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Skeleton Krew

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Skeleton Krew
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    Core Design
RELEASED:         1995
TYPE:             Shooter
LANGUAGE:         English

PREMISE:          You can take your pick of any one of three alien bounty
                  hunters who are stalking their colony on a futuristic
                  Earth.

IMPRESSIONS:      A tough isometric shooter from the folks who would later
                  go on to create Tomb Raider.  Plays as good as it looks
                  and sounds, and offers multiplayer support as well.

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Lot's of fun! (Score: 1)
by Hiryu on Thursday, June 28 @ 18:02:01 EDT
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Skeleton Krew is a fun 3/4 perspective game in the vein of contra. It looks good, plays well ,and you get 3 characters to choose from! Definately play it with a friend. I give it a 9.

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Re: Skeleton Krew (Score: 1)
by deaddudegod on Wednesday, August 07 @ 23:25:27 EDT
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Although it's fun in one player mode, with two players this game really comes into it's own! Superb fun!

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Re: Skeleton Krew (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, July 14 @ 13:27:15 EDT

This is a great isometric shooter that you can play alone or with a friend. It is a bit repetitive but overall it ends quickly. Perhaps too quickly. I finished the game once solo and later again with a friend. I sold it not long after because I just had no more interest in it.

Perhaps one of the things that makes it shorter than other games of this type is that it plays fair. Especially the boss levels, which won't have you tossing away a few lives just to get past them.

A fun game, not frustrating at all, but probably too short for it's own good. For more like this, try The Chaos Engine / Soldier of Fortune.

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Re: Skeleton Krew (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 21 @ 08:26:16 EST

I never really got in to this game, it is totally repetitive constant shooting right through, the sprites very small and it feels odd rotating 360 in isometric perspective. I'd only give it 4/10

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Re: Skeleton Krew (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, October 08 @ 18:13:17 EDT

!!!!!WARNING!!!! Do NOT be taken by some of the comments stated on this board that Skeleton Krew is Halfway decent. The Game is cool for about the first 4-5 minutes, the I guarantee you'll be bored. The graphics are plain, nothing special, the gameplay is unbelievably repeatative... you walk around shooting at things that shoot back at you, that's basically the whole basis of the game, there's no motives, no special missions, no nothing, just guide your corny little character through corny developed levels and do it over and over but with different colors on your screen. Sound fun? Hardly. I wouldn't even suggest renting this game, let alone buy it. Take my word for it - That's why you've probably never even heard about it 'till now - total flop. Peace

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Re: Skeleton Krew (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, October 09 @ 09:15:14 EDT

Ha haa! Theres absolutly nothing wrong with this game at all, a latter Megadrive classic in the vein of Chaos Engine or Loaded (something like that. It's a nice bit of shoot'em-up fun! After all, isn't that what games are about?

Gav :)

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