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Chasm: The Rift

Description

Chasm: The Rift is a run-'n-gun shooter. You play as a Marine that has been sent inside a power plant to investigate the loss of power at the plant. You later discover that a group of monsters known as the Timestrikers are using the power to create ruptures in time that allow them to invade the Earth in three different time periods: present day, ancient Egypt, and medieval times. Timestrikers that have invaded the present day are also taking control of a nuclear plant in order to detonate a nuke that will destroy nearly all life on Earth.

The game starts in the present day, as you go inside the power plant and nuclear plant, battling strange-looking security guards and security systems that have gone haywire. You will then find the rifts that the Timestrikers are using to invade other time periods, eventually winding up at the Timestrikers' military base in the distant future.

Alternate Titles

• "Chasm: The Shadow Zone" -- 1996 demo name

Part of the Following Group

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User Reviews

Overall a great game

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The Press Says

Game.EXE	Nov, 1997	88 out of 100	88
Svenska PC Gamer	Dec, 1997	85 out of 100	85
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Dec, 1997	84 out of 100	84
Electric Games	1997	81 out of 100	81
Mega Score	Feb, 1998	80 out of 100	80
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Oct 29, 1997		70
GameSpot	Dec 05, 1997	6.1 out of 10	61
Computer Games Magazine	Jan 24, 1998		60
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 1997		40

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Trivia

Chasm: The Rift originally shipped without a multiplayer mode, and with some fairly serious bugs (inconsistent mouse sensitivity and a DOS timer bug). These bugs were fixed in a patch released shortly after the game shipped.

Chasm: The Rift has been criticized by users and press alike for not having a multiplayer mode, which was pretty much a necessity in first-person shooters by the time the game was released. In response to this, the developers released two patches in early 1998 that added multiplayer functionality to the game. One patch added Internet play, while the other added TCP/IP play for Windows 95 users. A new demo for the game was also released, which included the multiplayer mode and a more accurate representation of the retail game than the previous demo that was released in late 1996.