The Chaos Engine Longplay (Amiga CD32) [60 FPS]

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Developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade in 1993

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Mad scientist, Baron Forteseque, has created a machine capable of distorting time and space. Unfortunately, the machine has gained consciousness and has distorted reality, causing wide-spread chaos and destruction.

Enter 6 mercenaries for hire; armed to the teeth, it is up to them to fight their way across multiple levels to destroy the Chaos Engine.

Undoubtedly one of the finest games on the Amiga and also of it's particular generation, I decided to do a longplay of the Amiga CD32 version of the game. It's practically identical to the AGA disk version (the CD32 was equipped with the AGA chipset) apart from an animated introduction with voice-over.

The game features levels with multiple paths, secrets galore, great graphic, sound and playability. The AI for the CPU-controlled player is pretty decent too; it will actively try to collect loot, activate nodes, shoot monsters and avoid danger. The effectiveness of the AI can be upgraded in the in-game shop too, improving it's effectiveness.

A few of the game music tracks have been remade as full CD audio and sound really nice, but the actual level music is the same as the original disk version, which is a real shame. There's nothing wrong with the music, but knowing Richard Joseph, he would have done them justice.

In addition to the music, some of the environmental and ambient level sounds have been digitally recorded and added as tracks to the CD (listen at 6:50 for the bird-song); it's better quality than the sound in the disk version. To be honest though, I'd never have noticed unless I played all the CD tracks separately to find out what they were.

The enhanced AGA colour palette is also up for debate as to whether it's an improvement over the ECS original; the muted and slightly drab colours of the original ECS disk version complemented the overall atmosphere of the game.

All these niggles aside, it's still a brilliant game and is crying out for an HD remake (not 3D though!)

Enjoy!

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