| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ SMUGGLERS COVE (c) CRL ★ |
Amstrad Action | Popular Computing Weekly |
This game has several amusing touches - it occasionally flashes up witty remarks on the screen, has an enjoyable variety of responses to your inputs, and even manages some quite decent pictures. You find yourself trapped in a complex of caves, and must avenge the death of a sailor long dead in order to avoid being cursed and suffering a hideous fate. The plot idea is in fact quite original and, together with the good humour, this game could have had a lot going for it. But, sadly, it hasn't been carefully enough programmed to make the grade. For a start, the ESC key hasn't been disabled, and since the program is on tape and takes quite a while to load, hitting the wrong key can be very annoying. Furthermore, some of the responses simply don't make sense and lead to a general sense of frustration. Being asked ‘What's that 'e be saying??' may be amusing first time round, but after a while it gets rather tedious. Also, some of the fill routines for the pictures are faulty, resulting in colour escaping from trapped areas and bleeding across the screen. Nevertheless, the program does accept some quite complex inputs, and there are some suitably gory touches. At one point, if you're not quick enough to escape, Blackbeard's Ghost crawls out of a chasm to give you a hard time, and the descriptions are really pretty gruesome. But overall, Smuggler's Cove can be recommended only to those with patience, a greed for gold, and a forgiving attitude to sloppy programming.
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Page créée en 087 millisecondes et consultée 2262 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. |
