History VideoGame / HiredGuns

* GameplayAndStorySegregation : The multiplayer maps are not too concerned with maintaining the strict setting of the single player campaign; some of the harder challenges feature man-sized, and very dangerous, {{Lemmings}} as enemies, and bananas as extremely powerful weapons.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue : All of the surviving characters get a short description of what they did after the events of the game on completion. The creators intended some of these to also serve as sequel hooks, but this did not come to pass.

** One enemy type (the RoboDyne 7000) is inspired strongly by ED-209 from ''Franchise/RoboCop''.

* ShoutOut : Several to Film/{{Aliens}} and other 1980s films:

* ShoutOut : Several to {{Aliens}} and other 1980s films:

** The emplaced sentry guns are very similar to those from Aliens.
** Several quotes from characters in the central text feed reference Aliens as well ("I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit" and "Game Over Man, Game over!")
** One enemy type (the RoboDyne 7000) is inspired strongly by ED-209 from {{Robocop}}
** The robot character CIM-Lite is basically a fleshless {{Terminator}}, albeit on your side.

Hired Guns was incredibly impressive for the time; although Doom came out the same year with 2.5D maps, Hired Guns has a fully 3D world (although still sprites for items, enemies, etc), with working lifts, tunnels, water sections (with environmental damage to electronic equipment when submersed). It's also clearly descended from the 4-character party ideas of Dungeon Master - every mission allows the player to select a 4 mercenary team from the total group available, and each mercenary has an independantly controllable quadrant of the screen. (In this it is somewhat similar to Space Hulk, which came out in the same year, and also featured multi-character teams with independant view displays on the screen at the same time.)

Hired Guns is a 1993 Tactical role playing game for the Amiga and IBM PC. The titular player characters are mercenaries in a somewhat dystopian future, ostensibly hired to perform a hostage rescue on the dangerous planet Graveyard. We say ostensibly, because it quickly becomes clear that there's something else going on.

* ShoutOut : Several to {{Aliens}} and other 1980s films, in particular the design of several weapons including the automated sentry guns.

* GameplayAndStorySegregration : The multiplayer maps are not too concerned with maintaining the strict setting of the single player campaign; some of the harder challenges feature man-sized, and very dangerous, {{Lemmings}} as enemies, and bananas as extremely powerful weapons.

Hired Guns was incredibly impressive for the time; although Doom came out the same year with 2.5D maps, Hired Guns has a fully 3D world (although still sprites for items, enemies, etc), with working lifts, tunnels, water sections (with environmental damage to electronic equipment when submersed). It's also clearly descended from the 4-character party ideas of Dungeon Master - every mission allows the player to select a 4 mercenary team from the total group available, and each mercenary has an independantly controllable quadrant of the screen. (In this it is somewhat similar to Space Hulk, which came out in the same year, and also featured multi-character teams with independant view displays on the screen at the same time.)