LineWars description
Perhaps one of the first games of its genre, focused not primarily on single mode, and the battles between multiple players via modem connection. LineWars is a space arcade shooter with a sufficient feature set for the war. You're in the cockpit of the spaceship, which is equipped with two laser guns and a rocket launcher. Fire can lead in two directions – in front of him and behind him, and the player is available at any time, the surveillance cameras showing the situation not only from the stern or cockpit, but also on the sides of the fighter. Indicators on the screen display the current status of indicators such as speed, strength energy shield and charge a laser. Shoot laser beams at any time and in unlimited amounts – scale restored rather quickly. The shield also has the ability to be recharged, but only if since the last hit by you some time has passed. Rocket launcher is available only when you caught the enemy on sight, and ammo for it is limited, and the gun can still jam, in which case its use before the end of the fight you can forget.
Title and Instruction screen. Mission begins. Firing lasers. Chasing a distant ship.
The space in which the fighting, does not represent something particularly interesting – just ahead of a distant star, any planets next to be seen, except occasionally pass by a stray asteroid. So to escape from the space battles are simply not what. But you can fight plenty – and your opponents have exactly the same range of weapons as you, and their ships are in no way inferior to yours. High speed and maneuverability of military vehicles doing the duel is very intense and often prolonged. To win just need lightning reactions and the ability to anticipate an opponent's movements. Three-dimensional helps a little radar on the bottom of the cab – it allows to estimate the current location of the other spaceships, but to direct the weapon of the enemy you have to yourself – no function avtopritselivaniya the game does not provide.
Blew up a meteor. A close call with another ship. A dogfight.
Even in LineWars and affordable mode of competition with a computer opponent, in the accompanying documentation the developers mentioned that the main purpose of creating the game was still fighting with live opponents. Currently, to test how such duels interesting, quite difficult, but to the credit of artificial intelligence is to recognize that he is more than a serious threat, so the game will be boring. Of course, it is a pity that LineWars missing any extras like buying weapons or team battles, but with the task sort of arena shooter game does.
Game Over!
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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com