Alien breed 3d II ported to another platform

[Karlos]

I have a question about this game...

How many levels have outdoor sections?  The first AB3D had a few from what I remember and I liked that.  I do have AB3DII TKG but I never got past the first level, and from videos on youtube it all looks to be dark and indoors, which I think is a shame.  Suppose I need to give it another blast!! (and perhaps get onto level 2!)

Level J (IIRC) teleports you down to the surface.

[Karlos]

I preferred the tense "sudden death" atmosphere that pervaded the AlienBreed-derived "doom clones" to doom itself, though the Doom games were enormous fun regardless.

It's a shame the sourcecode for AB3D2 wasn't a bit cleaner. I can't criticise Andy Clitheroe too harshly over it, he was pretty much working on the engine single-handedly.

As I discovered one summer, some of the editors were a bigger challenge than the game itself The object and animation editors were particularly fussy, but nevertheless I managed to make a custom mod:

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/810/1_montage1_256.png
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/810/1_montage2_256.png

Building the custom weapon models and animations was fiddly. Unfortunately, the animation just uses a set number of frames, so on faster machines (read emulation), the animation becomes far too fast: for example, it's hard to see the grenade clip rotating as the launcher recoils. Pity the engine doesn't have built in tweening but what can you do?