Hired Guns
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Hired Guns is a computer role-playing game produced by DMA Design (distributed by Psygnosis) for the Amiga in 1993. The game is set in the year 2712, in which the player controls four mercenaries selected from a pool of twelve. One of the advancements of the game was that the four characters were on screen simultaneously in their own window.
The plot is that a hostage rescue mission on the planet Graveyard proves to be illusory and that they have actually been lured into a weapons proving ground, in order to pit genetically engineered creatures against them to see how they fare.
The game was advanced for its time, allowing up to four players to play simultaneously, using mouse, keyboard or (modified) Sega Megadrive joypad. The game used a system of four simultaneous Dungeon Master style first-person perspective views on the dungeon. Each character is individually controllable and occupies their own square, unlike Dungeon Master where the entire party occupies the same square. The characters can be made to follow each other, which simplifies large movements when only one player is controlling the party.
External links
- Review of Hired Guns (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=44rbhb%24402%40kernighan.cs.umass.edu&oe=utf-8&output=gplain)
- A Hired Guns fan site (http://www.efd.lth.se/~f98ani/amiga/hiredguns/)