Abomination

by Square Enix

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001ZT3Z
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 3, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,981 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Abomination, an action strategy game heavy on the action, from Eidos Interactive and Hothouse Creations, will, at first glance, remind veteran game players of X:COM: UFO Defense and Crusader: No Remorse. However, Abomination's repetitive game play and purposeless single-player game likely won't reach the acclaim of either of those classic titles.

For gamers interested more in multiplayer action, Abomination supports up to eight players over LAN and Internet connections. You'll likely find more enjoyment than those playing alone, since Abomination's single-player game lacks a worthwhile story line and any interesting goals. Players control a squad of four mercenaries, selected from a pool of various specialized and general soldiers. Loads of weapons and equipment, including rocket launchers, flame throwers, and sniper rifles, can be equipped to each squad member as you do battle to hordes of mutated human and alien enemies.

Most single-player objectives center around the same theme--kill everything in sight--though Abomination's random map generator and various replay options ensure many hours of frantic, though repetitive, game play. Multiplayer offers better choices: co-operative, death-match, capture-the-flag, lone-runner, and survival modes. Playing online against human friends and opponents (or teaming with them) provides more excitement than Abomination's average-rating solo campaign. In multiplayer mode, you'll soon become more forgiving of its story line and artificial intelligence shortcomings and enjoy the few things we found to be worthwhile: colorful graphics, blazing pyrotechnics, and extensive multiplayer options. --Doug Radcliffe

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A BIG dissapointment?, January 2, 2000

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THOR (Global Gamer Reviewer/Previewer) (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abomination (CD-ROM)

Abomination is a very good game,with a good amount of blood and gore.The storyline is pretty good too and if you start reading it,you'll want to comtinue reading it.Abomination is more of a RPG game than and action game but you can never really tell.There are ALOT of missions however.Dont get all eager about that because even though there are SO MANY missions,you just take one at a time what comes at you.you control 4 soldiers at a time to complete missions and when one dies you can take civilians and police officers.though this game is supposed to be strategical,it will be a big dissapointment to people who liked games such as WARHAMMER40,000:CHAOS GATE(BUY IT! it rules! ) and X-COM.the strategical part in Abomination comes down to "What gun do i shoot him with".The game has a lack of options too considering you take what you get and there are no exeptions.There isn't ANYTHING about Abomination that is really hard like puzzles.What kept this game from a 4 star (yes,4 stars not 5)is that,what ever you get,you will take,and the lack of strategical elements that make this game feel like a DeathMatch online.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Game?, March 18, 2000

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"flametongue" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abomination (CD-ROM)

This Game is okay, it has elements of Strategy and Real time Action, but it is not as well developed as it could have been. The technology is a good two years behind where the industry is today. If you like real time action games, this one is for you. If you like Xcom or other games like that this one is okay. There is little difference between the weapons and equipment, so the strategy part of the game suffers signifigantly, but there is alot of gameplay for the buck. On The regular and Hard settings there are literally a hundred missions to play or so before you get through the game. With each mission lasting from fifteen to thirty minutes, this game will keep you playing for a long time. The big question is will it keep you interested. The Price is coming down to the range where you can take a chance on it if you have liked other games in the Genre. It's not bad. It's not great. It's just an average title.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Game!, December 21, 2002

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Rayne Viper (Racoon City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abomination (CD-ROM)

I have read the reviews for this game and some of you have so-so opinions about it. I personally think this game has Action, Character, and Stradegy which makes it alot more intersting than some of the other games out there such as Cutthroats, Gangesters, and Legecy Of Kain. Another game that has a good idea in it is Dark Vengeance. I personally enjoy this game because every time you win it feels like a true win. Now how many games can you say that about? Come on, be truthful!