Hired Guns

The Good
A brilliantly designed game that helped confirm Psygnosis as one of the premiere developers for the Amiga. Fantastic level design, a wide variety of weapons tailored to your role and playing style, and the very best part... the ability of four people to play in front of the computer with a quad split-screen. Winding through the levels with my buddies in tow is one of the highlights of my Amiga gaming career.

The Bad
The graphics were pretty blah; while the psuedo-3D artwork was acceptable, the play was in a stuttered flow style like Eye of the Beholder, with an FPS of like 1. No saves between levels either in multiplay. For four people you had to use two joysticks and two people at either side of the keyboard, making for cramped quarters...although it made it easy to spit in the face of your comrade after someone died and everything went into free-for-all mode before you had to reload the level, heh.

The Bottom Line
A classic shooter, not to be missed on the Amiga platform. Another winner from Psygnosis.

The Good
Well what was not to like about this game?, at the time it was a technical marvel 4 player death matches before the idea had really even been bandied about. The amazing amount of weaponry you could carry about with you, the beautiful graphics, the selection of characters giving replayability.. The 30 odd missions you could undertake all of them full of puzzles and monsters galore to keep you occupied. this game was a monster of a task to complete and rarely got boring. It had a brilliant soundtrack as well, the sound effects were wonderful.. the game even had its own physics which you had to get used too... great touches like weapons becoming damaged in water and again i'll mention the death match idea... it surely had to be the first game to have had it.

The Bad
Very little to dislike.. I suppose it could be a right pain having to redo levels all because you pushed a block in the wrong direction, but hey its better than real life is'nt it.

The Bottom Line
This is the greatest game on the Amiga a long running huge adventure where you control 4 characters and kill a lot of amazingly intelligent monsters, you could do this with up to 4 mates, all the while solving puzzles to find 4 reactors so you could escape the planet your stuck on. To be honest I never actually managed to complete this game, I only ever found one reactor, but the time i spent playing this game I enjoyed every moment of and if u can get hold of this game for an emulator or your lucky enough to still own an Amiga I implore you all to go out and get this.

you wont be disappointed.