Midwinter is a first-person action role-playing game with strategy elements for the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. It was released in 1989 by Microplay/Rainbird, and was designed by Mike Singleton. The game was successful enough to spawn a sequel, Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom.
The game is set on the 160,000-square-mile (410,000 km) isle of Midwinter, in a post apocalyptic nuclear winter: the entire island is covered in snow and ice. Midwinter island ...
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Midwinter is a first-person action role-playing game with strategy elements for the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. It was released in 1989 by Microplay/Rainbird, and was designed by Mike Singleton. The game was successful enough to spawn a sequel, Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom.
The game is set on the 160,000-square-mile (410,000 km) isle of Midwinter, in a post apocalyptic nuclear winter: the entire island is covered in snow and ice. Midwinter island has been formed following massive volcanic activity in the Azores island group, which the game's accompanying manual describes as having occurred several years after a cataclysmic meteorite strike in Burma which caused the nuclear winter.
General Masters is attempting to take over the island by force from his HQ in Shining Hollow, in the extreme south-east of the island.
At the start of the game, the player has control of Captain John Stark, the commander of the Free Villages Police Force (FVPF). The player takes control as Stark is ambushed...
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