★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ THE SHADOWS OF MORDOR (c) MELBOURNE HOUSE ★ |
Amstrad Action | Computer & Video Games |
Well, it's here, and I rather wish it wasn't! Shadows Of Mordor is the second Lord of The Rings adventure, based on Tolkien's epic The Two Toners. Sam is equipped with all sorts of objects, the inevitable backpack, greeneloak rope, matchbox — yes. the list i1; familiar. So off we set. me being Frodo, and Sam tagging along. There weren't any bus stops of signposts around. so we trudged from dreary ridge to desolate plain, until wo came to the edge of a cliff. Smeagol was a constant visitor to our location, but once there, had the habit of sneaking off into the bushes with alarming regularity- What on earth he was up to in the care not to guess — I only know that when I tried to follow him. something very blank happened on the Spectrum and Amstrad, while nothing happened on the Commodore. And I mean nothing — I had to turn the computer off to regain control of it. But 1 understand this has been corrected. The screen layout has been simplified since Lord Of The Rings. On C-64 and Spectrum you get a blue single line band at the lop indicating which role you are currently playing (you can swap between the two using a BECOME command),
On the Amstrad the categories of text are difficult to distinguish between when all lines are in use . If for example, Sam is with you . yon also get:' Frodo can sec Sam. Being carried by Sam are a beautiful small sword, a matchbox, a canvas backpack, a fine green cloak ..." And if you open the backpack, the matchbox, or anything else that contains something, you get the contents of that thrown in, too. which makes for quite a lot of repetitive reading to make sure you don't miss an important part of the message. Only the Commodore version has graphics, and these are limited in number on cassette. Theso pictures are rasonable, although in no way exciting, aud display is effected by switching over to a graphics screen whilst the text response is in mid-flow. The effect, if you are not expecting a picture, can be quite startling, and frustrating, too. I found the game rather boring, and put an end to it all with a SAY TO SAM "KILL ME WITH SWORD". He understood that all right. Computer & Video Games - Issue #68 (1987) |
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Page créée en 286 millisecondes et consultée 5489 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. |