Robozone

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The game's story takes place in New York, 2067 AD. Mankind has been forced to abandon the polluted cities of the world leaving behind their only guardians, the Wolverines. One by one, the Wolverines were destroyed by the ruthless Scavengers until finally one remained. It's your task to battle to the heart of the Scavengers' lair and destroy them before it's too late. The game is split into three levels and each is implemented differently. The first level is a multi-directional scrolling platform shooter inside tunnels (of a maze), in which you must fight your way through and find the exit to the streets. The second is a 3D scrolling blast section requiring fast reactions inside a 3D scavenger-infested labyrinth. The last is a horizontally scrolling shooter, time-limited, side-viewed section as you close in to destroy the pollution emitter. It is a quite difficult game to play and, honestly, you'll be lucky if you reach the second level, as you will suffer from a severe perseverance from the enemies that keep re-spawning and from the dangerous pits that you'll fall into!

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics are not the best you can find on an Amiga title, especially when ImageWorks is known for several state-of-the-art games (The Killing Cloud, Mega-lo-mania etc) . The AMIGA version has up to 32 colors on-screen (in contrast to the 16 colors of the ST counterpart) and gives a nice feeling of ruined environments somewhere in the future. The sprites move fast and smooth with no particular problems. Level 2 is quite impressive and spices up the action, but the action slows down a bit as the game's speed is sacrificed to the use of large sprites. There's also a nice introductory sequence with impressive graphics and sound.
The game's sound features an impressive into theme, as well as a few strong, stereo tunes during gameplay but no sound effects at the same time, which is odd for the Amiga hardware.

GAMEPLAY VIDEO
On our video below you can watch both the Atari ST and Amiga versions of the game.