| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ COMPILATION: SUPER FIGHTER (c) OCEAN ★ |
| A100% | Amstrad Action |
Super Fighter, eh? Three smart games, or what? LINDA BARKER puts on her combat trousers and gets In on the act... Super Fighter. The image that immediately springs to mind is of a box packed with some of the best fighting games ever to grace our humble monitors. Games in which you do battle against the forces of evil in a sometimes suicidal bid to uphold the forces of good and truth. Instead we are faced with Pit-Fighter - a game based on an illegal and incredibly bloody so-called sport; Final Fight - a clone of hundreds of other walking-along-a-street-and-killing-everyone-you see games; and WWF Wrestlemania - a hurl and pin fest for today's less bloodthirsty youth. Hmmm... Pit-Fighter Let's start with the worst, then things can only get better. (You're hopeful, aren't you? - ed) Pit-fighting, apparently, is the "world's favourite illegal sport" involving, blood, guts, obligatory foul play and almost certain death. This decidedly unattractive plot is coupled with an equally unattractive control system. So not only do you get your brains kicked out of your head, but it's nevertheless blimmin' difficult to do the same to your opponent You have the choice of three characters, each one as unsavoury as the other. Ty is an agile kickboxer who can perform the interesting-sounding mo.e known as the roundhouse. Kato is a speecy and experienced karate blackbelt who can combo punch and used to be a wrestler. As soon as you walk out into the pit the trouble starts. The graphics are appalling, the character sprites are more like badly animated line drawings and then there's the gameplay. It's crap. Basically. NOTE: 20% WWF Wrestlemania The best of the Super Fighter lot is WWF Wrestlemania. When it first appeared, this was one of the best wrestling games that had been seen in a while. Since that time we've had Zeppelin's Tag Team Wresting which was actually a bit better. Just as in the previous two games, there's three characters to choose from, each with their own special move, - Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior and British BuMog. Whichever tightly-corseted hero you choose, you'll have to face five very nasty and incredfcty evil opponents. The idea is to pin the nasties to the floor, and to make sure that they really suffer. The graphics are nice and clear with little colour dash and the gameplay is easy to get into - for a while. Unfortunately. WWF Wrestlemania hasn't proved as enduring as was first hoped, but it's a nice little wrestling game and the only good thing about this compilation. It also sprints into second place in the Dream Team pack. Bit cheeky it's on both compilations, though! NOTE: 80% Final Fight (128k only) This one's a bit better, with big, blocky characters and loads of colour. Again, there's a choice of three players - 37 year old ninjitsu aficionado Guy; 35 year old Cody, who's good with knives, and 50 year old ex-champwn wrestler, Haggar. I don't know why we're told their ages (There's probably some point in all this that I'm completely missing.) Anyway, you choose a fighter and go out into the street, you kill anyone who passes you, and pick up any hamburgers and weapons. The control method here is the best to be found in all three games. It's easy to play and you can work out how to perform your special moves without too much trouble. The thing is, it's all a brt too easy. Within seconds of starting your morning constitutional you'll have tolled about three trillion baddies, eaten seventy five hamburgers and collected enough instruments of assault to equip the army of a middle-sized country. Not only that, the graphics, although colourful, are a bit too blocky to be convincing. NOTE: 50% OVERALL VERDICT In a compilation one usually hopes for at least one good game. Unfortunately, WWF Wrestlemania isn't good enough to make up for the awfulness of Final Fight and Pit-Fighter. Avoid like the plague. (Unless, of course, you happen to be partial to pus-filled boils under your armpits.) AA#88 |
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Page créée en 304 millisecondes et consultée 2864 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. |
