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Sinclair User commented on the game's "finely detailed, well-drawn, and very fast appearing" animation. [2] Home Computing Weekly felt that casual adventurers wouldn't warm up to the game immediately while adventure buffs would find the content too limited. [5] Computer & Video Games deemed it a "competent" and "clean" video gaming experience. [8]
OpenCity is the product of programmer Duong-Khang Nguyen and 3D artist Frédéric Rodrigo. Nguyen was inspired by the open source game FreeReign; when he realized that the FreeReign project was cancelled and the source code was not in the condition to be improved, he began development on his own city-building simulator. [3]
Knot in 3D is a ZX Spectrum action game by Malcolm Evans published in 1983 by New Generation Software. It resembles a three-dimensional (i.e. with three degrees of freedom instead of only two) version of the Light cycles game from the film Tron .
Driller was the first game to use the Freescape engine, which allowed the production of full three-dimensional environments using filled polygons in which the player could move around freely. It also gave the player the ability to look up and down, as well as rotate left and right, something which was rare amongst 3D games of the time. [ 2 ]
The game's PC received favorable reviews, while the Xbox One version received mixed reviews upon release. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Dave Tach of Polygon praised the game stating "Combining elements from driving, puzzle and FMV games without becoming a product of one genre" and saying that the developers made "a unique hybrid."
Zzoom was received well by the video game press when it was released in 1983, and it remained among the top twenty best-selling games well into 1984. [4] Crash called it "a very memorable game and excellent value for money", [5] whilst Personal Computer Games described it as "one of the all-time greats in a very competitive market".
Bobby and his family are ball bearings who live in Technofear, "a land of the future made of steel, and inhabited by things of steel." [1] Bobby's brothers have been led astray by their rogue cousin and are now lost in the Metaplanes outside their home - stunned and captured by the evil Bearings that inhabit the Planes.
The game generates the same maze layout each time it is played, but it randomises which scientist and which secret experiment (represented by a red test tube) is the correct one. Enemies are spawned randomly and go around destroying the scientists, experiments, fuel and ammo caches, sometimes making it to player's spaceship and destroying items ...