The Chaos Engine

"The Chaos Engine" is a game from the legendary Bitmap Brothers. Those of you who are either too young or too old will not remember this game being released for the Commodore Amiga in 1993 amid a wave of hype due to classic groundbreaking games such as Xenon and Speedball 2. The Plot ********** As with the majority of the games of its time the plot was merely secondary to the gameplay. "The Chaos Engine" is a machine, which has taken on a life of its own, and using its ability to transform space and time has created a cloud of "chaos" deforming humanity into mutants and savages. Amid this post-apocalyptic land a ...  Read the complete review

There was a time when a shoot-em-up game didn’t involve running around an incredibly realistic desert landscape with your friends linked through eight different modems across the world, and the Chaos Engine was a fairly average example of a plan view arcade game. But it as among the first computer games I ever owned and played, and as such has a special place in my brain. (Not my heart, that’s just some meat that pumps blood, don’t you even know that?) PREMISE At the turn of the twentieth century, in the heart of Britain’s industrial development, scientists created a bizarre machine: the Chaos Engine. The world was warped, beats began ...  Read the complete review

The Chaos Engine is a multidirectional shoot 'em up(?) from those programming legends of the 80s and early 90s - The Bitmap Brothers. They brought us some of the best shoot 'em up style games on the Amiga platform and other machines, but sadly seemed to lose it a little here. The idea behind The Chaos Engine is not exactly a bad one, its just not very exciting to play. You get to choose from a variety of different characters with different attributes, weaponary etc...the usual kind of thing I don't need to go into it again here, you all know the drill by now. Once chosen its into the action as you battle across numerous terrains to get to you final ...  Read the complete review