Cyberpunks
| Developer: Mutation | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Core | Sound: |
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| Year: 1993 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Action | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
6/10 | |
A knockoff (or rip-off) of Alien Breed and Alien Syndrome.
You control three little soldiers marching in single file (making it quite tricky to dodge incoming fire) through a sprawling space station. Your mission is to wipe out xenomorphs, locate keys, open doors, and occasionally rescue a lost scientist. All this, of course, under a strict time limit.
There’s a variety of gear to collect, a handful of weapons, but you’ll quickly see everything the game has to offer. Items are stored in laughably small inventories (separate ones for each soldier), meaning you’re constantly shuffling things around and deciding who carries what. This breaks an already sluggish pace.
The cartoony characters and bright colours can’t hide how repetitive, dull, and uninspired the game is—bordering on outright annoying, thanks to the constant juggling of both inventories and your trio’s positioning. It feels like trying to steer a centipede.
You’ll need the keyboard’s arrow keys to select items, so pick different keys for the joystick emulation. Press “Space” to switch between inventories, and “Enter” to use the highlighted item.
Remember to turn off the “unlimited time” cheat before taking down the boss. If you don’t, you’ll be treated to an endless point bonus that freezes the game and makes progress impossible.
Surprisingly, three characters, but no two-player mode…
Cyberpunks 2 was released in… 2023!
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