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Loaded for PlayStation 1
Loaded for PlayStation 1 is an action shooter in which you travel through a violent science-fiction world viewed from above. You choose one of six prisoners and try to escape the prison planet Raulf, with warden F.U.B. as your ultimate opponent. Each character has a different weapon, a powerful special attack and individual speed and armour ratings. Choosing the masked Fwank or cyborg pirate Cap'n Hands, for instance, therefore changes how you tackle a corridor full of enemies.
You shoot guards and other opponents, find coloured keycards and use them to open the corresponding doors. The map helps you remember which corridors you have already visited. Ammunition, health and weapon upgrades are scattered between the battles; a powerful bomb can clear some space when you are surrounded. After each completed level, you receive a report showing your accuracy and collected loot, among other things. Bloody imagery and crude dark humour emphatically set the game's tone.
You can play alone or as a pair on the same console, each with a standard PlayStation controller. No Multitap is required. You each choose a character and work together to escape. After successfully completing a level, you can select Save yourself on the results screen to store your progress on a PlayStation memory card. The main menu provides Load Game to retrieve a saved position. This is the first Loaded, not its sequel Re-Loaded.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Loaded for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Loaded
Gremlin Interactive developed Loaded during the early years of PlayStation. The game appeared in North America in late 1995 and in Europe in 1996, where Gremlin handled publication. Interplay published it in North America. Those regional differences explain why older packaging displays different publishers' names. Loaded used an overhead view, but built its prison corridors with three-dimensional environments, pronounced lighting and large explosions. That gave the familiar action of searching rooms and shooting enemies a distinctive presentation on the new console.
The original manual credits Greg Staples with the character artwork. His drawings gave each of the six prisoners a distinctive appearance, from Fwank's mask to Cap'n Hands' metal body. The credits name Neil Biggin and Patrick Phelan for music and sound, with additional music by Pop Will Eat Itself. That combination of comic artwork, loud music and exaggerated violence carried into the promotion: a short comic also appeared, introducing the prison world and its characters.
Re-Loaded followed in 1996, another Gremlin shooter with returning characters and new locations. The original Loaded continued to exist as a separate game and also joined the PlayStation Platinum range. That reissue refers to the same first title, not a bundle containing the sequel. The Platinum version offered here therefore retains the original escape from Raulf, the six characters and the ability for two people to play cooperatively on one console.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Re-Loaded for PlayStation 1 directly develops the combination of shooting, exploration and distinctive characters. You again view the action from above and several familiar prisoners return. The sequel takes the pursuit of the enemy to different locations and adds characters. Loaded instead begins with the original escape from Raulf's prison. Coloured keys, narrow corridors and the first group of six figures define that adventure.
Project Overkill for PlayStation 1 shares the angled view of bloody science-fiction battles, with ammunition to find and doors to open between shooting. You choose one of four mercenaries and receive a larger series of separate military missions. Loaded lets you choose from six prisoners and emphasises escaping through maze-like areas. You can also play through Loaded with a second player on one console, whereas Project Overkill is a single-player adventure.
Like Loaded, Machine Hunter for PlayStation 1 lets you fight through armed opponents from an overhead viewpoint. You find passages and items to complete missions. Its distinctive difference is the ability to take over defeated robots and use their weapons and attributes. Loaded instead ties your main weapon to the character you choose. New power-ups improve that weaponry, but do not repeatedly turn your prisoner into a different machine during combat.
Crusader: No Remorse for PlayStation 1 also combines an angled overhead view with shooting in an oppressive future world. It demands more use of switches, inventory items and the environment to infiltrate secure buildings. Between missions, you return to a rebel base. Loaded concentrates on six directly controlled prisoners, keycards and constant attacks in prison corridors. Both require you to watch ammunition and routes, but their missions consequently follow a different rhythm.
Doom for PlayStation 1 shares the search for coloured keys, extra ammunition and an exit behind enemy lines. In both games, you need to remember which doors are still locked and where you can replenish health. Doom, however, places the camera behind the eyes of a single armed protagonist. Loaded shows your chosen prisoner from above, lets you choose different characters with their own attacks and makes the immediate area around your figure more visible.
