Deadly Tide is a frenetic rail-shooter released by Microsoft Studios in 1996. You play as an elite hydro-fighter in a flooded future Earth invaded by aquatic aliens. Your mission is to bring down the underwater invaders by attacking their strongholds in exhilarating shoot-outs.
I came across this game by chance at a garage sale, and was astonished by the game's well-paced story, action-packed gameplay and cinematic presentation.
The plot progresses smoothly with goals of ever-increasing importance and difficulty, and the set-pieces are diverse and atmospheric. You alternate between piloting your Hydra Fighter and searching sunken ruins on foot, and every scene offers pulsepounding excitement as you blast away at any target that moves. You need sharp concentration and quick reflexes to get through the levels in one piece. The graphics are also very realistic, especially for the primitive (8 MB RAM) hardware of the time.
Deadly Tide is an interactive movie, plain and simple, and one of few games to accomplish this gracefully, but very few people have heard of it.
This game will even work without a problem on modern PCs, which is more than you can say about most games from that period.
If any Escapists have played Deadly Tide, let me know what you think, as I am eager to hear your thoughts.
Cheers!
I came across this game by chance at a garage sale, and was astonished by the game's well-paced story, action-packed gameplay and cinematic presentation.
The plot progresses smoothly with goals of ever-increasing importance and difficulty, and the set-pieces are diverse and atmospheric. You alternate between piloting your Hydra Fighter and searching sunken ruins on foot, and every scene offers pulsepounding excitement as you blast away at any target that moves. You need sharp concentration and quick reflexes to get through the levels in one piece. The graphics are also very realistic, especially for the primitive (8 MB RAM) hardware of the time.
Deadly Tide is an interactive movie, plain and simple, and one of few games to accomplish this gracefully, but very few people have heard of it.
This game will even work without a problem on modern PCs, which is more than you can say about most games from that period.
If any Escapists have played Deadly Tide, let me know what you think, as I am eager to hear your thoughts.
Cheers!