| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ KILLER RING (c) REAKTOR ★ |
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Killer Ring is a subtle variation on the Phoenix stand-alone arcade game: after shooting waves of aliens, you must shoot your way through a barrier to kill the “wotsit”.
In Killer Ring, the wotsit is an alien being surrounded by a force-field. To kill him, you must shoot through its base - the rest of the field is impenetrable. This base covers a rotating shield, which can also be breached by successive shooting. Once through the rotating shield, you must shoot the green alien's red heart. The preceding levels, all six of them, take the usual form of alien cremation. Levels one and two give you floating bats to fire at. Three and four have an extra distraction: a group of flying saucers flitting about the screen bombing you. The floating bats are replaced by rotating spheroids which you can kill only by shooting through one of the two Your ship, as the title suggests, is a ring - very vulnerable with little shielding.
Amazingly, Killer Ring has a funny addictive quality - initially. The interest wanes as quickly as the moons in levels five and six. The game's biggest detraction is its lack of difficulty. The writers tried to compensate this by including a “Difficult” mode. But having completed the Easy mode, the Difficult mode gave me no real trouble. Graphics are good and the characters are well defined. Sound effects are also above average, and the music is very good. In conclusion, a pretty game - pretty indifferent!
The Verdict GRAPHICS : 73%
SONICS : 67%
GRAB FACTOR : 62%
STAYING POWER : 49%
AA RATING : 61%
CB, AA |
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Page créée en 067 millisecondes et consultée 2109 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. |