Time Commando takes the usual game on rails approach to graphics. There are two levels per time period, with an end-of-level baddie at the end of each and if you haven't picked up any special weaponry by then, you're in deep trouble. The baddies themselves are unique to each time period. It's more a case of taking out the baddies before they take you down. You can't deviate far from this path, nor can you re-trace your footsteps. You don't have complete freedom of movement in Time Commando instead, you make your way across each level in one particular direction. The game plays like a cross between Rebel Assault and the combat sections of Alone in the Dark. You start off each time period unarmed, but as the game goes on, you can pick up weapons appropriate to each time period clubs in the Prehistoric Age, right through to laser guns in the Future. Fortunately, Stan is no slouch when it comes to brawling. I have a feeling that if you were to come across Mother Theresa in this game, she'd be armed with an M16. As you traverse the time periods, you won't find a single ally, or apathetic person, as in Adeline's previous game, Little Big Adventure. Every character you come across, no matter how innocent they may look, is intent on seeing the colour of your brains. Time Commando is 90% beat-em-up, 10% adventure. It's therefore up to you to pummel your way through baddie after baddie, through a total of nine time periods. Trouble is, the virus isn't too happy on being removed from the computer, and it sends its computer-generated minions after you. Taking the part of Stan, the one person left in the building, you leap selflessly into the time bubble, determined to get rid of the virus that is even now spreading through the system. The time bubble begins to expand, dragging in everyone in the complex. One of their agents introduces a computer virus to the central computer, which then goes a bit mad. The upshot of this is that you can create a perfect simulation of any period in time at all.Īnd everything's fine, until a rival power gets wind of this breakthrough, and decides to throw a spanner in the works. This machine can isolate a period in time, and duplicated it exactly in a 'time bubble', allowing that period to be explored. The premise behind the game is that some time in the future, scientists have put together a rather expensive piece of temporal related kit. Caveman Clubbingįortunately, there's none of the related temporal problems to worry about in Time Commando, since it's all simulated. But that's exactly what you're encourage to do, in Adeline's latest release, Time Commando.
And so, you'd think that it wouldn't be in the best interests of mankind, for someone to work their way through time, killing and maiming everyone who they came across. But if they didn't exist, who was it who killed the great grandfather? It makes my brain hurt just trying to think about it. Imagine if a person killed their great grandfather when he was a boy, they themselves would cease to exist. And it gets ever worse when you think about paradoxes. What if, either deliberately, or accidentally, you managed to change history? Even the slightest thing could cause the temporal structure of the universe to come tumbling down. Loads of people have written stories about time travel, and there's been one problem that's come up again and again.
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