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STORM<br />
WARRIOR<br />
This is the only game of the<br />
five previously unreleased,<br />
so the Encore label is something<br />
of a misnomer but<br />
never mind. You are the<br />
Crown Prince of your Kingdom<br />
and as such, are<br />
expected to rescue the land<br />
from a Wicked Witch's<br />
curse. She has summoned a<br />
violent thunderstorm destined<br />
to last for one hundred<br />
years unless you can do<br />
something about it.<br />
<strong>Your</strong> ultimate aim is to<br />
find the witch's castle and<br />
destroy both her and the<br />
undead forces she commands.<br />
Before that final<br />
encounter you must battle<br />
your way through a forest,<br />
fighting off wariors and<br />
dinosaurs. The instructions<br />
don't actually tell you how<br />
to accomplish this, you must<br />
find out by trial and error<br />
although the moves are a<br />
fairly familiar assortment of<br />
somersaults, kicks and<br />
swipes with your sword.<br />
Timing in the combat<br />
routines is not particularly<br />
important but where you<br />
stand on the screen is. If you<br />
stand too close to an opponent,<br />
you will miss him no<br />
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matter how good your<br />
swordplay is. Kick him a few<br />
times to make him back off<br />
a bit.<br />
Storm Warrior is not in<br />
the top division of beat-emup<br />
games. The animation is<br />
poor and the battles lack the<br />
realism and excitement that<br />
would put them in the top<br />
league. An average game but<br />
then you get what you pay<br />
for.<br />
Overall:<br />
TURBO<br />
ESPRIT<br />
"Race your Lotus Esprit<br />
round the city chasing drug<br />
barons" claims the blurb. It<br />
is only when you get behind<br />
the controls of your car that<br />
you discover that it handles<br />
more like a Model T Ford<br />
as it chugs along.<br />
Four smugglers' cars and<br />
an armoured vehicles are at<br />
large somewhere on the<br />
city's streets and it is up to<br />
you to find them. You must<br />
then take them out by either<br />
blasting them or continually<br />
bumping into them until<br />
they surrender. There are<br />
pedestrians and other innocent<br />
cars to avoid if you<br />
don't want to incur penalty<br />
points and you can also write<br />
your car off by driving into<br />
a brick wall. My favourite<br />
bit though is that you have<br />
to stop for traffic lights!<br />
Imagine it, a high speed<br />
chase, guns blazing and the<br />
lights suddenly turn to red.<br />
Do you really believe that<br />
everybody is going to stop<br />
and wait for them to turn<br />
to green again?<br />
There are four cities to<br />
choose from, each laid out<br />
in typical American grid<br />
formation. You can call up<br />
a map to show your location<br />
as well as that of the enemy<br />
cars. Messages inform you<br />
that the armoured car has<br />
just been spotted on E 19 or<br />
whatever. The problem is<br />
that you have to wait ages<br />
before you actually arrive on<br />
the scene. The balance of this<br />
game is all wrong.<br />
Dreadful graphics, control<br />
and gameplay only serve<br />
to emphasise the faults<br />
inherent in Turbo Esprit. I<br />
didn't like it when it was first<br />
released and things have not<br />
improved with time.<br />
INFO<br />
Overall:<br />
2<br />
3<br />
%<br />
DEEP<br />
STRIKE<br />
The war in the skies over<br />
Europe in the First World<br />
War was supposed to be the<br />
last combat arena where<br />
chivalry played its part.<br />
Pilots frequently saluted<br />
each other before duelling to<br />
the death and it was not the<br />
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done thing to gun down an<br />
opponent who had run out<br />
of ammunition.<br />
Deep Strike quickly dispels<br />
all the myths! You are<br />
a single fighter pilot trying<br />
to escort four bombers on a<br />
vital mission. Pitted against<br />
you are the massed forces of<br />
the German Air Force - Von<br />
Richthofen himself, the Red<br />
Baron together with his<br />
squadron of triplanes. Then<br />
there are all the barrage<br />
balloons and some decidedly<br />
anachronistic tanks and field<br />
artillery, all trying to blast<br />
you out of the skies.<br />
You can climb, dive and<br />
bank as you try to avoid the<br />
enemy. You have no sights<br />
on your plane so all shooting<br />
amounts to guesswork. That<br />
is if you want to shoot in<br />
the first place. You have a<br />
decidedly small amount of<br />
ammunition and should you<br />
decide to defend yourself to<br />
any great extent, you will<br />
find that you have run out<br />
of bullets before you are half<br />
way to your target.<br />
This is a below average<br />
shoot-em-up and doesn't<br />
offer a great deal in the way<br />
of lasting appeal. If you are<br />
looking for this sort of<br />
World War One flying game,<br />
look out for a copy of Blue<br />
Max, the old US Gold game<br />
which is infinitely more<br />
playable.<br />
tUD<br />
INFO<br />
Overall:<br />
39%<br />
Eleven
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