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Sinclair User, #92, November 1989, Games Review, Overall 76% 


  Povzetek: It can't be true. But it is! A GOOD PacMan variant in 1989.

  There are a few game ideas which are  so ancient and venerable that you don't
seriously expect  anyone ever  to use  them again.  I mean,  come on. honestly,
surely NO-ONE in their right mind  would EVER do another PacMan variant?   Tell
me it s not true!
  But, pigs fly,moons turn blue,Screaming Lord Sutch becomes Prime Minister and
Hartlepool  win the  Cup;  Planet  10 is   indeed a  PacMan clone,  though it's
jazzed-up  with  a  sci-fi  scenario  about  sinister alien  planetoids, hyper-
galactic warriors and radioactive energy spodules.  The biggest shock,  though,
is that Planet  10 is rather  good. The big  gimmick  is that  Planet 10 may be
PacMan, but its  Pac-Man like you've  never seen it  before; the twelve battle-
planetoid mazes,  rather than  being  shown  from a  top-down view,  appear  in
amazing 3-D perspective  with a starry background. As you steer your  PacPerson
through  the  maze, you  see the  walls scrolling  past, junctions appearing to
your right  and left,  energy tablets  appearing on  the floor  as blue blocks.
Power Pills as huge white spheres, and ghosts - AIIIEEEEGH!  Huge,  slobbering,
glaring-eyed blobs  of multicoloured  protoplasm bearing  down on  you from the
distance! Of course, it  would be impossible to  complete each maze unless  you
had a map to help you out, and  there it is in the lower right hand  corner. It
shows your position in the maze and all the uneaten energy tablets, but not the
positions of the ghosts. These appear  on your short-range scanner, and to  the
left of that is a direction indicator which shows which way you're facing,  and
whether your progress is blocked (although this is pretty obvious if a thumping
great wall is in your way).
  Apart from the sinister theme tune, the best part  of the game  has to be the
ghosts themselves. When you're on the run from them, their appearance is  truly
scarifying: but  if you  swallow a  Power Pill  and give  chase, they turn into
blubbering cowards, ripe for gobbling  up. See those ghost eyes  scampering for
safety! Hah!
  So against all my better judgement this one has to be rated a hit.It might be
a recent retread of the oldest idea in the entire universe, but it's been  done
with  style and wit, and should give  you a few hours of enjoyable gameplay.
  So there you  have it. Cheap, cheerful and well reworked.

FAX BOX

PLANET 10

Label: mastertronic
Author: In-house
Price: 2.99 pounds
Memory: 48K/128K
Joystick: Various

Graphics:    68%
Sound:       65%
Playability: 70%
Lastability: 78%
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Overall:     76%


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