| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ ROBIN OF SHERWOOD: THE TOUCHSTONES OF RHIANNON (c) ADVENTURE INTERNATIONAL ★ |
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In the days of the Lion spawned of Devil's Brood, the Hooded Man shall come to the forest. There he will meet Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees, and be his son and do his bidding. The powers of Light and Darkness shall be strong within him. And the guilty shall tremble. Or, to use prose of a slightly less purple hue, Robin Hood and his merry men are up and about again and all set to duff up the baddies in this new text and graphics adventure. If the mention of the aforesaid Hooded Man and Herne the Hunter twanged your memory's bowstring, that's probably because this adventure is based on the popular TV series and has been officially licensed from Goldcrest. Mike WoodrofFe has joined forces with programmer Brian Howarth and graphics supremo Teoman Irmak to produce an adventure that is both mentally challenging and visually stirring. If you're a BBC or Electron owner, you'll have to be content with a text-only version at the lower price of £7.95. Like many of Adventure International's recent releases — Gremlins, Hulk, Spiderman, Sorcerer of Claymorque Castle, etc — Robin of Sherwood boasts superb graphics, the best you'll see in any adventure. The only others I've seen that come near to A.I's standard are those by Terry Greer of Interceptor but you don't get many pics per adventure with theirs.
Subtitled Touchstones of Rhiannon, the adventure not only casts you as the bold Robin but also casts you straight into a dungeon at the start of the game. Although the opening parallels one of the TV scripts, you may find it a shade difficult to escape from this early predicament. Despair not — A.I. have thought fully given some coded clues on the packaging to get you out of the pit. Before you rush off to Sherwood Forest, you might care to explore the castle. The Lady Marion's in there somewhere and it might pay you to chat her up before you belt off. Once in the Greenwood, you're sure to meet up with Herne The Hunter, he of the funny headgear. Hatrack-head will tell you that your quest is to find the six Touchstones of Rhiannon and return them home. Sherwood Forest sure is a large place and you're likely to get lost quite quickly. Keep plugging away though and you'll be rewarded with a stunning animated picture of a waterfall. Elsewhere, you might be lucky enough to stumble across a bewitched John Little, Kirklees Abbey and a grange. Robin of Sherwood is a visual treat coupled with a testing mission. YR |
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Page créée en 490 millisecondes et consultée 4081 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. |
