NITEMARE 3D - A House of Horrors
                    (On SynTax Disk 930)

                  Reviewed by David Froude

Nitemare 3D is a game similar to "DOOM".

The version reviewed was V1.1, shareware version, copyright 1994 -
David P Gray.

The version on Syntax disk 930 contains episode 1 of 3 episodes
available.  The full program contains over 7.5 megabytes, and may
be obtained from an address in the USA given in the disk. The 3
episodes are entitled:-
          Episode 1 A House of Horrors
          Episode 2 The Plasma Core
          Episode 3 Death or Glory

The game is "zipped" on the floppy and may be down loaded onto the
hard disk into a directory entitled "first aid".

The game must be run from DOS.  N3D loads the game bringing up the
title screen.  Two further key presses brings up the main menu

     New game
     Configuration       H/W - Mouse, Joystick, Music, Sound FX
                         Cheats
     Load                (an existing saved game)
     Instructions        (32 pages of it)
     Demo
     Quit

I ran the demo but after a few minutes the game crashed out but
episode 1 ran OK.

You are given a choice of 3 levels of difficulty, "Be Gentle",
"Tough" and "Let's Party".

The setting for the game is the house of the evil Dr Hamerstein
aided by his nasty minions.  He has captured your beloved
sweetheart Penelope and imprisoned her in order to carry out his
evil experiments.  (Where have I heard this before?) To continue,
you, as Hugo, venture into the horrific world of Dr Hamerstein on
your perilous quest for Penelope and a mystical mirror which leads
to the "other side".  The mission to rescue Penelope is not an
easy one.  You must not only defeat the crazed inhabitants of the
house including Dr H but also solve numerous puzzles along the
way.  Finally your journey will take you through the mystical
mirror to the "other side" where you will confront Dr H who is
holding poor Penelope hostage.

Well as I said before, this is a Doom style game and the first
thing to do is to find a gun to blast the nasties before they do
away with you.  This is easily found but bullets are limited.
However, all is not lost and the gun can be replenished as you
explore the house.  Other weapons may be found - a plasma gun, a
magic wand and so on which provide additional armoury for downing
those nasties.  There are many corridors which end in seeming
blank ends but a touch of the space button and they slide away
revealing more corridors and nasties to shoot before they get you.
Bookcases also slide along and it is difficult unless you have
some sort of map to know where you have been before but provided
you collect enough "eyes", pressing F9 will provide a map of the
areas already visited.  Pressing "tab" will provide a status
report.

There are many hidden passages and plenty of shooting to be
carried out and for a Doom admirer this would I believe be just
their cup of tea.










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