Abomination: The Nemesis Project

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Abomination: The Nemesis Project
Tweet Topic Started: Mar 19 2014, 06:33 PM (647 Views)
dicehead	Mar 19 2014, 06:33 PM Post #1
Mutant Hunter Posts: 1,430 Group: Members Member #83 Joined: May 19, 2009	Abomination: The Nemesis Project was a computer game released in 1999 and billed as the spiritual successor to XCOM. Unfortunately unlike XCOM it wasn't turn based but instead real time strategy which you could pause for a while to give orders. A plague wipes out almost everyone, the survivors mostly join a cult which seems to be at least partly responsible for the plague. The cult predicts the coming of "the brood", a Lovecraftian superorganism that takes many forms. The player controls a small group of supersoldiers (and sometimes cops and soldiers you encounter). I think it's an interesting setting because you've got your ordinary armed cultists, bio-monsters and cities that are in the process of weird changes. Tentacles have emerged from the road to consume cars, buildings grow an outer shell of bone and muscle and ordinary looking homes have crazy looking growths ominously surrounded by dead cops. When Ross was asking about inspiring fallout scenery back around Christmas it made me think of classic isometric games like fallout, jagged alliance (anyone remember that classic?) and then finally this. Maybe this should go in the game section? Wish I could find the introduction movie to the game because it really sets the mood, here's a few pics. Edited by dicehead, Mar 19 2014, 06:47 PM.



Brummie	Mar 19 2014, 06:57 PM Post #2
Boss Sec Man Posts: 2,156 Group: Members Member #350 Joined: Aug 18, 2011	Wow that looks cool. I don't recall this game at all! But at the beginning of the internet age it was quite easy to miss games like this. Edited by Brummie, Mar 19 2014, 06:57 PM.



Finisterrae	Mar 20 2014, 12:06 AM Post #3
Coldheart Posts: 514 Group: Members Member #416 Joined: Jan 23, 2012	Looks good, never heard of it. Speaking of old games, everyone knows Gorky17? Had a cool story about mutants in an abandoned Soviet army base. And Burntime, another classic with crappy ingame graphics, but moody atmosphere and nice VGA images.



dicehead	Mar 20 2014, 11:56 AM Post #4
Mutant Hunter Posts: 1,430 Group: Members Member #83 Joined: May 19, 2009	I've never heard of those two but they do look like my kind of thing.



Finisterrae	Mar 20 2014, 12:04 PM Post #5
Coldheart Posts: 514 Group: Members Member #416 Joined: Jan 23, 2012	Gorky offers a good mix of strategy, RPG and adventure. Burntime can be found as abandonware, but keep in mind it´s 23 years old by now, so be warned And now I remember having read the review of Abdomination back then... there were some issues with the gameplay that scarred me off if I remember correctly. Edited by Finisterrae, Mar 20 2014, 12:06 PM.



dicehead	Mar 20 2014, 12:36 PM Post #6
Mutant Hunter Posts: 1,430 Group: Members Member #83 Joined: May 19, 2009	Yes the controls were terrible, it should have been turn based. I did battle it right to the end though just to see what strange creatures and environments they had come up with and wasn't disappointed!



Crazy Joe	Mar 20 2014, 03:33 PM Post #7
Mutant Hunter Posts: 1,294 Group: Members Member #77 Joined: Mar 26, 2009	I like the concept. It's not on Steam, maybe someone will do a Kickstart update.



Golan2072	Mar 21 2014, 03:00 PM Post #8
Cannie! Posts: 743 Group: Members Member #231 Joined: Sep 16, 2010	Burntime has some very problematic bugs, and is almost impossible to truely win, but has GREAT promise and ideas in it.



Wiggles	Mar 23 2014, 08:53 PM Post #9
Super Mutant Posts: 371 Group: Members Member #569 Joined: Feb 27, 2013	I think Abomination was rated as one of the worst games of all time... I remember playing the demo myself way back in the day and I seem to remember it making me feel ill. No idea why.



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