BioMenace Remastered

Отличнейший ремастер неплохой игры от Apogee. На удивление BioMenace неплохо состарился, да и пацаны что делали ремастер тоже проделали немалую работу над полировкой игры, чего только стоит четвёртый эпизод с вырезыными из старой игры и абсолютно новыми механиками в нем. Однозначно самых лучший ремастер среди ремастеров игр Apogee.

If i486 means nothing for you then get the fk out of here, it is not your place...

这个游戏是1999年我上大学时在486电脑上运行的一个共享游戏。2025年惊讶的发现由重制版本，还有一个第4季。果断注册STEAM，然后花钱买了一个正版。每天一个半小时的时间，玩这个游戏，好像又回到了1999年。 我在大学同学群里也推荐了这个游戏。我儿子今年读大二，也玩了一小会。我会共享给他玩。

FUN 100% PS. Now bring back MAJOR STRYKER ;)

Another remake of a classic DOS game from Appogee. BIO-Menace. I remember when I was kid when I found the shareware episode and thought “Hey, this has the same menu as Commander Keen 4”. Yeah, that was my core memory of this game from my childhood, my first experience to games using the same engine. But why would anyone buy this remaster if the game is freeware. 1: A new episode with some bonus levels. 2: A level editor to make your own levels. 3: Customisable UI and the option for the old graphics is always welcome . And 4: some major quality of life improvements. Speaking of those QOL improvements, they are pretty basic but they make the game more enjoyable. Unlimited lives. More health in normal mode. Some dead ends no longer being dead ends. But the most notable is being able to change your ammo and grenades. This alone improves the game since in the original, you can only use the strongest bullets and grenades til they run out. Now how was that a problem? The strongest grenades are landmines and they are more situational than the other grenades. Of course not everything was improved with the snake still having annoying projectiles or those electric ball shooters still shoot at random directions. And that’s about it. Not much to say about gameplay. Just explore levels looking for keys til you reach the end, kind of like Commander Keen only more shooting and some switch puzzles that the new episode is aware stopped appearing after episode 2. Speaking of episode 4, not much was added besides the well made levels. Just some new key types, two new bosses and used the bees from an Episode 2 trap into a normal enemy. Oh and a low gravity level I do want to talk about the odd tone this game has. At the start of Episode 1 had an opening level with several dead bodies lying in the streets. And the enemies are cute little purple slug things and green Barneys with mohawks. Then the next level has this oddly upbeat tune while you fight fire demons and the level after is a park and the OST for that is f-ing menacing. And while that’s just as an adult overthinking some minor detail that doesn’t matter and that was all over games of that time. Can I at least say how out of place Skullman was. Like all the enemies and bosses are these mutated animals and robots and then in the middle of episode 1, this giant blue demon who appears to collect bones shows up and dies with no explanation besides some graffiti. Still I’m just nitpicking at this point. This is a well made remaster and if you never played Biomenace before, play this version. 8/10

Bought this game back in December and never contributed a review, so it's about time! Great remaster overall of a DOS game I played back in the 1990s. Gameplay and graphical enhancements are spot-on. Episode 4 features many nicely crafted levels, elevators and a few references scattered here and there to some other older Apogee titles. I wonder how many people spotted the downed vorticon of Keen 2 in that heap in one of the levels. The level editor is another welcomed addition and certainly modeled after the Abiathar Editor which made level making quickly familiar. Totally minor but for the sake of being complete here I would mention that it would be nice to have the achievements available in-game and speedrunning stats for the bonus levels as well. So, highly recommended, and hopefully the developers will pick another game to remaster. There is quite a number of old DOS gems out there that need an HD version.

Amazing remaster. The original game is great and has lots of nostalgia points, but the real star of the show here is the new engine and the care and love put into making this game an amazingly fun side scrolling shoot-em-up.