ESWAT: Cyber Police Longplay (Amiga) [QHD]
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Game Info
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Developer: Creative Materials
Publisher: U.S. Gold
Year of Release: 1991
Plot from Game Manual
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Criminals are running amok, law and order no longer exists in Cyber City. Only ESWAT (Enhanced Special Weapons and Tactics), the elite division of the Cyberpolice, are capable of restoring peace.
First, you've got to prove yourself by facing the dangers of the streets as a regular SWAT cop. Survive your missions-impress your superiors-earn your stripes and then, if you are still brave enough, you just might enter
the ESWAT squad. Armed with a cybernetic exo-suit and equipped with the latest firepower weaponry, including duo laser-cannons, you will be guaranteed to make even the most hardened punk quiver in terror but ...
They'll be waiting for you - armed to the teeth and ready to do battle to the end.
ESWAT - it's your only chance to even the score!
Game Review & Impressions
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I realised I hadn't experienced a truly crap arcade conversion for a while, so I thought I'd change things up by taking the Amiga version of ESWAT for a spin. There was no question in my mind that this was going to be bad, and I wasn't wrong; it's a rotting garbage fire of the highest order.
Starting with the graphics, there's been a vague attempt to recreate the sprites from the arcade. The legs and bodies of the enemies look somewhat like their coin-op counterparts, but something went very wrong from the neck upwards. Our beat cop hero has a pale, featureless mug with a pair of pixels for eyes and a straight line for a mouth, giving him a vacant and somewhat soulless expression, not unlike myself as I played through this nonsense.
Faring little better is the gameplay. The single button joystick control scheme severely hampers the experience, making it ridiculously awkward to aim upwards, jump, or navigate between higher and lower platforms. The collision detection is just a mess, and the developers made the whole thing next to impossible by limiting how much damage you can do to the end-of-level bosses within a given time window. As you can see from this particular run, I died due to a timeout on the final boss because the stupid game deliberately fails to register damage. As for the bosses, most of them are conspicuous by their absence; those from the on-foot sections are present, but later levels often end prematurely, so you never actually see the guy you were pursuing.
The final insult in this digital dog pile of a game is that it has no ending. You kill the final boss, and it takes you straight to the high score screen without any kind of recognition you beat the game. Even in the absence of a cutscene, most games at least had the decency to at least show some text congratulating you for beating the game, but ESWAT doesn't even have the decency to give you that.
In summary, the Amiga port of the Sega coin-op has no redeeming features whatsoever. It looks, plays and sounds terrible, and there's really no excuse for any of this because there are plenty of Amiga games which demonstrate the machine's capabilities. Sadly, ESWAT clearly isn't one of them.
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The game graphics look like they have been left on the sun for too long.
Congrats for long-playing it, though.
🤣
It has its charm. Luckily I think I've never seen the original arcade game.
@@Tommi1981 phew
@@Tommi1981 phew
I hope Sega "Euorpe" was impressed with US Gold's quality conversion!
It supposed to be Sega Europe. they had one job.
@@supermario5357 nah Euorpe is actually a real place, it's similar to Europe but has really bad graphics, game play and sound effects
@@MicBain 🤔
Yeah.... Less than 1 min and you already can feel this game is a piece of crap.
@@pixhell I remember seeing ads for it in gaming magazines all the time so I guess we know where the budget went
"U.S. Gold"... But even King Midas couldn't polish their products.
Oh cool, a longplay of ESWAT for the Sega Gene- oh.
A Classic!!! iplayed this game a LOT in The arcades in early 90s. Great old times...
3:58 thank goodness the officer was able to grow an extra set of arms to comfort that poor woman who was being held hostage by the Australian man!
I'm sorry you had to endure it, Al, but you did a fine job of playing the game anyhow. 🙂
I didn't even know this was ported and looking at it play... What can I say, your stomach is stronger than mine, AL82.
....... the labeling on the cybernetic schematics is a thing of beauty. "Fried Chicken" in the thigh and something about the sea level to Manchester in the text at the bottom? The coders were clearly not taking this port seriously. Also, that moment at 2:40 when you just stare at the gunman who apparently has no object permanence before giving him a mercy killing.
Amiga always has great music, it's interesting to hear it on this version of "ESWAT". Seeing "U.S. Gold" on the screen though, well... what can I say? 😐
GG 😊
Sega "Euorpe" Limited.
Classic title that SEGA gave to USGold to be a crap.
Poor amiga had to suffer a lot with hot garbage sega arcade conversions. Only good sega game on amiga I can come to think of is Golden axe.
@@NisseDood Bonanza Bros was polished.
@@104d_3rr0r_vince havent played that.
But if a game was originally made by Tatio Amiga seemed to get good conversions. Really liked New Zealand story and rainbow island.
Shame my pirated version of rainbow island was corrupted so stage 5 didnt work.
@@NisseDood Both ST ports like Bubble. The A500 could do a lot better like the new bubble written in C.
Good police conduct! 😅
Is normal.
An absolute massacre of a port. Only the intro teack is decent. The rest is hilariously bad. And, believe it or not, the ST version is even worse, with slower animations.
Can be better
It seems you lost all your lives trying to complete the game but you lost and never made it this far. This kinda sucks thanks to the time limit.