Enter the Realm

"A Superfast Adventure into Arcade Action"

Combining fast arcade quality action and graphics with the element of adventure and surprise. Meet strange characters, build up your weapons and eventually meet evil in mortal combat. The Background

Travel back to Karidor, a land lost in antiquity. A land of evil, a land of good. A land where almost anything can happen and probably will. A land of magic and a land of beauty. So your quest begins....

The land of Karidor was a quiet world much like Earth. It had mountains, it had seas. It had forests and it had deserts. Even the people were similar, but one thing was different. This was the fact that magic did exist there.

For many aeons the land was untroubled by any great power until one fateful day where everything changed and evil took power. Evil had always existed of course, but had been in balance with the good of the gods, who were neutral. That day however, the balance was tipped.

It turned out that the ancient prophecies of Karidor had proclaimed this event thousands of years ago. The prophecy stated that evil would overthrow the Realm and only one man, a knight of goodly heart and fearsome ability could reset the balance again. The knight was named Kharas.

Enter the Realm challenges you to lead Kharas in his conquest against evil. On the way, dangers will befall you and surprises will await you...

The Game Design

Enter the Realm is the first game to feature true parallax scrolling on the Archimedes and A3000 computers. The whole play area is created from layers which slide over each other creating a true 3 dimensional backdrop upon which the game proceeds.

The game features fast spectacular graphics which are all hand drawn and realistic digitised sound effects and speech which are totally interactive with the action all around you. Everything else in the game will he left as a suprise!

Specifications *** Over 2 megs of high quality realistic graphics, all hand drawn. * Over 130k of in-game digitised sound effects and speech. * Over 150k of music by Peter Gillet. * 50 frames/second arcade quality scrolling, animation & movement. * 6 layer FULL parallax scrolling of play area (forget immitations!).(sic)- Massive sprites. - Realistic weather effects and intelligent adversaries. - Control via keyboard or RTFM joystick.**

Source: Back of Box - Acorn 32-bit (UK)