| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ TOUR DE FORCE (c) GREMLIN GRAPHICS ★ |
| A100% | Amstrad Action | AMMAG |
Get on your bike and pedal your way through five legs of a world wide race. You have 11 riders to race against and a time limit to beat. Can you win every leg and become the winner of the international grand prix cycling race? The screen is made up of a horizontally scrolling landscape of the country that you're currently in. with a status panel around it. The status panel shows your position, time elapsed, temperature and a map of the route. If your rider gets too hot then he collapses of heat exhaustion and your race is over. You also lose il: you finish the race anywhere but in first place, run out of bikes or exceed the time limit. To stop overheating you have to ride into bottles or glasses of liquid that appear along the course. Crashing your bike into one of the many different obstacles that you'll find on the route makes you lose one of your five lives. If you manage to win a race then it's on to the next country for the next leg of the race What seems strange is that instead of having to go back to the starting course in Japan you're just sent to the start of the race that you've just failed to complete. On later courses your opponents resort to kicking you off your bike, but you can retaliate in the same manner Slow and jerky scrolling feature heavily and the graphics are very badly animated too. If you're wondering which bike is yours it's simple, it's the white bike in amongst the other 11 white bikes. Before each race a short snatch of the countries national anthem is played. There are no sound effects in the game itself. This has loads of features that make for a bad game. Horrible graphics, virtually no sound and boring gameplay. Gremlin have let themselves down with this one, let's hope they can get back to games of the like of Deflektor FIRST DAY TARGET SCORE: 5.000 points GBH, AA |
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Page créée en 136 millisecondes et consultée 4338 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. |
