Games section

6.2. PD-Tests (by Malte Mende)

SameGame

I would like to start with SameGame which impressed me really. At first I thought: Another boaring WB game... but it is real fun.

On the screen you see a gameboard which is filled with colored balls.

You have to remove the balls by clicking on it. BUT: you can only remove a ball when there are at least 2 in same color side by side, vertikal or horizontal. The more balls you remove with one click the more points you will get.

Who removes all the balls (which is not easy!) will get 1000 extrapionts.

At the end of the game you can join the highscore list which allows a contest with friends or opponents.

Although there are more than 65000 gameboards the game is a bit boring in the long run.

The graphic is simple but good. The game is played either on a screen on the workbench or on a custom screen. There is no sound.

Sum: For playing only sometimes quite good.

Personal overall impression of the editor: 7 of 10 points.

SpaceBall2000

Yeah! Thatīs freeware! This is one of these games which everybody should have.

You are a robot (or is it a human in armaments?) and playing a Pong like game against the computer or a friend.

Well, it is not really Pong, it is more a Shufflepuck-Cafe variant out of the birdīs- eye view.

You have to get a ball in the opponent goal which is nearly the whole upper border of the screen and have a look that the opponent does not get the ball into your goal. You hit the ball under the law of: the angle of incidents is the angle of reflection. Further more there are two moving girders on which the ball can rebound and sometimes a magnetic field changes the direction of the ball.

Seams to be complicated, but it is not.

When you have 5 goals you get further and play against the next opponent.

But if your opponent has 5 goals the game is over.

In addition to playing against the computer you can play against a friend (might be excellent on boring partys!) or in training modus against an impossible opponent.

The graphic is really good and attains its goal.

The FX are also good (I could sware I heard them elsewhere) and the music is nice and doesnīt importunate. Nothing bombastic but good.

The game is making passionately desiring it...

Sum: You have to download it, you wonīt regrett.

Personal overall impression of the editor: 9 of 10 points

WBArmy

Every Amiga user who likes to play might know Scorched Tanks. This is a light version for the workbench.

„Light„ means less graphics, less weapons, less opponents.

Unfortunately the game can only be played on a 640*512 screen or higher, my eyes donīt like it...

But a really Amiga freak has an eye friendly monitor, and donīt think it is a negative point ;-)

The aim of the game is to shoot the opponents tank.

You fix the firing angle, strength and size of the munition. Better munition can be bought in a shop (also during the game). Further more you can move your tank (with petrol from the shop) and buy additional energy.

To make a good shot you have to take notice of the wind which changes every round, in strength and direction.

And so it is not as easy as it seams.

If the computer opponent is not smart ( or to smart) you can change the artificial intelligenz ( or imbecility), just as you want.

Further more you can decide how much bonus boxes should fall down, which color the background should have, the maximum of the getable energy, if there is wind and so on...

The graphic is quite simple, normal for a WB Game. There is not much sound, the best one can be heard by shooting out of the screen.

Sum: without regard to sound and graphic, it is a good alternative to Scorched Tanks, but the original is much better.

The one who wants real action should decide to get the commercial version Worms DC.

Personal overall impression of the editor: 6 of 10 points

SimplePac

Itīs possible to overdrive with the WB friendly games. This PacMan clone is build out of the graphic parts of the OS 2.1+. This view alone is it worth to download this game.

The princip of the game is well known.

Like the ...very... interessting graphic is the funny too, some stolen samples are entertaining the ears. Better listen to the radio.

The Handling is simple, you can use the curser keys or a joystick via LowLevel.lib. Unfortunately the inquiry of the collisions in not exactly, sometimes it saves your life, sometimes not.

In the long run this game is not funny.

An interessting feature: You can scale the game field freely. My commputer resets sometimes if I try this.

Sum: It is a good game for a play at times but boring in the long run.

Personal overall impression of the editor: 6 of 10 points

Fnurr2000

Simple games are the best. Thatīs an old wisdom. Following this wisdom, Richard Fhager as created a real simple game. You move a dot which is pursued by another 25 dots. All dots have the same speed. If two dots collide they explode.

If the Players dot is in this exlosion the game is over, every other dot in the explosion will explode too. To get the dots exploding you just have to manage your pursue the right way.

The points you get is depending on the number of dots in the explosion: three times the number of dots exploding simultaneous and a point for every second your dot survives. Seams a bit complicated but youīll get it quick.

For the better ones there is a special modus activated by pressing F1. Then you will pursued by more points.

The graphic is quite simple, the dots are really dots, an so is the background. But the computer has to do a lot in the special mode.

The music in the game is very, very hectic and doesnīt help in difficult situations

The music of the title screen is good (the other one isnīt bad but veined;-))

In the readme file is mentioned that the game is for 5 minutes of fun. Thatīs true, but it is always fun to chase the pixel allover the screen.

Sum: Get it, it is real fun but in the long run it gets boring.

Personal overall impression of the editor: 7 of 10 points

Lord of Alcandria 3

This game is the last one because it is an adventure and I have not enough time to play it. This is way I just introduce it without any rating.

Lord of Alcandria is a Point&Click Adventure in the well known style like Maniac Mansion, Loom or Monkey Island. This is the story of the game:

You are Krilok Rainwood, who gets to the County of Lotharia by accident. This county ruled Lord Hellock. His brother Krislow ruled the next-door county Alcandria. Hellock wanted to possess both and in a battle for this he died. Short after this the brother died, too.

The new Lord of Letharia is a bad man and is dominated by Hellok out of another dimension. Many children have been kidnapped.

Before the first mouse click you can already see that the graphic and the sound is excellent. The qualitiy is like the one of Monkey Island3 or Simon the Sorcerer, thein-game graphic as well as the animation in the beginning

As mentioned above, I havenīt played the game as much and so I do not want to tell any false.

No rating today.