Mission Extreme is a promising Commodore 64 conversion of the pc side-scrolling platform shooter by Deadheat and was being converted by Luigi Vicari. Development started around 2010, and Luigi described the game as follows on his site:
“It starts with your nameless hero being dumped out of a helicopter and into the jungle, with a short summary of his mission. America is being threatened by a terrorist cell with a mega-weapon able to destroy the Earth. Our mission is to defeat all enemies over 4 stages and to rescue the 20 hostages that they have littered in the jungle.
Graphically, the game looks great with blocky, retro sprites and colorful backgrounds. The palette is impeccable and there is little animation to speak of. However Mission Extreme is highly enjoyable and does what it does very nicely.”
Sadly, the game seems to have been abandoned – even though it was looking promising. Here are some videos of it in action:
According to Lemon64, Luigi has taken a break from the game due to a lack of time. We hope that he is able to come back to it, and so it can escape from the GTW64 archives.
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Pardon my (very) late response. I was confused because I personally did not see or recall the phrase or title ‘Dead Heat’ having any relation to this game prior to this article being posted.
Ah apologies Benson, the game was done by someone called Dead Heat, rather than the game itself being called that: https://gamejolt.com/games/mission-extreme/900
It’s hopefully a coincidence, but this looks uncannily similar to a mid-2000s freeware PC game (of the same name) made by a group that called themselves Fallen Angel Industries.
I think it is indeed! I’ll quickly update the page, as we added the game in a rush at the time.
Yup, mentioned at the top that its a conversion of the Deadheat PC game. Not seen it myself – was it any good?