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The Carnivores Collection
Four dinosaur/prehistoric hunting games. These are NOT FPS "run & gun" games. These are games which require thoughtful strategy and stealthy stalking, or sometimes careful positioning and patient waiting. The first three, 1, 2, and Ice Age, were designed by Action Forms and published by WizardWorks in the US. The original Carnivores was sold very inexpensively, was an instant hit, and critically praised. Carnivores 2 expanded on the first, offering new dinosaurs to hunt, new hunting grounds, new weapons, and a slightly different menu. Carnivores Ice Age brought the same C2 engine into slightly more recent times, offering wooly rhinos, sabertooth cats, dire wolves, and other deadly creatures. Reviews for Ice Age were ironically lukewarm, noting that it offered little new except the animals themselves and snow. Carnivores Triassic is an amateur mod also based on the C2 engine, and offers new dinosaurs and weapons. THIS IS A BETA RELEASE. Please visit ModDB here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/carnivores-triassic for newer releases, news, and discussion. The developer, P.Rex, also maintains an excellent fan site, The Carnivores Saga, which may be found here: http://www.freewebs.com/carnivores-saga/ This collection does NOT include Carnivores Cityscape, which departed so radically from the core game concept as to be an entirely different game. ===== TECH NOTES Be sure to read any readmes in the individual folders! They will be original from the game. Game manuals can be found on this other excellent fansite: http://carnivoresfanguild.synthasite.com/ but gameplay and settings are largely self-explanatory. (They also have a lot of tech info including developer tips and cheats.) I believe movement keys are defaulted to WASD but can be easily changed to the arrow keys if you like. Included in this package are two different emulators for the old 3DFX video standard, openGlide and nGlide. These games were built with 3DFX in mind, and I think they still look best with it (although all have an option for Direct 3D and software as well.) nGlide is a complete system installation -- double click and it sets it up for your whole computer. openGlide is local use. Copy the files into your final installation folders with the game executable (see its own readme.) It does not otherwise "install." .... I am running all 4 games under Windows 7/64, a 3.6G AMD quad-core, 8G memory, and an AMD Radeon HD 7700 video card (and off an external hard drive.) See READ ME FIRST!!! for other tech notes. Quarry Spotted-- Patience . . . Hunt failed . . . Nice day for hunting . . . Maybe a little wing shooting. In Old Ice Age, Thanksgiving Dinner eat YOU. Personal comments I LOVED these games when they came out and still do. They are very atmospheric and immersive. Place your speakers for good stereo, or headphones, and turn down the lights! A couple times my wife snuck up behind, grabbed my shoulder with a "Rawr!", and nearly give me a stroke! Hope you enjoy them. Sharing WidgetScreenshots |