Mutants
In the distant future, human beings have outposts all over the galaxies, but wars and aggression have not died out. Neither has opposition to potential exploitation or environmental damage; your resistance…
Mutants is an arcade developed by Denton Designs, released 31 December 1987 on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, PC (Microsoft Windows) and ZX Spectrum.
What Mutants is
Mutants is an arcade game developed by Denton Designs and released in 1987. It was published by Ocean Software. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, PC (Microsoft Windows) and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the distant future, human beings have outposts all over the galaxies, but wars and aggression have not died out. Neither has opposition to potential exploitation or environmental damage; your resistance movement has discovered that Macro-Genetic Mutoids (Mutants) are being bred purely to be used as weapons.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Mutants holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 100 MB RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Mutants launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
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