Good Gravity Games?

[amigang]

Might not be the place to post this, but just woundering anyone know of any good gravity games for Amiga, simular to Air Taxi, which is great fun!

I also have Fly Harder on the Cd32 which is not bad but after something more piolting skills than action, was their any moon type lander game for the amiga. Thanks.

[Retro-Nerd]

Gravity Force is great!

[daxb]

Gravity Force (I,II), Gravity Power, Turboraketti, Roketz.

[rsn8887]

In my opinion, the best game like Airtaxi is Spacetaxi 3. Up to 4 players can play simultaneously in team or competitive modes and it has just tons of really fun levels.

There's also the excellent Ugh!. Up to 2 players can play simultaneously and it has beautiful graphics. One of my all-time favorites.

The Executioner has great graphics but is also extremely hard.

Then there's Zarathrusta which is also pretty good but again quite hard.

The PD Game Fleuch 2 is also a lot of fun. It is very similar to the original Thrust on the C64.

Concerning multiplayer competitive games, Mayhem and Bratwurst come to my mind, but there are a lot more (see previous posts).


On other systems:

Exclusively on Atari ST, there's the excellent Oids. Sadly the scrolling is jerky. What a bummer .

On NES, there's the great Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship.

On Genesis, there's Sub-terrania, which looks good. I don't really like to play it all that much. It feels weird to me.

On PS3, there's Gravity Crash.

On PC, there is the nice Thrust Extreme, as well as
the excellent but extremely hard Gravitron 2. Gravitron 1 is also great. There's also a Thrust remake in Blitzbasic called Thrust Deluxe, but I've never tried it out.

On C64, there's the two awesome cult classics that started it all: Space Taxi and Thrust. Thrust has keyboard control only, but that makes the controls very tight.
Well, there's also an official sequel to Thrust, Thrust 2, but I think it sucks. Thrust 2 is actually a totally different game on CPC and Spectrum compared to C64. However, even on those machines it still completely sucks.

One could also argue that games like Virus/Zarch, Zeewolf 1 and 2 and V2000 fall into the same category, because the player constantly fights against gravity. Those are 3D games though, and as such they feel quite different to me.

[frikilokooo]

My favorite are Fly Harder,Space Taxi 3 and Gravity Force,R3 is very good too.

Any fan of gravity games should play to flywrench:

http://messhof.com/flywrench/

it's free.

soon new levels...

[CodyJarrett]

You can list Thrust clones in the HOL here.

[rsn8887]

Originally Posted by frikilokooo

Any fan of gravity games should play to flywrench:

http://messhof.com/flywrench/

it's free.

Wow! Great game, thanks for the link!

[khph_re]

rocketz was great, though it might be two player only?
http://hol.abime.net/1274

[TheCyberDruid]

Originally Posted by khph_re

rocketz was great, though it might be two player only?

Yep, two player only. Guess we should add Turboraketti to HOL as well.

[amigang]

WOW guys, thanks for the list will start playing them, specially Space taxi 3, I just happend to play Air Taxi the other day, and thought it was a great game and thought I'd have a look for other gravity game out on the Amiga, dd'nt think to look under thrust. So thanks.

Another fun game kind of simular to this was Jet Strike, I had a go of that today, forgot about the silly cheese music on the Cd32 version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si69-4giMcs
drop the Bomb.

Any way thanks for your help guys.

[andreas]

Sky Cabbie comes to mind. Either you love it, or you hate it

A less known one (which actually does NOT deserve the "good" rating, but that's IMHO) is Decton:
http://hol.abime.net/298

Control can be a nightmare, though, especially when played on an emulator. I had more fun on the real thing with this one...

[Djay]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Yep, two player only. Guess we should add Turboraketti to HOL as well.

i played alot of rocketz.. you can have a CPU player... so yes its 2 player, but player 2 can be human or cpu

[Hewitson]

Just had a look at Space Taxi 3 and Air Taxi, both absolutely terrible compared to the original!

"Pad 4 please!"

[s2325]

Originally Posted by rsn8887

In my opinion, the best game like Airtaxi is Spacetaxi 3. Up to 4 players can play simultaneously in team or competitive modes and it has just tons of really fun levels.

Gameplay of Space Taxi 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOar3z1bxHI You can find game in the Zone, you need hard drive to play.

[rsn8887]

Originally Posted by s2325

Gameplay of Space Taxi 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOar3z1bxHI You can find game in the Zone, you need hard drive to play.

I am pretty sure part 3 is exactly like part 2, but with more levels. Well, here is the link to Space Taxi 3
http://aminet.net/game/misc/spacetaxi3.lha

I think Space Taxi 3 is not terrible at all. Ok, it looks a bit ugly. But in contrast to Air Taxi, it actually contains a ridiculous large number of levels, some of them very fun and original, with moving parts, etc... Also in contrast to Air Taxi, it runs in smooth 50 fps, even on an unaccelerated A1200. And with more than one player (up to 4 players simultaneously), it is sooo much fun!

[Retro-Nerd]

Compared with the original C64 version...yes, Space Taxi 3 and Air Taxe are crap, gameplay-wise.

[frikilokooo]

I'm playing for the first time Phoenix Fighters,perhaps the best one on Amiga:

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=844922&postcount=15

[dirk_the_daring]

Gravity Power
http://hol.abime.net/5284

StarWoids, though is only a demo of 3 levels, is abosolutely awesome
http://www.amigareport.com/ar222/p5-6.html