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100 Years Of Motoring
A collector
s edition that performs more like a Ford Escort than a Ferrari
The motorcar must surely rank alongside the computer as the greatest invention of the 20th Century. Sure, we
ve gone to war over our o
il supplies, we
re chopping down trees so we can cover our fields with tarmac and none of us can breathe properly anymore, but hey! How else would you get the kids to school in the morning?
This disc was made
as a
desktop journey
through the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu (where they
re probably about as obsessed with cars as you ever can be) which holds models and related memorabilia from the time Karl Benz fi
rst got bored with walking all the way to the supermarket.
There are two ways to navigate around the disc: by means of the Driving Seat, where different parts of a car dashboard will take you to different areas
of the disc, or by means of a signpost listing the four sections
Driving Seat, Workshop, Museum Library, Car Exhibit and Exit. The car also has a radio that you can tune to some clips of music from some slig
htly dodgy re-recordings of car-related tunes such as the theme from Taxi, Carwash, and (for some reason)
Riders on the Storm
Wherever you are in the disc you can take a detour by clicking on the signpost in
the bottom left-hand corne. This will allow you to leap to one of the four sections or exit.
The option does, however, have one very big problem: interactive pages can be accessed from different parts of the d
isc (as a form of cross-referencing) but once you have made a detour you will have to do a lot of clicking to get back to where you were. This is not only irritating, it makes it very difficult to build up any
idea of the overall arrangement of the information on the CD-ROM.
Another disappointing aspect is the poor playback quality of the movies. Taking a look at the files themselves, it seems that some of the movie
s have been set to play back in expanded windows when accessed from within the environment. This means that they are both jumpy and very pixellated
to the point where some areas of a similar colour just merge
together.
There is a problem with the depth of information as well. In the Effects of Motorcars section, for example, I expected a couple of short movies explaining how the world had changed for better or wors
e as a result of this remarkable machine, but all that
s offered are sentences such as
Population movement to suburbs,
and
Automobile industry the lifeblood of many other major industries.
The sub-section o
n the pursuit of the Land Speed Record also has no moving footage of any of the land speed record attempts.
Considering the amount of time we
ve waited for this disc, this is a disappointing product, and at
s an expensive disappointment.
The potential for an excellent motorcar-based CD-ROM is still, very definitely, there, but unfortunately this is not the disc to fulfil that promise.
Yo! Respect due, Philips! Its latest musical offering on the CD-i front means it
laters
to old-timers like Bowie and Pink Floyd, with a
massive shout going out
to the
2 Unlimited.
For those not
enough to know it, 2 Unlimited are Ray and Anita, a Dutch
techno
(their description, not mine) pop group, whose debut No Limits album has sold by the clog-load all over the world.
Beyond Limits is an in
teractive guide to the band and its hits. Ray and Anita themselves pop up to explain the disc
s features: you get to choose which live, promo video or audio track to play, when to fast forward, when to rewind o
r, preferably, when to stop it altogether. Nothing radically new there, then.
The pep talk over, you are left to click away and explore the phenomenon that is 2 Unlimited. This assignment, however, is impossibl
e, as the disc is not so much 2 Unlimited, but too limited
mainly due to the lack of material the group has produced in its short career (and the fact that the songs they have released are indistinguishable
to an untrained ear).
As a result, their painfully repetitive
are painfully repeated, either as audio-only tracks, or videos, or via two minimalist and uninteresting live performances. Even the usually
interesting
behind-the-scenes
footage was far too short and very tedious (despite a cameo appearance from current student fave, Rolf Harris).
The one plus point is that the encoding is very good. However, thi
s does not make up for the lack of content, or the fact that 2 Unlimited are simply another well marketed, good looking
pop group
, whose music is targeted determinedly towards more youthful ears.
Even the mos
t dedicated of fans would be hard-pushed to justify buying this disc. At
19.99, this is a definite no, no, no, no, no.
Marcy
Marc Steward
2 Unlimited: Beyond limits
Special Requirements
DV cart for CD-
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On the main menu, the biggest window is the entrance to the Dinosaur
Park
click and the doors open and you can enter the park by moving forward with the mouse. Without the manual, it takes a while to figure out what you
re supposed to be doing when you first launch the program
, and the mouse control is awkward at times (though you can alter its sensitivity).
Once inside the park you can choose to enter one of three time periods: Triassic Tour, Jurassic Jungle or Cretaceous Corner.
