Isometric & Oblique Projection Games

[sloan]

Man, my memory is getting terrible over the years. Completely forgot about the 16-bit NBA Live series by EA. They made great use of isometric perspective for some good basketball play. My son and I enjoyed many great games on Genesis NBA Live. Now, he cannot play anything that old due to 'lousy graphics'. Go figure.

NBA Live 96- New York Knicks Vs Chicago Bulls (Sega Genesis)

[onthinice]

NBA Live series made some of the last basketball games I ever enjoyed. Modern b-ball games are nice eye candy but lack the gameplay for me.

[TL]

Another rather spiffing isometric game for the good old Speccy:

Strike Force Cobra Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

[Rogue Trooper]

Sweevo's World (Speccy/CPC) been mentioned? (well recived by press, Crash Smash and Amstrad action Rave etc).

Now a PC game that i seem to be the only person who's ever played, Abomination.Done by Ex-Xcom chap, Peter Moorland, published by Edios, featured randomly generated missionsinsane cultists, Zombies, creatures built from corpses, dynamic A.I etc and influenced by Syndicate, Xcom, Resident evil and Diablo.

[Rogue Trooper]

One for Katz:

Spindizzy on the Amstrad CPC of all things had such an effect at the time on Glenn Corpes (who went on to help code Populous etc) seeing it in 4 colours and running at 320X200 it influenced the graphics engine of Populous years later.

Not only that, but Glenn actually met author of Spindizzy (Paul Shirley) and told him he'd completed the game, to which Paul then accused Glenn of cheating!.Glenn swore he had'nt and Paul told him he was a 'sad bastard'.

:-)

[SnakeEyes]

The Strike games on MD

+ Cobra Triangle, RC pro-am, Snake Rattle and Roll on the NES.

[TL]

This was a really cool isometric game with some cracking music:

Glider Rider Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

[TrekMD]

Here is an isometric game for the Intellivision that I recently played...Motocross.

[align=center:14kjlcw1]Motocross - Intellivision[/align:14kjlcw1]

[TL]

That looks excellent! I have never seen that game before!

[TrekMD]

That looks excellent! I have never seen that game before!

Then you'll be glad to know that I'm writing a review for it.    Coming soon!

[sloan]

Suffice it to say that the INTV disc controller is poorly qualified for the directionals in Motocross. I could barely keep the MX bike on the course.

[TrekMD]

Suffice it to say that the INTV disc controller is poorly qualified for the directionals in Motocross. I could barely keep the MX bike on the course.

Which control system did you use?  Directional or Left/Right?

[sloan]

I didn't know there were two control systems for the game, so whichever one it defaults to I guess. Didn't mean to sound so negative. The game is great looking for certain. I just could not get the hang of the control system. Maybe once I read your review...

[TrekMD]

The Directional method is the best way to play the game but it does still get some getting used to. The Left/Right method is not very good.  Control is something that does require mastery but it is better than Auto Racing, I think.  I can't get used to how that one works.

[TL]

A great Zaxxon clone, Leviathan on the Atari ST:

Leviathan_MSTE.avi