Onslaught is a video game that was released by Hewson

Hewson Consultants

Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the mid 1980s. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other...

 in 1989 for the Amiga

Amiga

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 and subsequently ported

Porting

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 to the Atari ST

Atari ST

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, PC

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 and Sega Mega Drive

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.

The game is a fantasy platform

Platform game

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 beat'em up featuring an eerie soundtrack and graphic violence, with strong imagery of blood, gore and warfare.

Onslaught was re-released for the iPhone OS

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 in December 2008 and for the Xbox 360

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 in January 2009 as part of the Xbox Live Community Games service.

Premise

Gameplay

Gameplay takes place in three sections. First, a territory to attack is selected from the campaign screen; next the player is taken to the territory, where he battles through hordes of themed aggressors on a side-scrolling

Side-scrolling video game

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 landscape to reach a castle, which he must also conquer; finally the player faces the master of the castle - a wizard with four spell-casting tentacle arms - whom he must defeat by firing magic at him whilst avoiding the spells that the wizard fires back. On defeating the master of the castle the player wins the territory and returns to the campaign screen to select the next territory to attack.

Reception

Onslaught received mixed reviews on its release. Whilst The Games Machine

The Games Machine

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 gave it a score of 95% and rated it a "Top Game" and Zzap! scored it 85%, Your Amiga gave it 54%, and Sweden's Datormagazin awarded it just 3/10.

External links

• Onslaught at the Hall of Light Database of Amiga Games