OloFight Preview $39

We recieved this a few weeks ago in the form of a demo with screenshots to preview. So I expect it will be on the Aminet and some of the cover CDs soon, and you'll be able to have a look at it for yourselves. If you haven't guessed from the title it's a beat-em-up. It's set in the future or some place else, where these robots and things have decided to fight each other but they need you to assist them by waggling furiously on your joystick (these kind of games never did need much background info, which is just as well!). "OloFight," The makers say "...is a beat'em up game which introduces many innovations over similar existing Amiga titles". What these innovations are supposed to be I can't honestly say. You could look at the features list below to get an idea, but when you play the demo nothing seems to be that great! It's produced in Italy by a new software team, "The Real Ologram", and they obviously decided to name it after themselves. O.K. that sounds like a good idea, shame that the game isn't good! The demo shows some very nice parallax scrolling backdrops / foregrounds and a couple of sad looking, ill-defined 'things' for you to control. After a couple of goes you probably wont want to bother. The characters are the main fault. The two they have chosen for the demo are crap (the green one, shown in the screenshots below, and a yellow one). They look crap, they move crap and their special moves are crap. Sorry guys, but they are! Why do they slide backwards when they hit the other fighter? Sorry but I'm not impressed. Not one that I'll be ordering.

Features: 10 different fighters with more than 400 animation frames each 25fps animations 10 special moves for each of the fighters power-ups to strenghten fighters 'buy' 4 special moves of varying power (out of the ten available for each player) controls are easier than in other similar titles realistic collision detection: the more precise your moves are, the more harm they will cause! more than 3000 colours on screen at the same time on any AGA Amiga objects moving on different parallax layers, behind/infront of fighters floor with 3D perspective motion background music adapting itself to the game events 100% rendered graphics animated backgrounds shadow effect reflecting fighters movements multilingual support for both the game and the manual network gaming over the Internet The final release will feature 10 fighters, 100 special moves, many playing modes (story, tournaments, cheats, one-on-one over the Internet, etc.). It will also handle high-scores for each of the modes through the Ologram web server, thus allowing you to compete with other players all over the world

The game is mail order, only available from Ologram. The price is the same for both Europe and the rest of the world. $39 (US dollars), shipping included. Or you can also use their online service on their web site at http://www.ologram.com/OloFight/registration.html You will also find regular updates about the game and related info, plus information about future projects.