Software House - Croteam

Approx. price-20 bucks!!!!

• Minimum requirements - PIII, Win 95-98, 64 megs ram, 500 megs hard drive space, 8X cd rom, DX 7.0
• Test System - AMD Thunderbird 800, 128 megs pc-133 ram, Radeon 64 meg DDR vivo, SB live value, 20x CD-ROM, Microsoft Precision Pro joystick. Win 98, Direct X 8.
   

The Intro - Earths colonized planets are being attacked, one by one, by some kind of spawning monsters from another dimension. You are Sam 'Serious' Stone, a warrior in countless battles, who is sent back in time with the ancient Time-Lock relic, to prevent this from ever happening. The game play takes place mostly in ancient Egypt. It will have you collecting artifacts to help you in your bloody quest. However, the odds are that after a while, you really won't care about the plot anyway. The gameplay is easy as pie, but just as tasty.

Gameplay - Enemies galore! Countless amount of monsters spawn out of midair, all rushing to attack you at once. There are only about 17 or 18 enemies total, which is one thing that was annoying me. The enemies remind me of the days of Doom and Quake. The run at you mindlessly, biting, scratching, clawing, and throwing fireballs. The run and gun action is surprisingly fun, and cannot be touched for the low-low price of $15 to $20. However, it is quite short, and I beat the whole game in one weekend. It took me about 9 hours at most.

The weapons, for the most part, are pretty standard. You will get a knife (which you will never use) some six-shooters, a shot gun, double shotgun, missile launcher, grenade launcher, Tommy-gun and minigun. The two guns which stand out, are the laser, which is a nod to the old X-wing games, and the Canon. This is one, fun, gun. (hey that rhymed! I'm a poet and I don't even know it! Whoa, that rhymed too. Weird.) You can launch huge cannonballs at your enemies! These babies can plow right through the poor bastards and not even get slowed down. My record for enemies killed with a single shot is about 25. Yeah, I know!