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Genre Perspective Visual Gameplay Vehicular |
Description
Return Fire is the spiritual successor to
Fire Power and it fits in both the strategy and action genres. You can take control of one of 4 vehicles, a jeep, helicopter, tank, and a missile launching vehicle (but actually called The Armoured Support Vehicle (ASV).
There are two ways to win, the easier one would be to capture the enemy's flag by bringing it to your bunker with the frail Jeep. This is the main objective. The other way to win is to destroy your enemy, a secondary objective.
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1001 Video Games
The 3DO version of
Return Fire appears in the book
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Cancelled Saturn version
Following the release of the game on the 3DO and Playstation systems, a version was planned for release on the Sega Saturn. Developer
Prolific ported the code over and in fact even completed the game. However at that time, a version of the Sega Saturn system named the "Hi-Saturn" and manufactured by Hitachi was released. The system wasn't always compatible with existing games and so Prolific was asked to make sure the upcoming
Return Fire would be compatible with this variant of the system. While making the necessary changes for the Hi-Saturn, the Sega Saturn's future as a profitable platform came under doubt and
Return Fire, already finished, was canceled.
In 2003,
SEGA-Saturn.net began to do research on unreleased games and contacted Prolific about the title. They were sent a fully functional Sega Saturn CD version of the game to test.
More information can be found at
http://www.sega-saturn.net/returnfire.htm
Music
The game features a classic music score, including
Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries when using the helicopter (think Apocalypse Now),
In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg with the ASV and
Mars - The Bringer of War by
Gustav Holst for the tank. The jeep features two songs:
Flight of the Bumblebee by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the popular
William Tell Overture by
Gioacchino Rossini when a flag is being carried.
The introduction is a piece from
Verdi's Dies Irae and the player is greeted by a portion of
Handel's Hallelujah chorus from his
Messiah oratorio when completes a level.
Pause Screen
The pause screen is a US Army Recruiting poster/ad.
References in movies
This game makes a cameo appearance in the Pauly Shore movie
In the Army Now.
Awards
- Electronic Gaming Monthly
- February 1995 (Issue 67) - Game of the Month (3DO version)
Information also contributed by
Jeff Koerner,
Luis Silva, and
WildKard.
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