@cacaroG IMHO This is an XBox360/PS3 game trapped in the body of a 16-bit game. It was way ahead of its time, so much so that the hardware of the time could not match the game's ambition.
I would love to see this game remade. Keep the basic gameplay and add modern graphics and controls, maybe a multiplayer option - and you're good to go.
wow talk about a blast from the past, had this for my Amiga as I didnt get a PC until much later. Looking at this im genuinely suprised at how good it looks for its time, i loved playing this game, and watching this again just makes me wanna replay it lol
This is part of my all-time favorites... Still replay it everynow and then. At one point I had the Atari ST version and it truely rocks. Yes a remake would be good, I'd buy it asap. So would I for any of my top 10s. So far only Ultima V has been remade in the list :)
Is this the Atari ST version? I never actually played the game despite having an Amiga but i remembered the review score that ACE Magazine gave it which was 941 (which translates pretty much to 94%) so i found that very interesting! Why didn't i get the game, i have no idea :( But these are some beautiful graphics for the ST version (if that is what its on) that are running very smoothly :)
Silly silly. Its the DOS version :) I just have a random collection of old games to try out and show on YouTube. Subscribe for more videos! Hopefully my next one will be Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.
@DSCraze Based on you having put this game up I have subscribed! I have this and the follow up in big boxes complete on my bedroom shelf! Hope to see more video's of your old games! :)
@DSCraze Slow the cycles down and chose soundblaster pro in the dosbox config. If hat's too difficult, get a front end like D-Fend which makes it easy to install and tweak DOS games! I have over 100 SOS games on one partition that take up about 2gb and my D-Fend allows me to just find the game I want to play from the list (listed in alphabetical order) and double click on it. D-Fend calls up DOSBox, uses the D-Fend DOSBox config for that game,and starts it in one go!
@DSCraze Ahh, so you are young, well done for having a brain and playing games like this! I do envy you your age and IQ! :) But Elite DID come out first! I am old enough to have played Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge by the same designer, on my Commodore 64, which I sill own! :)
@Relugus : But there's something paradoxical about Midwinter isn't there? The way you play a bunch of different people all running around the same island at the same time (but mysteriously never participating in the same battles).
Easy way out would be to use a combination of multiplayer and AI friendlies... but it'd be cool if they somehow kept the same formula.
I have this and the follow up, boxed and with manuals! They are excellent games - by the same guy that did those Wonderful "Lords of Midnight" and "Doomdark's Revenge"! You really do need the manuals. This means remakes could not be made as no company would make a printed 200 page manual, they would make it a pdf one, and with this game you really need the manual by your side as you play for the first hour or so!
I'm not looking to start an argument, but you gotta remember half the time the reason they shipped printed manuals, is cos they couldn't fit them on floppy disk :-)
If you look at Civ 4, that's one game that you'd think really needs a big old paper manual, but they designed it so all the docs were all in-game
If I had a Midwinter remake with modern 3D graphics, and an online help system which shows everything the manual shows.
Well I don't think Id leave the house for weeks, hehe :D
Fair enough carpii, I can see how online helps, but I still think a printed manual is where it's at. On-line help is usually written like a reference book on spreadsheets. Manuals, like the Midwinter one, can be made to look like a spy book, or an Agent's logbook, etc. In the good old days, maps came with games that sometimes had burnt edges to make it seem more 'real', compare that with an on-line map! I want to play 'stories' not read 'business books'! :)
I loved this game. It always amazes me it was never remade (I know there was midwinter 2, but it was inferior imo)
The strategy engine was really advanced, but I remember there was a loophole where if you raced down to the HQ before the game developed, you could complete it in like 20 minutes hehe
Also Ill never forget the despair of skiing for 25 minutes across 200 miles of snow, only to slip and break a leg, and end up miles from where you wanted to be
Yes I remember that loophole, I didn't read about it, just tried it, and to my amazement it worked! You would think a glaring thing like that would have been fixed before release, but then again winning that way is a shallow victory!
