Tonic Trouble
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| Studio | Ubisoft Montreal | ||
| Publisher | Ubisoft | ||
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 August 31, 1999 October 24, 1999 |
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| platform | Nintendo 64 , Windows , Game Boy Color | ||
| genre | Jump and run | ||
| control | Joystick , keyboard | ||
| medium | CD-ROM | ||
| language | English German | ||
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Tonic Trouble is a book published in 1999 video game of the Jump 'n' Run genre. It was released on August 31, 1999 in North America (USA and Canada) and was released for Nintendo 64 and PC. Furthermore, a beta version of the game was offered as early as 1996 when purchasing an Aldi PC. It was also supplied as a software accessory for 3D accelerators such as the Matrox Marvel G200 TV.
The protagonist is the spaceship janitor Ed, who, by spilling a liquid, contaminates a planet and turns it into a colorful, twisted world that has since been ruled by the evil Viking Grögh.
Tonic Trouble was the first game that was optimized for the then new Intel Pentium II processor . Over 1.1 million units of the game have been sold.
action
Ed, a weak purple janitor, is in love. When he tries to make a confession of love to his loved one on a spaceship and complains about their current boyfriend, he confuses the doors and accidentally stands in front of the door of that boyfriend. This then pursues him and he hides in a room full of liquids. When he curiously drinks one of these liquids and spills it, it escapes from the spaceship onto planet earth. There the Viking Grögh is being thrown out of a bar and accidentally notices the container of the liquid. He takes a sip and instantly gains super powers, but spills quite a bit, which is why the world around him turns into a colorful chaos of living vegetables and huge animals. Grögh, the ruler of this new world, then keeps the container in his fortress under a glass dome so that nobody can steal it. Ed is held responsible for this mess and sentenced to clean up. However, this is only possible through the container, since an antidote can be produced through it. So Ed sets off in a spaceship on the way to the fortress, but finds himself in a snow-covered world after an accident and now has to get the container on another way by fighting his way through this new world.
Characters
- Ed , the personable, clumsy alien, has to make amends for what he has done.
- Suzy , is the Doc's daughter and the first person in the game to be friendly towards him. She is supposed to help Ed get the container.
- The a little crazy Doc helps Ed after he has freed him by inventing a machine that teleports him to Grögh's fortress.
- Grögh , the evil Viking is the final boss of the game. It houses the container that Ed must find in order to have the antidote made.
criticism
“The gameplay is downright lame. While Tonic Trouble claims to sport a fully 3D world, most of it takes place indoors, in caves, or in dungeons, and therefore, camera angles become a serious problem. The camera is locked to a specific view way too often, and too many of the jumps have to be made blindly. Tonic Trouble's idea of a challenge is a string of difficult jumps, and the only time you'll really die is when you miss one. "
“The gameplay is downright lame. While Tonic Trouble boasts of having a proper 3D world, much of the game takes place indoors, in cages, or dungeons, so camera angles are a serious problem. The camera is fixed far too often and so you have to make a lot of jumps blindly. Tonic Troubles' idea of a challenge is a series of jumps, and the only way to die is to miss a jump. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Performance Tests: Graphic Accelerators . In: PC Magazine . No. 21 , 1998, pp. 267 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Philippe Malaval, Christophe Benaroya: Strategy and Management of Industrial Brands: Business to Business Products and Services . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2004, ISBN 1-4020-7753-X , p. 298 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Tonic Trouble Review for Nintendo 64 - GameSpot last viewed on October 9, 2010.