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Posted: Sat, 16th Oct 2010 03:36 Post subject: Abomination - Project Nemesis |
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Developer(s) Hothouse Creations
Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive
Platform(s) PC (Windows)
Release date(s) 1999
Genre(s) Action
Real-time tactics[citation needed]
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: M (Mature 17+)
Media CD-ROM
System requirements
Windows 95+, 166 MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, 2MB video card, 500MB hard disk space
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Quote: | Abomination takes place in 1999 after the United States has been almost wiped out by a deadly plague. According to the game's manual, the disease started on the east coast, and communication with the west coast ceased within 72 hours. The last few groups of survivors stopped broadcasting after six days, and the overwhelming majority of the country's population has been wiped out.
Most of the remaining survivors have pledged allegiance to an apocalyptic and ultra-violent cult known as "The Faithful,", a hazily defined religion whose followers practice mortification of the flesh, as well as vivisecting themselves and others to prove the strength of their beliefs. The Faithful are eventually revealed to be at least several hundred years old, possibly originating from Tibet. The cult predicts the coming of "The Brood" and "the Elder Gods" in a Lovecraftian fashion. The game's backstory also mentions that The Faithful are somehow connected with a strange and very old statuette, called "The Princess of Death," which resembles a cross between a Black Madonna and a prehistoric depiction of the mother goddess. Shortly before the plague first broke out, the US government suspected that the Faithful had either stolen the statue from the unspecified museum where it was kept, or that through their rituals, they caused it to explode there, perhaps disseminating one or more biological agents hidden inside. The game's opening cutscene contains no words, but suggests that the statuette may have been part of a meteorite which struck the earth long ago. The cutscene also shows the Oval Office with a figure resembling President Bill Clinton, who has obviously collapsed and died while still at his desk -- within moments after he signed and issued the written orders for the emergency response plan "Project Nemesis," which can be seen in a folder there.
The game takes place in a large, unnamed coastal city (probably New York), which remains mostly undamaged but plagued by odd biological matter, ranging from tentacles growing out of the sidewalk to huge, three-story towers of tissue. The player controls members of "The Nemesis Project," who according to the backstory were originally mustered at a secret base in a fictional location called "Kinmore Field" in Ohio. These supersoldiers are black operatives who have been enhanced through the use of unethical invasive surgical procedures and experimental nanotechnology, as part of a last-ditch effort to find a way to eliminate The Faithful and put an end to the plague. This is why the characters have pseudoscientific special abilities and, presumably, immune systems capable of protecting them from the plague. The cutscene shows the soldiers being revived by a failsafe mechanism that automatically brings them out from some kind of cryogenic suspension, presumably because of the last order the President gave before he died. Surviving military or police personnel are also recruited into the player's roster, and they have no superpowers, but do possess specialized weapons training. |
One of my more favorite games in history It got a lot of shit but I only know a few people who's played it and it's only 'cause I told them about it lol. I had Epsilon try it out once, not sure what he thought of it.
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Epsilon
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Posted: Sat, 16th Oct 2010 03:42 Post subject: |
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It's a good game, I wouldn't consider it a classic as such though. But if you like realtime urban action akin to Syndicate Wars, but with zombies etc, then it's worth checking out. And you can get it to run of course, but it runs well on Windows 7.
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Posted: Sat, 16th Oct 2010 10:16 Post subject: |
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I used to LOVE this game! A little rough around the edges, but the gameplay was solid and I really enjoyed it. Time to dust it off and reinstall, methinks!
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Posted: Sat, 16th Oct 2010 12:20 Post subject: |
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it's what im doing, as soon as I can figure out why the fuck Im not getting any sound other than the music
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Ispep
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Posted: Sat, 16th Oct 2010 12:45 Post subject: |
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I haven't played it since it first came out, but you can count me in as another who loved it. Good music, atmosphere and the narrative was nice in how it all gradually unfolded. Felt like a modern offshoot of X-COM. It also has one of my all time favourite weapons; the sentry gun. I loved using that in the defensive missions.
Think I'm going to have to reinstall as well. See whether it's stood the test of time.
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