Human Killing Machine
Hi again folks!
I tried loading this on my mp3 player as a tzx from this site,on me new found grey speccy but it crashes on me with a tape error for some unkown reason:???:.
Anyway i fired it up on good ol zxspin,and i was thinking personally it wasn't a bad attempt at a street fighter clone,especially the graphics for its time.
Ok whoever put the fight with dog in there,must of been on some hallucinogenic,but overall not bad.
What do you fellow kindred spirits think?.
I tried loading this on my mp3 player as a tzx from this site,on me new found grey speccy but it crashes on me with a tape error for some unkown reason:???:.
Anyway i fired it up on good ol zxspin,and i was thinking personally it wasn't a bad attempt at a street fighter clone,especially the graphics for its time.
Ok whoever put the fight with dog in there,must of been on some hallucinogenic,but overall not bad.
What do you fellow kindred spirits think?.
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You talk about a grey Spectrum, that's undoubtedly a +2. Did you use a tape adapter connected to your PC or to a multimedia player?
In the second case, did you amplify the signal through an external source like a loudspeaker for PC? I remind you that it is not necessary to activate the datacorder at all, provided that the signal is strong enough, as I pointed out in this thread: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34633
It looks pretty, moves ok but suffers from the usual beat 'em up failing of 'use one move repeatedly'.
Nice line in national stereotyping too :roll:
you're right though it's not great for replay value,and i didn't know until you mentioned it that the original street fighter was released on the spectrum,i might have to give that a go!.
I converted using wintzx,and loading through my windows phone mp3 player.
I don't use an amplifier as you suggested,but 99% of my games load ok but i have to turn the volume down on the mp3 player to about 75%,otherwise the odd one or two crash.
Human Killing Machine - Ashens review
Yeah, the ST version has a reputation as being one of the worst games ever for the machine. Still, as well as the underwhelming gameplay, it didn't help that it was the token lemon in the otherwise excellent Turbo pack that came with nearly all STEs sold.
Is that supposed to be funny? Well, I'll tell you this - it isn't, and of course not because I want to defend the ST version of HKM, look at what I wrote some posts above.
I took a look at his blog, and I think this ashens guy is a downright dork. If that's what you call "British humour", I'd rather stick with Monty Python instead.
Well I found it funny. Along with a lot of his other stuff.
"How DARE you pollute my internet with so-called 'humour' that does not appeal to me!?" :-P
Chill, mate. You don't like his stuff - fair enough. You don't need to be all "I don't like it so it's downright ****!" though.. ;)
I understand your point but please take into account that's quite a touchy subject even nowadays here.
Yes, nowadays it looks pants and a waste of time BUT I can assure you that 'back in the day' to us kids eager to lap up anything to do with streetfighter it was pants and a waste of time.
I guess it's a bit like Imagine putting out Target Renegade as a home sequel to Taito's Renegade.
It was though, wasn't it? :p
To me, Target Renegade always smacked of "Tried for and didn't get the 'Double Dragon' license (or just couldn't be arsed paying for it), so messed around with a license we already owned and made it just slightly different enough to avoid being sued."
The difference being that Target Renegade was brilliant and even had a (not so brilliant) version made for the NES.
Human Killing Machine is absolute balls. I remember really wanting to play it at first (being young at the time) and then pretty excited when I saw it on the first Your Sinclair Magnificent 7 covertape. And then finding out it was just as crap, no, worse even, than the Speccy version of Street Fighter. And had exactly the same glitch too, in that you can beat everybody in the game with the crouching sweep as you can't be KO'd whilst crouching even when your energy bar has run out.
The hilariously bad racial stereotypes are the only vaguely entertaining thing about this game. (I mean, a Russian dog called 'Shepski' FFS :lol: ) and everything that Ashens says in his review is true. I remember the almost total lack of animation looking pathetic even back when I first played it, on the Speccy I don't even think that last guy in Beruit even does the standing punch or moves, he's just rooted to the spot and does that single frame kick whenever you get near him that can KO you in 2 hits (unless you crouch...then he can kick you 100 times and still not KO you :lol: )
All in all, an absolute abomination of a game.
Low sweeps are also ineffective against some enemies. Lee won't be affected at all by them.
I disagree. OK, it's not what you would define a brilliant game, but just a quick diversion for beat-em-up lovers; and the stereotypes are quite amusing in their own, especially when compared with the overwhelming amount of political correctness we have to cope with nowadays.
There's worse, much worse around. Did you ever play Samurai Trilogy, for instance? Or Sword Slayer? Or - gasp - Highlander?
I'm only going from memory here, but I distinctly remember being invincible on the Speccy version of Street Fighter whilst doing the crounching sweep....you DO take damage, but you can't be knocked out unless you then stand up and take a hit. My memory could be slightly hazy though, I'm going to load this one up again and check it out, will apologise if I'm wrong. :)
Other games where you take damage but you still can't be knocked out whilst doing crouching moves include Dragonninja and Renegade 3. Both can be breezed through by using only crouching punches. :)
I did, and I'd personally say Sword Slayer is the worst of those 3 (although Highlander is also very bad) AND also maybe worse than Human Killing Machine...but they at least have better animated fighters in them. HKM looks superb in still screen shots, but in motion it's like watching somebody holding a couple of cardboard cut outs and bashing them together, pretending that they're fighting. :lol:
Apologies to Alessandro, he was right and I was wrong, you can be KO'd even when crouching. I must've been confusing it with the other games I've mentioned.
But all enemies, even Lee, can be easily beaten with continuous leg sweeps especially if you trap them against the far left or right edge of a stage, and most moves won't hit you at all if you remain crouching most of the time so the game is still considerably easy. With Lee, the leg sweeps won't connect with him most of the time but every now and then one hits, and if you trap him right against the side (like I do with every opponent), then they all hit him :p