Spectrofon #14 23 августа 1995

Игры

Review - a series of interesting new games: Star Heritage, UFO - Enemy Unknown, Dizzy 7 (Return to Russia), Battle City (Tanchiki), Where Time Stood Still, Gauntlet III, The Adams Family , Munchester United in Europe, Shinghai Warriors.

   Since the publication of our last review on the Moscow radio 
market a whole series of new and interesting games. Prezhede

all we want to draw your
attention to the game "Star Heritage" - precisely because of 
the training this game to be released and turned

the delay in entering the 14th
numbers "SPECTROFON" 'Yes. So:


   Star Heritage, PART I

        "BLACK COBRA"


  (C) 1995 STEP CREATIVE GROUP


   Finally behind them months of hard work, and we will gladly
can offer you to play
Full version of our adventyury.

   The game takes the whole disk
TR-DOS, it is saturated with color graphics varied (there's even
introductory animation), music, which varies in different
areas of games and logic puzzles. Regarding the latter, we have 
tried to create a more complex puzzle than in the DEMO-version, 
so it will please both beginners and experienced players. The 
game is made a cascade of changes to your

requests - added three more
file for shipment to the state
drive improved regime clashes with
opponent, improved
interface. However, you can
already ordered through
"Inforkom" a game and our estimate
all its advantages (or disadvantages) for yourself.



   Another great Russian game came to Moscow from the north
capital. Of course, we are talking about:


     UFO. ENEMY UNKNOWN.


     (C) 1995 COOPER FEET.


   As written by the author himself, Vyacheslav
Mednonogov, this game is
conversion with IBM software
"UFO. ENEMY UNKNOWN" and its improvement. However, after
the first minutes of exploring the
program, we had serious doubts that this
game can be called a postponed
with IBM. After all, a proprietary version of
"UFO" is based on a strategic component, which, as a supporting 
framework, "Suspended" the elements of management.



   At the same version of the Spectrum
whole strategy of the game kicked,
replacing it with the arcade game - instead of
detachment of a few of your fighters to capture the aliens will 
you be yourself, let alone starting on the job (very logical, 
right?). In this mode, there nor ACTION POINTS, neither regime 
consecutive moves. But this being said, a matter of taste. 


   True, if we forget about
that somewhere there is the original game UFO, then this 
program will give you a lot of fun. The author managed to make 
the game a very dynamic and interesting, no matter what. If it 
start to play seriously, it captures all 100%.




   Still, after the plot of You
must stop the invasion
aliens on the ground, knocking down and
seizing the ships of strangers. The contents of the seized 
ships can then explore and exploit

for their own purposes. On your numerous bases scientists work
and engineers, periodically occurring abnormality, which make a 
pleasant in the course of events. We must pay tribute to Slava 
- except strategy he suffered playing high enough precision. I 
think "UFOs ..." will take its rightful place in the 
collections of our readers. 



 DIZZY Y (RETURN TO RUSSIA)


     (C) 1995 SPEED CODE


   Those who have gone before the end of the game
DIZZY X knows that there is our hero
flies away to another planet, to save the universe. But, as is 
clear from the introductory cartoon to DIZZY Y, its rocket 
fashioned from a club of young children technicians. Flying a 
couple of turns, rocket fell back to our sinful earth.



   I must say that the second series of Russian Adventure Dizzy
get much better than the first
- Except that the game has become
longer, it increased the number of tones, improved graphics, 
there are complex puzzles.




   By the way, most of the elements
graphics seem borrowed from
previous series DIZZY (such as
VIAJE ...) and old music
DEMO. Of course, much better game would look like with the 
original graphics.



   Pleasantly surprised by a puzzle -
they require some effort
for solutions. However, the most difficult task for us was not 
the solution of logical problems, and finding a way out of the 
dungeon at Temple (agree, the search

hidden cobblestone logic
can not be called). In general,
the game leaves a very good
impression.



