Wicked
In Wicked , a big evil has come to the world and the player has to drive it back. To do so, the twelve astrological signs (with three levels each) have to be purged. The basic idea is that portals spit out spores which can be either good or evil. The goal is to produce enough good spores to overrun and destroy all evil portals before the screen is filled with bad spores. The player has to manage the time resources because everything has to be done manually: shooting at the evil spore growth to drive it back and picking up good spores to create good spore portals at strategically useful positions. Additional gameplay elements are Guardians which fly around the screen and are unhealthy when touched, a night-time-rhythm which influence the spore growth and tarot cards which get revealed in regular intervals. These have either good or bad influences for the one who picks it up. There are three options to set the gameplay: action-oriented, strategy-oriented or mixed.
SCREENSHOTS
PHYSICAL
HISTORY
Wicked is a real-time strategy horror-themed video game released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64 in 1989 by Binary Vision and Electric Dreams Software. Activision had intended to release the game for MS-DOS with EGA graphics in 1989, but the port was cancelled.
Plot
The protagonist of the game is sacrificed in order to become a ring of fire to combat the evil forces of darkness that mean to plunge the earth in eternal darkness. The evil forces exist in three different points of each Zodiacal constellation.
Gameplay
The game consists of using the ring of fire to keep the evil spores at bay, preventing new evil portals existing, defeating guardians so that the good spores can spread and destroy the existing evil portals before the time runs out. The difficulty of the game is determined by the night and day cycle, which has longer nights in the later levels.
Reception
STORY
The Universe is alive, held together by the power of good.`
But Evil has penetrated the twelve great constellations through portals of destruction. It is spreading fast, fighting for domination, growing ever stronger.
You are called upon, a mere mortal, to purge the Universe of evil in service of the Sun God. Learn to hate the force of evil. Defeat it!
Discover its many guises, its strenghts and its weaknesses: sporing, settling, spreading - it's silent, it's cunning and its WICKED!
SCORES
RELEASES 3 systems
PHYSICAL RELEASES 1 box
