Last Update: 2/7/07
Hawkeye Remake
Smila's remake of the controversial Zzap64 Gold Medal winner from Thalamus.
Guide the synthetic lifeform on Operation Hawkeye, retrieve the puzzle pieces by following the Hawk's scanner, destroy the aliens and save your race.
Guide the synthetic lifeform on Operation Hawkeye, retrieve the puzzle pieces by following the Hawk's scanner, destroy the aliens and save your race.
Publisher: None/Unknown
About Hawkeye
From Zzap64 Issue 40:
A civilisation that had reached perfection was destroyed by Skryksis, a devilish tribe of Milky Way nomads. In the year of Naron, an ancient hero, they invaded the planet Xamox and viciously massacred its people for security purposes. A few of the survivors went underground when the Skryksis started to build radiation plants which poisoned the atmosphere and made it impossible to live on the planet surface.
Driven by revenge, the survivors started to develop a synthetic lifeform, half robot, half human, which was specially designed to break through the heavily guarded sectors that led to the infamous radiation plants.
Now at last the SLF is complete. Its controlling computers are not considered fast enough to cope with the enemy environment, so the cyborg is directed by remote control. The warrior entrusted with this dangerous mission is known as Hawkeye. His Xamoxian mind is in total synchronisation with the movements of the battling droid.
The action of the journey to the Skryksis' central base takes place over a series of levels against a horizontally scrolling landscape of platforms, cities, villages, icy plains, and dusty deserts.
These strange and unfamiliar lands are populated by a whole range of weird and wonderful creatures. They attack from ground-level, swoop in from the sky, and crawl up from below the earth. Collision and contact deplete the cyborg's energy, which is displayed as a small horizontal bar at the top of the screen. Should this fall to zero one of the SLF's three lives is immediately lost.
Monsters are countered by using Hawkeye's armoury of four weapons, each of which has different firing capabilities and speeds. A small window to the left of the display panel indicates the weapon currently in use. Further weapons are selected by holding down the fire button unitl the weapon displayed flashes, then pushing left or right till the desired weapon's icon appears - alternatively, the function keys can be used. The first weapon option is a pistol, which has unlimited ammunition but lacks power. The other three weapons are more powerful, but have limited ammunition. The amount of bullets remaining is shown below the appropriate weapon. Three lights go out if there is no ammunition left. Further supplies can be picked up along the way, however, and ammunition is restored on completion of a level.
Different materials designed to improve the skills of the SLF are scattered around the different environments. Once collected, these raw components allow you to create more cyborgs, thus increasing your supply of lives.
To complete a level, all the puzzle pieces scattered around each stage must be collected by guiding the SLF into contact with them. Two hawks at the top of the screen aid this process - the eyes of either head flash to indicate the direction in which you should head. The jumps necessary to collect the puzzle pieces and traverse levels are controllable - the length of a jump is dependent on how long the joystick is held left or right.
A civilisation that had reached perfection was destroyed by Skryksis, a devilish tribe of Milky Way nomads. In the year of Naron, an ancient hero, they invaded the planet Xamox and viciously massacred its people for security purposes. A few of the survivors went underground when the Skryksis started to build radiation plants which poisoned the atmosphere and made it impossible to live on the planet surface.
Driven by revenge, the survivors started to develop a synthetic lifeform, half robot, half human, which was specially designed to break through the heavily guarded sectors that led to the infamous radiation plants.
Now at last the SLF is complete. Its controlling computers are not considered fast enough to cope with the enemy environment, so the cyborg is directed by remote control. The warrior entrusted with this dangerous mission is known as Hawkeye. His Xamoxian mind is in total synchronisation with the movements of the battling droid.
The action of the journey to the Skryksis' central base takes place over a series of levels against a horizontally scrolling landscape of platforms, cities, villages, icy plains, and dusty deserts.
These strange and unfamiliar lands are populated by a whole range of weird and wonderful creatures. They attack from ground-level, swoop in from the sky, and crawl up from below the earth. Collision and contact deplete the cyborg's energy, which is displayed as a small horizontal bar at the top of the screen. Should this fall to zero one of the SLF's three lives is immediately lost.
Monsters are countered by using Hawkeye's armoury of four weapons, each of which has different firing capabilities and speeds. A small window to the left of the display panel indicates the weapon currently in use. Further weapons are selected by holding down the fire button unitl the weapon displayed flashes, then pushing left or right till the desired weapon's icon appears - alternatively, the function keys can be used. The first weapon option is a pistol, which has unlimited ammunition but lacks power. The other three weapons are more powerful, but have limited ammunition. The amount of bullets remaining is shown below the appropriate weapon. Three lights go out if there is no ammunition left. Further supplies can be picked up along the way, however, and ammunition is restored on completion of a level.
Different materials designed to improve the skills of the SLF are scattered around the different environments. Once collected, these raw components allow you to create more cyborgs, thus increasing your supply of lives.
To complete a level, all the puzzle pieces scattered around each stage must be collected by guiding the SLF into contact with them. Two hawks at the top of the screen aid this process - the eyes of either head flash to indicate the direction in which you should head. The jumps necessary to collect the puzzle pieces and traverse levels are controllable - the length of a jump is dependent on how long the joystick is held left or right.
Controls
ARROWS - MOVE , DUCK
SHIFT - JUMP
Z - FIRE
F5 -PISTOL
F6 -MACHINE GUN
F7 -LAZER
F8 -ROCKET LAUNCHER
F2 - RESTART GAME
ESC - EXIT
SHIFT - JUMP
Z - FIRE
F5 -PISTOL
F6 -MACHINE GUN
F7 -LAZER
F8 -ROCKET LAUNCHER
F2 - RESTART GAME
ESC - EXIT
Download The Game
Hawkeye Remake is available for all good windows pc's from your usual vendor.
In other words, click the icon to the right
