C&VG


Life-Term
By Alternative
Commodore 64/128

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #72

Life-Term

In a future world where commercialism is everything, and the rich get richer, you are sentenced to life for a murder you did not commit. Sent to run a refuse recycling plant on a planet dedicated to that purpose, your objective is to escape!

This graphic adventure has the hallmarks of being GACked but doesn't say so. The instructions on the inlay are minimal, comprising of a list of some available commands, and they are very unusual ones, such as CORRUPT, INVESTIGATE and CHAT. It doesn't say how you use them.

With very scant location descriptions, and abrupt text, this adventure does not give much encouragement.

Life-Term

A number of commands, such as SLEEP, seem to be soaked up with no message at all, and it is difficult to tell whether you are having any effect, or the command has been overlooked in the coding.

The map is unnecessarily illogical, and once out of the dome and onto the landing pad, one seems to be stuck outside forever - whether by accident or design is difficult to tell.

Uninspired pictures contribute to a fairly drab and awful game.