Reply To: The Sequels

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I played the first few levels of Zombie Wars last night. It does look a little better with some extra animations and it all feels slightly smoother to me. I’m not sure how much engine reuse there is – it’s Windows only using WinG so no DOS support. The flamethrower is more of a regular gun now and the jetpack handles differently with some sort of hover mechanic. It doesn’t look like the exact same engine on the surface.

It plays a bit better I feel. You don’t have to find every hostage now, just get to the end of level. Where it’s possibly worse is that I’m finding I only need to use the one gun. Grenades are truly useless this time around as they don’t explode on contact. Buying ammo works very differently with cabinets selling everything at the one place. I had to read the manual to figure out how to buy anything.

I’m quite liking the sequel anyway. It’s one of the more impressive Windows 3.1 games I’ve seen for sure (not saying much admittedly). Kind of strange to be releasing it when 95 was presumably already out. I’ll persevere with it and see if I can finish it off.