So What The Hell Is Ducks?
Ever wanted to take control of a small green duck which would then
lead a load of small orange ducks to a bunch of rockets?
Well, now you can! Alternatively, walk them onto spikes, under
big squishing green hand things, into elecrical duck zappers
or drop them too far so they go "squesh". That's "squesh".
Ducks brings together the best of puzzle, arcade and platform games in one
neat feathery package. Addictive gameplay snuggles up against and gazes into the
eyes of gorgeously detailed way-too-many-directional scrolling graphics. Patience and
more than a little careful planning get into a big playground scrap with dangerous
confrontations and the need for speedy reflexes. Wonderful ambient background noises
sit drinking comedy squelches and forlorn quacks as ducks explode, leaving only
splatterings of... red paint. It's paint. And it's optional anyway. You have not
experienced all the joy that hitting a spring, dodging a ravenous oozing alien beasty
and piling all your mates into a spaceship can bring until you have played... Ducks.
And now it's yours for free. Yep, I've stopped selling it because it seemed silly to be giving
Out Of Order away for free and charging money for something older by a good few years.
- Download and unlock the full version of Ducks -
Create Your Own Ducks Levels
The Ducks Editor Suite is also available.
It was never polished quite as much as the game itself - some would say it never got further than a beta
version - but it has been used not only to create
World Wide Webbed and
Beak To The Future, two huge official Hungry Software expansion
packs for the game, but also by others around the world to create
data files of their own.
Grab your own copy, grin and bear the curious control schemes (you had to design everything from the ground up in the days of DOS, you know) and get designing whole new worlds for our friendly duck folk.