Roadrunner
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In Roadrunner you drive a vehicle around a rectangular
course as other cars pass in opposite directions. Now and again
drivers shoot at you, aiming to damage your tyres, fuel tank or
the twin lasers with which you may fire back. Every so often a group of
strange undocumented shapes zoom past. These enemies are
shaped like parking meters and also shoot at you. Other problems
include re-fuelling and 'smoke' which causes some cars to vanish.


Roadrunner is a Basic game. The graphics of the cars and
landscape are quite good, but the animation is unconvincing.
Your car does not turn from side to side - it leaps sideways without
swerving at all! As you cross from one side of the road to another
your car suddenly flips to face the opposite way. There is no
"cornering" effect so that you can turn suddenly through a right angle
without ill-effect. The animation is slow and jerky. It is possible to
drive sideways through other cars. This usually means damage to 
your vehicle, but the situation is worse for the other drive, whose
car generally splits or vanishes altogether.


Individual sounds and graphics in this game are quite
good, but it does not come together as a whole at all. The keys
used are not well chosen and there are no alternatives. The display
contains an elementary spelling mistake, and the whole game
seems to have been rushed to the market without adequate testing.






Scores
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Documentation 30%
Graphics 30%
Sound 40%
Value For Money 20%
Overall 20%