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- ~Leisure Suit Larry......
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- Leisure Suit Larry's Greatest Hits & Misses
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- Reviewed by Martin Keen
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-
- Hold yourself together. Try not to laugh TOO much at the title of
- this collection of games. While English magazines continue to snarl
- at one of the most well known series of computer games ever produced,
- the Americans still can't get enough of their hero...
- Leisure Suit Larry.
-
- This compilation CD contains every single Larry game and gadget ever
- created (apart from the talkie version of LSL 6) and was available
- at the time of writing for less than 13 quid. So thats LSL 1, 2, 3,
- (there never was a version 4), 5, and 6 plus Larry 1 with its tarted
- up interface and graphics along with a few video clips of the author,
- a pinball game, a collection of useless utilities, and even a few
- demos.
-
- Thats not bad value for money - in fact if the Leisure Suit Larry
- series was any good this might quite possibly be the bargain of
- the year.
-
- The highlight of the package (other than the witty manual which
- suggests the creator of Larry, Al Lowe, is actually capable of being
- funny) is Larry 1 enhanced. The graphics and interface still just
- about cut the standard even today, and the gameplay isn't too
- tedious either.
-
- Sierra are often accused of milking a game for all its worth to such
- an extent that they even put the sequel mad movie industry to shame.
- Leisure Suit Larry 1 enhanced is of course based on the original
- Larry 1. That game itself was a sequel too, containing exactly the
- same plot as the first Larry game ever, a text-only adventure called
- Soft Porn.
-
- But just for once Sierra got it right and LSL 1 contains one
- ingredient which sets it miles apart from all its sequels - Larry 1
- is actually funny.
-
- Its hard to get the balance right between sexual orientated humour and
- schoolboy smut but Al Lowe got it right once. The rest of the games
- border on the pathetic. Comments such as "you straighten out your suit
- spending considerable more time in some areas than others" are quite
- frankly more than a bit sad, and should not form the entire basis for
- a computer game.
-
- Recommending this compilation CD is difficult. Larry 1 is a classy
- adventure but the rest are either very poor and outdated (such as
- Larry 2), or just plain humourless (Larry 5 for example). But if you
- have a burning desire to have the entire Larry collection on one CD
- or you just can't live without seeing the video interview with Al
- Lowe in German then this collection is for you.
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- Copyright (c) 1995 Eurowave Leisure Ltd.
-