Sinclair ZX SPECTRUM

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Dodatno:
Slike iz design faze (JPG)

Najave:
Your Sinclair, #23, November 1987, News

Opisi:
Your Sinclair, #24, December 1987, Cover Tape


"Slow,  plodding gameplay,  but for  some reason  I liked  it. You  might not,
though."

  I liked playing rounders at school (and I just had to stifle a giggle then as
Microsoft  Word  just  queried  the  word  "rounders"  -  "you  mean  baseball,
surely?"). Thwack  a ball  for miles  with a  foot-long chunk  of wood  and run
around your classmates as they effortlessly caught the ball or ran you out with
the greatest of  ease. Basts. There  were days in  which I wished  I could just
take the bat and thwack the kids  to hell and back instead. And now,  thanks to
the wonders of technology, you can do that in Play For Your Life. 
  A few months after the wonderful Batty, YS readers were licking their lips in
anticipation of the  next cover tape.  They didn't know  quite what to  make of
Play For Your Life.  It was ever-so-slightly oversold  when it appeared on  the
cover: "WARNING! This game is terminally addictive!" To say that it got a mixed
reception is like saying day-old sushi makes you feel a little bit queasy. 
  The aim of the game is simple. You're a man in a cubical room and  up to four
highly elastic balls  bounce around it.  The aim of  the game is  to hit a ball
with your bat onto a target on the opposite walls three times, and then you  go
on to the next level.  There are twenty-six levels in  all, marked A to Z,  and
later levels introduce barriers, nasties and opposing players trying to do  the
same thing and hit the target on the wall behind you. If he scores three  goals
before you  do, it's  game over  buddy. You  can only  face one  way, so you're
forced to  sidestep left  and right,  and jump  forwards and  backwards to move
about the room. 
  You also have an energy level,and this goes down when a ball hits you,you hit
a nasty, or your  opponent thwacks you with  his bat - nasty!  Fortunately, you
can also thwack him to bits too, and in most levels which contain an  opponent,
it's usually the last one to die who wins. Kill your opponent, and you go on to
the next level regardless of how many goals scored at that point. 
  So why'd  it get  such a mixed reception from the  YS readers? Well, it's not
lightning fast,  and the  isometric 3D  view is  a tricky  one to  get used to 
- usually it takes a few swipes of the bat before you eventually hit the  ball.
It can take bloody  ages to complete a  level, as hitting the  target is purely
down to luck most of the time, and sometimes the game appears to be unfair when
the  random-moving nasties  crowd, squash,  and swiftly  kill you  without any
chance of escape. 
  But I liked it.It had this odd "one more go" factor which I was unable to get
rid of until I  reached the last level  and completed the game  (the completion
message  wasn't that  rewarding, but  you were  kind of  used to  that on  the
Speccy). Thwacking your opponent was fun, and there was a fair bit of  strategy
thrown in, although it wasn't all that deep. The graphics were crisp and clear,
it was just the design  of the game that took  a bit of getting used  to. Sound
was minimal, and you did get a slight feeling that this was an Imagine reject. 
  Class under "average". I liked it, but tons of people didn't.Maybe they never
wanted to give their classmates a thwack every now and then. 


Your Sinclair, #24, December 1987, Cover Game

Pomoč:
Your Sinclair, #27, March 1988, Tips
Your Sinclair - Smash Tips, August 1988