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**** GAMER-GUIDE REVIEWS SECTION ********************************** PAGE ****
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| | oooooooooh! (Strange man! - DAN) Hello games junkies to another
| | better than sleep games guide! This disk it is bigger and better
| | than ever before so get your tusks into this mazzie gamer guide.
| | Oh and look out for our new Games Q&A section called Guessing Game
------- and next disks massive Cheats special! Go on then, read on!!....
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Ratings are out of a possible 10
10 = One of a kind! 9 = A very very good game indeed! 8 = Buy it now!
7 = A good game worth buying! 6 = Good and worth checking out
5 = About average, you will get some fun out of this but try before you buy!
4 = Not very good, maybe borrow it 3 = Poor game 2 = Not worth the disks
it comes on! 1 = The lowest of the low, and embarrasement to the computer
industry, don't even look at it, not good enough for a ZX80, a right
bag of ( OK, OK, we get the idea - DAN)
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Monkey Island II : Lechucks Revenge
Lucas Arts
£29:99
Reviewer: Simon Hall , Stockton-on-Tees
| echuck! What a strange name. If you remember that was the name
| of the ghost pirate from the game `The Secret of Monkey Island'
| which was released in 1990. Well in the first adventure Guybrush
|____ Threepwood (Who thinks of theese names?! - DAN) was trying to
become a pirate, so where better to go than the most pirate-ridden
island on the planet `Melee Island TM'. He was asking pirates all
over the land if he could join their crew, but Lechuck, who
is a deadly ghost pirate who sails the seventh seas in search of
blood, is capturing all the pirates and none of them dare set sail,
so you decide to become a pirate and then see what happens. To
become a pirate though you need to complete the three tests of
thievery, Sword Fighting, and Treasure Hunting. You go through
these and then the governor of the island called Elane Marley
gets kidnapped by Lechuck, you rescue her and all is well. MI 2
starts of with you hanging from the roof of a cave with a treasure
chest in your arms, Elane comes and asks you how you got into this
mess, you then tell her the story. The game is like a flashback.
You begin on Scabb Island, which is an Island some where near
Melee. You are chatting up (No that doesn't sound right!!) some
pirates and telling them about the time you burst in to the
chruch and Lechuck begged for mercy (Very dreamy person this
Mr. Threepwood - DAN). Anyway, the story goes that they are bored
with the old Lechuck story and want a new one. So off you go
to find the legendary lost treasure of Big Whoop to get a load
of cash and to have a whole new story. The game uses a new system
called IMUSE, which changes the music so it corresponds with the
game location, like a spooky song for the grave yard part.
This adventure game is the best ever seen, it comes on a whack-tastic
11 disks! Yes ELEVEN! If you are using a Hard disk then there
is an installer program with it, if you use floppy make sure you
have at least 2 drives if you don't want to swap disks every scene.
Loading is very quick from floppy and it is one hell of a game!
Rating: 9
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Kixx
£9.99
Reviewer: Dan
|\ /| mmmmmnn! Well.. Not very good really. If you remeber the Arcade
| \/ | version of the Ninja turtles out a few years ago, it wasn't too
| | bad, well this is the Amiga version of this game, it how ever
| | may be based on the same idea, the graphics look like something
that came out of a camels behind. They are all chunky and blocky
and the game moves ooooh so slooow! The music is dull and repetative
and the enemies all look the same. There is not much to say about
this game. Oh and if you have seen the Turtles movie then you will
know that they have different coloured eye masks, in this they don't!
you can't tell who is who. You can have two players and the game
is a beat 'em up type game, like Double Dragon, only much worse.
Try Before you buy!
Rating: 3
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Leasure Suit Larry In The Land of The Lounge Lizards
£6.99
KIXX
Reviewer: Rick
| easure Suit Larry is a bit of a sad bloke. I mean he wanders the
| streets at night and goes in bars and hopelessly attempts to chat
| up womer by feeling their behinds. He is dressed in those kinds
|_____ of clothes that only Steevie Wonder would wear and is desperate
for the big S (Aren't we all?!). Well this game is not very
good since it is a completely crap bit of programming. You start
off in the street out side a bar and then you have to click on the
path to the door, the mouse control is really crappy as Larry bumps
into everything, and the whole game is so slow. It is easier to
use the cursor keys to move him but it is even slower then!
The graphics are also very slow and blocky, and the sound is a very
cheap repetative song. The game is also very sexist and it gets
very boring after a while. You also can't open a door unless you
are very close to it, if you are about a 1mm away from the handle and
you type OPEN DOOR then it says MOVE CLOSER, and then you move in
and have to type it again. Not worth having. And on 1 disk you
can't really expect a good adventure.
Rating: 5
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Road Rash
£25.99
Reviewer: Dan
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| his is what you call a game. Imagine this... You are on the
| suburbs of America, riding around in the hot summers day,
| on a motor bike racing 19 other opponents, dodging the police
and having a race to the finishing line. This game has really
good sound and graphics. It is a cross between a beat em up and
a racing sim. You rush around on your motor bike and can punch or
kick the opponents off their bikes. There are also special
weapons lying around that you can use, like baseball bats and chains
yes I know it all sounds very violent, and it is, but it is such
fun. If you have evr played Road Rash on the Mega Drive then this
will bring it all back to you as it is almost identical to the Sega
version. The graphics are quite good on the loading screen as you
see one person who the computer slects at random from the race you
are about to take and they give you advice or take the mick out of
you. The sound is also very good, with a heavy metal beat on the title
screen. This is about as good as beat 'em up driving games get. Go
out and buy it now¹
Rating: 8
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And that is it for this disks Gamer-Guide. It is slightly shorter than usual
due to the loading in screen at the start of this issue and the christmas
list. But to make up for it look out for next issues massive cheats
special. Bye Bye for now. And have a great christmas and I'll see you
in '95!
Rick
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