@SpotOnJ2K Well... Its very difficult to play. Its mostly getting accustomed to the gameplay as it has a really steep learning curve, an awful lot like BC3K. It was really fun, but honestly id go for Midwinter 2, as you can use I think 24 modes of transport. I shall upload a video of Midwinter 2 tomorrow.
One of the best (and ambitious) games ever made. Way, way ahead of its time.
cacaroG 1 month ago
@cacaroG IMHO This is an XBox360/PS3 game trapped in the body of a 16-bit game. It was way ahead of its time, so much so that the hardware of the time could not match the game's ambition.
Relugus 3 weeks ago
I wish that will be a remake from it, but i think there a not enough fans for it.
RobbieLFS 5 months ago
I liked the game, not sure I ever knew what to do or finished it, it's been a while :)
Thanks.
paulpm1974 8 months ago
Way before its time, a classic.
dialchemy 8 months ago
I would love to see this game remade. Keep the basic gameplay and add modern graphics and controls, maybe a multiplayer option - and you're good to go.
truelazerlight 9 months ago
wow talk about a blast from the past, had this for my Amiga as I didnt get a PC until much later. Looking at this im genuinely suprised at how good it looks for its time, i loved playing this game, and watching this again just makes me wanna replay it lol
FuzzyScotsman 10 months ago
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DSCraze 11 months ago
I preferred Midwinter2, with all those different vehicles and scenarios - or Hunter, which was quite similar but more fun.
Nice to see it though, even if it is on the PC and not one of the holy 16-bits :D.
stunthumb 1 year ago
i remember how unplayable and shit this game was, and its sequal FOF was just as as crap, call this a game? what a joke!
rainxxxx 1 year ago
this game is the game with the biggest map ever.
It has 160,000 square miles
arand4 1 year ago
@arand4 160000 square miles of a waste of time!
rainxxxx 1 year ago
@arand4 I guess it's not as big as Frontier - Elite 2 ;-)
truelazerlight 9 months ago
This is part of my all-time favorites... Still replay it everynow and then. At one point I had the Atari ST version and it truely rocks. Yes a remake would be good, I'd buy it asap. So would I for any of my top 10s. So far only Ultima V has been remade in the list :)
Francois424 1 year ago
I played only Midwinter 2. I was unable to finish it, for some reason.
sblug2 1 year ago
@sblug2 it was because you grew testicals and prefered to have a wank, than play that piece of shit!
rainxxxx 1 year ago
Is this the Atari ST version? I never actually played the game despite having an Amiga but i remembered the review score that ACE Magazine gave it which was 941 (which translates pretty much to 94%) so i found that very interesting! Why didn't i get the game, i have no idea :( But these are some beautiful graphics for the ST version (if that is what its on) that are running very smoothly :)
blade004 1 year ago
@blade004
Silly silly. Its the DOS version :) I just have a random collection of old games to try out and show on YouTube. Subscribe for more videos! Hopefully my next one will be Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.
DSCraze 1 year ago
@DSCraze Based on you having put this game up I have subscribed! I have this and the follow up in big boxes complete on my bedroom shelf! Hope to see more video's of your old games! :)
HardWarUK 1 year ago
@DSCraze Blake Stone was the whip. I loved all of those FPS that used the wolf engine.
jeremysart 1 year ago
@DSCraze Slow the cycles down and chose soundblaster pro in the dosbox config. If hat's too difficult, get a front end like D-Fend which makes it easy to install and tweak DOS games! I have over 100 SOS games on one partition that take up about 2gb and my D-Fend allows me to just find the game I want to play from the list (listed in alphabetical order) and double click on it. D-Fend calls up DOSBox, uses the D-Fend DOSBox config for that game,and starts it in one go!
HardWarUK 2 months ago
I don't remember it being that complex.
nrosko 1 year ago
A remake would be awesome. A combination of todays sandbox games but with more interaction with characters+small RPG elements. With multiplayer!
xanyleon 1 year ago
It was actually released by 2 fronts for Microprose.
punipunipunisher 1 year ago
@punipunipunisher RAINBIRD ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS FUKKER!
rainxxxx 1 year ago
This game is crying out for a remake.
