| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ SPEED KING (c) MASTERTRONIC ★ |
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Speed King is a 3D race game, not difficult to guess from it's title I suppose. What you might not guess is that it's a motorbike racing game (yah boo sucks, smarty-boots). It has its origins in the classic Spectrum racing game Full Throttle (and can, in fact, be considered as a conversion of that game by author Mervyn Estcourt who wrote Full Throttle for Micromega) and it contains similar features, tracks and racing scenario with a few additional touches. When you load the game you are presented with a wealth of options, for a start track selection: there are ten tracks to race on, ranging from classic English ones like Donnington, Silver-stone and Brands Hatch to the ones in more exotic locations like Paul Richard. On choosing a track you are given a brilliant preview option. This allows you to view the track which you'd like to try at high speed and the computer zooms round it so you can take note of corners, straights etc. If you still don't feel like having a proper race then you can opt to practise. This allows you to zoom round the track on your own to get the 'feel' of the bike and get to know the track a little better. Once you're happy with a track then you can set the difficulty level from the three provided. It's advisable to start on 'novice' — that's hard enough! Select the number of laps and you can begin. The bike itself is a pretty powerful one with six gears, great acceleration and it handles perfectly (as long as you ride it properly)! Using the gears is dead easy — pull the joystick down to shift up a gear or forward when you want to shift down (when taking corners for example).
When you start the race you'll find yourself at the back of a pack of twenty bikes. It's your job to work your way to the front and then stay there, no mean feat. The other riders are not idiots and they try to take the fastest way round the bends and cut you up if you try and overtake. You can crash into them of course, which sends you spinning from your bike. If you're too slow to remount then you soon find the bikers whom you've overtaken whizzing back past you. Most annoying !!I When you're racing there is quite a lot of on-screen information at the top. Your speed is shown, along with the gear you're in and your current position in the race. The lap times are also shown, along with the current record time so you can gauge how well you're doing. |
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Page créée en 706 millisecondes et consultée 2794 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. |
