Aazohm Krypht

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Aazohm Krypht (hey who named it this way?) is a fighting game in the style of Mortal Kombat, with digitized actors, photographic backgrounds, lots of blood and a tournament-based approach. The game features 6 areas were each fight takes place: the antic TEMPLE recycled as a huge fountain, the POND, a peaceful and beautiful piece of water, a CAVE where some engagements can take place discreetly, a mysterious FOREST with some funeral graves, in the middle of a hot DESERT and, finally, an old train station ruined as a rotted ZONE. A two player mode is also included but the game is difficult to play and it sometimes gets frustrating as the opponents are way too hard to defeat.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The game utilizes the horse-power of the Atari Falcon, featuring true color digitized graphics with very smooth animation (50 frames per second) and hardware vertical / horizontal scrolling for more realism (thanks to the Motorola 60030 CPU). Unfortunately, all digitized backdrops are static, which is rather garish. As far as the sound, the game features a few nicely composed pieces of techno and chill-out music played directly from the DSP chip, plus some nice sampled sound effects during gameplay.