Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

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REVIEWER: TIM
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computer graphic
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of monsters like
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Clog and Mechatron.
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control, chose a city to rampage
through and then simply get on
with it.
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just be too different!
The game takes place inside
the "electronic labyrinth" of a
Spectrum, You are in control of
Worm one of those nasty
little programs hackers like to
insert into big systems.
Of course the Spectrum's
internal defences are out to stop
you completing you mission —
to find a disc drive on which to
clone yourself.
Before you find the drive you
have to find and eat 50 rotating
shapes called Spindles.
To defend itself against the
Crawlies, Bugs and Sputniks
your Worm is armed with
Sparkies, You have two kinds of
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Sparkle. The neat Burper
Sparky which is a sort of delay
bomb which levitates to destroy
flying Sputniks. Your worm
"lays' these like eggs. Then
there are the Blaster Sparkies
which shoot out of your worm's
nose and zap anything among
the circuitry that's bothering it.
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Sputniks drop bugs which
crawl along and grab hold of
your worm. Collect four and
your worm will suffer a fatal
error_
There's a map window at the
bottom right of your screen
which you can use to find those
elusive Spindles—alongside is
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adverts! If you've seen them
before you can zap onto the
written prologue to the scen
you've chosen. This gives you
background to your monster •
and to the action that's about to
take place.
Each monster has different
strengths, weaknesses and
special powers. My favourite is
The Glog a sort of lump of slime•
whose touch corrodes
anything. Others spit globs o •
meringue, breathe fire, shoot
webs or possess a paralysing
scream,
There are five "actions" or
objectives to carry Out. They
are:
Destroy landmark: Your
objective is to destroy a city's
famous landmark. You've ha
many a sleepless night since
they installed that irritating new
radio transmitter atop the
building's roof, The transmitt
must be destroyed and the
.building is 9oing with it.
A proximity indicator in the
menu window continuously
shows how close you are to the
landmark you must destroy.
The closer you are, the longer
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watching 0 a movie. The game New York, Tokyo and Moscow,
begins 1 outside the cinema — plus an icon representing the
which doubles as an icon driven
menu.
type of game you want to play.
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, You see pictures of the selection you find yourself
monsters you can select, the
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inside the cinema watching the
a status window which shows
the number of Sparkies you've
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got left, the number of Spindles
you've eaten arid your current
score/hi-score.
The graphics are interesting
— but your worm lacks any sort
of real character which detracts
from the garne's playability.
Its also quite hard to learn
how to control the worm
efficiently when you first load
up the game, It has a sort of
built in inertia which means you
end up crashing into walls and
such like. It's also difficult to tell
which end is which at times. But
then worms are like that, I
suppose
If you like computer in-jokes
the this could be for you. If
you're after something a bit
more spectacular then check
out Thanatos from the same
company.
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