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GAME REVIEWED: Rats!
RELEASED BY: Sean O'Connor
PRICE: £15 $20
REVIEWED BY: G-String
REVIEW: -
RATS are everywhere! Whether trying to infiltrate your house or trying to, well, ahem, um, reproduce, they're everywhere. For those who are squeamish at the sight of the furry rodents, this may or may not be the game for you. You see, you have to take on the role of an exterminator. Yeah, HASTA LA VISTA BABY! Oops, sorry, that's terminator. Shitzu. Anyway, this is a point, place, click, and kill game where you have a variety of different ways to kill the vermin. Bombs, Gas, Poison and plague rats will kill the little guests. However, that's not all you have to worry about. No no. The rats sort of, well, mate during the game. If a male and a female rat go face to face, you hear this noise, "Ah, ah, ah, ah AAAHH, mmm." Then the female rat is slower and within seconds there are about five or six more baby rats to kill. These little rats grow into big rats and get slower as they age.
To check whether a mail and a female are getting too close, there is a map of the maze where you can see what sex each rat is. Pink is for female and surprisingly blue is for male. The baby rats don't have a sex until they are adults. To stop the breeding without killing the rats, you can plant radiation which sterilises the first rat that comes across it. By planting male and female hormones, you can change the sex of any rat that comes across the signs. You can also block of entrances to tunnels where the rats like to go to, do their explicit stuff.
The game is based on a maze, and the paths can go horizontally or vertically. The bombs explode and go to the very end of the path they are on. The cannot go round corners. However if you plant them on corners they can go both ways. The objects to exterminate the rats are in your inventory and pop up randomly at only one or two at a time. You have to use them wisely. If the rats do take over and there are enough of them, you will lose the game, so you have to keep the population down. If you manage to eradicate a sex, you will be given unlimited of everything. The rats can no longer breed so it's just a matter f time to kill them, unless you foolishly plant some hormones.
Once you have wiped out and exterminated the rats, you are given a score on your time, and the objects you used, and the number of rats there were and so on. Then you proceed to the next level. Once a rat eats poison, or gets the hormones, the object disappears, cos its been used up. A sterilising abject will last for about 5 seconds, and a bomb explodes in 4 seconds. Gas lingers for about 10 seconds and the rats have to breathe it for about 2 secs. The no entry signs are damaged each time a rat hits it. until of course they fall to rubble.
Here are a few TIPS.
It is best to use bombs at corners or crossroads, cos they are more effective. Block off tunnels with no entry signs to prevent rats from going beyond your reach and to prevent breeding. Poison is most effective on the female rat at the sound of "ah ah ah ah ah aaaahhhh mmmm". And baby rats are easily fumigated.
The game is great fun and the sound effects can have you in stitches at times, unless of course, you are a serious gamer.
SCORE:
80%
MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIRED:
CPU: 486DX2
RAM: 4MB
not a lot MB HD Space
Windows
Sound Card
LINKS:
UK & Europe www.spto.demon.co.uk [email protected]
Australia [email protected]