Return to genesis

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The Genesis Project was an ambitious clone-based think tank spread over 50 planets that, having done wonderful things, fell into the clutches of the Mechanauts who forced the scientists into slavery. Now these foul creatures are at war with one another so a rescue mission can be mounted.

Return To Genesis is a rough conversion of the 1988 Atari ST and Amiga game of the same name but, although we’ve been playing version 1.0, it still feels unfinished and there seem to be programming issues which can leave the craft embedded within the background or a scientist unreachably out of bounds.

A new control scheme has been grafted in, which feels twitchy. And the scrolling now has to be pushed, which means that the player’s ship gets far closer to where enemies spawn than it did on the 16-bit computer versions. >> score 46%