Save those pages of the manual for helpful mission hints, guys. Back in reality land, Hellbender is the sequel to Microsoft's very first big-time computer game, Fury3, and it is a worthy sequel.
Hellbender is a sort of futuristic flight combat sim, wherein you fly a series of missions over and through increasingly hostile planets swarming with all sorts of other folks in similar flying machines whose job it is to shoot you down. Picture yourself in the cramped cockpit of, say, Luke Skywalker's X-wing as you skim over the surface of an iron-oxide red alien planet.
Strange spires and squat grey buildings mark outposts and military bases, and the sky swirls with purple clouds. Out of nowhere, three red circles appear on your radar screen, and ten seconds later, metallic green alien ships crest the mountains to your left and come screaming toward you.
It's beautiful to look at, as Microsoft has made the most of their Direct Draw and 3D rendering technology. The topography of the landscapes and the butter-smooth flight dynamics alone are enough to recommend this game as a sci-fi flight sim, but the game, especially the multiplayer side of it, is quite worthy in itself. The storyline of Hellbender is pretty sketchy as to why, exactly, the bosses of the evil Bions live underground, but they do.
On the surface of the planets, you'll find a vast array of gun turrets, mechs, enemy ships, etc. If the latter part of that sounds a lot like Descent , it is. If it sounds a bit confusing, and a bit difficult, it's both of those too. More than anything, you will begin to feel pestered in Hellbender. I have this game, got it to work on Windows 7 32bit, but now I have 64bit and it does not run anymore as there is no 16bit support anymore - shame on Microsft, not even the compatibility mode works anymore.
Got Fury3 to work though even under 64bit, strange or what? Ah yes! Summers in my youth spent on this game. Good pic for the wishlist, maybe some day I'll see it here. If they released this game on here I'd buy a new joystick and then have the perfect Christmas present for my dad. Given the amount of votes and the fact that, as of right now anyway, GOG has no deals with Microsoft makes me think it's not going to happen. Hey maybe next year. But what was done - was done almost fantastic. Planets in full 3d, enemies in full 3d, missiles, shots - in full 3d.
Only 2d part were pickups and billboard explosions, but besides from that - true gem of the flight action arcade shooters. Rightful rival of Decent 1 in that part of game industry at the time. Sadly forgotten and overlooked.
Some minuses were included as well. Like to example - both fury3 and hellbender share same soundtrack, however - fury3 has its part of tracks in CD audio, and hellbender has other part of tracks in CD audio.
However both games have full pack of tracks in lower version packed in. But sadly, we don't have main fury theme on hellbender's cdda tracks, despite its usage ingame. Also - game gaved really interesting and sometimes unique architectural visuals.
If you played freelancer you remember last mission with Dyson shield surrounding star and how you were in awe of its stunning construction and visual of outer space range inside of it.. Now imagine that in hellbender you constantly see small examples of such stunning visuals here and there combined into good architecture. Please make this happen. This was the first video game I've ever played. I used to play the demo for this game over and over and over again.
I absolutely loved it as a kid. The full game on GOG would be fantastic! If you like Descent or Terminal Velocity this is right up your alley! I got the cd some years back from some tech store lol. Those wishes are duplicates of this one: Add another.
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