THE MAKING OF: HIRED GUNS

Unveiling a journey through fantasy and science fiction, James Churchill speaks to Steve Hammond and David Osborne about the underrated gem in DMA Design’s crown

IN THE KNOW » PUBLISHER: PSYGNOSIS » DEVELOPER: DMA DESIGN » RELEASED: 1993 » PLATFORM: AMIGA, PC » GENRE: RPG “HIRED GUNS 101” ▪ Hired Guns is a first-person sci-fidungeon crawler with a four way split screen. Whether navigating through cavernous levels, shooting bio-engineered creatures or puzzle solving, it’s possible for one player to control four characters simultaneously. As a first-person dungeon crawler with FPS elements, a science fiction setting and four-way split screen gameplay, Hired Guns is unique. And for Amiga owners in 1993, unprecedented. Whilst dungeon crawlers like Dungeon Master and Eye Of The Beholder previously enthralled gamers, they didn’t boast a grimy cyberpunk visual style, tense four-way co-operative play or the vast array of characters and weapons seen in Hired Guns. Instead of competitive play emerging in…

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