| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ GENERAL X (c) CRYSTAL X ★ |
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Crystal X Software If you take a look at page 56, you'll find a storming review of the excellent Stellar Outpost, a game from Angela Swinbourne of Crystal X Software. This is a home brewery that, for the year or so that it's been around, has specialised in strategy games. Anyway, we thought we'd have a flick through Crystal X's catalogue. General X This one's a slightly strange (or should that be unusual?) concept for a strategy game. The plot is simple - you have to promote all 10 of your units from the rank of Private to the rank of General. But the gameplay is far from straightforward. Here's a brief clip from the instructions: “The board is divided into five zones. A unit can only move freely through a zone if it has the appropriate clearance pass for it. If the unit enters a zone which it doesn't have clearance for then that unit cannot move for two turns, after which it has earned the pass for that zone.'' Have you figured it out yet? Well, it's basically like a board game, and within those parameters, it works very well. The gameplay goes on to cover stealing passes from enemies, sending troops into limbo, rendering squares unusable, and all the other stuff that goes with a game based on sneaky tactics. As one of the two-player games in the collection (though you can play against the computer if you wish), this is definitely one you should investigate, as it's darned good. Rating: **** AA |
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