Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
Highway Hunter is a futuristic car racing game. You are driving in a powerful car and you drive on a highway. You got some nice weapons on your car which you can use to shoot other cars. On the road are cool upgrades for your car which makes you car more powerful and stronger.
The graphics are done very nice. Sometimes you can see nice details in the game, which makes playing it very fun. The gameplay and sounds are very nice too.
Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
In the middle nineties, Omega Integral Systems created Highway Hunter for play on the personal computer running the MS-DOS operating system. It was published by Safari Software, and was distributed widely by Epic MegaGames, now usually simply called Epic. Highway Hunter plays out in the third person, top-down perspective, which is very user friendly in an action game. It combines some elements of shooting, with arcade style racing action. It has a cool science fiction theme to it, and offers a ton of action.
Highway Hunter is about a hostile alien race that has managed to take over the earth. The human population has been enslaved by these powerful beings. The user plays the part of a young man who has been assigned to work in an alien maintenance garage. Seeing an opportunity to make a difference in the world, the man steals MASTER, an alien prototype vehicle that is intended to be used in combat. Single handedly, the man intends to rid the world of their alien usurpers, using MASTER as his only weapon.
The gamer runs his MASTER prototype car on a raised highway. The boundaries of the highway are marked, and the user can navigate his car around the screens, so long as he remains within the boundary of the highway. Enemy alien ships will drop from the top of the screen, and the player will use MASTER’S powerful weaponry to destroy them as they filter in. There are also ground enemies that will come at the gamer from behind and so forth.
Like many space shooters, often times a destroyed enemy will leave behind some form of power-up. Most of these power-ups will directly effect the player’s guns. Either the rays being fired will become more numerous, faster, or larger…in any event, they are more destructive. Using these strong guns, the user will advance from level to level, defeating more and more aliens and usually destroying a boss character at the end of each level. As the gamer progresses further and further into the levels, they will begin to look less earthly, and more alien. The game is divided into three episodes, each with quite a few individual levels.
Highway Hunter combines two very fast paced and fun genres in shooting and driving to create a fast moving action game. Combined with the compelling urge to save the world, Highway Hunter gives the gamer plenty of motivation and a lot of game to play with.
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