| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ TRASHMAN (c) VIRGIN GAMES ★ |
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Have you ever fancied being a Trashman? If the answer is yes, this release from New Generation, the first after its recent sale to Virgin, gives you the chance. Whether a chance you will want to take is another matter. Released originally for the Spectrum more than a year ago. Trashman received almost endless praise but this conversion leaves a great deal to be desired. Trashman is a one- or two-player game which involves travelling up and down various streets, collecting a specified amount of bins within the time limit. To keep up your time limit and consequently earn a bigger bonus, extra jobs, such as calming distraught housewives, can bes performed. Life, however, is not all a bed of roses.
If, while controlling the trashman, you tread on the grass of a home, it is likely that a dog will charge out and chew a few limbs. Injuries such as that and being hit by bicycles slow movement considerably. Another major hazard is crossing the road to reach more houses; collision with a car is terminal. Where Trashman fails, and indeed where a number of games by Virgin fail, is not the idea but the execution. As a machine, the Amstrad is much more powerful than the Spectrum, yet Trashman fails to make the most of any of the Amstrad features. Neither the graphics nor the sound are better than the Spectrum version and that is a pity. Whatever its failings on the Amstrad, Trashman is still a highly-enjoyable game. It combines a really good idea with a witty storyline but unfortunately results in an extremely disappointing finished product. Your Computer |
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Page créée en 305 millisecondes et consultée 1992 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. |
