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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #14 from previous page: February 06, 2006, 11:18:15 AM »
:lol: No, I'm not! Perhaps design was the wrong word. I meant I loved the style of it. They were supposed to be very robust as they had a metal chassis. I think it was the microswitches that were at fault as it wouldn't register movement half the time. Nowadays I would have tried replacing them... but back then I didn't know how :roll:

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2006, 11:27:38 AM »
Yeah, my car has a metal chasis too.  Unfortunately it's also not much better than a shopping trolly.  I'll have look for any faulty microswitches though, just in case.  ;-)

P.S.  Unfortunately, unlike your controller, my car also looks crap too.
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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2006, 11:47:43 AM »
Yeah the design was class - single colour, ergonomic, compact.

The stick felt a little too slack though (I seem to recall adjustment didn't work either).

I think the only FULLY compatible controllers were the Commodore CD32 pad and the Honeybee/Competition-Pro CD32 pad. These had 4 fire buttons, 2 shoulder buttons and a pause button. A few games made use of all of them, ADoom lets you strafe with the shoulder buttons and AmiMasterGear emulator lets you quit to Workbench with the pause button.
 

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2006, 11:52:03 AM »
Oliver: Do you have a Yute or a Charger?

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2006, 01:43:40 PM »
Quote

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Oliver: Do you have a Yute or a Charger?

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Ha  :lol:

No, actually it's my damned SkyCar that needs a new joystick.  Ever since I switched to a M$ wireless remote joystick, and started piloting from the back seat while watching the driving scenes from the 5th element on DVD, things just haven't been the same.  Probably should have bought an analogue joystick, huh?  Those damn microswitches...
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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2006, 01:56:44 PM »
Does anyone know anything about the new Alien Breed game Team 17 announced??
 

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2006, 02:45:17 PM »
I can't find anything about it on their web site. I expect it will be another Doom/Quake clone on the PC/XBOX :roll:

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2006, 10:51:59 PM »
I wonder if you can park those cars at 20,000 feet to avoid the traffic wardens.

:-D

I like the rear of that purple one, with the square turbine outlets - very Sci-Fi!

A new Alien Breed should focus back on the top down experience, it captures the imagination. Sonic The Hedgehog didn't give you the same feeling of control in 3D as when you were controlling the zany physics side on.
 

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2006, 12:24:44 PM »
I did some research on the new alien breed.
It was called Alien Breed 2K4
It was for PS2
It was Top Down view
It was cancelled due to lack of publisher interest.

Theres a few sites with screenshots on
 

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Re: Which of the Alien Breed games is best?
« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2006, 01:09:25 PM »
Hmmm, not sure I like the look of it:



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