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This
is a title I first saw and my jaw dropped when I saw how great
it looked. This was back in about 1993 and the magazine was Commodore
Force, and they used to have a PD section which took a look at
various demos and disk magazines. One particular disk magazine
had a preview of "Fight For Freedom",
which was the very game I talk about now.
This
game was brought to my attention again by Richard Bayliss, who
also saw the game in the same place. It seems this great looking
little game never quite got finished.
It
is a kind of "Wizard Of Wor" clone, with flash graphics
and nice animations. However, from the preview.. things are lacking
and maps are quite shallow to run around in. There doesn't seem
to be a great deal to do apart from shoot each other. By pressing
some keys on the keyboard, you are able to select different weapons,
including a sheild to reflect bullets away.
There
seems to be some kind of Pacman style transporter in place, but
its not working in the preview.
But
was the game completed?... Well, sadly it wasn't and all that
remains it seems is to be about 4 levels and some unused graphics.
Jazzcat recently fixed up some remains which were sent to him,
which include some previously unseen graphics of the game's loading
screen and some other unused test graphics. This could possibly
be it. There was sadly no music. Check out the download for the
new additions.
Certainly,
this seems to be a simple game made for a German Disk Magazine,
which never got quite completed. A shame really. Hopefully we
will hear more from Peter himself very soon.
More
to come we hope...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Richard Bayliss, Hein, Jazzcat)
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