Name this game?

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Firstly I have to apologise for lack of detail here, but you boys would know if anyone would.

When my parents bought our first PC back in circa 1995 - 1997, the guy who built it left a single player PC game on there. I got addicted to it and when I started having PC trouble I took it back to him and the game was gone. I've never been able to find details of the game online or ever heard of it after that.

It was a third person shooter, where you got to run around and also drive cars. Much like the modern day GTA games but it was released before the first GTA! I remember the title has something to do with DOGS and I remember the game title was written on screen with lots of metal panels and bolts.

Any ideas from the old gamers?
 
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No it's not either of those.

Maybe it was a dream... or maybe I'm making it cooler in my head than it ever was in real life. There's no way a 'GTA' or 'Driver' type game was out that early... when I say third person I mean the exact same third person view of GTA or Driver.
 
CrowK said:
Was it mostly walking around 3rd person with some driving or more driving less walking? What do you actually do in the game?
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It was mainly walking around shooting in 3rd person with some driving, rather than the other way around. It was set in a post apocalyptic type world with robots flying around and remains of robots scattered over the floor. I'm pretty sure spaceships were in it too.

The driving looked a little like Quarantine 1994.


CrowK said:
If you got your PC in 95-97 could the game be older than that or was it new?
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The guy who built the PC put it on there, it was definitely new for its time so I'd say it's release had to be around 1994 - 1997.

CrowK said:
If it was 3d were all the enemies, or whatever, 3d as well or 2d sprites?
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They were as 3D as Duke Nukem was 3D, so that's 2D sprites right? Like you'd try to walk around them and it was a 2D picture standing up (haha remember that, jeez).
 
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unp|dissy said:
How violent was it
what weapons were used
names of characters?
similar games
was it released on an y other platforms..

Wasn't MDK was it?
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I can't help but think that is just wasn't well known. I never saw an ad for it, never saw it in any game stores, never saw it on demo discs, never heard of it again.

I had it for about three weeks after getting the new PC, then had to take it back and it was deleted. When I asked the guy who built the PC he had no idea what I was talking about, said his son must have installed it.

It wasn't MDK but definitely of that era. It came out before MDK.

Similar games would be, Duke Nukem, Quarantine, SkyNET...
 
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mushroomsoup said:
Terminator - SkyNET Official Trailer (1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6adjtUmdE&feature=related

could be this or its prequel.
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See I'm not going mad. This is the closest suggestion yet, it's a third person shooter that involves driving vehicles and was released in 1996.

The graphics were pretty much exactly the same as this, in fact, very much like this game I think it may have switched between first and third person. This is part of the reason why it was so stunning, I'd never seen a game mix so much together.

It's not a Terminator game though, I was a massive Terminator fan as a kid and even watched T2 at the movies when I was 11.
 
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The big clue is the DOG element. It was really odd because they seemed to use the face of a bulldog in the title or the menu but there was no bulldog in the game.

The symbol was a grey bulldogs face like this:

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Whoops, no idea what happened there! Like this, with the face in a similar pose:

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Google disagrees.

I Googled "bulldog face" and the results were a 30/70 split between pictures of actual bulldogs and the bulldog above.
 
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