If you look at it from a relatively objective point of view (to the extent that’s possible), it’s a pretty standard Metroidvania-style platformer, full of levels that gradually become more open to you the more skills you unlock. At first this feels a bit frustrating, but the more you play, the more it becomes clear that this is done to incite in the player the same feeling of containment and confusion that the creature would presumably feel. You can also absorb biological samples (presumably taken from whatever alien thing you used to be), unlocking new skills to aid in your escape.There is no map to help you keep track of where you are, where you’ve been or where you’re meant to go. Your food is anything biological, which increases your mass. Primitive, but honorable for the pioneer that it was.Welcome to Carrion, a reverse Metroid game where you are the monster and your sole goal is to escape from the facility that holds you.
When the first players encountered Gato, you can imagine they thought it was pretty significant. Gato was the Pong of submarine simulations. Your primary strategic objective was to complete as many missions as possible with the supplies you carry before returning to the quadrant where your subtender waits. Resource management was one of the game's subtler features. Some messages may be enemy fakes designed to trap you." How's that for early efforts at realism? You were instructed to keep in mind "the enemy may break Allied code at some point. You pressed the "M" key for new missions and they were transmitted by Morse code. The mission area was very limited-a group of islands in the Pacific, which was subdivided into 20 "quadrants". Although it simulated GATO class subs, there were only four bow torpedo tubes available.Īll functions were generated by the keyboard (mouse? what's a mouse?). The graphics were very limited, CGA with stick figures for ships, of which there were five enemy types. As the submarine history page at Subsim.Ĭom describes it: "This was the first sub simulator for a personal computer. The first World War II submarine simulation ever made for the PC, GATO was a true pioneer in this niche genre, an ambitious sim that features a lot of realistic instruments and weapons.
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