Alternatively, you can go straight to the Dinosaur Reference section. Travelling through the theme park you can explore different paths and engage in any number of dinosaur-related activities. Activities range
from Dinosaur Safari, where you identify the dinosaur from the clues given, to Save The Dinos, where you must save 15 dinosaurs from three different time periods before a comet hits Earth.
Once you get bored of
the animated sequence to enter the park (and believe me you will) you can take a shortcut and bypass it by clicking above the icons.
All the activities teach you about dinosaurs
what they looked like, where
they lived
in a interesting and often amusing way. Your reward for completing a quiz is a cartoon animation of dinosaurs
essential in maintaining a child
s attention. Fancy a film? 3-D Dinosaurs has 20 seq
uences to choose from, all with accompanying soundtracks. Though the animation is not always quite as good as in Microsoft Dinosaurs, there is much more of it, and the sound effects add real atmosphere. Tyranno
saurus Coming To Life is superb, as is the Dinosaur Battle.
So what about the 3D effects? After all, it is called 3-D Dinosaur. When you launch the program, the opening movie featuring a charging dinosaur is in
3D, as are many of the images in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia, but if you really want to see these effects at their best, visit the disc
s 3-D museum, where the dinosaurs really do appear to jump out at you from
every angle.
There are so many different facets to this package that it is impossible to go into every detail. Suffice it to say that Knowledge Adventure has used multimedia to its full advantage
the program
is fast, fun and packed with information.
3D Dinosaur Adventure
Reviewed on MPC
Price
44.95
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s get straight to the point: 3D Atlas is the kind of thing computer advertisers like to show
being used by open-mouthed children, when they want to reassure parents that computer software isn
t entirely composed of full-frontal nude shoot-
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lobes present on this disc knock the spinning tin variety into a cocked hat.
The globes are created using images derived from computer-enhanced satellite photography, and there are many ways to navigate around
them. Click the cursor anywhere outside a globe, and it rotates it in that direction; to search for a country, use the scrollable menu bar and the globe rotates to the centre of the country you want. Type a na
me in the entry field or click on the surface of the globe and a country is selected, with written information and
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ou access. Drop-down menus allow you to switch between environmental, physical and political globes; and under
other globes
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ntal drifts and others. Phew! Globes can also show cities, ocean depths, mountain ranges and any number of other features, each of which are accompanied by a short narration.
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all about it. Biomes (temperate grassland, savannah, rainforest, etc.) can be flown over, accompanied by narration, then a map shows its global distribution.
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ties around the world. Best, though, is the Russian spy satellite photo of London, where you can practically peek through the bathroom window of Buckingham Palace.
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g from CFC to CO2 emissions. There
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r tutors) this is not for the novice user, nor the faint hearted.
Though comprehensive and sophisticated in content, it is easy to use and simple to understand. Open A.D.A.M. and you are confronted with three w
indows: Primary, Library and Structure List. The Primary Window displays a full view of the human cadaver A.D.A.M. (or E.V.E. if you
ve selected a woman
s body) ready for dissection and exploration. On selectin
g Full Anatomy you can descend through the layers of the body from skin to muscle to bones and internal organs using the Structure List and Depth Bar. Dissection through any structure is done with the Box Cut T
ool or Scalpel Tool (the latter accessed via the sinister sounding Operating Room).
If you decide to study a System Anatomy, the image displays the selected system only and dims the rest of the anatomy. You ca
n explore in this mode by means of Zoom, Identify and Isolate Tools.
Meanwhile, in the Operating Room, you can slice, cauterise, suture and swab to your heart
s content without any risk to the patient.
The Str
ucture List can be sorted alphabetically or by anatomical layers and you can constrain the display to only show the viewable structures in the Primary Window. Locate any structure using the Search List and disp
lay it in the Primary Window, and if you
re not sure of the pronunciation there is audio assistance on hand, albeit in a strong American accent!
Using the Identify Tool you can recognise any anatomical feature
and call up the best view and related items such as Histology or Radiology. To extract or isolate a particular structure (or substructure) you simply click on the Isolate Tool and like an out of body experienc
e the kidneys or hip bones materialise on-screen as if suspended in mid air
spooky.
You can view links to your selected structure such as anatomy related Histologies (slides of cell structure), Radiologies (
X-Rays) and cross sections for even more detailed information. These can also be accessed via the Library as can the Help Book, Projects Book and Self Test Book. Activating the Projects Book allows you to tune
in to Dr Koop (a former US Surgeon General) in conversation.
