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Dogs of War is a top down shooter in the same style as the arcade classic Commando. You control a Rambo like character through twelve long missions and you can choose in which order to do these. When you start the game, you go to a view of the Earth with hotspots for mission locations.. move the pointer over any of these and you get the mission description (which are often quite silly).
Accept a mission and it takes you to my favourite part of the game - the weapons shop. Here you have quite a range of weapons to choose from, but many of them are very much the same only with minor differences in range and firing speed. There are some really cool weapons like the almighty mini-gun and the bazookas though.
It's worth mentioning that it takes some time to finish this game since the levels are pretty large and you cannot save the game and you don't get any level passwords either. This means that if you die, you'll have to start over from scratch. It also means that if you plan on finishing this game, you'll have to finish it in one sitting.
The controls are very responsive and you always feel that the character does what you want him to. This is very good as the game can get pretty hard at times.
The most fun part of this game though is the two player option. Two players can play at the same time and if both players are good, this makes the game quite a bit easier. I used to have my brother buy all the bazooka stuff so I could spend all my money on the mini-gun and ammunition for it... hehe
The graphics are pretty good for a 1989 game. The graphics vary a lot in different levels and you go through all kinds of terrain from jungles to desert to graveyards and many other cool locations.
The enemies also vary a bit in appearance (for instance, the enemies in Asia wear rice hats) but they always act the same though.
There are some vehicles too which look pretty nice.. you can't use any of them though, they're all enemies (this is what you will need the bazooka for).
The game becomes very repetitive after playing through a few levels. This is because the enemies in all the levels act the same and the levels are very similar in how they play... of course some are longer than others and the difficulty level varies from level to level, but it's all very much the same from level to level. There are no boss fights either.
One cool thing about the levels though is that you'll have to go both up and to the sides. After you've been forced to walk up for quite a while, you'll be forced to walk to the left or right instead.
The music and sound effects do their job but nothing more. The intro screen track is pretty good though and probably something you'll remember for quite a while... I still remember it after all these years.
The sound effects are rather bland though... the weapons don't have much of a "punch" to them and you'll get very tired of the death screams of your enemies eventually.
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Varied level graphics with some interesting and pretty detailed locations (for a 1989 game that is).
Not excellent but not bad at all either.
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Cool intro screen tune and OK sound effects. The screaming will annoy you eventually though.
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Good controls and you'll need 'em.. this game can get pretty hard at times.
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A fun and frantic game, especially in two-player mode.
Does get very repetitive eventually and the lack of any password or save function, combined with the repetitive nature of this game, is the reason why it does not get a higher score. |
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