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| World Rally Fever 1996 | ||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Racing | ||||||
| Developed by Team17 Software | ||||||||
| Published by Ocean Software | ||||||||
| Graphics: VGA 320×200×256c | ||||||||
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One of the most impressive DOS racing games ever. World Rally Fever has incredibly realistic graphics and a three dimensional track with layer up layer of background objects. You simply have to see it to get a sense for how awesome the graphics are. Objects can be collected to use as weapons against other drivers, but this not another Mario Kart clone. You can choose from eight different manga-like drivers and take control of professional racing vehicles that can jump. There are some fun gameplay elements, like the sound when you hit a sheep that has wandered onto the track. One demo was released before the May 1996 release of the full CD-ROM version and has no sound, while a second demo adds sound and a new title screen with the subtitle, "Born on the Road". Only one driver can be used in the demo. There are four circuits of four races each in the full version, with only the first race playable in the shareware version.
Copyright holder Team17 Software no longer sells this game.
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| Worms 1995 | ||||||||
| User rating: 8 | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Simulation | ||||||
| Developed by Team17 Software | ||||||||
| Published by Ocean Software | ||||||||
| Graphics: VGA 320×200×256c | ||||||||
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The first game in the famous Worms series. Two to four teams command units of heavily armed worms and try to blow up all of the enemy worms. Each worm has 60 seconds to move as far it can, and select and fire a weapon. The worms have bazookas, grenades, cluster bombs, uzis, homing missiles, and they can call in air strikes, among many other lethal attacks. The worms are killed if they run out of hit points or get knocked off of the playing field, such as being blown into the water or lava that surrounds the terrain. Far from being reprehensibly violent, the cute little worms say funny things when they die. It's the kind of cartoon violence that made it so much fun to blow up lemmings or let them splatter after a great fall. An expansion pack called Worms Reinforcements was released, and they were also sold together as Worms and Reinforcements United. There are only two landscapes, and a number of weapons are missing, in the preview demo.
Copyright holder Team17 Software no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: Worms, or with expansion pack, Worms and Reinforcements United.
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