Abuse's plot is a usual shoot 'em up -plot: You're a tough guy called Nick Vrenna and your task is to prevent that world is not taken-over by genetically modified ants. And as you can guess, this problem cannot be solved diplomatically.
Luckily, Nick is able to handle a truck load of neat weapons that help to deal with the ant-problem. At the beginning, you only have a standard laser-weapon with unlimited ammo. But you will soon get better stuff, weapons like a grenade launcher, a bazooka and a railgun.

At the beginning Abuse might seem like just an ordinary platform game, but after a couple of minutes of playing, you'll probably find it much better than normal platform games. The main reasons for this are the control system and the good atmosphere.
Abuse's unique control system requires some dexterity on your part - the arrow keys move your character using your left hand, while your right works the mouse to aim and fire. It works very well when you learn it, but I found that changing weapons is a bit difficult when you have to click the icons on the bottom of the screen.
What comes to Abuse's great atmosphere, the graphics are dark which makes it's difficult to spot the enemies, and suddenly they jump on you from the ceiling, scaring you quite well. Then you start running in panic and firing everywhere, just like in Aliens vs Predator, but the difference is that Abuse is 2D-game.

The game's difficulty level is first easy but it gets harder pretty fast, and I had to do lots of saving and loading before I managed to finish the game.

In a nutshell, Abuse offers you big guns, nice graphics, an unique control system, a good level design, lots of baddies and a creepy atmosphere - it's pretty much like Doom in 2D.

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