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1. Introduction
10 years after 'The Tournament of Zulula'...
The small and quiet city of Zulula has exploded, as it's tournament became
more and more popular! Stronger and stronger races came from all over Akistar
to prove that they are the best! What was chaos ten years ago is now a quiet
day, the tournament is much bigger and lasts much longer! Creatures of evil,
such as the slimy Protoplasmic Horror Shar-Ooz, the bone-crushing Giant
Skeleton Kiro and the wretched Storm Giant Sharak Kilman act as tyrants in
their part of the city. You came to Zulula for fame and fortune, but seeing
all evil at work, you realize there is a cleaning job to do!
Champions of Zulula sets itself 10 years after 'The Tournament'. You can
select from an impressive list of 16 different races, including all your
favorite 'Tournament of Zulula' characters! New races include trolls,
peinchkas, golems and more! Battle in single matches, tournaments or the
all-new 20 monsters bash where the only one standing at the end is the winner!
And when you have accumulated enough victories, you will get your chance to
defeat the evil boss-monsters that are threatening to take over the city!
Champions of Zulula gives you twice the races and twice the number of monsters
per tournament! The new '20 monsters bash' has to be seen to be believe, as
many computer monsters and players fight in the arena
Note: the term "player" designate a character played by a human (i.e. you)
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3. Quick Start
To get right into the game and play a single fight:
- Type ZULULA to start the game.
- Use the mouse to move the pointer to the coliseum (to the right of the
screen)
- Choose SINGLE FIGHT
- Choose one of the "generic" character (character
beginning with "P" followed by the race)
- Choose any adversary from the "generic" characters or the other 32
characters.
The default configuration is Keyboard 1 which is:
MOVE : the keypad (or arrow keys)
ATTACK 1: SHIFT
ATTACK 2: CTRL
JUMP : ENTER
PROTECT : ALT
4. The Main Menu
The main menu is divided into 5 areas:
- Game Options (The flying pyramid)
- Hall of training (The wooden building)
- Help (The information booth in the middle)
- Fight (The coliseum to the right)
- Quit (The guillotine)
To move in the menus, use the mouse to move the pointer over the area you
wish to select and press the left mouse button. You can also use the arrow
keys and ENTER to move/select the options.
4.1 Game Options (The flying pyramid)
4.1.1 Choosing the controls
You can activate up to three players in the game, players selected as
"inactive" will not be active in any events. Players selected as other
than "inactive" will be active in both the tournament and bash. Only
the first 2 players can participate in a single fight, and only player 1
can challenge an evil lord.
Clicking on the "PLAYER 1", "PLAYER 2" or "PLAYER 3" button will cycle
through the different controls for the different players, or will put
the player inactive.
4.1.2 Choosing the sound
Clicking on the "SOUND" button toggles ADLIB and NO SOUND
4.1.3 Read This/Ordering information
Clicking on these buttons will bring you important information about
this product!
4.1.4 Calibrating the joysticks
To use the joystick properly, you must calibrate them. Click on this
button and follow the on-screen instructions to calibrate your
joystick.
4.1.5 Redefining the keyboards
You can use the pre-defined keys to control your player, but you
can also redefine the 2 keyboard layouts. Click on either
"REDEFINE KEYBOARD 1" or "REDEFINE KEYBOARD 2" and follow the on-
screen instructions to redefine the keyboard.
4.2 Hall of Training: The wooden building
The hall of training is where you can go to create a new character, view
any of the 16 players or 32 computer characters and view the informations
on all the 16 normal races.
4.2.1 Creating a character
To create a new character, you must select the "create a character"
button from the hall of training.
You must then delete one of the 16 "player characters" by clicking on
it. Your new character will replace the character you choose to delete.
You must then choose a name for your new character. Type the name using
the keyboard and press ENTER when done.
After that, you must choose a race for your character, choose from
the race list to the right of the screen.
4.2.2 Viewing a character
To view an already created character, select the "view a character"
button from the hall of training, then choose the character you wish to
view from the list on the right.
4.2.3 Races information
To view the information on a specific race, select the "races
information" button from the hall of training. From there you can
choose any of the 16 races on the right of the screen. You will see all
the characteristic of the race displayed to the right of the race's
portrait, with a description of the race below.
4.3 The Arena: The Stone Coliseum
The coliseum is where all gladiators ready for combat are. From the
arena you can fight single matches, play a 16 monster tournament,
a 20 monster bash or challenge one of the three evil lords.
4.3.1 Single match
Single fights are especially good for training because they only
give 1 point each. Use single fights to study the different
races, how they react, how they hit etc.
