| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ SPLAT! (c) AMSOFT ★ |
Popular Computing Weekly | Popular Computing Weekly 1985-02-07 |
UNPREDICTABLE You can get a certain sense of deja vu reviewing the latest batch of Amsoft releases, there is a simple reason for this - most of the current stuff are conversions of previous successful (or semi successful) programs. Nevertheless the Amstrad programs are often an improvement on the originals and here and there you get some real gems. Splat was a program that, though successful, didn't get the enormous following it deserved when submerged beneath a great weight of Spectrum software. As an Amstrad program its worth may be more quickly apparent and with any luck it'll become one of the essential programs for the machine. Unlike all those games where you move around a maze, in Splat the maze moves around you - worse than that it moves around you in an unpredictable way. This simple piece of role reversal makes for a totally new sort of game and you desperately try to avoid getting crushed by a maze wall - this happens when you get pushed into the corner of the TV screen. The only other objective is to eat as much grass as possible and move through the levels, there are eight in all, and each is more difficult. It's simple and it's wonderful. The only criticism I might make is that the authors haven't really developed it at all using the extra features of the Amstrad over the Spectrum. Even the sound is pretty much what you'd get from the dire Spectrum bleeper. Despite that, buy it.
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