         BATTLE CITY


  (C) 1995 MR.LTD AND WAKSON


   Many people know this game - it
first appeared on the game
prefix DENDY. Now you
have the opportunity to play in
Spectrum version, done
programmers in Russia. Goal of the game
very simple - driving a tank
(Top view) it is necessary to protect certain
object (bird) from destruction
opponent. To do this you have to destroy all foreign tanks
in the screen, which is quite difficult.
At different levels you have to
deal with different numbers of
enemy tanks, can play
together. Of course, any new
domestic game worthy of praise and respect, but this, in our
view, already in the original was
quite primitive.



    WHERE TIME STOOD STILL


     (C) OCEAN SOFTWARE


   In this game, you divide
the fate of four travelers.
Their plane crashed into the unexplored mountainous region, 
where clearly anomalies are observed during

time - in our age live there
primitive savages, found
various dinosaurs and other vermin. Your task is to rescue the 
surviving passengers to get out of this unpleasant place. 


   The graphics in this arcade adventyure laudable - heroes of 
the movement rather fluid and diverse, very

well implemented animation.


A pleasant surprise for playing
will clash with natural phenomena such as the waterfall,
landslide in the mountains, etc. In general,
This game resembles "GREAT ESCAPE", but unlike her,
the four main characters, and each of them there is some
individual freedom of action.
It is possible that the expert
study of this interesting game
enter into one of SPECTROFON'ov.

 GAUNTLET III. THE FINAL QUEST.


  (C) 1990 SOFTWARE CREATIONS,

     TENGEN INC., US.GOLD


   This beautifully decorated
three-dimensional "hodilka. You can
alone or with another (in
program has a mode to play together simultaneously) to study 
the great magical country. You can control the choice of

one of eight types of heroes
(Man-lizard, the Wizard and
etc.), although they differ primarily only in appearance. 
You're up against very different demons - ghosts, goblins, some

balls, etc. etc. As the game progresses
You will meet and puzzles, but mostly they are all
reduce to finding the right
keys to the door closing
the way forward.


   This game - a multi-level, with
three-dimensional black and white graphics
and all-drawn very
carefully oyuen motion smooth and natural. Strikes
abundance of various parts of the surrounding landscape that 
varies from level to level. 



   Sprites conditions are imposed so neatly that going,
say, a bush, we can see our hero through his
branch.


   Summed up, we can say
This game is designed for several weeks, a quiet leisurely 
passage. Pleasant feature of the program is

what actions the first player
not inhibit the control of the second,
as often happens in the game
from two joysticks.



       THE ADDAMS FAMILY


    (C) 1991 OCEAN SOFTWARE


   The game is made by the same name
film "Family Eddemsov.


   Eddemsov part of the family hid in his castle, so they will 
not thrown into another dimension.

Once the danger had passed, they must be rescued from shelters. 
This will you driving Eddemsov servant - an old Frankenstein. 
Rodstvennichkov help find a scrap of paper that you will be 
shown at startup but otherwise the only hope

on its strengths - because the castle is full of animated 
skeletons, knights, and other monsters that immediately to deal 
with you when the first collision. But this

not all - packed with lock
various traps and secret
mechanisms with which you
to understand.



   The game-quality color
graphics, nice music and effects. Genre of program can be 
described as arcade "hodilku" with elements of the quest. 


   MANCHESTER UNITED IN EUROPE


   (C) 1992 CRISALIS SOFTWARE


   CRISALIS firm has established itself at its best
Platform IBM. Not surprisingly,
that that their work on the Spectrum
made at the highest level.
You have to be a manager
legendary MANCHESTER UNITED,
break it into a European
the big leagues and win various trophies. In principle, all the 
games genre MANGEMENT similar to each

another, this same game olichaet
good color graphics, thoughtful service and special effects.



Much attention is paid directly to the football simulator
- Is immediately evident that this program
meets all the requirements of 90-ies.



       SHANGHAI WARRIORS


   (C) 1989 PLAYERS SOFTWARE


   This toy is from
a normal karateshnuyu "masticator". Soviet submarine
something did not like the main
hero, which you control.
Your task is to
to get through to her through the cordons
military and blow hated
a vessel.



   The game has a good background graphics, but the sprites of 
the main characters drawn very badly,

motion does not stand up to
criticism. People walk as flat
puppets, and much of the impact of better
did not mention - nonsense.


   In general, this was an attempt to
to do something like TARGET
RENEGADE, which failed miserably.


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