The graphics are cartoon-like, rather than go for a Myst-like. "real but not" feel, Killing Time seems it could have been made by the same people who animate Batman or some of the more gruesome Manga films. When a baddie dies he explodes into a bloody pulp, or a pile of ash depending on the weapon used. Logicware have attempted to make the game as seamless as possible so there virtually no waiting while you go from one area to another. Another nice touch is the female phantom who pops up and gives you advice or plays a movie of something that happened before everything went pear-shaped. The phantom is the owner of the island who was throwing a major party when demons crashed it. The movies are thankfully very short and informative. Overall the game is impressive to look at and should you be able to play it in the near-dark or dark, there are several places that might cause a few frights. The sounds are creepy and brooding, the mime-undead make an especially loathsome sound.

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As with most of this genre, I suspect there are a whole myriad of secrets and grottoes to find filled with all manner of deadly goodies. The weapons are interesting and different. The base weapon is a crow-bar: crude but effective. The forty-five (which you can have two of), the every ubiquitous shotgun (single shot), then things get neat, a Thompson 50 cal.. machine-gun (Tommy Gun), molotov cocktails ( another crude but effective weapon), a flame-thrower which toasts your foes rather nicely (but conveniently does not light anything else on fire) and an ankh shaped wand which nukes anything nearby with a flash.

As with most games of this sort, killing something gets you either health or ammo. Ammo is a must, as some of the baddies take quite a pounding before they die. Ammo stashes tend to be found in niches and behind things. The most valuable stuff is the Tommy Gun ammo, it is worth its weight in gold.

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