in hoc signo vinces TransarcticaGame presentation |
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ContextBy the XXIst century, Earth suffers a terrible cold after a scientific experiment. It had been set up to slow down the greehoust effect: the "project Blind". An enormous dust cloud covered the whole sky, blocking most of the sunshine. Continents and oceans iced, and are now covered by a gigantic snow cover. The only way to move from a city to another is the rail. The hegemony of trains has begun. The player is leading an armoured train, the Transarctica. He stole it from the powerful Viking Union, in order to find how it is possible to get the sun back. The only way for this is to make commercial deals with cities to get coal, in order to run the train. But in these unsettled times, tracks are not safe: packs of starving wolfes attack the convoys. Mammooths --an re-evolution from the elephant-- roam around the icy plains, and the Viking Unions has sent war trains against you to get the Transarctica back! The player is looking for information and discivers about the "Project Sun" and the famous "Gycode". Le player is an "ambivalent": a person that believes in the possibility that the sun is not a myth.
Playing Arctic BaronThe game mainly plays with the mouse. Keyboard is used sometimes for numbers --in this case, NEVER use the numbers up the keyboard and only use the numbers of the numpad. Rarely, letters are used: only for the saving file name. The sound is absolutely uninteresting, but is useful to react rapidly to alerts. The game plays alone. There is no multi-players mode. The game plays real-time : 1 second real time is 1 minute of the game. You can speed up by clicking the clock. Go back to standard time speed by clicking the clock again. To leave the game you either:
Losing the gameThe game is lost immediately with one of the following events:
Winning the gameThe game is won when a the player arrives to find the Gycode and to go to it. For this, you need to go to the himalaya, and destroy the Minotaurus. Be prepared to spend some hours in order to reach the end of the game. Saving often your game is useful.
About TransarcticaYear: 1992 / 1993 (dates differ depending on sources) Box artworkThe box cover art used for the game is actually a 1985 poster by fantasy artist Rodney Matthews called "Heavy Metal Hero". Releases depending on the distributors, hardwares and regionsAmigaPublished by Silmarils Atari STPublished by Silmarils MS-DOSPublished by Silmarils Published by Silmarils Published by Silmarils MacintoshPublished by Silmarils
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