DAY 85 / GAME 85
MDK
Back in '97 Shiny Entertainment, creators of Earthworm Jim, released an equally bizarre third-person shooter for PC titled MDK. I never purchased a copy myself, but a couple of my friends did and I ended up with an install shortly after. MDK, a title whose acronym is not explained, revolved around a crazy scientist, a janitor, a six legged robotic dog and a world threatened by alien strip-miners.
MDK has you controlling a space janitor, Kurt Hectic, who is unwittingly thrown headfirst into a war against a race of aliens who came come to earth with city-sized vehicles designed to mine out all the resources in their path. You drop from the low-orbiting Jim Dandy through the atmosphere onto the strip-mining Minecrawlers, all the while avoiding incoming weapon fire. Kurt just happens to be the only one on board who isn't either too old, or too legged to wear the special leather coil suit designed to save the human race.
The special combat suit contains a helmet mounted sniper rifle, loaded with a series of different bullets for different uses, which when detached acts as a machine gun. The suit also is loaded with a ribbon chute which allows you to land your skydives and catch air drafts for platforming elements. The whole game mixes a bit of gun combat, platforming and puzzle elements as you make your way through one city-sized Minecrawler after another. You battle a series of Grunts who aren't too far off of the comical alien beasts in Halo. They dance about and taunt you until you deliver a clean shot between the eyes, all caught on your HUD's bullet-cam.
MDK is full of ridiculous dark humor. The printed manual was great, full of Dr. Fluke Hawkins' notes and sketches as well as his bizarre journal transcribed. All the enemies and pickups are real weird. The writing is absurd, right down to the Earth saving operation title, Mission: Deliver Kindness. There's also a number of ideas as to what MDK actually stands for. It's suggested that it originally stood for Murder Death Kill, but was reverted to it's dev name MDK for being too violent. MDK could also stand for Max, Doc and Kurt, or Mission: Deliver Kindness.
MDK was a solid title for it's time. It's just what you'd expect from David Perry and Nick Bruty of Earthworm Jim fame. It even featured music by EWJ's Tommy Tallarico. For an early 3D PC title it was solid and innovative, paving way for a sequel 3 years later which featured all three characters and playable. MDK is available on Steam as is the sequel, which I enjoyed even more.
MDK
Back in '97 Shiny Entertainment, creators of Earthworm Jim, released an equally bizarre third-person shooter for PC titled MDK. I never purchased a copy myself, but a couple of my friends did and I ended up with an install shortly after. MDK, a title whose acronym is not explained, revolved around a crazy scientist, a janitor, a six legged robotic dog and a world threatened by alien strip-miners. MDK has you controlling a space janitor, Kurt Hectic, who is unwittingly thrown headfirst into a war against a race of aliens who came come to earth with city-sized vehicles designed to mine out all the resources in their path. You drop from the low-orbiting Jim Dandy through the atmosphere onto the strip-mining Minecrawlers, all the while avoiding incoming weapon fire. Kurt just happens to be the only one on board who isn't either too old, or too legged to wear the special leather coil suit designed to save the human race.
The special combat suit contains a helmet mounted sniper rifle, loaded with a series of different bullets for different uses, which when detached acts as a machine gun. The suit also is loaded with a ribbon chute which allows you to land your skydives and catch air drafts for platforming elements. The whole game mixes a bit of gun combat, platforming and puzzle elements as you make your way through one city-sized Minecrawler after another. You battle a series of Grunts who aren't too far off of the comical alien beasts in Halo. They dance about and taunt you until you deliver a clean shot between the eyes, all caught on your HUD's bullet-cam.
MDK is full of ridiculous dark humor. The printed manual was great, full of Dr. Fluke Hawkins' notes and sketches as well as his bizarre journal transcribed. All the enemies and pickups are real weird. The writing is absurd, right down to the Earth saving operation title, Mission: Deliver Kindness. There's also a number of ideas as to what MDK actually stands for. It's suggested that it originally stood for Murder Death Kill, but was reverted to it's dev name MDK for being too violent. MDK could also stand for Max, Doc and Kurt, or Mission: Deliver Kindness. MDK was a solid title for it's time. It's just what you'd expect from David Perry and Nick Bruty of Earthworm Jim fame. It even featured music by EWJ's Tommy Tallarico. For an early 3D PC title it was solid and innovative, paving way for a sequel 3 years later which featured all three characters and playable. MDK is available on Steam as is the sequel, which I enjoyed even more.
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