Creature Shock

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Description

The earth is overpopulated and mankind must find a second home. The spaceship Amazon is sent to investigate Saturn and Jupiter for possible colonization. Near the end of its mission, all contact is lost with the ship except for a distress beacon. The player is part of the crew sent to the Amazon's last known location to find out what happened.

Creature Shock is a first-person shooter with Full Motion Video and arcade-like elements. Aliens of all sizes and types will try to destroy the team, but each one has a weak point that can be exploited. The fighting takes place on the surface of asteroids and within mazes of passageways underground.

There are also two 3D sections where the player gets to pilot the ship.

Screenshots

Promo Images

Alternate Titles

• "Creature Shock: Special Edition" -- SEGA Saturn title
• "クリーチャー・ショック" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Group

• White Label releases

User Reviews

Great graphics, poor gameplay	DOS	MojoHelperMonkey (42)
Shoot 'em up with thrilling creepy atmosphere	DOS	Zerobrain (3086)
A cool arcade game!	DOS	Gabriel (118)
Love the story and gameplay, graphics are second nature!	DOS	molokaicreeper (67)
Quite possibly one of the worst shooters ever. Avoid it like cancer.	DOS	CKeen The Great (165)

Critic Reviews

Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Dec, 1994	95 out of 100	95
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Dec, 1994	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	DOS	Dec, 1994	88 out of 100	88
PC Gamer	DOS	Mar, 1995	83 out of 100	83
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Jan, 1995	10 out of 12	83
Score	DOS	Jan, 1995	78 out of 100	78
Gameplay (Benelux)	DOS	Feb, 1995	72 out of 100	72
PC Joker	DOS	Jan, 1995	67 out of 100	67
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Feb, 1995		50
IGN	PlayStation	Nov 21, 1996	2 out of 10	20

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Trivia

Cancelled port

Atari was working on a port for their Jaguar CD, but cancelled it.

Development

The movie sequences were all rendered on 486 DX/2 66 [Mhz] workstations, which marked high end computing power at the time of development.

Manual

The game's manual had its own ideas of what useful tips can be:
"For maximum atmosphere turn down the lights and use headphones instead of speakers."

Localization

The German localization features the voice of Rolf Schult as the player's briefing officer and narrator in the intro sequence. At the time Creature Shock was released that specific voice had been especially renowned as the German dubbing voice of actor Patrick Stewart in his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV series Star Trek: TNG who in turn sports a similar hairdo like the briefing officer.

Though the original multi language UK DOS release features no credits of any particular voice talent.

Awards

• Power Play
  • Issue 02/1995 – Best Render Graphics in 1994
  • Issue 02/1995 – Best Cutscenes in 1994

Information also contributed by Eric Rushford