Mission Critical
Mission Critical is a first-person graphic adventure. It is 2134, and the human race has been at war for 50 years since the Alliance declared independence from the stifling rule of the UN and its…
Mission Critical is an adventure developed by Legend Entertainment, released 31 October 1995 on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Mission Critical is
Mission Critical is an adventure game developed by Legend Entertainment and released in 1995. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mission Critical is a sci-fi adventure game, created by Legend Entertainment for MS-DOS, written by the company's CEO Mike Verdu, and released in November 1995. The game consists of 3D graphics and features live-action scenes, with the cast including Michael Dorn and Patricia Charbonneau. The games storyline focuses on the player taking on the role of a single crew member, who is left behind on their ship after their captain feigns a surrender to ensure a vital mission can continue. The player's goal focuses on repairing their ship after a recent battle, and then getting to the surface of a planet to complete a secret scientific mission that could provide the means to ending a war over…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Mission Critical holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4, Athlon 64 or later, 256 MB RAM and Athlon 64 or later. 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 2GB.
What it launched against
Mission Critical launched on 31 October 1995, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby and Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby, Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mission Critical yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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