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¦ ¦ Time Runners 11 : The Steel City.
¦ ¦ A Simulmundo Product.
¦ ¦ Supplyed by Legend
¦ ¦ Full Dox+Solve Typed by : Acid Queen/DS
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¦ 01...........Introduction
¦ 02...........The Installation
¦ 03...........General Impressions
¦ 04...........Background Story
¦ 05...........Object to the game
¦ 06...........Ingame Keys/Movement
¦ 07...........Items & Objects
¦ 08...........Hints
¦ 09...........The Solve
It has been 2 days ago when i made the solve and the Dox for Time Runners 10
and here already is part 11. Looks that they released it because they liked
the dox so much :-)
Like all the previous Time Runner Games this one has the same graphics,
the same interface, the same sounds and almost the same story.
So Simulmundo strikes again with another quality adventure :-)
Same install procedure as the last Time runners. But this one scares you
a little bit. Strange enough this install is in Italien. Thats very strange
, because part 10 was in english, so way step back in development ?
Just like the other games you must install this one from floppy disk. I
failed in using the SUBST-command. So unzip the archive to disk and install
it, the italien language aint a problem, just select the first choice and
press enter on all questions.
The install Options are :
¦ Install to a hard disk
¦ Video Manual
¦ Credits
¦ Copy to 2 720kb disk
These options are self-explaining so just use the Install option and
select a language (english, spanish, italien, german and french).
WHERE IS THE DUTCH LANGUAGE ?
The installion is full automatic. THe program scans your system, then
checks the free disk space, available memory and displays error messages
when you did something wrong. So it aint possible to make mistakes. The
installation takes about 2 minutes. This is very fast when you consider that
the actual game is very slow.
When the game is installed corectly you can play it from a main menu. this
is the same menu where you can de-install the game. This is very usefull
when the game starts to bore you (after 5 minutes of playing). But you can
also start the game by typing ACTION from the game dir.
Time Runners 10 was my first TR-game i played and the game wasnt that bad.
But after playing this game i found out that its just the same as part
10 with the same boring stuff. Although this one has a little bit more
action in it.
The Sound : What sound ? Didnt hear much.
Graphics : I liked the graphic part of part 10 better. The graphics
in this part arent improved, but they managed to add
more animations. So thats a little improvement.
Speed : AS slow as all other simulmundo games.
Playability : A mouse is strongly recommended. Only a fool plays this
game with keyboard.
In the last sequel we have seen that you became a time sentry. Your mission
was to save the earth from the 4 time demons. If the last part you where
send to a far place in a far time.
In this sequel we learn that that place is called THE STEEL CITY. Neat thats
the name of this sequel :-) In this city the time demon rules this place.
This place once was a peacefull place but then the cyborg inc. came and
build the cyborgs. After a while the time demon appeared and took over the
Cyborg Inc. He then used the cyborgs for his evil purposes. All humans in
this place became slaves.
Its up to you to do something about it, because dont forget you are that
time sentry.!
Your main task is to destroy the time demon, but to find him you must first
pass the three city circles. Fortunately this time it isnt a labyrinth, so
you cant get lost this time. Just wander through the city and collect items.
In order to find the time demon you must go to the innercircle, you start
in the outer circle and to get to the inner one, you must find a magnetic
card (for the second circle), to get to the inner circle you must find a
jetpack (to cross a low wall).
The movement in the game is done by the mouse or the keyboard. You can use
the keyboard if you want, but this is very difficult to control. The best
way is to use the mouse and click on a destination, then you can drink
some coffe (takes a long time till the character reaches the destination).
Woth the mouse you only have to use the right mouse to enter doors en the
left to sent yourself to a certain destinatiom.
The Keys :
ESC : Main menu, where you can save, restore and exit.
ENTER : SHow help on a certain situation.
H : Display the possible keys. Make sure you keep pressing
this key, the screens flips away when you let loose.
I : Inventory/status screen.
M : The map, use this often.
U : shows possible exits with a flashing bar on the screen.
SPACE : Select a weapon, at least when you have one.
UP : Jump up or enter an exit.
DOWN : DUCK
LEFT : Go left/Go back
RIGHT : Go Right/Go back
PGUP : Right jump
HOME : Jump Left
PGDN : Fast right
END : Fast left.
P : Pause game.
In the game it can happen when you see the square icon changes shape when
you are in the neighbour of an object. You can press ENTER to see what it
is. With the UP-arrow or the right mouse-button you can pick up these
items. This way you can take items like a piece of glass, a gun, a fork,
and others. Sometimes the object cant be seen but when you click on a
skelleton the screen zooms in on the object.
Other objects are added to the inventory when you touch them, like the
shining stars which can be found everywhere.
The items in this game are :
a. Jetpack.
b. Gun (you have this one from the start).
c. A magnetic card.
d. A translator.
Save the game at the end of each circle, you its easy to go back. Because
this game has more enemies in it then part 10, so dont take the risk that
you must restart it all.
Dont touch rats, and there are a lot of them. Well jump over them.
Knights are very strong. Fortunately you have a gun, so 1 blast and they
are history.
Robo-Machines (2 of them) can be found in the outer circle, you must kill
them to pass the magnetic door, just shoot 2 times. No use in
using your fists.
OUTER CIRCLE :
a. First go down, and collect some shining stars.
b. Then find the man and talk to him. He will tell you a
boring history about the city when the time demon came.
He will also give a useless translator. I think you need
it in part 12 (which probably will be released 2 days
after this dox).
c. Kill some robots.
d. Activate the Car Jack (right, thats on the car).
e. Now you can take the magnetic card.
SECOND CIRCLE :
a. Go left and kill knights and collect stars.
b. At a certain stage you can pass 2 doors from one screen.
Take the left door and you get the change to use the
Jack. Do this and you will then be able to take a
jetpack.
Still dont know the function of that hanging briefcase.
c. Go to the low wall and use the jetpack to fly over the
wall.
INNER CIRCLE :
a. Great only 9 screens to go.
b. Collect starts and kill knights
c. Soon you will get caught by the time demon. Naturally
this is part of the game, so you didnt screw up.
What can we say ? Well, lets wait for the exiting episode PART 12.
