Project V2143: The Price of Justice

A DOS/Windows game developed, but not completed in 1998 as a personal project. It is written in C++ using the Allegro library.

Team

Screenshots

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Title screen
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The player hides in the trees in missle mode, destroying the buildings.
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The player travels across the bridge, ready for battle!
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Melee in the swamp where the AI just nailed the player.

Story

Just after the turn of the 21st century, with prison overpopulation at an all time high, and the United States already having an unprecedented reputation crisis as the only Global Power left who still employed capital punishment, the President was faced with an odd problem. He was an odd man, and he found a way to use the United State’s greatest advantage as a solution. Space, the former frontier, man had long since tamed this desolate wasteland, established many sister colonies on nearby worlds. One such world, was to serve as the prison planet, a planet used to house the nation’s exiles, the planet chosen was the nearby planet of Venus, ironically once thought of as the most beautiful of the Gods, and now merely a wasteland for living trash.

Thankfully, Venus had already begun advanced stages of terraforming, and thus could easily be made into the prison planet. The United States sent special electronic dampeners, which made long range communication for those on the planet impossible, and created automated guns around the planet so any attempts to flee would certainly fail. As an extra safety precaution, the Marines were stationed on an orbital space platform nearby so they could go in and bomb any problem areas.

As you have probably already guessed, this is more than a history lesson, recently a Doctor Lurmi was sent to the planet, and he has apparently used his knowledge of electronic dampening and mechanics to somehow capture the satellites. The Marine station was blown away by the autocannons and the criminals now have complete control of Venus. You have been selected to take it back, for this threat to National Security cannot stand, using our cloaking technology, we will send in squad after squad of tanks commanders, such as yourself, to decimate the enemy. Be warned, they somehow hid whatever they used to capture our defenses, they might be hiding more, be prepared for anything! Good luck, Venus awaits, now you enter, Project V2143: The price of justice

Download

Version .016a, Jan 12, 2000.

Source code requires:

As of 2025, not all of these dependencies are available to get anymore, hence building the source code is not likely.

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