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robdood

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The only thing I didnt really like about it was that there were too many instant-death scenarios.

Though there are so many cool atmospheric bits!! :(

Swinging in the cage to break free!

Crash landing at that swimming pool with all the weird looking alien chicks!

..and lets not forget the amazing drinking sound effects in the opening sequence :)

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JoeK

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I loved the game. It had a style entirely of its own.

Far too easy, but it was certainly one of the most atmospheric and interesting games of its type.

Anyone ever glimpse the 'official' sequel to the game, which was going to come out on the Mega-CD? I don't know if it ever saw a release, but it looked great (and I'm not talking about Flashback here...).

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I've been playing it recently on UAEX on my chipped Xbox. I even went out and bought an arcade style joystick because I found the Xbox digital pad a bit crap for controlling it (I highly recommend one of these for most emulated games).

I'm just up to the bit where you've got to shoot the big rock out from underneath the resevoir, it then floods the cavern that you're in, but you can cross the resevoir. Great atmosphere, beautiful graphic design.

Oh and I've been playing Flashback too. I much prefer the beautiful intro of Another World to the short, but action packed intro for Flashback.

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Its a quality game, I remember sitting there for ages watching the cage swaying to and fro before realising that I was meant to do something, alien guy was cool, never did have any idea what he said to you sounded like 'my sallubonne'

The setup a shield and then fire through it setup was quite nice aswell.

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Cthulhu

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Game complete at the fifteen minute mark - Awesome!

Is that including animated sequences and spending 5 minutes swinging back and forth in the cage to squish the guard guy?

I was so excited about getting this game... And the Packaging was fantastic, if I remember correctly. For the Amiga version at least. I think it was one of those that suffered from "Gigantic Box" syndrome...

edit - Ooooh, and the fantastic crumbling noise the charred skeletons made when they finally disintergrated...

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Cthulhu

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I didn't think atmosphere had been invented in those days.

All depends on the person sitting in front of it. Heh. The big black Lion-thing scared me. I genuinely wanted to escape from it.

Most atmospheric game from my Childhood? Shadow of the Beast. It scared me half to death, probably due to the spooky-spooky music. I've got it in rom-format for my Amiga emulator, but I refuse to play it, because I know I'll just wreck one of the most important games in my Childhood for myself.

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i enjoyed the section where you ended up stuck in the tank thingy in the arena and just stabbing buttons wildly thus letting of a missile that destroyed part of the crowd.

I quite liked those slug type things at the start that would flip up and scratch you on the leg.

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Yeah, I'd forgot about that bit at the start.  What a game.

I'm sure everyone will tell me Flashback was better (and in many ways it was), but I always preferred Another World because of the unique atmosphere & feel it had.

I'm with you mate. Another World (Or Out of This World as it was known in the US) is one hell of a game, far better than Flashback (or its previously mentioned, lesser-known, Mega-CD only sequel - Heart of the Alien [not, as mistaken above, Heart of Darkness, which was a mediocre - but nicely animated - Playstation and PC platformer], which pitted you as the alien friend from Another World). Funnily enough, when I played it again a few months ago I couldn't get much further than the cage scene though - guess my intellect's dropped a few notches since when I was ten <_<

The ending was great - the whole end sequence with you crawling, plus the actual final cut-scene replete with cheesy music.

Definitely one of my finest gaming experiences of the early nineties; wish I'd gotten around to finishing the sequel, just so I could find out what happened to the main character (Was his name Lester? Memory fails...)

Oh, I had it on the Atari ST(e), by the way.

Atari rules, Amiga sucks!!111oneoneone

[Okay, so the Amiga version was a bit better, graphically... and didn't it have an option to zoom the camera or something? But still, the ST was one hell of a machine. And stuff always sounded better on the STe... even if technically the sound-chip was inferior to that of the Amigas...]

Ah, whatever happened to Delphine, eh? Did they make any other titles after Fade to Black? Ah, they were such a great company...

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Yeah, I'd forgot about that bit at the start.  What a game.

I'm sure everyone will tell me Flashback was better (and in many ways it was), but I always preferred Another World because of the unique atmosphere & feel it had.

I'm with you mate. Another World (Or Out of This World as it was known in the US) is one hell of a game, far better than Flashback (or its previously mentioned, lesser-known, Mega-CD only sequel - Heart of the Alien [not, as mistaken above, Heart of Darkness, which was a mediocre - but nicely animated - Playstation and PC platformer], which pitted you as the alien friend from Another World). Funnily enough, when I played it again a few months ago I couldn't get much further than the cage scene though - guess my intellect's dropped a few notches since when I was ten <_<

The ending was great - the whole end sequence with you crawling, plus the actual final cut-scene replete with cheesy music.

Definitely one of my finest gaming experiences of the early nineties; wish I'd gotten around to finishing the sequel, just so I could find out what happened to the main character (Was his name Lester? Memory fails...)

Oh, I had it on the Atari ST(e), by the way.

Atari rules, Amiga sucks!!111oneoneone

[Okay, so the Amiga version was a bit better, graphically... and didn't it have an option to zoom the camera or something? But still, the ST was one hell of a machine. And stuff always sounded better on the STe... even if technically the sound-chip was inferior to that of the Amigas...]

Ah, whatever happened to Delphine, eh? Did they make any other titles after Fade to Black? Ah, they were such a great company...

They created the Moto Racer games.

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Yes cracking atmosphere for the time, disd anyone finish it, I think I did.

*SPOILER FOR A 11/12 YEAR OLD GAME*

did you fly off on a dragon or something in the end movie as I'd like to think I finished this game, it being one of my favourites ot the time.

*SPOILER FOR A 11/12 YEAR OLD GAME*

Couldnt be doing with flashback, similiar animation but to conveluted gameplay to be a sequel of kinds (if I remember correctly).

Nice graphics though.

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I can still remember the code for the last level: LFCK. Brilliant firefightage, and the most incredible and harsh ending fight and sequence I ever played (why can't he crawl faster? HURRY! THE! FU... dead). Regardless of how bad the game itself was supposed to be, I still want to know what happens to the characters. Where can I find Heart of the Alien? Should I just download it?

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I can't believe you guys think this game is so easy and short. I mean I was young at the time but it certainly didn't seem easy and took me a while to complete.

It was AWESOME though :D

Nothing like on rails Dragon's Lair either. It was a proper run around shooty game with puzzles. You obviously haven't played Dragon's 'choose a-b-c between scenes' Lair if you think they're similar :)

-J

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choduk

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Nostalic image time:

mega1.jpg

Another%20World.jpg

outofthisworld.gif

More images here

As I say, I'm playing through it now and it's nails. You've got to time your shields, shots and blasts just right to win a firefight with any more than one alien.

I've just got past the bit where you get caught again and have to kick that alien in the nads before running for your gun, rolling, turning and shooting the crap out of him. I've swam back through the caves and shot an electricity line out. Don't know what to do next, the aliens are rolling these glowing grenades at me.

Code: LAEA if anyone is interested.

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