Onslaught

STORY / GAMEPLAY
In the Land of Gangore, a place of six separate kingdoms, you're a warrior with the strength of a whole army and an insatiable will for glory. The land is too hostile though and every kingdom is under different command, each with its own army trying to defeat and take over the surroundings. You start your quest by selecting one of the neighboring kingdoms to battle with. Each kingdom is ruled by a different individual that bears his own special statistics. Your opponents also have a Wizard Lord rating to let you know how hard it will be to defeat each ruler in mind duels! Minions range from robbers to undead, attacking in hordes! You must reach (alive that is) the very left end of each stage where your enemy's banner is held. During your battles, Magical relics, weapons and scrolls can be collected from fallen enemies and apart from the evil armies there are also other hazards scattered around, like mines. As said, a mind duel will also have to be fought twice during the game. Fortunately the game offers a save game feature otherwise this would be an almost impossible game to play! The gameplay does not differ from other action platform games of its time and the playing area is extremely clattered, making it difficult to see exactly what's going on around you. But still, the game worth a try, especially for people that love action platform games.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
Onslaught's graphics on the DOS version are beautiful with well defined sprites and colorful backdrops of 225 colors on-screen (VGA) whilst both the Atari ST and Amiga counterparts have around 40 colors. In fact, the skies background colors have smooth gradient giving this higher color count. But the game's backdrops (in all three versions) are too loaded and colored and the playing area is very occupied at times, making the game more difficult! There are several big explosions too and the sprites are nicely drawn and move fast. The DOS version includes a well composed introductory tune (SoundBlaster hardware) while there are a few adequate in-game tunes. Note that the Amiga and ST sound are both superior at this point.

GAMEPLAY SAMPLE VIDEO
On our video below you may watch both the EGA and VGA versions of the game.