Originating in the arcades, Cabal is a shooter where the protagonist runs back and forth along the bottom of the screen, ducking and dodging bullets and grenades from the enemy. The roll maneuver from the arcade was not implemented in the PC version. The player returns fire by moving a target around the screen which also moves the player character and may expose him to enemy fire.
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This might be the first third person cover shooter. I obviously say that half-seriously, but the act of putting you back on the screen while effectively retaining a first person perspective really adds a sensor of danger that Operation Wolf and other rail shooters didn't have. Add in some silly humor and you have a pretty decent game.
Great little shooter. The amount of variety in the controls considering it uses just one button is really fun. I like how you press up and down to throw a grenade for example. Add a second player and it becomes a riot.
Dang, Cabal kinda rules. Invented the Wild Guns style and it feels more dynamic than that game, with its destructible environments and cover, and I love shooting grenades out of the air.
I had a version with the first four levels of this game in one of those old timey cell phones running on Java as a kid! Now that I played the game to the end, I had hoped it would end in a less anticlimatic note though (The second set of stages has a submarine in a swimming pool! Why not have something crazy like that as a final boss?)
Becomes repetitive really quickly despite the short duration but the scenery has plenty of (destroyable) detail for an 8 bit game and it's really nice to see the following level in the distance
Becomes repetitive really quickly despite the short duration but the scenery has plenty of (destroyable) detail for an 8 bit game and it's really nice to see the following level in the distance