Most Graphically Impressive Amiga Game?

[alan cummings]

Shadow of the Beast is remembered for looking absolutely beautiful, way better than any other computer action-based game around at the time. But it was released relatively early in the game's lifespan. Surely there were some better looking games produced after? Or even before?

I want to check out some of the good-looking games I missed on WinUAE so I would like to hear opinions on which Amiga games (classic or AGA) were the prettiest please.

[ervin]

Shadow of the Beast's sequels had great graphics, actually.

Lionheart is absolutely gorgeous, both artistically and technically.

Elfmania for the same reasons (although it's not a particularly great game).

Agony was very pretty indeed - so colourful (and really quite relaxing for a shooter).

Disposable Hero looks stunning.

Gods has a unique style all of its own.

Flashback is beautiful, just beautiful.

[df0notfound]

Killing Game Shows reflections make the megadrive version looks like shit

Mercenary 3 for its scale

[Suizid]

Turrican 2. Gorgeous.

Banshee AGA.

[matt0]

ATR (All Terrain Racing) - wasn't anything special technically but the sprite and tile art was lovely.

Overkill (AGA only) - looked ropey in screenshots but seen moving it had some impressive scrolling effects and neat explosions, and it was very, very fast...

Odysey - decent stab at a Metroid style platformer, again, nothing to write home about technically but really nice pixel art.

Then there's Walker, Silkworm, Chaos Engine, Heimdall 2... (again, more for the art then technical reasons)

[Meh]

Brian the Lion.

[Yod@]

I always loved the graphics in Jim Power, really great parallax.

http://hol.abime.net/798

And Lionheart and Overkill AGA which have already been mentioned.

[NonShinyGoose]

Super Stardust - it made my Amiga 600 feel all shiny and new.

Games like Quake and Wipeout 2097 were released on the format too.

[Meh]

Super Stardust - it made my Amiga 600 feel all shiny and new.

Games like Quake and Wipeout 2097 were released on the format too.

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Expanded A4000, you mean.

[stefmcd]

Darkseed was impressive.

Gods and Walker stand out for me as did First Samurai (?)

I remember being impressed by Syndicate.

[ervin]

Gods and Walker stand out for me as did First Samurai (?)

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Ah yes, First Samurai.

The waterfalls in that game were gorgeous.

[df0notfound]

exiles lovely pixelly objects bouncing about and particle physics

[Unofficial Who]

Alien Breed 3D even though it's horribly dated now.

I'd love to see those levels running on a modern engine.

Stardust was amazing at the time, and Guardian (when the screen wasn't too busy) was impressive.

[Couk]

I remember being impressed by Magic Pockets (on the ST mind).

[christaylor]

Gods has a unique style all of its own.

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Well, apart from every other game by the Bitmap Brothers.

[cassidy]

Dragons Lair the 6 disc version and Rocket Ranger

[Suizid]

Beneath a Steel Sky, all of the Monkey Island series, and Simon The Sorceror all have beautifully drawn 2D backdrops and animated sprites.

[Couch Corpse]

Unreal did some impressive stuff.

[Unofficial Who]

Frontier was pretty impressive with the right setup. (I got good results running it on a CD32 with an SX-1 expansion and 8 meg of fast ram.)

I used to be impressed with the sunrise/set sequences in Damocles.

[mwaawm]

I always loved the graphics in Jim Power, really great parallax.

http://hol.abime.net/798

And Lionheart and Overkill AGA which have already been mentioned.

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just clicked teh link and by heck that Jim sure got around a fair bit never realised he was available on so many formats, When i stumbled upon the ST rom last year I thought it was one of those rare/niche commercial games done by some demo coding group or other.

[Yod@]

Actually I see there's no mention of the SNES version on that page, I'll have to get that amended.

EDIT: Fixed now, thanks to Cody's lightning-fast editing!

[DJ_Mike]

Speris Legacy for it's wonderful prettiness

Kid Chaos for very smooth parallax scrolling

Mr. Nutz

Elfmania (those animated backgrounds were impressive for an Amiga)

M;.

[Gommy]

Prettiest is sort of hard to define.

But, I loved the look of Zool at the time.

And Powermonger was a game i really enjoyed with a good style.

[alan cummings]

Dragons Lair the 6 disc version and Rocket Ranger

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I find the Readysoft games (particularly computer conversions of) look particularly crap these days. Jerky, jaggily pixelated and muddy. I'm not really sure how I thought they looked like "real cartoons" when I was a kid.

I will second Rocket Ranger, and Cinemaware in general. I've recently been playing Antheads which isn't a great example, as it's a bit poo. But those graphics were drawn with a certain amount of style, which means they look ok today, although very low-resolution.

[alan cummings]

Unreal did some impressive stuff.

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Yeah I kind of remember that game - i only had a dodgy cracked copy which hardly ever loaded, but I remember it had a unique sort of into-the-screen bit which used a graphic style I hadn't seen before.

[Fondue]

As mentioned before, Agony definitely sticks in the old noggin.

[SeanR]

no screenshots?

[Yod@]

Tsk, feeling lazy today, Sean?

http://hol.abime.net/3209

[SeanR]

Tsk, feeling lazy today, Sean?

http://hol.abime.net/3209

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Oh that?

From the company that churned out:

Baal

Blood Money

Menace

you get the picture...

[roberthazelby]

Sword of Sodan - Massive sprites and beautifully drawn graphics. The game was pretty simple, as it was a case of walk forwards and attack things, but it looked stunning for the time.

IK+ - Wonderfully animated sprites, coupled with gorgeous goings-on in the background.