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Rotox

DOS - 1991
Also available on: Amiga - Atari ST

Rotox is a fun top-down shoot'em up with decent 3D/bitmap graphics. Your objective: navigate the Cyborg Class 2-A over the platforms while dodging and shooting the deadly machine-enemies. Don't fall off the platforms or the tricky passages; they are sliding through space!

What sets the game apart from other top-down shooters is that the landscape is fully rotoscoped, i.e. you can rotate 360 degrees around the polygonal 3D landscape. Quite nice, but the novelty wears out after a while, leaving you with an average shooter with some good ideas, but nothing truly spectacular to draw you in. An okay mixture of pure shooting action, with some skill elements thrown-in.

Worth a try, although I doubt few arcade fans will find it fun enough to persevere to finish all nine levels.

Review By HOTUD

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DOS version
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United Kingdom English
701 KB
Amiga version
Game file
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3 MB
Atari ST version
Game file
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382 KB

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