Género: acción
Perspectiva: Arriba hacia abajo
Visual: Desplazamiento 2D
Jugabilidad: tirador
Ajuste: Ciencia Ficción / Futurista
Publicado por: Equipo 17 Software Limited
Desarrollado por: Equipo 17 Software Limited
Publicado: 1994
Plataforma: DOS
Tower Assault es el tercer episodio de Alien Breed. Esta es una vista del juego de acción desde arriba, que tiene un modo de dos jugadores en cooperación. Tiene lugar en un universo de ciencia ficción de horror: el jugador es un marine espacial enfrentado a criaturas alienígenas hostiles confinadas en los laberintos de una colonia espacial.
Cuando la colonia minera de Azarin 2E lanzó señales de socorro incesantes, tardó varias semanas en llegar al acorazado planeta Herona. La formación de buques en el campo fue diezmada por los sistemas de defensa del centro de investigación militar. Los agentes de la tripulación única rescatada, Jordania y Nash, reciben la misión de infiltrarse en las torres gigantes de la base e iniciar el procedimiento de autodestrucción ...
El juego esta vez programado por Stefan Boberg, (de hecho, los programadores anteriores se acreditan en el manual del juego para el concepto, no han trabajado en este aspecto). los gráficos son obra de un joven de 16 años en el momento del lanzamiento del juego, llamado Tony Senghore. Allister Brimble está de nuevo en los controles de la música y su parte del juego. Su madre, Lynette Reade, se encargó de la voz femenina del juego, al igual que las partes anteriores del juego, y John se encargó de allardice que gráficos 3D.
El motor del juego es una versión mejorada y reproducir una que se utilizó en Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues. Uno de los cambios más importantes es el establecimiento de varias salidas para cada nivel, lo que hace que ABTA sea mucho menos lineal que sus predecesores. El texto en la parte posterior del cuadro indica que hay más de 276 maneras diferentes de terminar el juego.
Otras mejoras incluyen un modo 'Retiro', que permite al jugador disparar su arma y retroceder al mismo tiempo, pero a una velocidad reducida.
There are differences between the versions of the game that came out on the main formats of the time.
The ECS version in 32 colors, 128 colors AGA version and the PC version in 256 colors.
Concerning the Amiga version, if extracted and decompresses all files in the play of the disk images, it is over 20MB. Alien Breed: Tower Assault is a huge game in terms of program size (as well as playing surface to go).
The game automatically recognizes the presence of the AGA chipset, and takes into account, producing more sounds and displaying improved graphics on the Amiga 1200 and 4000.
The Amiga version is the first release, and the game is over three disks DD 3.5 "protected in its original version (Floppy disks are protected by Rob Northen Protected DOS format each diskette uses long tracks composed of 12 sectors per track, which offers a higher capacity of 980 KB per disk). The pirated version is the standard AmigaDOS format and it takes 4 disks instead of 3.
It is also noted that, once installed on the hard drive, whether in ECS or AGA version executable file each version check if the game is launched from a hard disk or from floppy disks. If they detect the launch of the game from a hard disk, then the disk '1' original is required for verification of the key RN PDOS format.
There are two revisions of the program, version 1.0, and the latest, 1.1 (the indication is given on the original boot disk 1 block). The game requires 1MB of RAM minimum on A500.
The game was preserved by Softpres (or SPS for short) under the number 0279 for version 1.0, and 2331 for version 1.1.
The music of the ending sequence is completely buggy on the ECS version of the game, and this on the 2 revisions of the software. This is a programming bug because the file is intact and positioned as the first file on the floppy disk 2. The AGA version does not have this problem.
This version of the game was released on a single CD-ROM, which contains the entire game, before which a long introductory FMV sequence is played, which was quite unusual for the time. The full version of the game Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues in AGA version is also on the CD.
Tower Assault The game was released in two versions to PC: a floppy disk version and a CD-ROM version. They were converted by East Point Software development company.
The PC CD-ROM version was released in early 1995 and is identical to the Amiga version.
Note also that the PC version, floppy and CD-ROM is the only one with all the game files in good condition.
The PC version requires at least a 25-I386 SX PC with 500kb of conventional memory, a graphics card VGA / SVGA, 2MB of RAM EMS / XMS; Ideally, the game will run best on a configuration PC I386 DX-33 with a Soundblaster card or Gravis Ultrasound, see the PC Speaker, and a joystick.
The game is not physically protected as amiga version, but it uses a protection code booklet, printed on a black background, to prevent their copying.
The CD-ROM version is strictly identical to the CD32 version and contains the FMV sequences. The only notable difference is the absence of Alien Breed II game, the latter never having been converted on PC, and it is absent from the CD-ROM directory, although it is mentioned its presence on the box.