Abandon Monday #2: Burntime

The current vote approved the result of last Abandon Monday vote: Burntime should be reviewed.
Imagine a world in a day after scenario. Deserts, radioactive polluted cities and a lot of guys, which fight to survive. Burntime is a nice mixture of strategy and role play game. You control a group of guys against other survivors. You have to fight, care for water and food and to conquer place after place on the map. One way to win the game is to defeat all other competitors.
To achieve that, you have access to 3 different character classes. There are fighters, doctors and technicians. The job of fighters and docs is clear. The technicians have ever meant a pretty cool feature to me. They have the ability to build up some helpful devices for you, which can help your group to survive or to get an edge over your enemies. Depending on there abilities they can construct different traps and pumps.
In the game you can trade these devices, food, water, machine parts and – of course – weapons. These are definitely needed to conquer and defend cities.
Burntime is a really cool game with its uncommon story and - even for these days – a innovative concept.
You like Mad Max? Give Burntime a try!


Producer: Max Design
Year: 1993
Genre: Strategy

Abandon Monday #1: Battle Isle 2

With Battle Isle 2 and Burntime at first place at our Abandon Monday voting, I had to choose which game will be presented. It was a hard decision but then I chose the game with which I spend the most time: Battle Isle 2.
But why is this game that special? Well, its simply a strategy game, in which you can move your units at a hexagonal grid. Back in 1993 the graphic was pretty good. Later there was also an CD version which was packed with some prerendered 3D sequences of the units.
But believe me, in the case you like strategy games and start to play Battle Isle 2 you will spend a lot of time with fighting the Titan Net. To cut a long story short, there is a computer net which went insane and started to attack the humans. You are the big strategist and – of course – only you can help to defeat Titan Net. To do this you have access to the same units as your opponents have. There are about 50 of them. Together with the 24 maps (20 for the campaign and 4 multiplayer maps) this means a depth, which you will hardly find again. Even now, the technical aspects of the game are not contemporary but definitely convenient.

I also like realtime strategy games but the turn based Battle Isle 2 is the best strategy game I ever played. Believe me!

Producer: Blue Byte
Publisher: Accolade, Blue Byte
Year: 1993
Genre: Strategy