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Abuse

1996 79 / 100 Platform Shooter

Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is marked for its unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons. The basic gameplay consists of fighting various enemies (mostly the various forms of mutants, who prefer to attack in huge swarms) and solving some simple puzzles, most involving switches.

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World design Nicht eindeutig GameplaySurvival MoodHorror GameplayCombat-focused Game modeMultiplayer

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The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical medical experiments upon the inmates. A prison riot occurs and an experiment goes horribly wrong. The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - get infected with a substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters. Nick takes a laser gun and goes on to single-handily destroy all mutants, stop the substance from spreading further, and escape from the prison complex.

GameplaySurvival MoodHorror GameplayCombat-focused Game modeMultiplayer GenrePlatform GenreShooter ThemeAction ThemeHorror ThemeScience fiction

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ThemeSurvival Trait2d Traitabandonware Traitaliens Traitfreeware Traitfuturistic Traitisolation Traitmutants Traitone-man army Traitopen-source Traitrun and gun Traitsecret areas within secret areas Traitshareware Traitside-scrolling Traitwasd movement

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Developer: Exakt Entertainment, Crack dot Com
Publisher: Alive Mediasoft, Exakt Entertainment, Bungie, Electronic Arts, Origin Systems
Franchise: Standalone

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Modi: Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action, Horror, Science fiction, Survival

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Mac Sep 09, 2012
Amiga 1998
DOS 1996
PC (Microsoft Windows) Nov 05, 2011
DOS Feb 29, 1996
Mac Mar 05, 1997
DOS Aug 1996
Linux Oct 11, 2011
iOS Aug 13, 2009

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