Lets talk or play... Breathless

[fishy_fiz]

Im going to be a party pooper here and say that I wasnt particularly keen on Breathless. The graphics where ok, but there was very little color variation. It was basically grey and yellow. All this said it looked quite ok and ran fairly well, but for me the gameplay was quite sterile and that's where it let me down. I wanted to like it, as much as anything so I could show my friends who'd made the jump to PC that the amiga can do FPS games, but it was more engine than game for my tastes. Maybe not the the extent of something like FEARS, but it never made the transition to game as much as something like AB3d. Even Nemac IV, which was also only average felt more immersive.

To each his own though.

[fishy_fiz]

If I recall correctly I played it on a blizz mk4 50mhz '030 and to look at it, it ran pretty well 1x1 in a step or 2 down from full screen, but really needed 2x1 for more accurate controls (the game seems to put gfx updates before input if I recall correctly).

[fishy_fiz]

You, good Sir, just won this thread! :lol:

Is the thread the prize, or the contest itself ?  

[fishy_fiz]

Sorry, I know it's off topic, but has anyone ever played Testament ? I had a demo from a CU Amiga magazine cover cd, but I enjoyed it more than Breathless and actually preferred the visual style more. Textures probably werent as well drawn, but there was more color and it didnt look so much like a generic "game that shall not be named" rip off. (visually I mean, the games themselves (doom/breathless) play very differently)

[fishy_fiz]

Sure, the graphics werent drawn all that well, but at least it wasnt bland like breathless. I only thought of it as its another Wolf3d style fps (as is breathless, even if they tried to hide it).