Kolya on 16/10/2009 at 14:45
I personally preferred the action titles by the Bitmap brothers, Xexon2 and Speedball2 the first ones to be mentioned and later Z. Cadaver looked nice but I could never get behind it's logic. Of course the fact that I didn't speak English back then didn't help.
SubJeff on 16/10/2009 at 15:36
Yeah, that was great too.
Amazing thing about them, and I say this again and again, is their list of games for the Amiga reads like a "what was hot" on that machine.I don't think they had a bad game until Magic Pockets.
My favs were Speedball 2, Xenon 1 & 2, Cadaver and Gods. Damn I loved Gods. It has soooo many secrets.
Wtf happened to them? I know they brought out Speedball 2 Tournament on the UT engine but really its a shame the studio never managed to keep with the times. I know the lineup isn't the original but still - Bitmap meant quality back in the day. Check out this fansite: (
http://www.gods-country.de/)
Gods was supposed to come out for GBA which would mean I could play it on the DS. But it looks like it never happened :(
Harvester on 17/10/2009 at 00:44
Gods was pretty awesome indeed. But I never managed to beat that final boss without cheat codes, I still don't know how it's supposed to be done.
Renzatic on 17/10/2009 at 05:12
I never got to experience many Bitmap Bros. games beyond Cadaver. Think I had a demo for some really nice shooting game for the ST, but that's about the extent of it.
I will tell you one thing, though. Cadaver has aged amazingly well. It used to be one of those showcase games I'd show off to amaze all my friends. Even today, it still looks nice simply from the strength of its art style. Gameplay is still clunky as hell, due to the fact that all joysticks had just one button to work with back in the day, but it's still playable. And the puzzles. Oh yeah, the puzzles. Even with me remembering the solutions to a few, it's still a hard as hell game. You have to investigate everything around you, and you can very easily screw something up totally.
So yup, Cadaver is still great. For all you PC people who never once used an ST or Amiga, you can get the Dos version on Abandonia. Graphically, all the versions are about the same, but the PC version uses godawful PC speaker blips and bloops for the sound effects. Still, I recommend it to anyone who'd like to have a good old throwback 16-bit isometric adventure.
demagogue on 17/10/2009 at 22:14
Please. The (
http://www.amigaemulator.org/download) UAE emulator is definitely the way to go.
(just kidding ... lol paleolithic platform war. retro-gamers should have both, anyway)
Renzatic on 17/10/2009 at 22:23
Actually, I'd recommend against the Amiga version. While the sound effects are better, and you can install it instead of swapping disks constantly, whenever you kill a monster, it makes this godawful woman screaming in mortal terror sound that'll scare the everliving hell out of you.
Worms aren't supposed to scream like that. :(
SubJeff on 17/10/2009 at 23:49
Quote Posted by Renzatic
I never got to experience many Bitmap Bros. games beyond Cadaver. Think I had a demo for some really nice shooting game for the ST, but that's about the extent of it.
Oh you poor dear. I feel for you man, this is like never having that 1st crush at school.
Speedball 2, Amiga version, is still great. As are Xenon 1 and 2. If you want a combat platformer you can't go wrong with Gods either. Chaos Engine is a great co-op shooter too.
I've just listed them all, haven't I?
Renzatic on 18/10/2009 at 04:10
Xenon 2, that was the demo. It was amazing what some people could do with 16 colors back then. It somehow managed to look richer and more vibrant than most VGA games I saw at the time.
If the Bitmap Brothers were able to maintain that level of quality across all their games, then it's a damn shame I didn't get to play more of them.