If "Player 1" is not "Inactive", the first player you select will
be controlled by "Player 1". Otherwise, the computer will take
care of controlling it.
If "Player 1" is not "Inactive", the second player you select will
be controlled by "Player 1". Otherwise, the computer will take
care of controlling it.
See section 5 for more information after you select the characters.
4.3.2 Elimination tournament
Tournaments are less predictable than single fights, because you
do not choose any of the opponents you will face!
If all three players are "inactive", the computer will choose and
controll all participants in the tournament, and the tournament
will be resolved without any input from the player.
The computer will prompt you for any "active" player to choose
the character he will control. The slot in which the character
will be placed is choosen randomly.
A tournament is worth 20 points.
See section 5 for more information after you select the characters.
4.3.3 20 monsters bash
The bashes are a totally different story, it is a truly unique
event that will pit your skills against up to 19 other opponents,
with up to three opponents at a time. You select the players as you
do in "the tournaments" (see above). In this case however, the
slot number you end up in is extremly important, as explained below.
See section 5 for more information after you select the characters.
4.3.4 Challenging the evil lords
Inside and around the walls of Zulula, three evil lords are each
developping an army to take control of Zulula (and the money gained each
year by the tournament). They are:
The protoplasmic horror Shar-Ooz: Shar-Ooz is one of the highest
military officer of the Shugtar-Shooz army, in short, he is a 16 feet
tall slime ready to engulf you!
The Giant Skeleton Kiro: Kiro is a sergeant of Locmar, the God of
Death. He is currently animating the undeads in the cemetary near
Zulula. He wields a huge axe that can rip most other monsters out in a
few hits.
The Storm Giant Sharak Kilman: Kilman is a 18 feet giant. He believes
that the giants should rule Akistar as they were before the Great War of
Freedom, and Zulula is his first step in the reconquest!
See section 5 for more information after you select the characters.
4.4 Information booth
You can click on the information booth and ask question to the
person there. He will be happy to answer your questions about
Zulula!
4.5 Quit: The Guillotine
Clicking on the guillotine will exit the game. You will be asked if you
are sure before exiting.
5.The game
5.1 Controlling your character
To control your character, use the following combination of keys or
the joystick, depending on the control you choosed (see "Choosing the
controls" for more info)
KEYBOARD 1: - UP : Up arrow key
- DOWN : Down arrow key
- LEFT : Left arrow key
- RIGHT : Right arrow key
- ATTACK 1: Right shift
- ATTACK 2: Ctrl
- JUMP : Enter
- DEFENCE : Alt
KEYBOARD 2: - UP : W
- DOWN : X
- LEFT : A
- RIGHT : D
- ATTACK 1: F
- ATTACK 2: V
- JUMP : R
- DEFENCE : Z
Joysticks : - UP : Move up
- DOWN : Move down
- LEFT : Move left
- RIGHT : More right
- ATTACK 1: Button 1 + Up
- ATTACK 2: Button 1 + Middle
- JUMP : Button 2
- DEFENCE : Button 1 + Down
4 buttons : - UP : Move up
- DOWN : Move down
- LEFT : Move left
- RIGHT : More right
- ATTACK 1: Button 1 (Red)
- ATTACK 2: Button 3 (Green)
- JUMP : Button 2 (Blue)
- DEFENCE : Button 4 (Yellow)
Most of the time, one attack will deliver more damages than the
other, but will be slower.
5.2 The single fights
The goal is simple, beat your opponent senseless and reduce him to
a bloody pulp.
5.3 The tournaments
Once all 16 participants are chosen (see 4.3.2), the tournament begins.
All computer-only fights are resolved automatically, when a fight
involving any player occurs, the screen switch to the battlefield, and the
player(s) must resolve their battle in the coliseum.
The fights occur as a single fight (see above).
5.4 The bashes
Once the bash begins, the first four characters of the list enters the
arena. In a bash, there are no friend, only foes. The four gladiators
battle it out against each other untill one of them falls. When a
gladiator dies, it's body is dragged out of the arena, and the next
gladiator on the list enters, full of energy. This is where the luck gets
into the game, if you get in sooner, you'll have to use a lot of strategy
to stay alive all this time, while if you get in late, the task will be
much easier. The winner of the bash is the only gladiator left standing
after all 20 participants have entered.
Because of the extreme danger related to this event, the bash is worth 50
points.
5.5 The evil lords
Fights with evil lords are resolved as single fights.
WARNING: The evil lords have an extroardinary combination of strength and
dexterity that no ordinary contestant has. Only carefull strategy can
rid Zulula of these lords!
Thank you for playing "Champions Of Zulula", we hope you'll enjoy it!
