Escape from Hell

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This may be because it is not a post-apocalyptic game, and therefore does not seem to fit in quite as well. Its title is to be taken quite literally, and the game, of course, is quite spoofy. You can get Stalin, Hamlet, Horatio, Hitler, Dr. Jekyll or Genghis Khan to join your party, fight Al Capone and Dillinger, get blood from Bonnie and Clyde, or, in Limbo, learn archery from Thucydides and melee from Marc Anthony.</div> <div> In many ways Escape from Hell is a parody of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. It starts with the title (which is, in full, Richard & Alan's Escape from Hell), many of the characters you find in hell are the same as the dudes the excellent duo has to collect, sometimes even misspelled the same way (Napolean), and you start in hell beside a telephone booth, just like their time machine.</div> <div> This spoofiness and the religious and pop-culture references have greatly influenced the Fallout games, especially the second one. Even a number of details are similar:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In Escape from Hell, there are mirrored shades that protect you against psychic attacks. In Fallout, there is a psychic nullifier that does exactly that, and in Fallout 2, there are mirrored shades, but they do not protect you, they raise your charisma. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In Escape from Hell, you can sign up as a Hell Guard and receive a Hell Badge, which enables you to use healing statues. In Fallout 2, you can get a Sheriff's badge and a Ranger pin, though they don't do anything. </div> <div> Escape from Hell was created by Richard Seaborne (your character is always named Richard) and Alan Murphy. There is not much information about it on the web.</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Highly recommended for anyone wanting to try a good RPG parody</U><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >, Home of the Underdogs says. </FONT></div> <div> A "light" RPG with a healthy dose of humor, Escape from Hell is based on an interesting premise: you are a typical guy who's one day mysteriously "zapped" into Hell. And now you must find a way out alive. Talk to lots of Hellish creatures, see inventive tortures and why, aside from the apologetic note in Hell's phone booth, your guardian angel never shows up.</div> <bR> <div> Escape From Hell (c) Electronic Arts doesn't have super fantastic graphics or a really great interface, but it does have a novel and interesting plot and lots of non-player characters to talk to and interact with, but a disappointing endgame.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>