| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ CITY SLICKER (c) HEWSON ★ |
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Urban terrorism is a dodgy subject for fun computer games. Bombs in the heart of London have in the recent past been all too real. People died — horribly. So to make the centrepiece of your game the blowing up of the Houses of Parliament could be seen as — at the very least — in very dubious taste. And that's exactly what the normally ever so tasteful Hewson has done with City Slicker. Anyway, enough of the moralising and down to the game. City Slicker is the latest offering from the minds of Technician Ted authors Steve Marsden and David Cooke. It is set in London where an evilArab Abru Cadabbra has planted a bomb in the Houses of Parliament set to explode at midnight. You play the part of Slick, who's been called in by some mysterious department to defeat his fiendish plot. So what you have is an arcade adventure set across more than 50 or so screens in which Slick has 16 hours in which to find and make a Bomb Disassembly Unit and dismantle the bomb. The backdrops range from the Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, British Museum. Buckingham Palace and, of course. Parliament. Slick moves around London by using the tube. All he has to do is find a station, get onto the tube and select his required destination. This is a very nice touch. There are many characters who drain your energy, including pigeons who's personal habits when flying above your head leave much to be desired. And there's Abru who crops up all over the place bringing a somewhat lethal touch with him. Graphically it's very slick. There's also what Hewson term the "half flip" feature which moves the screen image a half width, extending the play area into the next room. If you ignore the background to the game. City Slicker is excellent fun. As it is, it should be renamed City Sicker.
Computer & Video Games #63 |
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Page créée en 223 millisecondes et consultée 4791 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. |
