| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ THE JEWELS OF BABYLON (c) INTERCEPTOR SOFTWARE ★ |
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Superb To some companies the term 'graphic adventure' seems to be an excuse to call up a load of slow and intensely boring box-like pictures and use that as an excuse to avoid any pretence of atmosphere in the text. Fortunately Interceptor have gone down a very different road and have built themselves a pretty good reputation for adventures in the process. Jewels of Babylon should greatly enhance this image because, in terms of plot, I found it a huge improvement on Forest at the World's End which was really quite simple and written in a minimalist style. Not only are there more, and more interesting, puzzles in this game but the author has also allowed himself the luxury of including the occasional adjective or line of descriptive prose to liven things up. To be honest it's not Level 9 and you still get annoying sequences like when in the rowboat ''ROW SOUTH" - “I DON'T UNDERSTAND”, "GO SOUTH" - "TRY ROWING" etc. On the whole though the text handling is pretty reasonable but what about the graphics? They are absolutely superb, probably the best I've seen, and the colour restraint due to the use of four colour mode somehow adds to their charm. They appear extremely quickly too. It is a tribute to Interceptor, and I suppose a tribute to Amstrad, that when playing the game in the office everyone who walked past stopped short in admiration and demanded to know what the program was. If Interceptor keep this up they can forget about their arcade games. The other good point is that it is refreshingly cheap for a piece of Amstrad software which may be the start of a trend towards more realistic prices.
Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly |
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Page créée en 077 millisecondes et consultée 4937 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. |
