Commodore 64 software company Protovision released a game that they say:
“20 years in the making, there has never been anything comparable for the C64.”
According to Protovision:
“Newcomer is part classic adventure game and part roleplaying game: It contains situations and encounters like those found in adventure games and tabletop roleplaying. The game interface and controls are similar to oldschool computer “RPGs”.”
This thing looks huge and it seems to be the ultimate Commodore 64 game ever..
Just look at the features:
- 180+ characters you can interact with, each with his/her own portrait graphic
- 10+ people who may join you, to make a team of up to 6 members…or try it on your own, in the extra challenging Solo game mode…
- 50+ different areas to explore, created with 30+ different graphic sets
- 100+ cutscenes/situational graphics in-game, that make you feel like you are there
- 180,000+ words of ingame text, mostly interactive conversations
- No random encounters
- Thousands of puzzles and situations to encounter and solve
- Complex, non-linear gameplay with multiple levels of endings
- Months or weeks of immersive gaming until you “complete” the game…
- …but there will still be a thousand situations, resolutions and encounters you have not seen yet, and 2 more game modes to complete!
- Animated intro and outro sequences
- Game controls changed for more comfort for emulator users on PC/Mac keyboards
- VICE fully supported, extensively tested, no virtual floppy disk swapping, works like a native PC / Mac / Linux game
- Much faster disk I/O in the 1541 version, compared to classic or Enhanced Newcomer
- Less floppy disk swapping needed – optimized data layout, area sorting and duplication for all multiple floppy disk versions
- 1541 version: 11* floppy disk sides
- 1581 version: 3* DD floppy disks
- CMD FD2000 version: 2* HD floppy disks
- CMD FD4000 version: a single ED floppy disk – zero disk swapping
- IDE64 version: 2 MB installed, “instant I/O”, playing from HDD / CD / DVD / CF / remote filesystem (ethernet, USB, or User Port PCLink, via ideserv – IDE DOS v0.91 or newer required for this feature) supported, different data and save devices supported
- PAL and NTSC Commodore 64/64C/128/128D/128DCr systems auto-detected and supported
- 6581 and 8580 SID chips auto-detected and supported
- C128 2MHz CPU mode auto-detected and supported – much faster unpacking for all storage devices
- SuperCPU 20MHz mode auto-detected and supported – instant unpacking for all storage devices
Here are some screenshots
I don’t know what more to say.. I have a feeling I am going to have to buy this. I mean this just looks way too cool not to.
There are a ton more pictures on their website
http://www.protovision-online.de/games/newcomer.htm
Newcomer’s official website: http://www.newcomer.hu/
Also check out Protovision’s other games.