Home Computing Weekly


Galactic Plague
By Amsoft
Amstrad CPC464

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #90

This program proves that you cannot always judge a game by its programmers. Coming from the Spanish company, Indescomp, it might be easy to assume that this is up to the standard of some of their other programs such as Roland In The Caves. This is not the case at all.

I rather get the impression that Paco Suarez could program this after lunch one day. It is a space game and has a whole host of deadly aliens coming down on you from the top of the screen. They drop the usual bombs and have a nasty habit of dropping one just as you shoot them thereby killing you.

The game has speed, colour and noise but lacks any originality and interest. The main point in its favour is that there is a two player option, the first I've seen for this machine. I can only believe that watching two players would be twice as boring as watching one. Added to all this, I find the first screen just too difficult and you use too many lives on this level.

D.C.

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