Great 3D adventures on the Amiga..

[Jpan1]

Hi everyone,

Was just reminiscing some good 3D adventure games that came out on the Amiga.
I was just playing 'The killing cloud' which is a great concept set in the future.
As a future cop chasing down the baddies, all set under a nasty toxic cloud. Have there been any remakes?

Damocles- a briliant 3D game where you have to travel the solar system looking for bits of a atomic davice to destroy the comet. (Personally I liked surfing the comet till it approached it aventual doom or walking off the building after parking the vehicle on the top, a bit silly, but yet totally possible!

And then there was Hunter, another fine game by Activision, maybe in someways similar to the TV series Lost. The good thing was that you could drive as many types of vehicle from sailing boards to helicopters.

Of course frontier Elite, but in that game you could not leave the vehicle..
I'd be interested to see any of these have been made into remakes with atificially intelligent characters and online gaming capabilities.
Those concepts where great and would look good on modern Amigas, PC, consoles. :-)
Any others on the list?

[foleyjo]

i was impressed with the midwinter games, similar to hunter though harder to control

[tokyoracer]

Another World, maybe not totally 3D but it was good.

[ddniUK]

The entire Mercenary series (of which Damocles is a part) is the best series of games to grace any home computer!

[AeroMan]

Frontier !! Awesome...

[amigakid]

F-18 Interceptor was always my favorite 3D simulator.  I was always impressed by the smooth scrolling especially when using an outside camera view.

[AmigaMance]

As we all know, frontier and f-18 are adventures. :roll:

[Raffaele]

Is it possible to consider "The sentinel" as a Graphic 3D Adventure with some action, like Myst, but years, and years before Myst was created?

And what about Driller? (well, at least Driller was created on C64)...

You must drill with a multiple tank a meteor satellite mining facility in orbit around Earth before the pression of gas will make it explode and causes a huge meteor bombing on Earth.

In this game you must fight with drones and solve many and many 3D puzzles by moving objects, shooting at objects, turn on and off electric switches.

I think it is better on Amiga, than in any other platform, and I consider it like a 3D action adventure...

Ah... Do not forget that Myst was ported on AOS 3.1

[morcar]

if your going to count driller you can count Castle Master and there was another game made with the 3D construction kit. Also you can count flashback in there as well which was an awesome game. Also i dont know if it came out on Amiga but there was a game called Mean Streets by US Gold i think it was where you had to investigate stuff. The adventure was in 2d but there were sections where you had to get deom one point to the next in this flying car and that was in 3D. I will think of more when my brain reboots its too early for this lol

[coldfish]

@Raffaele

Yeah, good old Driller, not everyone's cup o' tea but I spent hours solving those puzzles.

If you want to see some good remakes (including Driller) goto the Ovine by Design site:

http://www.ovine.net/

[Raffaele]

@ All:

Another World and Flashback are no 3D at all...

It is just the fastest vector graphic engine you have ever seen on 68000 processors...

The 3D scenes are all drawn by hand, by using A500, a video digitizer, using Dpaint to rotoscoping original images...

See how Another World (and other Another-World-like games) such as Flashback were made:

Another World Development at Wikipedia

Official Site:

http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/another_world.htm

[derringer3]

frontier has a fan remake, called qlfrontier. It is placed on high res gfx. unfortunatelly it is not converted to os4 or other amiga os.

[HopperJF]

The graphics on Hunter used to really impress me back in the 90s, the same kind of chunky 3D which you see in the "Money For Nothing" video by Dire Straits. I wonder, does anyone know if Amigas were used for that?

[tokyoracer]

Not really an adventure game but StuntCar Racer was pretty good.

[DrDekker]

How's about RoboCOP 3D?

Pretty impressive 3D for the time - just a little sluggish on a vanilla A500.

Has anyone got it to run reliably on a better system (other than WinUAE)?