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1989-12-30
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A D D A M S F A M I L Y
C O M M E R C I A L G A M E
R E V I E W E D
B Y
J A M E S L . M A T H E W S
Well, for some reason, a while back there was a sudden craze
about the Addams family all over again. The old black and white
comedy series had been brought back for a BBC 2 appearance and
all of a sudden a feature length film was out on the cinema
selling tickets by the million, merchandise was selling better
than P.D pac-man clones and all of a sudden a full price game of
it was out on the Super Nintendo, soon to spread to many
formats.
Now the game has dropped along with the hype of it all and is now
a budget bargain selling at around a tenner in all good computer
games sellers.
The game is really quite good and although is quite old in coding
techniques is still a great play. I have played this on the SNES
(Super Nintendo) as well and must say that it is EXACTLY the same
on the ST as it is on the SNES. As far as I can see, NOTHING has
been cut out which I was very impressed with.
Everything in this game is of an excellent standard, graphics,
sound, game play....The lot!
You control old Uncle Fester and have a stupid old plot that
nobody bothers to read. You control your character much the same
to Mario and kill the 'baddies' by jumping on top of them. It is
a platform game but an element of puzzling is involved as well
and proves a good mixture.
Everything is incredibly colourful and full of life and nothing
stops moving, just leave Uncle Fester for a second and he starts
twitching and looking very nervous.
There is some great music in this and although it is just very
basic chip tunes there are some really funky tunes in there
including the original theme tune from the old comedy series
itself.
Graphics are all very good and backdrops are detailed and well
drawn producing a good effect.
Joystick controls are very responsive and fast and everything
else such as collision detection is also very good indeed so no
worries there.
Animation is a bit dodgy but not that bad. I don't like the way
the screen scrolls. You walk off the screen and instead of it
scrolling with you, it catches up and can be a bit of a headache
at first I thought however, you soon get used to it and it
doesn't really bother me that much anymore.
The gameplay is great and is platforming at its best, the
difficulty level isn't too easy or too hard and there are loads
of secret exits, rooms, doors and passages.
This is a great game and well worth getting so er....Get it!!!
~~ POWERFUL ~~
Good graphics.
Great gameplay.
Good sound and tunes.
Perfect difficulty level.
Very responsive.
~~ POWERLESS ~~
Horrible scrolling method.
Animation is a bit out of date.
POWER RATING:90%
POWER COMMENT:
"Platforming at its best - GET IT!!!"