In 1932, during the night of the Summer Solstice. Critics for both Next Generation and GamePro praised the fast game engine and combination of intense first-person shooting with brain-stimulating adventure elements. Let your readers know what your topic is about and add some general information about it. 2. Originally an exclusive for their 3DO Interactive Multiplayer console, it was later remade for the Windows platform in 1996 by Logicware and for the Macintosh after the 3DO system was discontinued. Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! An unusual aspect of the game is that live action full motion video characters also sometimes overlap with the real time gameplay, without breaking to cut scenes.[2]. Seemingly wise beyond her years, she understands what must be done and where to go, if one deciphers her riddles. The player controls an Ex-Egyptology Student, trapped on a fictional 1930's version of Matinicus Isle, Maine, within the estate of wealthy heiress Tess Conway. I AM THE AVATAR OF SET! All the same she remains miserably trapped on the isle, and spends most of her time drowning her worries in. Law-aligned creatures are immune to this effect. This action ends-up trapping all the people on the island, and the timing causes the experiment to go horribly wrong. Included in the GOG version. The player's objective is to find, and destroy, the Water-Clock, and discover the secrets of the estate, all while beating back the many horrors that now occupy the island from beyond the grave. The player's objective is to find, and destroy, the Water-Clock, and discover the secrets of the estate, all while beating back the many horrors that now occupy the island from beyond the grave. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. In 1932, during the night of the Summer Solstice. Lydia confesses later in the game that she is sick of being in the shadow of Tess and works to bring her whole establishment down from the inside by leaking as much information as she can to Duncan. [citation needed] The screen becomes pixelated and obscures the view of the entire area. He is Byron's only friend, and appears often, to offer friendly advice on how to navigate the Conway estate. She also stole the water clock, and was using it to achieve her megalomaniacal purpose of attaining godlike immortality at the end. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. [10] Next Generation complimented the humor and gave the game 4 out of 5 stars, concluding, "In short, Killing Time is the bastard child of Doom and 7th Guest, and it works."[9]. The gameplay follows the standard set by most first-person shooters with the player using an assortment of weapons. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Perhaps one of the game's only "truly innocent" characters, Robert laments over Tess' transformation after the death of her parents, and keeps a wary eye on Duncan, who he openly distrusts. No need to kill explorer.exeto play the game. Some sections require the player to strafe, crouch, or jump. Obsessed with being young and beautiful forever, Tess Conway acquires the ancient Egyptian Water-Clock in the hopes of using it to stop time itself. Also unique for its time, the game even includes several songs written exclusively for the game along with an impressive sound track. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. Duncan. The publisher allowed purchasers to mail them their red copy for a fixed version of the game, which appears on a black disk. Tess, while attempting to use a mystical Ancient Egyptian Water-Clock which purportedly grants eternal life, vanished, along with many of her society friends. The update work was done by Jordan Freeman Group and published by ZOOM Platform and Prism Entertainment. Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War, a 2007 book by Nicholas J. Saunders Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary , a 1977 photography book by Bruce Jackson Killing Time: The First Full Investigation into the Unsolved Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman , a 1996 book by Donald Freed and Raymond P. Briggs Much cleaner intro and ending cutscenes, along with stuttering/crackling issues 4. Tess is the rich inheritor of her family's estate on Matinicus Isle, where she keeps her friends, and pawns close by so that she might gain the true power of the Water-Clock. ; Axiomatic 9 Axiomatic 9: On Hit: 9 to 36 Law damage. This patch provides the following changes: 1. Throughout the game the plot is slowly revealed to the player through numerous ghostly cut scenes, all of them performed by a cast of professional actors. "MORTAL! [3][4] However, while Acclaim did publish the other two games for those platforms, they did not do so with Killing Time, even though a release date was announced[5] and it was advertised in magazines[6] and on the back of some manuals on games published by the company. Sariyon Dran-Dal informed you that the wards surrounding the Chronoscope have been breached. To beat the game one must collect a number of vases spread throughout Matinicus Isle, each containing a symbolic part of Tess Conway's spirit. The Conway Estate is a labyrinth of corridors and secrets, and you have to traverse every inch of it to complete your quest, all whilst shooting monsters Doom-style. Though meant at first as an exclusive for their 3DO Interactive Multiplayer console, it was later ported (extremely different version) to the Windows 95 PC platform in 1996 by Intrepid Software and to the Macintosh when the 3DO system failed to meet sales expectations. RULER OF THE NIGHT! "Tess Conway" (played by actress Lise Bruneau): Inheritor of her parent's wealth as well as the Conway Estate, Tess will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It was initially meant to stay as an exclusive, but was later ported (with substantial changes) to Windows 95 PC platform in 1996 by Intrepid Software and to Macintosh when the 3DO system failed to meet sales expectations. Penalty: If equipped by a Chaotic user, they receive 1 Negative Level for as long as this item is equipped. Sickle +15 Enhancement Bonus +15 Enhancement Bonus: +15 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Since so few purchasers sent in copies, the red version remains fairly common, but the black version is rare. Killing Time Game Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow Location Indian Ocean: USS Mt. Mouse buttons and functions cannot be remapped. From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games. Meet him at the Chronoscope to investigate what is amiss. She blows Set/Duncan away with a (presumably god-empowered) tommy gun, then decides to reward you for all your hard work... by having you join her army of the dead. Killing Time is a horror-themed FPS video game with Full-Motion Video components, developed by Studio 3DO. [citation needed] The 3DO Game Guru includes a save file patch which fixes the bug. Some store links may include affiliate tags. "Duncan DeVries": Tess' associate, and key to the black market. He ends up having a curse directly put on him by Tess forcing him to become an avatar of Set to drive him into insanity for fatally wounding her. The update work was done by Jordan Freeman Group and published by ZOOM Platform and Prism Entertainment.[1]. Robert dislikes what is going on but remains a loyal servant out of honor for the dying memory of the Conway family. Though meant at first as an exclusive for their 3DO Interactive Multiplayer console, it was later ported (extremely different version) to the Windows 95 PC platform in 1996 by Intrepid Software and to the Macintosh when the 3DO system failed to meet sales expectations. Some keys such as Enter and Backslash cannot be mapped. "Mike": Duncan's rent-a-cop body guard, Mike follows Duncan around and makes sure everything goes smoothly. He appears only once by himself in the game to offer a quick warning to beware of both Duncan and Tess. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/KillingTime. Max Zorzi Killing Time [[Image:{{{Image}}}|Killing Time|250px]] Genre Crime, Mystery, Drama Published TBA Creator Writer(s) Max Zorzi Editor(s) TBA Killing Time is a horror-themed first-person shooter video game developed by Studio 3DO. The later PC and Macintosh versions of the game allows you to avoid it though. That's it. It was initially meant to stay as an exclusive, but was later ported (with substantial changes) to Windows 95 PC platform in 1996 by Intrepid Software and to Macintosh when the 3DO system failed to meet sales expectations. Click the edit button at the top of any page to get started! Duncan is an ambitious. "Lydia Tweksbury": Tess' childhood friend, Lydia is kept on the isle for mysterious reasons though it would seem as though Tess gains confidence from being two steps ahead of Lydia at all times.