{fh200AA00Quickie PD Game Reviews
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by Mike Williams


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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Martin Dunn

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 Snake game variant. As you move you leave a trail. You must not touch the trail, the edge of the screen or the mushrooms. That's all, nothing else happens.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 Boring.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Simple.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 None.

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 1 minute.


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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Norma Major

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 A three dimensional tank battle, using solid 3D shapes. Shoot the tanks before they shoot you. There are buildings that you can use for cover, roads which increase tank speed, and rivers that you can't cross but can shoot over.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 Things start very easy indeed, the enemy just sits there and lets you shoot them. After a few levels they start to get smart, and it becomes quite tricky to get close enough to zap them without being peppered with shells.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Excellent full per- spective 3D, smooth move- ment.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 View from inside the tank or from outside from any angle, even from overhead. Camera zoom.

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 8 minutes.


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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Tom Cooper & Barry Clarkson

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 You roam around a 3D landscape, and zap anything that moves.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 The controls are very awkward, and the things that fire at you are deadly accurate. Movement is sluggish and the indicator of how much health you have left is not very informative.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Smooth, full perspective 3D, but with an error in the perspective such that things at the sides of the screen look much nearer than they ought to.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 None.

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 4 minutes.


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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Tracy of Sick (Merlin Hughes)

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 Tetris.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 The first few levels are very easy indeed and get a bit boring.. It is possible to start from higher levels but the only way to build up a really high score is to start from the beginning. Later levels include extra blocks that materialize randomly, blocks that dis- appear randomly, and occasional left and right shifting of the whole stack.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Tracy has gone really over the top with all sorts of fancy graphics effects that happen outside the actual game itself, making the thing almost into a megademo that just happens to have a Tetris game in the middle.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 Definable keys. Optional 'show next piece' facility. Option to play continuous tetris, without levels. Alternative pretty pieces. Three skill levels. High score tables (today's high scores plus best ever).

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 15 minutes.

