Blake Stone: Planet Strike! (Every FPS Ever Made)
0Blake Stone: Planet Strike! is the commercial sequel to Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.
An evolution rather than a revolution, Planet Strike! doesn't dramatically change things and features everything from the original game except the elevator. In the place of the elevator, the player must now collect a bomb on every map and bring it to a security cube; the bomb will destroy the cube allowing the player to use the exit.
It features 24 new levels, played in a single episode in a linear fashion (despite a between level map trying to convince you otherwise), a new weapon, the Plasma Discharger (which functions as the game's ultimate weapon), and several new bad guys and bosses.
Though the "new bad guys" comment is a little misleading as only one of them is actually all new; the others are the boss aliens from Aliens of Gold (with their stats reduced to non-boss level) or simply slightly edited and re-coloured bad guys from the previous game.
Developed by: JAM Productions
Published by: Apogee Software, Ltd.
Released In: Oct 28, 1994
Credits
JAM Productions Jerry Jones, Michael Maynard, James T. Row
Contributing Artists Cygnus Multimedia Productions, Debra Berry, Jeff Dee
Music Robert Prince
Texture Mapping Engine id Software
Cover Illustration Ken Rieger
Manual Design Robert M. Atkins
Financing & Resources Apogee Software
Special Thanks To Jason Blochowiak, Mark Dochtermann, Scott Host, Steven Maines, Nolan Martin, Robert Prince, Joseph Selinske, Joe Siegler
Trivia
Recycling
Although the developers claimed to have created "all new aliens and guards" for Planet Strike, if you really look closely you can see that the "new" guards are really just the original three guards, recolored a bit to look more alien-like. Similarly, a lot of the "new enemy sounds" in Planet Strike are the same sounds that existed in Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, just played backwards.
Source Code
On July 9, 2013, Apogee released the source code for Blake Stone: Planet Strike!; almost 19 years after the original release. The source code was long believed to be lost. It can be downloaded from http://www.apogeesoftware.com
DOS
Commercial
Minimum CPU Class Required Attribute Image Intel i386
Minimum OS Class Required Attribute Image PC/MS-DOS 3.3
Minimum RAM Required Attribute Image 640 KB
Media Type Attribute Image 3.5" Floppy Disk, Attribute Image CD-ROM, Attribute Image Download
Video Modes Supported VGA
Sound Devices Supported Adlib, Disney Sound Source, PC Speaker, PC Speaker (Tweaked), Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro
Input Devices Supported Gravis Gamepad, Attribute Image Keyboard, Attribute Image Mouse
Controller Types Supported Analog Joystick
You Can Buy Game Here: https://www.gog.com/game/blake_stone_planet_strike
Source Port Used In Video Here: http://bibendovsky.github.io/bstone/