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Sword

Using dexterity skills and machine gun the player must go through eight expanded levels and beat four bosses. Contact with animals, knights, spikes, falling rocks or fall from the ground takes one life and…

31 December 1997

Sword is a platform developed by Serio-Comic, released 31 December 1997 on Amiga.

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What Sword is

Sword is a platform game developed by Serio-Comic and released in 1997. It was published by Titan Computer. It is available on Amiga only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Using dexterity skills and machine gun the player must go through eight expanded levels and beat four bosses. Contact with animals, knights, spikes, falling rocks or fall from the ground takes one life and move the hero back to the beginning of the level. Machine gun overheats if used for too long. The levels differ significantly from one another. Some are played in the dark (second and fourth), the other on continuously moving screen to the right (sixth, seventh) or to the up (fifth). In the sixth level player goes skiing in the winter scenery. After each completed level player receives a password.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Sword launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

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When did Sword come out?
Sword was released on 31 December 1997 for Amiga.

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