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- Midwinter -  
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Midwinter is a game that
is grand in scope and it has you controlling a man called Captain Stark.
Your mission is to destroy the headquarters of General Masters who has taken
control over midwinter island. You have to get around the snowy country
gathering allies for your cause. There are plenty of ways to get around
and altough at first you only have you skies later you will find vehicles
like snowmobiles and even hangliders.
You start in a remote cabin with only your skis to help you get around but
you haven't got much choice so you better get moving. Travelling from place
to place is done from a 3D first person view and along the way you will
face many enemies in the form of planes, ground vehicles and troops who
try to bring you down. You won't stand much of a chance alone so the first
thing to do is to recruit some friendly forces that can help you in your
quest. These people are scattered around the island though so there's plenty
of travelling to be done. When you get hold of a snowmobile things will
get much easier but you'll also be easier to spot for enemy units.
When you recruit more people you can control them as well so you can combat
the enemy using guerilla tactics like blowing up power stations and such.
Each person has different skills and altough you can try to use someone
who isn't very qualified the chances of succes are a lot lower. Skills include
such things as skiing, gliding, sniping and sabotage along with things like
morale, energy and endurance. Each person also has a personality and many
of them know each other, some won't want to work with you when you have
recruited someone they don't particularly like.
The graphics are shown in 3D first person view when travelling between settlements
but when you are indoor the view is shown with a graphic icondriven menulike
structure. The terrain is very mountainous and this has an effect on how
fast you can travel. Skiing downhill is obviously much faster but you'll
first have to get up the hill. The same goes for hangliding but once you
reach the top of a hill you'll sail down with minimal effort.
Midwinter is a very engrossing game that has you travelling around the island
recruiting people and fighting a guerilla war against a much stronger opponent.
The fact that the travelling is done realistic means that travel can be
very slow and it might take you 10,15 or even 20 minutes to reach your desination.
Unfortunely there is quite an easy and fast way to beat the game but other
than that the game is great so give it a go.
Overal rating: 8/10
Erde Kaiser
Midwinter was released for three different systems here are some notes:
| Amiga |
Released
in 1989.
Game has been tested but not completed with winUAE v0.9.91. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1989.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC.
Other than the sound effect this is the same as the amiga one. |
| Others |
This
version is not available.
Atari ST released in 1989. |
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Date added |
Jun-16-2005 18:34 |
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Midwinter |
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Developer |
Maelstrom games
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Publisher |
Rainbird
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First released |
1989 |
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Genre |
Misc
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Download |
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 452 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 338 Kb
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Manual |
No manual available
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
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