Amiga Format: Coming Attractions, November 1993

Posted on 01. Feb, 2009 by Rob in Amiga Format, Cuttings, Gaming, Technology

Join Rob Mead as he negotiates the up ‘n’ coming games releases with greater dexterity and flair than Graham Taylor and David Owen combined…

Revolution’s Steel Sky

Lure Of The Temptress programmers Revolution Software are set to wow us all over again with their latest graphic adventure, Beneath A Steel Sky.

Set for release by Virgin Interactive (081 960 2255) in November, Beneath A Steel Sky sucks you into a highly realistic universe populated with murderous guards, a robot with a penchant for self-destruction and a mysterious figure called the Overman.

Revolution Software believes it has a world-beating game on its hands thanks to a highly-developed game engine, a strong storyline and breathtaking visuals – conceived by DC Comics artist Dave Gibbons.

There’ll be a 256-colour version for Amiga A1200 owners too.

Racey Virtual Reality

Take control of the world’s top rally cars in the latest Virtual Reality experience from Europress Software. A follow-up to Lombard RAC Rally, the new game puts you behind the wheel of porky-mobiles from Ford, Lancia and Subaru. You are then sent spinning around some of Britain’s toughest rallying circuits. Based on the gruelling Network Q RAC event, Rally also features digitised video footage, with Europress promising an unrivalled 3D racing experience.

Rally is released in November, price £29.99 for 256-colour versions for the Amiga A1200 and Amiga A4000. Keep an eye out for the definitive Amiga Format review.

James Pond 3

The eagerly awaited sequel to James Pond 2 finally arrives on the Amiga A1200 and Amiga CD32 in November.

James Pond 3 (Millennium) finds the fishy hero on a lunar mission to rescue teo FI5H agents who’ve been kidnapped by Dr. Maybe. The game features 112 frenzied levels filled with pantomime cows, fire-breathing chickens and tricky puzzle elements.

Both Amiga A1200 and Amiga CD32 versions will include a new music soundtrack and digitised voice-overs. The Amiga A1200 version costs £29.99, but expect to pay another £5 for the game on CD.

Elf Maniacs

New from Renegade for the pre-Christmas rush is Elfmania. This beat-em-up aims to avoid the brutality of traditional beat-em-ups like Street Fighter 2 or Body Blows. Illari Kuittinen of developers Terramarque, says:

We are trying to make this softer than other beat-em-ups. There is more fantasy, more jokes and little touches

But Elfmania will have a tough fight on its hands as it comes head-to-head with Virgin’s Mortal Kombat this festive season. Ilari says:

Amiga owners are very aware of what they’re buying, they will appreciate our technical excellence

Underwater Action

Thalamus has plenty of nautical action lined up for you this month with the release of SUB (Strategic Underwater Battles).

Peoplekind has contructed elaborate cities on the sea-bed after an apocalyptic conflict. It is now dependent on mining and the whims of ruthless sea pirates for its survival. You have to build a succesful trading empire which can help sustain Peoplekind’s precarious existence and ensure it survives the imminent arrival of a second, and this time potentially fatal, cataclysm.

Pitched sea battles, underwater exploration and cut-throat deals with unscrupulous rivals are yours in SUB, available at the end of October, price £29.99 from Kompart.

Jack The Ripper Rides Again

Programmer Ezra Sidan is probably most famous for his Universal Military Simulator series, but he has recently turned to the story of London’s most famous serial killer for inspiration.

Jack The Ripper is a graphic adventure set in the dingy back alleys of Victorian London where a spate of violent and grisly murders has taken place. As one of Scotland Yard’s finest, it’s your job to piece together often contradictory pieces of evidence and track down the killer before he strikes again.

Jack The Ripper is released by Mirage in October, price £39.99. There are no plans yet for a separate Amiga A1200 version.

Aliens invade Warwickshire

Codemasters will be hoping to turn its rivals green with envy this autumn with the release of Cosmic Spacehead on our fave games machine.

Cosmic is the cutesy hero of Codemasters’ latest arcade adventure, which follows the little guy’s problematic voyage to Earth. No-one on his home planet, Linoleum, believed he’d visited our planet so he has to go back and collect some kind of memento to show his disbelieving pals. The problem is he has no spaceship and only one Linodollar to his name.

The action takes place across four different locations – Linoleum, Detroitica, a Space Station and Earth – linked by 32 sub-games that Cosmic has to complete.

Cosmic Spacehead is set for release in November, priced £25.99 and features all the cartoony graphics and lovable characters you expect from the chaps behind Dizzy’s platforming adventures.

Lorry load of trouble

Core Design are unloading their latest cartoon-style hero on the Amiga in November with the release of Bubba ‘n’ Stix.

Bubba is a floppy-haired, baseball cap-wearing truck driver who’s been kidnapped by a bunch of alien reprobates. Things go from bad to worse when Bubba is accidentally dumped on a hostile planet awaiting the aliens’ return.

Enter Stix, a leaving, breathing piece of wood (oh this is getting silly now!), who befriends Bubba and helps him out of all kinds of perilous situations.

Bubba ‘n’ Stix is a 2D platformer featuring six horizontally-scrolling levels, cartoony graphics and visual gags galore. The game’s released in November, price £25.99.

This article originally appeared in the November 1993 issue of Amiga Format.

Tags: amiga, dave gibbons, dc comics

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