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Amiga Game - Hired Guns
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05-08-2007 11:36AM#1This morning I felt like booting up one of the old Amiga harddrive files from a few years back. Let's try Hired Guns.
This fantastic futuristic Dungeon Master clone had a lot going for it back in 1993. Developed by DMA design (the same crowd behind lemmings) it took advantage of the beefier Amigas if available - 2Mb.
The music is pretty good and the game layout well thought out.
Getting into the game, I first decide on a 1,2,3 or 4 player game. Each player's progress can be seen through a separate window. I pick a single player game and build up the team like as any other Dungeon crawl.
So off on our first mission, a easy start - you can move the scanner to view the other islands and higher threats.
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After picking a landing site, your team gets into operation starting outdoors. Geniunely a creepy game with thunder and lightning. Game has auto-mapping and you can split up the team all four ways.
You move around in a step block format like Dungeon Master / EOB. The team members frequently comment on their situation - "It's cold" - "I thought I heard something".
The levels have multiple floors - I remember move those white crates (see the scrshot with stacks of them in the distance) - can be used to block doorways or reach impassible areas.
Gawd! I think I want to complete this game!0 -
This is an absolute classic game. I spent an entire summer playing this with a few mates. I'd gotten one of those adapters so you could use 4 joysticks in dynablaster so I got could use of it with Hired guns to boot!
I'll never forget that character select screen either although a lot of the choices were rubbish.... 0 -
LoGiE wrote:This is an absolute classic game. I spent an entire summer playing this with a few mates. I'd gotten one of those adapters so you could use 4 joysticks in dynablaster so I got could use of it with Hired guns to boot! I'll never forget that character select screen either although a lot of the choices were rubbish....
I hope to get going on this one this week Logie before my 2 week holiday break is up!
Any beginner tips for me? My background here is playing this game on the Amiga Format demo disk back in April 1993 thinking... hmmm... I'd love to have time to play the full game... so here I am! 
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