are we drowning in 80s titles? I wasn't aware of this.
This actually looks pretty cool to me, reminds me of stuff like Bio Menace and Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage on the PC back in the early 90s.
The guru meditation screen sold me on it lol, i just need a vita version
It's obviously an amiga inspired game as the guru meditation screen clearly shows(the black screen with a red sentence, it used to appear on crashes)
(but first there's a c64-like loading screen...)
also as the article says:
"HUNTDOWN is developed by a Swedish team founded by Tommy Gustafsson and Andreas Rehnberg. They are passionate about arcade games and retro games and grew up in the 80s, feeding Commodore-computers with cassette tapes and floppy disks while trying to do some magic."
so since the (commodore)amiga is a 16bit computer from the 1985 we could say it's inspired to 16bit games from the 80's
I think it looks mainly inspired by Robocop 2(that's from 1991 though)
with some nice touches from metal slug
Robocop 3 in 1991 on the 16 bit amiga in less than 2.5mb was:
-true mouse + keyboard 3d fps/tps(with the possibility to kill civilians)
-3d fighting game, either first person and third person:
-3d Flying
-Open world driving, you can see the gps(in 1991!) with part of the city map in the low left corner of the second screen.
-in-engine 3d cutscenes
Imo robocop 3 is without doubts the most advanced game of all time, other than a truly awesome game, too bad very few people know it.
Most Amiga cracked game (be it Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 games) had that decrunch loading part (game was prety often "compressed" in order to fit in the cracktro). Also the color palette and detail is much more reminiscent of what an AGA Amiga could do than what an Amiga 500 could. Call it me beeing nitpicky, but the fact it's so obviously inspired by games like Metal Slug, Gunforce, Undercover cops and co leads to a mix of 90s European amiga scene with a very heavy Irem influence to boot.The guru meditation screen sold me on it lol, i just need a vita version
It's obviously an amiga inspired game as the guru meditation screen clearly shows(the black screen with a red sentence, it used to appear on crashes)
(but first there's a c64-like loading screen...)
also as the article says:
"HUNTDOWN is developed by a Swedish team founded by Tommy Gustafsson and Andreas Rehnberg. They are passionate about arcade games and retro games and grew up in the 80s, feeding Commodore-computers with cassette tapes and floppy disks while trying to do some magic."
so since the (commodore)amiga is a 16bit computer from the 1985 we could say it's inspired to 16bit games from the 80's
I think it looks mainly inspired by Robocop 2(that's from 1991 though)
with some nice touches from metal slug
Most Amiga cracked game (be it Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 games) had that decrunch loading part (game was prety often "compressed" in order to fit in the cracktro). Also the color palette and detail is much more reminiscent of what an AGA Amiga could do than what an Amiga 500 could. Call it me beeing nitpicky, but the fact it's so obviously inspired by games like Metal Slug, Gunforce, Undercover cops and co leads to a mix of 90s European amiga scene with a very heavy Irem influence to boot.
But I may be the only one to see it
huntdown.com
