By: Andy Maddock
Natural born liars Right, we promised you last month that we'd have a full review of Championship Manager 2 for this very issue. Unfortunately, due to a lack of information we haven't. Domark promised us we'd have it for this issue but they have now told us it's going to be another two months while they bug test it and sort other things out.
I'm sorry if I got your hopes up. Never mind, check out the review of Total Football, Domark's last but one release for the Amiga. Who knows, Championship Manager 2 may even be here for next month, although then again... probably not
A definite cert I have just heard about a new CD-ROM adventure game that's going to come out. It's an asteroids-type game with lots of Babylon 5-type sequences and sampled sound. Ooh lovely jubbly!
It's called Demistar and was created by the Rios/Lebed Project, a company who wishes to support the Amiga all the way by creating new and innovative software.
The good news is that it will probably be out during my lifetime! Despite the lack of information about Demistar I assure you it is all completely accurate.
Show report If you had time to venture down to the Hammersmith Novotel to visit the World of Amiga Show last month you would have noticed we had a stand packed full of games, magazines, subscriptions, not to mention an A4000 whose highlight of the show was to crash repeatedly while punters then decided to wipe the hard drive. Cheers.
Anyway, I hunted around the show myself and foundÉ next to nothing. Some other magazine stand was showing off Capital Punishment by the Canadian team ClickBoom and another was showing Alien Breed 3D. While this was going on a foreign chap showed me an overhead-type adventure game which I thought was quite good, but when I enquired about release dates he made a dash for the exit Đ so don't hold your breath.
So all in all, it was an exciting show with plenty of goodies on offer, but sadly none of them were games. Never mind, you never know, it may perk up a bit yet.
System Selections
This commando-style game is marvellous. So good in fact I awarded it a spiffing 89%. It features some excellent gameplay packed with loads of special effects like explosions. Great.
With the season over and a relegated Manchester City, it's time to pack my bags and head for sunny Stockport in search of some better football - namely Division 2. Oh yeh, Premier Manager 3 - Deluxe is quite good. I gave it 92%.
Are you always late for those important appointments? Are you always told off for your punctuality? Well, don't look at me. You should 'keep your time' with Timekeepers. Yes, that oh so puzzling game courtesy of that Portsmouth bunch. (We always call them that don't we?)
This is the title that immediately springs to mind after a heavy night of curry abuse. Ho ho, nobody's ever done that gag before. Blimey, I'm always the first with all the jokes around here, oh yes. I am by far the best.
This is another footy game. It features a league table, fixtures, players, footballs, kits strips, substitutes, cup competitions, player loans, European competitions, playoffs... Yawn.
Hey, if this game's by 21st Century itŐs almost out of date. If the whole point is to prove its games are in the next century then in four years the games will be up to date so they won't be ahead of everyone else. Is it going to call itself 22nd Century Entertainment? But what about in another 100 years...
Next Month It's not our fault. Okay so System has been greatly reduced in size. It's been a bad four weeks for games. At the beginning of the month we had high hopes. We had heard of some new games which would definitely be ready for review and I hunted around for some news stories which were meant to be printed here but they turned into full pages. We tried our best.
However, next month will be different. We'll have reviews of Capital Punishment, Legends, Atrophy, Chaos Engine 2, Sensible World of Soccer European Championship Edition, Harry's Balloons and XP8, and we'll also have some previews which, if we're lucky, may be Thunderstorm and Worms Reinforcements. See, how about that for a packed issue? It surely makes up for this month's feeble effort. Let the good times begin!
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