I got this game a couple of months ago and although its an okay game the graphics and jittery controls on the platform levels are very poor in my opinion. The aliens move like theyve been programmed in basic and the controls are realy dodgy especialy when jumping of the moving platforms. The graphics are very basic and the sound is pretty naff too - apart from that the birds eye view levels are good, if a little too trickey and basic looking, the levels sort of make up for the poor factors of the game which let it down. I dont mean to demean the game in any way - it is okay - but personaly I wouldnt have given it such a high score rating as given in this review - more like 70% would have been realistic. If this game was released back in 1990 it would have been good, but it is one of the more recent titles which shouldve given it more of a chance for quality, I appreciate it involved only a few people in the mkaing of the game but when you look at Defenders of the Earth from 1990 it doesnt even compare to the quality of this game - sorry, just my personal opionion
Top 10 games: Lemmings, Prince of Persia, Stratosphere, Defender (freeware), Exodus, TnT, Invasion 2, Captain Comic (Fred disk magazine title), Defenders of the Earth, Sam Strikes Out
Top of the Flop games: Vegatable Vacation, Boing, Famous Five, Paralax, Futureball, Witching Hour, Mindgames 1 & 2, Football Director 2
Best 10 Average games (worth getting but not the cocaine of the Sam world)
Splat, Manic Miner, Elite (no advance of the spectrum version but an all time classic to play on the Sam all the same!) Amalthea, Legend of Esham, Klax, Fade(Fred disk magazine), Escape from Robot Monsters, Football League Manager, Dyzonium
Amalthea
I got this game a couple of months ago and although its an okay game the graphics and jittery controls on the platform levels are very poor in my opinion. The aliens move like theyve been programmed in basic and the controls are realy dodgy especialy when jumping of the moving platforms. The graphics are very basic and the sound is pretty naff too - apart from that the birds eye view levels are good, if a little too trickey and basic looking, the levels sort of make up for the poor factors of the game which let it down. I dont mean to demean the game in any way - it is okay - but personaly I wouldnt have given it such a high score rating as given in this review - more like 70% would have been realistic. If this game was released back in 1990 it would have been good, but it is one of the more recent titles which shouldve given it more of a chance for quality, I appreciate it involved only a few people in the mkaing of the game but when you look at Defenders of the Earth from 1990 it doesnt even compare to the quality of this game - sorry, just my personal opionion
Top 10 games: Lemmings, Prince of Persia, Stratosphere, Defender (freeware), Exodus, TnT, Invasion 2, Captain Comic (Fred disk magazine title), Defenders of the Earth, Sam Strikes Out
Top of the Flop games: Vegatable Vacation, Boing, Famous Five, Paralax, Futureball, Witching Hour, Mindgames 1 & 2, Football Director 2
Best 10 Average games (worth getting but not the cocaine of the Sam world)
Splat, Manic Miner, Elite (no advance of the spectrum version but an all time classic to play on the Sam all the same!) Amalthea, Legend of Esham, Klax, Fade(Fred disk magazine), Escape from Robot Monsters, Football League Manager, Dyzonium