When it first hit our screens way back in 1991 Another World shifted a
staggering 1 million copies, although it would be near impossible to
work out how many it’s sold since. Its cult status and solid game play
have kept the fires burning for this title for a little over two decades
now, with ports and releases across a number of platforms from the
Amiga, Snes, Mega Drive and all the way up to iOS and Android, although
the version I’ll be paying attention to in this review is the 20th
Anniversary HD edition for Windows.
I first got my hands on this game for the Sega Mega drive when I was 8 years old, the game was hard as anything and I could barely get past the first level, even when I did manage to get to level two I would only get stuck, but the game had a big impact on me, for some reason I would always go back and keep trying, wouldn’t get anywhere, but I just enjoyed the challenge and the peculiar game play.
It wasn’t until about 2005 that I managed to pick up a copy of the game again and made it all the way to the fourth level, obviously this wasn’t going to be a game I could complete in a hurry, now don’t get me wrong, this game isn’t big, far from it, once you know how to complete it, memorise what you’re supposed to do and when, then you could complete it in around an hour, the fun and hard part though is working out that whole “how” part.
From the start of the game, you take the roll of Lester Knight Chaykin, a young physicist who is working in his lab during a thunderstorm, tinkering away with his particle accelerator, at least that is until lightning strikes the building, screws with his equipment and tears a hole in time and space, sending you quite literally to Another World, now if that isn’t a simple yet effective setup for a sci-fi story, nothing is.
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I first got my hands on this game for the Sega Mega drive when I was 8 years old, the game was hard as anything and I could barely get past the first level, even when I did manage to get to level two I would only get stuck, but the game had a big impact on me, for some reason I would always go back and keep trying, wouldn’t get anywhere, but I just enjoyed the challenge and the peculiar game play.
It wasn’t until about 2005 that I managed to pick up a copy of the game again and made it all the way to the fourth level, obviously this wasn’t going to be a game I could complete in a hurry, now don’t get me wrong, this game isn’t big, far from it, once you know how to complete it, memorise what you’re supposed to do and when, then you could complete it in around an hour, the fun and hard part though is working out that whole “how” part.
From the start of the game, you take the roll of Lester Knight Chaykin, a young physicist who is working in his lab during a thunderstorm, tinkering away with his particle accelerator, at least that is until lightning strikes the building, screws with his equipment and tears a hole in time and space, sending you quite literally to Another World, now if that isn’t a simple yet effective setup for a sci-fi story, nothing is.
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