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"PACEM IN TERRIS" by QUASIMODOS
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system... Atari XL/XE, tested with AtariWin on P233MMX
size..... 2 disksides
release.. o8/o2
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"Quasimodos"? Yes, the same band that showed already with "Ergo Bibamus" their
cool skills in demo creating, striked now back with a quite differend kind of
demo, but later more...
Right at first after starting with diskside one a setup screen appears, showing
a not so blasting Quasimodos logo. But ofcourse we wont setup anything and so we
started the demo straight forward. Then a loading screen comes up, showing the
status of loading the demo, cool, eh? ;) and after a (long) while including a
diskchange the demo starts with a nice styled intro picture and a neat chipmusic
starts to play. So just take a look on it here...
Not bad, eh?
Then there are some line vectors building up the title logo and then... the
scenery! What scenery? Wait, I'll tell you! The lines are forming some 2d scene
in black/white like known from so many jump and run games, and suddenly small
animated freax are blowing life into it, running around and starting to beat up
each other... wow!
Has somebody watched too much Jacky Chan movies here? Anyway, it goes on like
that and there seems to be some super hero that is fighting against all others
with chops, kicks and jumps, later on some of his enemies are going unfair,
using daggers, wands and other equipment, but he beats them up all, slices them
with the dagger and so on... the animations are really well done for such little
objects and it is fun to watch the stuff, esp. since it is a quite interesting
and entertaining idea... Take a closer look onto it here...
I have to admit, it looks quite boring in this static screenshot! But you have
to see it moving!
Then another guy appeared with a white bubble over the head, saying "boss"...
Aaah! Level matched? Anyway, the whole thing zooms in to show us the final fight
from a better perspective... and so they're jumping and kicking around and since
the sprites are quite big now, they are also better and smooth animated, pure
entertainment!
And it still isn't enough since suddenly the whole scenery turns into 3d and you
can watch the last move/kick in 3d perspective! And as the kick landed the
screen turns into white! Wow!
Then there comes the endpart with technical information, credits and greetings,
followed by their web link... http://www.quasimodos.px.pl
final words... I have to admit, it is quite a while ago that I saw such a nice
entertaining demo production. It isn't just a follow up of some
effects like in the "traditional" way, no. Even if the created
animation is in black & white only and the sprites are very small
it is always fun to watch it, the idea alone is a bit crazy and
the movements of those little guys is as realistic as possible in
such low resolution, really well done. The music matches well to
the demo and the rest around this animation part is quite ok as
well... This demo has a quite refreshing touch!
___ratings______________________________________________________________________
visuals....... 6o % - grafix are ok, fighters animation, a bit colourless
audio......... 75 % - good chipmusic
effects....... 7o % - some vector stuff, the animated fight rocks!
design........ 5o % - some nice transitions, nice colours...
originality... 9o % - cool idea with the beat'em'up movie thingie!
___overall______69_%____________________________________________________________
Yo... if the surroundings wouldn't be that sparse, this demo would be a real
burner...
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