It is impossible to dissect such a complicated (and pricey) piece of software in one short review and at
1,762.50 anyone interested in buying it is
strongly advised to arrange for a demonstration first. But the thousands of highly detailed and accurate illustrations are truly stunning. This multimedia title is packed with very technical information and gi
ves you the opportunity to step through the complex and numerous layers of the body as if you were really stripping away body tissue and muscle. Years of painstaking research has enabled both scientists and doc
tors to discover how the anatomical functions of the body work together and much of it has been recreated here.
For those with more humble needs such as undergraduates who are intending to study medicine, a cut
-down version, A.D.A.M. Essentials, at a mere
282 might be more appropriate. GCSE students and those with a general interest would be better off with a title like Dorling Kindersley
s The Ultimate Human Body. R
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A Fish Called Wanda
Does someone at Philips have a penchant for romantic comedies produced in 1988? This tale of a jewel heist gone wrong, however, is a whole different kettle of erm
fish to the Eddie Murphy vehicle. Scripted by
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and starring John Cleese, A Fish Called Wanda doesn
t rely on the star to carry the can, but uses him as an anchor for some expert ensemble acting.
Cleese plays a barrister who is called upon to defend a jewel
thief (Kline) and consequently slips into a growing web of betrayal and deceit weaved by the womanly wiles of Wanda (Curtis), the gangster
s floozy.
Steadily, Cleese
s ivory tower is scaled by a selection of w
arped stereotypes: Curtis
raunchy seductress with a passion for de-robing at the slightest mention of the words tagliatelle or carbonara; Kline
s maniacally cruel, Buddhist weapons expert; and Palin
s bumbling
, stuttering, animal-loving dog slayer. Pacy and littered with great gags, A Fish Called Wanda is a true comedy caper in the Ealing tradition.
Sad to say, the sound quality emanating from this disc is also on a
par with the stuff Ealing was putting out in the
mono. However, the film was definitely made in stereo, most likely in Dolby surround sound. Philips is at pains to point out that for all its studious ef
forts in VideoCD production, encoders are at the mercy of the masters they are given to work from. Even if a mono print of this movie does exist, though, it is difficult to see why MGM/UA would supply a mono ma
ster for transfer to a high-quality sound format.
There is always the possibility that the stereo track lost its way somewhere in the encoding process, and Philips is currently investigating possible causes. P
icture quality is also slightly below par, although not in a disastrous way; softening is obvious in parts, and there are some strange lighting changes in certain scenes.
Andy Clerkson
A Fish Called Wanda
uires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC or Mac
Price
17.99
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Director Charles Crichton
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My missus has just had a coil fitted and she
s picking up CB radio operators on the bloody thing. When I left home today I was getting verbal from both ends!
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sorting to the
nature of some stand up comedy.
Adopting the persona of a beered up simpleton, Jethro takes you on a trail of disaster with his mate, the even dafter Denzil Penberthy, or offering opinions
on a range of subjects, from women having an easy life (
Even when they piddle they sit down. They don
t even have to aim!
) to Ronald Reagan (
He was a cowboy for 20 years and never got shot once. They made h
im President and he got shot twice in one week.
As straight footage of the concert the film and sound quality are good, and you can jump straight to your favourite sketch to impress your friends.
Finding them
selves at a spiritualist
s event (instead of a Michael Jackson concert), Jethro is shocked to find Denzil onstage answering the call for anyone who
d shagged a ghost.
, he says,
I thought you said goat!
ou either love it or hate it.
Jerry Ewing
A Portion of Jethro
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact PolyGram 0181 910 5841
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"Sit back and enjoy all the carnage and capers. These drivers are above the law!
No pretence here of any kind of responsible safety message, just 52 minutes of
collisions, skids, wheelies and blowouts
in thi
uncompromising collection of crashes selected from top quality motor sport.
And they
re not kidding, either. Rally cars crash and burst into flames, motorbikes smash across barriers dragging their riders be
hind them, saloon cars career into the watching crowds, motor boats hurtle into the air and land in a pile of disembodied lumps on the water. And that
s just the intro.
Yet, despite the chaos, none of the par
ticipants were seriously hurt,
the commentator soothes us. Depends on what you term
seriously
. But despite yourself, you can
t help but watch another bike crash into a bail and explode. Mad, macho and danger
ous it may be, but it certainly bears out the adage that the only reason most people go to these sports is on the off-chance of seeing a crash.
Luckily he wasn
t too badly hurt this time,
growls the testoster
one-charged commentator as a racing car skids off the road and into some spectators and a rather unlucky cameraman.
