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World of Aden: Thunderscape

Description

The original Swords & Sorcery meets Steam Age Technology role-playing game (Pre-dating Arcanum by six years). The player controls a party of up to 6 players drawn from the standard fantasy races and classes on a quest to prevent the "Darkfall" from engulfing the world of Aden.

Adventuring takes place in a 3-D world with characters created using a standard set of attributes, skills, spells, and equipment that will be familiar to any RPG fan. Thunderscape's unique addition to the genre was the addition of industrial age technology including firearms, steam engines, zeppelins, and primitive robots (steam golems).

Thunderscape was the first World of Aden game released by SSI, the second (and final) being Entomorph.

Part of the Following Groups

• Games made into books
• Steampunk games
• World of Aden series

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User Reviews

Good gameplay marred by lousy graphics, sound, and cramped quarters.	happy-porcupine (1463)
The grand daddy of First Person RPGs	Saurabh Shukul (4)	unrated

The Press Says

Coming Soon Magazine	Nov 30, 1995	84 out of 100	84
Joystick	Oct, 1995	77 out of 100	77
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	7.1 out of 10	71
PC Player (Germany)	Oct, 1995	63 out of 100	63
High Score	Mar, 1996	3 out of 5	60
PC Games (Germany)	Oct, 1995	59 out of 100	59

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Trivia

[excerpt from readme.txt of patch]

Fixes in 1.1 version of ThunderScape:

• "No Space Mouse Shape" crash has been fixed.
• "Dos/4GW professional error [2001]:exception ORH" crash has been fixed.
• "Divide Overflow" crashes have been fixed.
• "Read Fault Error" (in Troll caves) has been fixed.
• Crash after Character Creation has been fixed.
• "Crash site unreliable, bad wall count..." has been fixed.
• Decompression error when entering, leaving Troll caves has been fixed.
• Sound problems including Mel Fatal #110 trap: 20, Ensonic soundscape problems, and sound stopping after intro to game.