Quarantine

aka: Death Throttle: Kakuzetsu Toshi kara no Dasshutsu, Hard Rock Cab
Moby ID: 96
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In Quarantine, you play the part of a taxi driver, desperate to escape from the violent prison city of Kemo. Deliver passengers to their destinations, so you can earn money to upgrade your cab, and take on undercover missions in the hope that somehow you can find a way out. An impressive array of cab-mounted weaponry will help you to survive.

Spellings

  • カランティーン - Japanese 3DO spelling
  • デススロットル 隔絶都市からの脱出 - Japanese Saturn spelling
  • ハード・ロック・キャブ - Japanese DOS/PlayStation spelling

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Average score: 63% (based on 29 ratings)

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Average score: 3.3 out of 5 (based on 56 ratings with 7 reviews)

Up there for best game of all time, if you can get it to work

The Good
A doom clone with a storyline, how novel (Hey, Quake Developers, get over here, something to look at, a FPS with a plot, how REVOLUTIONARY)

DOOM on WHEELS

Evil-Crazy-Taxi!

The Bad
Its a Bitch to get running.

The Bottom Line
Quarantene is quite simply, DOOM on wheels, or GTA in the First person.

As a Humble cabbie of Kemo City, a once prosporous city, with high crime, that was turned into a escape from NY/LA style prison by the evil omnicorp corporation, its your job to get the hell out of there before the Plauge (which turns you into a homocidical maniac that wants to kill anything that isnt a homocidical maniac) gets you.

Going through a variety of levels, from the Downtown core, to the Cities Graveyard, amoung ferrying passengers, Packages have to be delivered, bad dudes eliminated, guns need to be bought, your taxi repared, etc. The Goal, to get enough cash to bribe the guard at Kemo's only gate, and get the hell out of there.

GET IT, Highly recomended. Great for fans of FPSs, Crazy Taxi, Shadowrun, Fallout, Privateer, and GTA

DOS · by Chad Henshaw (27) · 2002

One of the best games I've ever played.

The Good
Quarantine is a great, fun game, that's addictive to the end. It's also got quite a lot more depth to it than you might think. It features a huge playing environment, spread over five distinct city areas. It has a great selection of weapons, enemies, missions and graphics, with a high attention to detail, and there's a twisted sense of humor throughout. Picking up passengers in your cab, and driving them where they want to go is a very satisfying experience, and is a pretty unusual idea, for a computer game (The only other example I can think of right now is the old C64 classic, "Space Taxi"). As you progress through a level, delivering fares and doing missions, you really start to know the level, notice its landmarks, and know your way around without looking at the map all the time. Each level has a unique look and feel, and each introduces new weapons to buy and lots of new things to see (and kill). One of the other great things about Quarantine is the CD soundtrack, which features 11 songs, all by Australian bands. It provides the perfect driving soundtrack, and is generally excellent music. If you disagree, you can always play your own CDs while you're driving along, instead. Another couple of points: The level of difficulty is pretty much perfect throughout the game (with just a few nasty missions here and there). And the ongoing storyline and amusing mission objectives ensure that you never get bored. Also the CD version includes a very cool intro movie (which is unfortunately quite particular about what video/sound cards it will work with).

The Bad
There's really nothing I disliked about Quarantine. The 3D engine is a little buggy at times, meaning it is possible to get your cab "stuck" in walls, etc., occasionally. And the posts and barriers at the sides of roads can be annoying, when you crash into them. Also, when you first start playing, the controls seem way too loose. But give it a chance, and you'll soon get used to them.

The Bottom Line
Quarantine is an extremely fun and addictive game, with lots of variety and humour. The designers weren't trying to win any awards or show off with any jaw-dropping graphics; They were just trying to make the kind of game that they would enjoy playing, and which, hopefully, other people would really enjoy, too. For me, they succeeded 100%.

DOS · by xroox (3895) · 2007

Futuristic Action with a great plot

The Good
Quarantine is one of the few games that successfully created it's own universe by borrowing different elements from Sci-Fi material, without turning into a complete ripoff. The game starts off with a nice intro, where we are introduced to the plot of the game:

We are in Kemo city in the year 2047. Originally Kemo was rich and wealthy, but the growing crime problem brought the city in financial decay. Police enforcement could not be supplied so therefor a giant cooperation by the name of Omnicorp proposed a solution to the problem. They promised to clean up the city and get rid of the crime with the so called "Q" solution. A giant wall was built around Kemo city, the inhabitants were told it was a defense measure, but it proved to be otherwise...

"Q" was for "Quarantine", and Kemo city was now transformed into a prison city. Besides serving as a prison for the millions of citizens, Kemo was also used for criminals from the outside world. Omnicorp had plans for Kemo city, and they decided to test the so called "Hydergine 344" which is suppose to eliminate any criminal thoughts in brain. Hydergine 344 is put into the city water supply, but unfortunately Omnicorp failed to discover a bacteria within the water supply. This bacteria made the Hydergine mutate, creating a virus and instead of eliminating criminal thoughts it did the exact opposite, infecting people making them into raging mad men.

As the virus is spreading, you must escape, and let nothing stand in your way. You make a living as a cabdriver, and you earn money by safely delivering a passenger or a item to a certain destination. As you make more money you can upgrade your cab with armor and new weapons (Flame throwers, chainguns etc.). Kemo city is divided into different sectors and you have to figure out how to get from one to another without getting killed by the countless of virus infected mad men.

Quarantine is a awesome game. You get drawn into the universe, and once it's got a hold of you it's hard to let go. You often find yourself just driving around for hours instead of trying to accomplish missions. This is very entertaining too...

The graphics in the game are of '94 standards average, but nicely done none the less. The sound is very good, the sound fx works good, but especially the music is magnificent. The Australian garageband sound somehow fits totally in with the universe, and with the exception of a few weird tracks the entire soundtrack rules. (I still listen to it to this day). The gameplay works good, and once you've gotten use to drive the cap it's smooth. The enemies aren't very clever, but it doesn't really matter with this type of game.

The Bad
The main problem in this game is in my opinion the skill level. It's very hard, and you often have no idea how to progress in the game. None the less, this doesn't ruin it in anyway...

It also seems as if the code for the game is a bit buggy, because I've experienced some weird crashes.

The Bottom Line
A great game, which successfully manages to mix Sci-Fi elements and create a futuristic universe which you are drawn into.

DOS · by Apogee IV (2275) · 2004

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Trivia

The CD version of Quarantine includes a great soundtrack, featuring 11 Australian bands. There is no mention of this soundtrack in the manual, and there is only a brief/incomplete credit list at the end of the game. Here, then, is the complete soundtrack listing:

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  1. Berlin Chair - You Am I
  2. The Driver Is You - The Fauves
  3. The Wahooti Fandango - Custard
  4. Ingrown - Smudge
  5. Lie Down Forever - Godstar
  6. Snail Trail - Screamfeeder
  7. Uranium Watch - The Daisygrinders
  8. Weak Will - Underground Lovers
  9. Whirlwind - Hellmenn
  10. Yellow Beam - Crow
  11. Now You Know - Sidewinder

```

You can buy CDs by (nearly all of) these bands at Greg's Music World: http://www.musicworld.com.au/

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GameTek released a sequel in 1995: "Quarantine II: Road Warrior".

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Game added by xroox.

SEGA Saturn added by AkibaTechno. PlayStation added by Kabushi. 3DO added by Jeanne.

Additional contributors: Shoddyan, Ms. Tea, j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】, ケヴィン, Victor Vance, Kayburt.

Game added March 13, 1999. Last modified November 25, 2023.