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A desperate woman tried to flee the City, but her helicopter crashed in the middle of nowhere, in a desert referred to as the Gap. She dies, but her young son Robert survived the crash and was found by a tribe of desert natives, who accepted him and brought him up as one of their own. Soon he forgot the city life and learned the skills of hunting, but also proved himself to be quite a handyman. All seemed tranquil until one night men in uniform came to the tribe, in a search from somebody who didn’t belong there. Somebody, who was born in the City, but lived in the Gap, they were looking for you – Robert. To save the tribe, for which the enforcer in charge threatened to kill off, you came out of hiding. That didn’t help much, for as soon as they flew off with you, they blasted the tribe off the face of the planet. With the only family you knew gone and with you being transported out of the only world you knew you have to survive yet another crash (what is it with you and helicopters crashing?) to gain the little freedom a hunted man can claim. Now you’re accompanied by your robot pal Joey (whom you created yourself) and obviously aided by a higher force, which can be quite deadly for people trying to get in your way (as one of your pursuers will soon find out).
As you can see, the plot is very thick and it is therefore well worth playing the game, just to make heads or tails of it. If there would be a movie made after this plot it would be right up there with other great Sci-Fi titles such as “Mad Max”, “Blade Runner”, “Water World”, “I, Robot” and similar. The dialogues are mostly cynical which fits the post modern dystopia.
There was more then one version made for the Amiga, because they wanted to make full use of it's graphic capacity (which this version did). Besides great graphics the game brings us smooth animation and a reasonable amount of details. The music score is also simply brilliant. It’s well worth the name Soundtrack, because it does sound monumental enough (and you wouldn’t mind the slightest bit if it played in the background of movies like Star Wars or Indiana Jones). The game interface is intuitive enough to enjoy the game without having to read countless manual on how to do what.
All in all the gameplay is not really complicated, the puzzles are challenging, but mostly logical (so you won’t have to look for the craziest possible solution) and you don’t have to fear that every single mistake will end up in a frustrating death. So the gaming experience is superb and this game is defiantly a gem in its own right, capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the best of adventured Sierra or LucasArts ever put on the market!
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The graphics are as realistically drawn as it can be expected of a Sci-Fi futuristic distopic game.
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They make you wanna simply record them and listen to them alone (without even playing the game).
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Challenging, intriguing, with just enough humour and cynism to take it beyond the storytelling of a simple game!
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Get Amiga Forever with pre-installed Workbench, games, applications, and much more.
It also contains the original Amiga ROM-files, 100% legally!
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