____ _____ ___ _____ _____ __ _____ _____ / /\/\ / /__ / / \/ / /__// / / / // /__// /__/ /_/ //_/___ /_/ / /_/ //_/ /_/_/\//_/ //_/ \ BY ____ _ _ ____ _ _ ____ _ _ /________/_____/__/________/\ \___ __\___ | \___ \ \ // ___!// | \// | \ \ // \/// ! // | \/ \______/ \________\____!____/ \___ _ _ \___ _ _ \___ _ _ md .oO The Game Oo. ********************************************************************** * WARNING WARNING WARING * * This version is the LAST PREVIEW. * * * It works for 10 minuts each game, then it stops (it doesn't crash.)* ********************************************************************** Items: - Credits. - The story sofar... - Helpfull hints, tips and manual. - Main menu - Options - Ingame - Extras - Controls - Address -/ Credits \---!------------------------------------------------------ - Game Idea ! Bonus and a bit of Atari VCS 2600 tanks original. GFA Coding ! Bonus (95% of the game is GFA !!!!!) ASM Coding ! OTM (Faster sprite rout and bullets) DSP Replay rout! Bitmaster of TCE (Great 4 chan music,4 chan samples) GFX ! Bonus (Degas Elite, Crackart, Font FX(PC)) Music ! Toodeloo of DHS (Many THX for that !!!!) Samples ! Bonus Beta testing ! Earx, OTM, Wingleader,Grey, D-Force, Cardassian Spy - Ideas,Mail ! Sebastian Scheerans (lost contact with you !!!!) Tips and ! D-Force (also for making music) moral support ! EVL (positieve support and spreading the preview) ! Cardassian Spy (Support, ideas) ! The Paranoid (for the review on your page) ! Deez (bug report) ! Vido (Moral support) ! MC Laser .tSCc.( Music support ) ! Stefan (16) from Germany ( for loads of ideas !!!) ! Maggie team (for good review in maggie #26) - ! and all that I might have forgotten sofar... \_____________________________________________ ___ __ _ -/ The story sofar... \----------------------------------------------- In the near future great wars will be banned from the face of the earth. After years of war men finaly concluded that the suffering is too great and steps will be taken to prefend this from happening again. So a old kind of warfare is introduced, the men against men battle. Although is doesn't seem that old,it is for mankind again. The two parties that want to fight over an issue will have to enter the arena themselves. Not with mighty armies or missle launchers. Only a standaard weapon is given to them in a arena filled with danger. The one that can survive that will win the fight. This will safe millions of lives and is much cheaper. To prefend that a fight will take days drones or bombs are also released into the arena. They will haunt the players so that they will move through the area and surge for each other. -/ Helpfull hints, tips and manual \---------------------------------- This is also the beta release of the manual !!!!!!! -/ Main Menu \-------------------------------------------------------- Use in the main menu the cursor keys and space bar to select an option. Use left and right cursor key to select maze/arena of module music. During the playing you can press ESC to go back to the main menu. Pressing ESC in the main menu exits the game. -/ Options \---------------------------------------------------------- Rebouncing Bullets : This is one of the new features of the game which I like the most. What does it do ??? It makes the bullets bounce against the walls and other objects in its path. The gives the bullet a rather strange path as it bounces through the playfield. Try it and you will love it. Try also with different range and number of bullets !!! Number of bullets: You can choose between 1 and 5 bullets to shoot. By pressing the fire or spacebar the number of bullets will increase until it reaches the top. Pressing once more will result in going back to 1. N.B. using just 1 bullet a player will make things rather difficult but funny. Sound FX : You can turn them ON/OFF by using the fire button or press the spacebar. Int. Speaker : You can turn it ON/OFF by using the fire button or the spacebar. Personaly I prefer it OFF and use the phonejack to the connect it to my stereo and enjoy the SFX. Module music : Again turn it on off with fire button or spacebar. (There will be more modules to choose from in the final version !!!) -/ Ingame \----------------------------------------------------------- Brown walls just stop you... \ Green plants also stop... \ Bleu objects bounce you back... > Nice to know before you start ! Orange/Red objects/walls kill you... / Drones or bombs also kill you but you can shoot them to. After a while they will be reborn though !!! There are also some extra to be found to make things more difficult... -/ Extras \----------------------------------------------------------- At random bonus objects can appear like: -S- : Double speed. Walk twice as hard as your opponent or in other words walk as fast a your bullets fly. Sounds great but also a bit harder to control.... -A- : Armour. This protects you against the bullets of your opponent. But thats it, not against doors or drones/bombs or even by collition with your opponent. Rememeber that. You can see if your armour is still active by the color of your men. He turns grey. -C- :Cloaked. Your men goes invisible, can shoot though. -H- :Halt. Stops your opponent from moving for a while but he can still shoot !!!! -X- :Jammed weapon. This bonus jams your opponents weapon so he/she can't shoot for a while. and thats it for the bonus objects.... -/ Controls \-------------------------------------------------------- Player 1 Keyboard controls Player 2 Keyboard controls ( numeric keys ) 7 8 9 = FIRE Q W E =FIRE \ ! / \ ! / 4- -6 A- -D / ! \ / ! \ 1 2 3 Z X C Player 1 Joystick control Player 2 Joystick control Use port 0 Use port 1 Player 1 Paddle control Player 2 Paddle control Use port 0 This option is not avaiable -/ Address \----------------------------------------------------------- Men at War is a FUN production made by Bonus Software Alexander "Bonus" de Vries URL:www.xs4all.nl/~bonus (FUN homepage) E-mail:Bonus@xs4all.nl