It all looks quite good, and appropriate to each location. SplashdownĮverything is of course blue, being underwater and all that. All the graphics are of course rendered, with not a hand-drawn backdrop or live actor in sight. There are the obligatory inter-level interludes, with rather dodgily acted speech. You don't actually have any control over where you go. This is repeated till the end of the level. Clear the area, and you're dragged along a little further into the complex, where you pause, and more aliens home in on you. The general format is you enter an area, and take out the bad guys around you. The game is split up into a number of stages, taking place in various locations, the ultimate aim being to make your way through to the end of that level in once piece. The rest of the plot is straight out of the Random Plot Generator prototype fighter, bases attacked, other fighters destroyed, earth's last chance, and so on. Plus, they're also slowly raising the level of the oceans, trying to flood humans from the planet. They take up residence in the oceans of earth, and begin to launch attacks on shipping. The basic premise behind Deadly Tide is that the aliens have arrived on Earth, and in true ID4 style, they're not friendly. But that's what you get with Deadly Tide.
In my opinion, only the Rebel Assault games have managed to pull it off successfuly. It's a trade-off that I'm seldom happy with. You do get flashier graphics, but the you lose the freedom of movement associate with other games. A pre-rendered game differs from other games in that rather than having the freedom to wander around the levels, you are limited to a certain path, from which you can only deviate a little. What it is, is a pre-rendered shoot-em-up, or a game on rails, which accounts for the four CDs of data. Deadly Tide, while not exactly falling into the 'interactive movie' genre, certainly isn't a sub simulation. PlesiosaurĪnd as it turns out, my suspicions weren't completely unfounded. But I had a review to do, so I placed the first CD in the drive, and loaded it up. 'Interactive Movie' they were telling me. Suddenly, little warning bells started going off in my head. There was a 'clunk', as four CD's dropped out onto my desk. Not that I'm wierd in any way, of course. There goes several million dollar's worth of hardware. Oh, and the sub's been crushed like a tin can. Or going to the deepest ocean trench you can find, and diving, just to find out how fast you can write off the sub. You know the sort drifting silently under the water, sneaking up on convoys, only to have them drop depth charges on your head. When I was given Microsoft's Deadly Tide to review, I jumped to the obvious conclusions.
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