Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

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FRONT OF CHAIR
OMNICRONA
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ing enjoyment.
The amount and variety of
characters throughout the game
is huge, ranging from supply
droids and mad scientists to
alien octopi flogging life insurance!
Most of the creatures you
meet can be interacted with.
lots of them having some rather
interesting things to tell you.
very large game which manages
to cross the bridge between arcade
and adventure brilliantly,
ending up with at original
CONSPIRACY
game which is both highly addic-
BY IMAGE WORKS/FIRSTSTAR v
A ce Powers was lust another
Star Police captain. At least,
he was until a particularly pleasant
dream was cut short by the
buzzing of his VidiFone. ordenng
him to report immediately to
the Chief's office on Cron Ace
knew that big things were in
store for him after all, no-one
below Colonel gets to see the
chief unless something's up.
Something is up - and it IS
big. A drugs racket of intergalactic
proportions has erupted and
the blame rests heavily on the
shoulders of the universe's
worst scum, the Sarbai. It turns
out that one of the Star Police's
crack agents had infiltrated a Sarbat
narcotics squad, his last transmission
revealing that they were
about to board one of Cron's
cargo ships for reasons unknown.
Since then the agent has
failed to contact headquarters.
so Ace has been put on the case.
his duties being to discover what
has happened on the vessel, the
fate of the agent and, should any-
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thing have happened to him, to
continue the investigation...
The game has been designed
so that although it's possible to
visit a lot of the 250-odd different
locations in no particular
order, play runs along a fairly
straight line without the player
actually realising, giving scope
for stumbling across the odd
clue by 'chance, greatly enhanc-
UPDATE
Amiga and ST versions of
Omnicron Conspiracy are
on their way and will at the
very least match the PC
version in terms of
graphics, sound and game.
play. They should both be
considerably cheaper, too.
tive and very entertaining.
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Omnicron Conspiracy is a
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PC 1 3 4 . 9 9
GRAPHICS 77%
SOUND 6 3 %
VALUE 88c
1PLAYABILITY
90%
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