getting interesting; work out how to get out
- of there and how to find more equipment and more info, if you can
- stay alive long enough. The problems presented to you are novel,
- to say the least, and enormously satisfying to solve.
-
- Wear an apron while playing this game. The blood splashes
- everywhere! Every room you enter presents you with horrendous
- possibilities of sudden death, so you have to be both smart and
- fast. Doom meets Alone in the Dark, only more so...
-
- As you will have gathered, my only hangup, and this is no criticism
- of the game but rather a measure of my own inadequacy, is the
- difficulty of managing the movements of the character. Unless you
- can manoeuvre him with great precision, you get very dead in no time
- at all. I invariably found myself pressing the wrong keys and
- missing the target, and biting the dust within seconds - something
- which rather delays you. If I won, my poor creature went about
- dragging his limbs rather pitifully, thank goodness you can press D
- and repair the damage!
-
- Still, if you can make any headway at all you'll find that this is
- an utterly fascinating game which everyone (or almost everyone) will
- enjoy. Plenty of atmosphere, plenty of action and plenty of
- intractable puzzles to solve - and not a dull moment. Why, it
- hasn't been out five minutes and people are already screaming for
- help! Always a good sign, that. Closet yourself with your computer
- and take up the challenge, you'll love it.
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- Text Copyright (c) 1995 Eurowave Leisure Ltd.
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