Excess!?

I recently came upon this new download on My Abandonware called XS. It is a game from 1996, and to be totally honest, I have never heard about it before today. The screenshots look good enough, so I said why not?

A download and a DOSBox config later, and I am looking at a game which has the weirdest aiming control that I ever saw. Move the mouse up and you shoot at the floor, move the mouse down and you hit the ceiling. I keep telling my mind to think in reverse, but I just cannot do it! That's one really freaking crazy bug in my processing circuitry!

Oh I know. The XS letters in the game's title must stand for something right?

Yes, excess pile of garbage. It was probably a rushed game trying to ride the network play bandwagon (read Unreal Tournament).