Chaser
Chaser is a first-person shooter action video game that takes place in the future, when humanity has inhabited Mars. The gameplay is fast pace, featuring 12 maps that make up the gameplay over four different…
Chaser is a shooter developed by Cauldron HQ, released 22 August 2003 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Chaser is
Chaser is a shooter game developed by Cauldron HQ and released in 2003. It was published by THQ Nordic. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on CloakNT.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mars, 2044. The UN establishes MARSCORP (Martian Security and Economics Committee) under the leadership of Samuel Longwood. In the years that follow, the UN gradually loses control of MARSCORP, mainly due to the non-transparent licence policy of its director. Longwood uses his autonomous status to create vassal relations between the corporations and MARSCORP. The unshakable power position of MARSCORP is supported by the companies and thus they acquire additional rights and licenses. Longwood and his consortium become extremely wealthy from this arrangement. However, dissenting voices in MARSCORP begin to challenge Samuel Longwood's authoritarian policy. They demand his dismissal as director…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Chaser holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 650 MHz Pentium® III or comparable, 128 MB RAM and DirectX® 8.1 3D graphic card (32 MB). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Chaser launched on 22 August 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Chaser yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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