Arena: Maze of Death
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Arena/Maze of Death is an isometric
action
video game created by Eden Entertainment Software for the Sega Game Gear. Players have to play the role as a one-person mercenary squad who is trapped in heavily guarded and deadly areas with the primary goal of surviving. This game showed up late in the Game Gear's life span.
A television broadcasting company called Astralnet Broadcasting Company (carrying the initals ABC) was created to secretly control the population and keep them brainwashed. Our pro-democratic sympathizer, Guy Freelander, is charged with the task of navigating through a warehouse
district, an industrial park
, and an old abandoned train station
in order to enter a high-rise building through a weakly defended "back door" and broadcast proof of an evil corporation
's wrongdoings over the TV station
s. Convinced that if they play the tape through ABC's broadcasting, they can convince the repressed population to rise up against the current regime. There is no relation to the American Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or any other real-life television station to the fictional ABC station found in the game.
The game has a similar feel to it as the American motion picture The Running Man
starring Richard Dawson and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
.
Isometric projection
Isometric projection is a method for visually representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions in technical and engineering drawings...
action
Action game
Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games, which are widely considered the most important action games, though some...
video game created by Eden Entertainment Software for the Sega Game Gear. Players have to play the role as a one-person mercenary squad who is trapped in heavily guarded and deadly areas with the primary goal of surviving. This game showed up late in the Game Gear's life span.
Setting
The setting is a futuristic city in the year 2026 (which is actually a glorified maze of rooms and generic enemy characters similar to video games with this setting).A television broadcasting company called Astralnet Broadcasting Company (carrying the initals ABC) was created to secretly control the population and keep them brainwashed. Our pro-democratic sympathizer, Guy Freelander, is charged with the task of navigating through a warehouse
Warehouse
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload...
district, an industrial park
Industrial park
An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...
, and an old abandoned train station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
in order to enter a high-rise building through a weakly defended "back door" and broadcast proof of an evil corporation
Evil corporation
An evil corporation is a staple of science fiction , usually a big multinational company which values profits over ethics....
's wrongdoings over the TV station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
s. Convinced that if they play the tape through ABC's broadcasting, they can convince the repressed population to rise up against the current regime. There is no relation to the American Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or any other real-life television station to the fictional ABC station found in the game.
The game has a similar feel to it as the American motion picture The Running Man
The Running Man (film)
The Running Man is a 1987 American action film loosely based on Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, and Richard Dawson....
starring Richard Dawson and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
.