Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an arcade shooter game that was released in Germany in 1997. The game runs on the DOS platform. It provides a top-down and third-person perspective.
Rage Against the Machine is a variation of the classic shooter game, Bezerk. To play the game, the player needs to navigate through a maze filled with enemies in the form of aliens and robots. The player is armed with a handgun, through which he needs to kill as many enemies as possible. Scores are awarded for killing each enemy.
The enemies are also equipped with handguns and the player needs to carefully protect themself from enemy bullets. There might be several enemies shooting at the same time and from all directions. However, the player has the advantage of adjusting the game speed and fire speed to their convenience. The background is black with colorful barriers.
The Protagonist is colored green, while the enemies are blue or orange to make them easily identifiable. Colored barriers inside the maze can be destroyed with ammunition, but one must be careful of the metal walls which are designed to deflect bullets. Getting hit by an enemy's bullet or a deflected one will end the game. Each level has a clearly marked 'Exit' sign which the player can head towards if they want to quit the level.
Rage Against the Machine is a generated-level game where game levels can be conjured up in real-time in the most unpredictable fashion, adding to the excitement of the game. It is considered one of the superior generated level titles of the time.
The instructions are quite simple:
- controll with the cursor keys
- shoot with space
- Pause with P (you can scoll with the cusor keys)
- Sound On/Off with S
- regulate the gamespeed with F1/F2
- regulate your firespeed with F3/F4
- quit with ESC

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