| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ LIVERPOOL (c) GRANDSLAM ★ |
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The name Liverpool has been synonymous with all that is best about English foot ball for more years than anyone cares to remember. Some of the world s best players are either on the dub's books or have been at some stage, and the team have won more Division One championships than any other in the League. So, at a time when the world and his wife are going soccer crazy now that the World Cup is underway, it seems only right that there should be a computer game based on the Anfield crew. After being greeted by a rendition of the dub anthem -You'll Never Walk Alone - the player can choose from a menu screen to start a new season, continue an old one. compete against the computer or a friend and either load or save a current game. Another menu gives the option to view the week's fixtures, the league table and the highest scorers in Division One, as well as the opportunity to pick your side, and play a friendly or a league game. The match itself is displayed in horizontally scrolling 3D , similar to that used in Emiyn Hughes Internalional Soccer, with each half lasting around five minutes The aim? To score more goals than the opposition, of course, and ultimately, to secure your team's place at the lop of the table just like the real Liverpool have done so many times before.
AMSTRAD £9.99 Being an avid supporter of tha Kop, I've been eagarly anticipating the release of the official computer game. Now It's arrived, all I can aay is...deary, deary me, Brian. The boys certainly haven't done good with Liverpool, combining out-rageously poor graphics with unbelievably sluggish gameplay, resulting in a product which doesn't deserve to be in a local pub league, never mind the first division. The players are atrociously designed, the pitch la jerky beyond belief and scrolling is mindnumbingly slow. Controls are unresponsive , players get stuck together when face-to-face. and it's possible to score from some very dodgy positions. And if that a not bad enough, there are some extremely annoying 'features' such as, when the ball is kicked into touch, all the players run away as if the thing were booby-trapped, then several seconds later, a man who's positioned miles away saunters along to take the throw-in. Never before has there been such a travesty in the computer footballing world as Liverpool - The Computer Game; It'a a game of two halves, both of them absolutely dire. GRAPHICS : 21% PAUL RAND , CVG 104 (Jul 1990) |
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Page créée en 099 millisecondes et consultée 4026 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
