

The Swarm ( Dominic Glynn and Stephen Root) performed and produced the Forsaken soundtrack which features dynamic drum and bass and electronica tracks. ĭue to the heavy technology focus of the game, it was often bundled with hardware to show off the graphic cards, and was used as a benchmark for many years after its initial release. Ī Sega Saturn version of the game was announced, but canceled as part of Acclaim's general withdrawal of support for the system. This was changed to Condemned when the story elements were added although it was later changed to Forsaken due to a potential naming conflict. The game was heavily technology driven at the beginning and was titled ProjectX.
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At that time, Microsoft's newly bought and re-branded rendering layer ( DirectX) had just started to dominate PC development.įergus McGovern headed the development team. The game was developed by Probe Entertainment during the 1996–1998 period as the company became merged into its parent company (Acclaim). Mercenaries from all over come to raid the dead planet, forced to battle not only each other, but the robot sentinels that the government has left behind. One year later, Earth has been classified as "condemned" by the ruling imperial theocracy, meaning that it is now legal for anyone to salvage anything left on the planet. During a subatomic experiment, an accident causes an uncontrollable fusion reaction, utterly destroying the surface of the planet Earth. In the distant future, the advancement of science has exceeded humanity's ability to control it. The PC version also has the ability to record demos. Also on the Nintendo 64 version, a maximum of three computer players can join. Up to 16 players can join in on the PC version, four on the Nintendo 64, and two for the PlayStation.
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There are six different types of multiplayer games: Free for All (deathmatch), Team Game, Capture the Flag, Flag Chase, Bounty Hunt, and Team Bounty Hunt. Similar to Starfox 64 (1997), different paths appear depending on which targets were achieved. There are 22 missions, each requiring the player to either destroy all enemy ships in a maze of tunnels, or achieve a certain target, such as completing within a time limit and/or at a specific percentage of enemies murdered.
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Due to the near-impossible challenge presented by the four modes, Acclaim provided the patch 1.00 that (among other things) decreased the difficulty of the game dramatically. Each has progressively stronger enemies and less ammo to spare. The single-player mode has four difficulty modes: easy, normal, hard and total mayhem.

In the PC and PlayStation versions, the player acts as someone trying to obtain the planet's lost treasure, while in the Nintendo 64 release, the goal is to kill looters finding the treasure. The goal of the game differs between formats. It is set on a futuristic Earth that, in 2113, had all of its life destroyed as a result of a shockwave from a science accident. A remastered version was released in 2018 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and Xbox One.įorsaken is a 3D first-person shooter in the style of Descent (1995), featuring similar weapons, power-ups, having missiles and mines being labeled "secondary weapons", and involving 3D movement of a vehicle through several tunnels. It was developed by Probe Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation and Iguana Entertainment UK for the Nintendo 64 and published by Acclaim Entertainment. Forsaken is a 1998 first-person shooter video game.
