| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ GLIDER RIDER (c) QUICKSILVA ★ |
| TILT | Amstar | Popular Computing Weekly | Amstrad Action |
‘Everyone has heard of the Abraxas Corporation - Arms for Anyone, Anywhere, Any Reason, Any Quantity,' says the packaging. They are a mean bunch, hiding away on their plastic island, EoOs, somewhere in mid-Pacific. Producing and selling weapons is their game. Paethon is your codename: you're a member of the SBD task force - silent but deadly. With your mark-5 glider (collapsible), E37 motorbike and nine hand-grenades, you are ready to take on the world - well EoOs at least. Your mission is to destroy the heavily defended nuclear reactors on EoOs. These provide energy for the plastic island - with its nylon grass and polythene trees (no doubt tupperware birds as well). Of course any self-respecting island with nuclear reactors would also have a decent ground-to-air laser defence system. ... I think they have gone over the top with this. Once you land on the island, the liveliest music I have ever heard on an Amstrad comes to your ears - it is so very appropriate, continuing throughout the game. You find yourself cruising a motorbike around the island. All the reactors, laser turrets, even tanks (stationary), are highly detailed, making very pleasant viewing - even if everything is one colour: it obviously wasn't possible to dye the plastic. However, you are here to cause destruction, not to admire the scenery.
‘Objective: destroy external reactors.' That's a good one; I have spent hours trying to carry out the order, with no success. The idea is to disable the lasers by bumping into what appear to be pylons - this causes the lasers to go haywire and shoot straight up in the air. Rush to a slope and lift off. To do this, press all your directional keys. If you are lucky your bike will transform into a glider and you'll be soaring high in the sky ; if not, try again. Once in the air, you should come down low, and while the lasers are distracted, bomb the reactor. (These are spherical and have tiny slot-like windows.) That is the theory at least. Putting it into practice is, well, nothing short of impossible. Either the laser will spot you immediately and ‘Oops, you seem to have been frazzled,' or you land in the sea and ‘Oops, you have been eaten by sharks.' Barring that, the reactors seem to be impregnable. I bombed them a hundred times, and nothing happened. At some stages I was virtually sitting on a reactor and chucking grenades hell for leather... frustrating, very frustrating. I ended up flying or even riding around the island, admiring its beautiful landscape. One discovery was that more grenades could be obtained from stores on land. And time is a limiting factor: only 30 minutes to complete the task - aargh. Lovely to look at, even listen to, but where is the destruction, mayhem and chaos that was promised?
RpM, AA |
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Page créée en 441 millisecondes et consultée 5570 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. |
