Ant Attack
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Ant Attack
(1994 on
DOS)
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Ant Attack
(1999 on
Windows)
Description
Ant Attack is an action game which innovated the usage of three freedom grades for an isometric perspective game. The freely explorable city, identified in the inlay blurb as Antescher, a combination of Ant and Escher, the famous visual paradox artist, is teeming with deadly giant ants. The player controls a boy or a girl and races around the city trying to find his/her lost half while jumping on structures to avoid the ants, or fighting the insects by either jumping on them or throwing grenades. When the hostage is found, the protagonist needs to guide him/her into safeness. Then the next round, with higher difficulty and the hostage being placed at another point, begins. The perspective can be switched to four 90° turned views.
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Credits (ZX Spectrum version)
4 People
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| Cover artwork |
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Critics
Average score: 79% (based on 12 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.3 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 0 reviews)
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Trivia
Gender
According to Edge, this is the first game that allowed players to choose between a male and female protagonist.
Awards
- ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
- March 1991 (issue #42) - Included in the list Greatest Games of all Time in category Original Games (editorial staff choice)
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3D Ant Attack homepage
This is written by the game's developer. It has pictures of the artwork, cassette inlay, anecdotes about the game's development, a Java playable version of the game, and a link to the development site of Ant Attack PC -
Retro Remakes: 3D Ant attack
Freeware remake by Andrew Nixon -
Wikipedia
free Encyclopedia entry -
World of Spectrum
downloadable releases; additional material; remakes links; player reviews; magazine references; magazine adverts
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by ududy.
Commodore 64 added by Martin Smith.
Additional contributors: Martin Smith, Patrick Bregger, piltdown_man, Jo ST, ZeTomes.
Game added October 25, 2004. Last modified December 30, 2023.