3D ANT ATTACK

PUBLISHER
Quicksilva

AUTHOR
Sandy White

YEAR
1983.

DESCRIPTION
3D Ant Attack is an isometric 3D arcade game with a crap hi-score
table.


CONTROLS:
Keyboard:
Left,Right         - M and SYMBOL SHIFT
Forward            - V
Jump               - C
Fire Grenades      - S, D, F or G (Each key throws grenade
different distance)
Change view        - 0, P, ENTER and SPACE

INSTRUCTIONS
Rescue your partner from a city (Called Antescher, some of
M.C.Escher's work was obviously an inspiration for a few of the
buildings) infested with ants!!. 

Once you have chosen the gender of your character, the adventure
begins.  You have to find and rescue your partner (who is the
opposite gender to your character), located somewhere in the
(almost) deserted city of Antescher - There are lots of giant
ants infesting the city.  To rescue your partner you have to move
near to him/her, this causes them to wake-up (temporary
paralysis, courtesy of the ants), verbally show his/her
gratidude, and then proceed to follow you as you move.  The ants
have other ideas, and will bite you if they come into contact. 
You can withstand 20 bites before succumbing their poison, and
having to start again....  

To aid you, there are a number of grenades on your presence,
which you can use to defend yourself.  Depending on your distance
from the ants, you can throw the grenades varying distances.  If
you are not careful, you can run into grenades if thrown whilst
running, thus rendering you incompatible with life and requiring
a restart. Throwing them near a wall will make them roll up it,
and down on you, with the same result.  If you use up all your
grenades, you can still paralyse the ants by jumping on their
backs (Top tip - you will need to do this to mount the rescue in
later levels, to act as a step..)  There are not any lives, as
such, just a time limit for each level, of which there are 10
levels with your partner being located in gradually more devious
places.

URL
ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/a/antattac.zip

SCORES RECEIVED
This game was not reviewed in Crash, and not rated in YS.

CHEAT
Insert the following line after breaking into the program with
Multiface, or similar:

62 POKE 45164,3:POKE 45165,238   

Then RUN the program again, you should have unlimited time.

NOTES
Very disappointing front end, when first loaded looks very naff
indeed - Beeps and coloured graphic blocks to greet you.  First
non-sexist game (?) (choose the sex of your character). 
Excellent, and fast 3D effect, called Soft Solid, which
incidentally was developed on an Acorn Atom.