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Abuse is a run and guncomputer game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Origin Systems, released in 1996 for Dos and Linux. This is a single-player and multiplayer game.

Abuse was well-received by critics even if it does not offer a lot of originality; it was however praised for its particularly good and interesting storyline; the graphics for its time are pretty well-detailed.

The characters are crazy with quirky attributes similar to Mario, Sonic. And compared to other game of the same genre it brings some innovations like upgradeable weapons, hidden one-ups; incredibly mean bosses, and bonus levels.

The general look of Abuse, concerning the characters, enemies, locations and some weapons are a homage to the Alien versus Predatoruniverse.

The game takes place in 2009, you play as Nick Vrenna a rebel leader, who has been captured and sent to a high-security prison.

In this prison the staff is leading illegal and even unethical medical experiments on the prisoners. When a prison riot occur one of the experiment goes horribly wrong and it releases a terrible substance within the prison.

All the people being in the prison are infected, except Nick who seems to be immune. This substance called Abuse transforms them into monsters.

Nick has to find his way through the prison to escape. So you will have to kill all mutants that you will face and also try to avoid the substance to spread further.

To defend yourself you will have seven different weapons a laser rifle, a grenade launcher, a rocket launcher, a napalm gun, a plasma beam, a laser saber and the nova spheres (death Frisbees). In the later versions new weapons were added.

There are also powerups that will give you enhancements, and only two of them are really useful for the multiplayer mode. You can find them within the game and they look like rectangular microchip with a unique symbol in the center. There are powerups for Speed, Fly, Super Health, Cloaking, Radar, and so on.

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