The Rats is based on the chilling bestseller by James Herbert, Although it is not necessary to read the book to enjoy the software f would guess reading it would greatly enhance the player's understanding and sense of purpose. The game details your struggles with oversized rodents, which you attack through the eyes of minor characters such as Paula 8lakely, and major characters like Harris, Howard and Foskins; a resourceful and courageous hero, a young rat scientist, and an Under-Secretary of State respectively. These characters are introduced in a similar way to films eg Close Encounters, The game might cut away from Paula Blakely struggling with the rats on a very personal scale to Foskins whose job is to coordinate London's Emergency Forces from General Headquarters. Rat'Kill, Police, Fire and Military forces can be deployed against the rodents along with equipment such as protective suits, chemical gas, flamethrowers, electric stun pods and Anti-Rattus gas. Marked on the screen map of London {which, unlike the rest of the presentation, is scruffy) is GHQ, Harris' flat, and the Research and Development Centre where the important work on the origin, nature and vulnerability of the super-rats takes place at the greatest possible speed as the security forces seem ill-equipped to quash the rodents' surge across London. |
