Total Carnage (Computer Combat)
Total Carnage (AGA), Original Arcade game by Midway Entertainment. Amiga conversion developed and published by I.C.E in 1994. This release was packaged with the Amiga 1200 Computer Combat Pack.
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Player's Review
"AKHABOOB OF KOOKISTAN HAS CREATED AN ARMY OF MUTANTS IN HIS BIO-NUCLEAR GENERATOR. WILL HE RULE THE WORLD OR ARE YOU STRONG, DETERMINED AND BRAVE ENOUGH TO DEFEAT THIS EVIL DICTATOR? THROW YOURSELF AGAINST TANKS, TRUCKS, PLANES AND PINK RAMPAGING MONSTERS! LAUGH IN THE FACE OF ONE TO ONE COMBAT AS YOU WIPE OUT HORROS OF MUTANT WARRIORS. THIS IS NOT FOR THE WEAK, THIS IS TOTAL CARNAGE!
LEVEL AFTER LEVEL OF BLASTING, EXPLOSIVE, FANTASTIC FLAME THROWING FUN! SELECT FROM AN ARSENAL OF WEAPONARY, WITH AWESOME FIRE POWER. CHOOSE FROM: MACHINE GUNS...GRENADE LAUNCHERS...ROCKET LAUNCHERS...PLASMA GUNS...FLAME THROWERS...SPRAY-FIRE RIFLES...SMART BOMBS...TIME BOMBS CALL FOR AIRSTRIKES AND MOUE ON TO FACE THE BIGGEST, UGLIEST, AND MERNEST BOSS MONSTERS EVER!"
Total Carnage Amiga conversion saw both A500 (ECS) and A1200 (AGA) releases and I believe the only differences are more colourful cutscenes and extra speech in the A1200 game. Unfortunately, they are both tragic conversions with very little resemblance to the Arcade original. No expense was spared on presentation with no music at all and not even any sfx in the cutscenes.
The game is quite slow loading although I've trimmed it down a fair bit in the video. The levels are loaded in small sections which are annoyingly broken up with please wait / press fire to continue screens. Overall the game is quite short with more than a few levels missing. Collision detection somehow feels off which may get you killed more than once as well as needing to walk over items a few times before acknowledging the pick up.
Gameplay involves surviving for as long as possible and making it to the boss screens and ultimately clear the game. There will be many extra lives to pickup but note that there are no continues. Once the lives are gone, so are you!. Each level requires shooting all the bad guys that appear on screen and there will be many weapon drops to help out. The time bombs can be a great help if the mob is coming for you. For bonus points there are jewels, captured news reporters and keys to collect. Speaking of which, I believe you need x number of keys in the original game to reach the pleasure dome in the original game. I'm not sure the Amiga game cares and shows you the end screen regardless.
Overall, the conversion is quite bad as already noted and seems a low effort all round and they wanted Thirty quid for this game! The version played here is the Commodore A1200 Combat Pack Pack-In game. I'm not sure it would fill you with the confidence that you bought the right games machine. Smash T.V was a much better conversion.
LEVEL AFTER LEVEL OF BLASTING, EXPLOSIVE, FANTASTIC FLAME THROWING FUN! SELECT FROM AN ARSENAL OF WEAPONARY, WITH AWESOME FIRE POWER. CHOOSE FROM: MACHINE GUNS...GRENADE LAUNCHERS...ROCKET LAUNCHERS...PLASMA GUNS...FLAME THROWERS...SPRAY-FIRE RIFLES...SMART BOMBS...TIME BOMBS CALL FOR AIRSTRIKES AND MOUE ON TO FACE THE BIGGEST, UGLIEST, AND MERNEST BOSS MONSTERS EVER!"
Total Carnage Amiga conversion saw both A500 (ECS) and A1200 (AGA) releases and I believe the only differences are more colourful cutscenes and extra speech in the A1200 game. Unfortunately, they are both tragic conversions with very little resemblance to the Arcade original. No expense was spared on presentation with no music at all and not even any sfx in the cutscenes.
The game is quite slow loading although I've trimmed it down a fair bit in the video. The levels are loaded in small sections which are annoyingly broken up with please wait / press fire to continue screens. Overall the game is quite short with more than a few levels missing. Collision detection somehow feels off which may get you killed more than once as well as needing to walk over items a few times before acknowledging the pick up.
Gameplay involves surviving for as long as possible and making it to the boss screens and ultimately clear the game. There will be many extra lives to pickup but note that there are no continues. Once the lives are gone, so are you!. Each level requires shooting all the bad guys that appear on screen and there will be many weapon drops to help out. The time bombs can be a great help if the mob is coming for you. For bonus points there are jewels, captured news reporters and keys to collect. Speaking of which, I believe you need x number of keys in the original game to reach the pleasure dome in the original game. I'm not sure the Amiga game cares and shows you the end screen regardless.
Overall, the conversion is quite bad as already noted and seems a low effort all round and they wanted Thirty quid for this game! The version played here is the Commodore A1200 Combat Pack Pack-In game. I'm not sure it would fill you with the confidence that you bought the right games machine. Smash T.V was a much better conversion.
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