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From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
Subject: MINI-REVIEW: James Pond 2 - Robocod CD32
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Date: 26 Apr 1994 19:03:31 GMT
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James Pond 2 - Robocod
Software Company: Millennium
Address: Quern House, Mill Court, Great Shelford,
Cambridge, CB2 5LD, United Kingdom.
Phone: (0223) 844 894
Fax: ?
E-Mail: ?
List Price: 29.99
Review by Jukka O. Kauppinen (Finland) and Alan Buxey (England)
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Jukka
----- (rev.2)
Pond is back! This time, evil thieves have stolen all the toys from
The Toy Factory, and carried them away. So James must recover them - from
the North Pole!
This is wild and funny - if you like platformers. James is a nice
(though not furry) thing, and even has special equipment for this mission.
There's a huge castle with dozens of rooms (levels) that James must run
through, jumping, avoiding pikes and other "bad things" and collecting lots
of bonuses.
JP2 has three major points:
o The graphics are great for a platformer: background coppers
and colourful backgrounds.
o Playability is quite good
o The sound is GREAT! James' audio is possibly best I've heard
in any game. It comes from CD, so quality is naturally
CD-quality, and also the music is GOOD! Great going!
Without this music, JP2 would be only "above average", but
now - it adds huge amount of gameplay.
As an added bonus, the game contains an excellent intro animation and
advertisement for next James Pond-game. I think somebody from Millennium
mentioned somewhere that those animations cost around 40.000 pounds!
Music makes a game - this doesn't happen too often (anybody remember
Cybernoid/Cybernoid II?), but it's real this time. You could even listen
this music while reading a book.
Alan
----(rev. 2)
A great platformer! Well, the floppy version was anyway ;). This
version is Robocod AGA with CD soundtracks throughout the game. The graphics
are just as bouncy and cute as the original - but I would say that with a
better controller, this would be better! The CD soundtrack pushes this
platformer above any other current one - they really are great and take me
back to the days when we used to have quality music in a game (e.g., Last Ninga
or Sanxion on the C64).
There are many other great features; e.g., I loved the cartoon that
can be selected from the menu too (a trailer for James Pond III - Operation
Starfish) - it certainly impressed some friends!
Features: "mpeg" cartoon. The cheat has been removed - its a new
one. ;)
RATINGS
-------
Jukka Alan
Graphics: **** ****
Sound: ***** *****
Playability: **** ****
Lastability: *** ***
Overall: **** ****
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FINLAND Amiga 500/1200(030),PC386,CD32,C64
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