3D ANT ATTACK



PUBLISHER

Quicksilva



AUTHOR

Sandy White



YEAR

1983.



DESCRIPTION

3D Ant Attack is an isometric 3D arcade game with a crap hi-score

table.





CONTROLS:

Keyboard:

Left,Right         - M and SYMBOL SHIFT

Forward            - V

Jump               - C

Fire Grenades      - S, D, F or G (Each key throws grenade

different distance)

Change view        - 0, P, ENTER and SPACE



INSTRUCTIONS

Rescue your partner from a city (Called Antescher, some of

M.C.Escher's work was obviously an inspiration for a few of the

buildings) infested with ants!!. 



Once you have chosen the gender of your character, the adventure

begins.  You have to find and rescue your partner (who is the

opposite gender to your character), located somewhere in the

(almost) deserted city of Antescher - There are lots of giant

ants infesting the city.  To rescue your partner you have to move

near to him/her, this causes them to wake-up (temporary

paralysis, courtesy of the ants), verbally show his/her

gratidude, and then proceed to follow you as you move.  The ants

have other ideas, and will bite you if they come into contact. 

You can withstand 20 bites before succumbing their poison, and

having to start again....  



To aid you, there are a number of grenades on your presence,

which you can use to defend yourself.  Depending on your distance

from the ants, you can throw the grenades varying distances.  If

you are not careful, you can run into grenades if thrown whilst

running, thus rendering you incompatible with life and requiring

a restart. Throwing them near a wall will make them roll up it,

and down on you, with the same result.  If you use up all your

grenades, you can still paralyse the ants by jumping on their

backs (Top tip - you will need to do this to mount the rescue in

later levels, to act as a step..)  There are not any lives, as

such, just a time limit for each level, of which there are 10

levels with your partner being located in gradually more devious

places.



URL

ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/a/antattac.zip



SCORES RECEIVED

This game was not reviewed in Crash, and not rated in YS.



CHEAT

Insert the following line after breaking into the program with

Multiface, or similar:



62 POKE 45164,3:POKE 45165,238   



Then RUN the program again, you should have unlimited time.



NOTES

Very disappointing front end, when first loaded looks very naff

indeed - Beeps and coloured graphic blocks to greet you.  First

non-sexist game (?) (choose the sex of your character). 

Excellent, and fast 3D effect, called Soft Solid, which

incidentally was developed on an Acorn Atom.















































