It Came From The Desert

I expected more from a game packaged in a box featuring a B-movie style screaming woman getting terrified by an enormous ant. Despite the intriguing title, 'It Came From the Desert' isn't a comedy game, combining a basic and tediously difficult survival game with a not-so-subtle anti-nuclear message that's likely all inspired by the B-classic 'Them!' The player must track down the cause of the mutations as the most evil and destructive creature of them all: a giant ant! I mean humankind, responsible for these mutations in the first place, obviously. But there is a giant ant too. It's also, sadly, one of those games where the opening animation ends up being far superior ...

It Came From The Desert is easily one of Cinemaware's greatest games. It pays homage to the 50s Sci-Fi genre, especially those which consisted of some kind of mutated monster and in particular THEM! from the mid-50s. Here you play a geologist investigating the recent landing of a meteor on the outskirts of the desert town of Lizard Breath. However, not only do you find the meteor but also a number of strange events are occurring including the disappearance of some towsfolk and the discovery of a headless cow out on some farmer's ranch. Intrigued you of course investigate only to find that there are huge mutant ants wandering around the desert now, mutated by the ...