Fire Fight (1996)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action, Warfare, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:Fire Fight is a Isometric Shoot 'em Up developed by Chaos Works and Epic Games and published by Electronic Arts in 1996. You control a white U-shaped fighter craft with a variety of weapons, and fly missions on various Single Biome Planets destroying ground and air targets and accomplishing specific other objectives, such as rescuing hostages.
The interesting inversion is in the plot- you work for The Empire, attempting to suppress the forces of La Résistance. In practice, The Empire is more The Federation and La Résistance are no heroic Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, so it winds up seeming like Gray and Grey Morality.
Fire Fight has some impressive-looking sprites, satisfying sound effects, excellent music, a decent dialogue and a nice variety of missions.Show more
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This game is so thematic, has such incredible music, and has actually quite excellent gameplay... I've barely been able to get my old copy to work, the music doesn't load so I had to run the soundtrack in the background on YouTube. Please consider this lost classic so that people can play it without the struggle!
Truly a lost gem! I've only ever played the shareware version included on a Gravis game CD that came with a pair of old Gravis PC gamepads from the '90s. The demo currently plays great on my WinXP virtual machine. The keyboard controls are rather archaic, but the music and visuals are still top-notch to this day. I want nothing more from GOG than being able to play a remastered version of the full game natively running on 64-bit Windows with a modern game controller. :)
Multilayer graphics, great soundtrack, great graphics for the time, great action, in a somewhat original game, the mix between an isometric shooter and an exploration game. I remember when it came out and it was a somewhat unknown underrated pearl. Now that not even Epic has it on the catalog, it should be available here.
This game was a huge part of my childhood. Granted, I only had the shareware version, and was like 8 years old, but I loved exploring and blowing ships up and beaming up little dudes on the floor. Ive been wanting to play the full version for years but like, it just isnt anywhere.
FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.
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