| Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold | JAM Productions / Apogee | 1993 | |
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One year after Wolfenstein 3D, the same engine was used in
another game. This was released one week before id Software took over the
world with the shareware release of Doom. Doom squashed it; Blake Stone sold
poorly despite positive reviews. id even had a stake in Blake Stone, it
build the texture mapping engine for the game. The game takes place in the
future. You are agent "Blake", who has to accomplish some missions. The goal
is to stop the evil doctor "Goldfire", who created some aliens. The game
consists of six episodes, each of which features 11 levels, nine regular and
two secret. The elimination of all enemies on the current floor or the
collection of all treasure items are optional objectives that provide
bonuses upon completion. In the game ceiling and floor are texturized,
which was new. There were no terrain heights, but you could use elevators to
get back into levels you already played. Special level features include:
locked doors which can be opened by four types of colored keys (gold, green,
yellow, blue), one-way doors, secret rooms accessible through pushable wall
blocks, and teleports that instantly take the player into another location
within the level. There's also lighting effects and an automap function,
sorely missed in Wolfenstein 3D. Calling this automap also shows your your
current progress, rating and percentage of enemies killed. And there are
crates you can shoot. They will explode and sometimes reveal some goodies.
Another unique feature of the game is the fact that Dr. Goldfire appears
periodically in certain sections on different levels and will actually
attack Stone. After being hit a few times, he activates a teleporter on his
watch and escapes. There are several weapons available, more than there are
in Wolfenstein 3D. Also included are features such as clipping, and
invisibility, and auto-mapping. Really new were in-game characters, who
were not always hostile but sometimes even gave hints. Because of this, the
pure "shoot everything that moves"- scheme was not valid anymore. Besides
this, the game was not state of the art. The graphics were out-dated and did
not look as good as others of that time, Doom and Terminator Rampage. A nice
game of that time, but it did not manage to stand out.
Also see: #Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold Companion Edition |
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