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A
promising game from the once promising Cherry
Software.
Coded
by Taboo, the style of game was to
be a cross between Flashback and Impossible Mission.
The
intro features a stunning 3D filled vector
car driving around with fluid movement (Reminiscent of the
Another World intro). Also it featured some haunting music by
Shogoon and some nice graphics to
match. I still remember being shocked watching the intro.
The
game actually came to a halt when the development team went their
own ways with other projects. According to the programmer, the
game was very close to completion, all that needed doing was the
level design.
A huge shame... Nothing was ever seen apart from the intro
sequence, but GTW is proud to show you part of what the
game was to look like. There
are now some screenshots of the game's main character moving around...
and its VERY Flashback style!... Taboo kindly handed over all
the game and its sources, but sadly these bits were lost a few
years back in a hard drive crash, and are currently being
recovered again from Taboo for GTW release.
GTW can
finally now confirm that sadly no working version of Zone of
Darkness is to be available in the near future, but we may yet
find something. We for now exclusively release the
Character test demo, which allows you to move a very good
Flashback character around a test screen... This gives an
indication of how the game was to roughly play.... Yes... a
Flashback clone!...
There are level graphics existing, which we are attempting to
find. Hopefully we will be bringing these to you soon, but the
game never really got to a playable state before it was
cancelled. It would have been no doubt a Flashback/Impossible
Mission clone.
The
level designs will hopefully reach us soon via more screenshots,
but we are in negotiation to find out more also from the
developers themselves... More soon we hope to get a big story on
this massive game (at least from the intro perspective :) )
Trivia
- Commodore Format once cocked up by proclaiming the intro to
be the introduction to a Seuck game called Road Course.
More to come soon we hope!...
Frank
(Additional
source credits - Kenz, Jazzcat,
Witold Bryndza)
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