Relugus 1 year ago
@Relugus I suppose you could say it influenced the entire sandbox genre, excluding Elite of course.
DSCraze 1 year ago
@DSCraze Elite came out in 1985 - this came out in 1994 I believe. So you must be a young person, which makes me jealous of you! :)
HardWarUK 2 months ago
@HardWarUK
Midwinter was released in '89. I was born in '94 :D
DSCraze 2 months ago
@DSCraze Ahh, so you are young, well done for having a brain and playing games like this! I do envy you your age and IQ! :) But Elite DID come out first! I am old enough to have played Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge by the same designer, on my Commodore 64, which I sill own! :)
HardWarUK 2 months ago
@Relugus : But there's something paradoxical about Midwinter isn't there? The way you play a bunch of different people all running around the same island at the same time (but mysteriously never participating in the same battles).
Easy way out would be to use a combination of multiplayer and AI friendlies... but it'd be cool if they somehow kept the same formula.
AlephNeil 1 year ago
I have this and the follow up, boxed and with manuals! They are excellent games - by the same guy that did those Wonderful "Lords of Midnight" and "Doomdark's Revenge"! You really do need the manuals. This means remakes could not be made as no company would make a printed 200 page manual, they would make it a pdf one, and with this game you really need the manual by your side as you play for the first hour or so!
HardWarUK 2 years ago
I'm not looking to start an argument, but you gotta remember half the time the reason they shipped printed manuals, is cos they couldn't fit them on floppy disk :-)
If you look at Civ 4, that's one game that you'd think really needs a big old paper manual, but they designed it so all the docs were all in-game
If I had a Midwinter remake with modern 3D graphics, and an online help system which shows everything the manual shows.
Well I don't think Id leave the house for weeks, hehe :D
carpii 2 years ago
Fair enough carpii, I can see how online helps, but I still think a printed manual is where it's at. On-line help is usually written like a reference book on spreadsheets. Manuals, like the Midwinter one, can be made to look like a spy book, or an Agent's logbook, etc. In the good old days, maps came with games that sometimes had burnt edges to make it seem more 'real', compare that with an on-line map! I want to play 'stories' not read 'business books'! :)
HardWarUK 2 years ago
I loved this game. It always amazes me it was never remade (I know there was midwinter 2, but it was inferior imo)
The strategy engine was really advanced, but I remember there was a loophole where if you raced down to the HQ before the game developed, you could complete it in like 20 minutes hehe
Also Ill never forget the despair of skiing for 25 minutes across 200 miles of snow, only to slip and break a leg, and end up miles from where you wanted to be
Pure class :-)
carpii 2 years ago
@carpii
Yes I remember that loophole, I didn't read about it, just tried it, and to my amazement it worked! You would think a glaring thing like that would have been fixed before release, but then again winning that way is a shallow victory!
morval99 2 years ago
This Game was real good. I played it in my teenage days on an Amiga 500. But this Player is bad.
Blauwind84 2 years ago 7
@Blauwind84
Thumbs up for saying I suck at this game! :D
DSCraze 11 months ago 2
The Amiga version is probably better, but I did not try.
hilili0 2 years ago
@hilili0 To be honest, I think they are both pretty much the same.
DSCraze 2 years ago
Wow this is like the only gameplay footage of this game on youtube, thanks for posting! Is it actually any fun?
SpotOnJ2K 2 years ago 4
@SpotOnJ2K Well... Its very difficult to play. Its mostly getting accustomed to the gameplay as it has a really steep learning curve, an awful lot like BC3K. It was really fun, but honestly id go for Midwinter 2, as you can use I think 24 modes of transport. I shall upload a video of Midwinter 2 tomorrow.
DSCraze 2 years ago
And thanks :)
DSCraze 2 years ago
@SpotOnJ2K I used to love this game, it's like one of the original sandbox games back in the day.
xanyleon 1 year ago