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A little known gem from the days when platformers were still big on the PC, ''Abuse'' is a dark (both literally and figuratively) platform shooter created by Crack Dot Com and published by Origin Systems, by then a division of [[Electronic Arts]], in 1996. |
A little known gem from the days when platformers were still big on the PC, '''''Abuse''''' is a dark (both literally and figuratively) platform shooter created by Crack Dot Com and published by Origin Systems, by then a division of [[Electronic Arts]], in 1996. |
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''Abuse'' puts players in the shoes of Nick Vrenna, a man unjustly incarcerated in a maximum-security prison that is being used for [[Playing with Syringes|ethically-questionable experiments.]] Predictably, all hell breaks loose when inmates and staff get transformed into monsters by a biological agent called [[Title Drop|Abuse]]. Only Nick is [[The Immune|immune]], so he decides to take advantage of the chaos by stealing a suit of [[Powered Armor]] and making good his escape. |
''Abuse'' puts players in the shoes of Nick Vrenna, a man unjustly incarcerated in a maximum-security prison that is being used for [[Playing with Syringes|ethically-questionable experiments.]] Predictably, all hell breaks loose when inmates and staff get transformed into monsters by a biological agent called [[Title Drop|Abuse]]. Only Nick is [[The Immune|immune]], so he decides to take advantage of the chaos by stealing a suit of [[Powered Armor]] and making good his escape. |
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It was also distributed to the [[Mac OS|Macintosh]] via [[Bungie|Bungie Studios]] ([[Marathon Trilogy|yes,]] ''[[Myth|that]] ''[[Halo|Bungie]]) and was a game in the Mac Action Sack. Much more recently, it received an [[Amiga OS]] 4 port in 2009, and an iOS port titled ''Abuse Classic.'' |
It was also distributed to the [[Mac OS|Macintosh]] via [[Bungie|Bungie Studios]] ([[Marathon Trilogy|yes,]] ''[[Myth|that]] ''[[Halo|Bungie]]) and was a game in the Mac Action Sack. Much more recently, it received an [[Amiga OS]] 4 port in 2009, and an iOS port titled ''Abuse Classic.'' |
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