The most gruesome crashes are lovingly repeated in slo-mo and the commentator continues to wa
x lyrical about
drivers exercising their right to speed and drive dangerously, and... Above The Law!
It seems almost pedestrian to note that the encoding was pretty good on this bargain-priced VideoCD and it
delivers on its
no padding, no nonsense
promise.
True, but only if you ignore all the padding the drivers are wearing and the general madness which is the basic premise of this disc.
A child screams in horror at a Michael Jackson/Heal the World poster. A good joke, if not a particularly politically correct one. But then The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values, are nothing les
s than full frontal assaults on Middle American values. Indeed they may well have marked the beginning of the end for the Reagan/Bush era! Based on characters created by Charles Addams for his New Yorker magazi
ne cartoons, which were later turned into a TV series, this is the ideal antidote to all the recent Christmas schmaltz.
The arrival of baby Pubert wreaks havoc with the sensitive ids of the elder Addams childre
n, Pugsley and Wednesday. Enter nanny Debbie Jilinsky, (Cusack), full of soothing balm, but is she all she appears to be? Will Fester be her brain-addled sex toy? Do we care? Frankly, not a lot.
The film doesn
t really take off until Pugsley and Wednesday are despatched to summer camp where they are scorned by the other disturbingly Aryan children and forced to watch Disney cartoons. As with its precursor, Addams Fa
mily Values belongs to Anjelica Huston, who as Morticia gets to play the part she was born for, (sorry, Anje, but it
s true!), ably assisted by the late Raul Julia (Gomez), and Christopher Lloyd as lovable Uncl
e Fester.
The encoding quality is clear, if not particularly crisp, and anoraks anonymous will be glad to know that the numerous Dolby Surround effects are recreated accurately.
Despite glimpses of a dark sati
rical edge, Addams Family Values remains a concoction of one liners and special effects cobbled together on the back of a weak plot. Still, it
s tough on family values
and tough on the causes.
Mark Sutton
Addams Family Values
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
19.99
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Director Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Joan Cusack
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A Airplane!
A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy,
says the blurb. Unfortunately, this is one masterpiece whose greatness has been somewhat eroded by time.
While the Airplane! that appeared in 1980 was indeed bright, bree
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zy and refreshingly zany, a much-needed counterblast to all those hackneyed
70s disaster movies (and there are filmic references a-plenty), the double-disc CD-i Airplane! that wings its way into 1995 is a sadl
y faded affair.
One obvious reason for its lacklustre performance is the diminutive role of Leslie Nielsen, whose madcap brilliance is the most abiding legacy of Airplane! and its subsequent spin-offs. While Ju
lie Hagerty
s daffy Elaine makes for good comedy, her co-star Robert Hays (Jeff) fails to achieve take-off (as, presumably, has his career since those movies).
What really hits you watching Airplane! 15 years o
n is just how much it relies on verbal silliness for its comedy. Thus you have the running motif of pass
puns like,
t call me Shirley
or heavy-handed literalism
so when Jeff books a ticket for the
section he
s handed
gasp!
a smoking ticket.
But let
s not be too hard on this Neanderthal japery. Because hidden among this torrent of weary wackiness there lurk a few comic gems. To wit, some well-cr
afted send-ups of pilot-speak, John Travolta Saturday Night Fever routines, the very
70s love affair with black
streetwise
lingo, tupperware parties, automatic pilots and religious cult freaks.
The CD-i inte
rface is the familiar Philips control bar but even though the content is showing its age the encoding is well up to 1995 standards: there are very few mosquitoes or macroblocks, and the colours are bold and bri
ght.
Robert Dwek
Airplane!
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Director Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
StarringJS Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen.
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Aladdin
For Disney queens, who can
t afford the EuroStar to Paris
ve seen the film, read the book, worn out the T-shirt and lost the key-ring. You
ve drunk from the mug, bathed in the bubble bath and scrubbed with
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the soap. What new Aladdin-based adventure could possibly await you? It had to happen; roll up, roll up for Disney
s Aladdin Activity Center.
Faced with the opening screen, introduced by a fair imitation of Ro
bin Williams
genie, you can visit the Sultan
s Palace, the Marketplace, the Cave of Wonders or the Movie Theatre (don
t remember that in the film
The Movie Theatre is, in fact, the best place to be as it ha
s half a dozen key clips from the original film, shown fairly small and scratchily. Given that there
s over 400Mb of unused space on the CD, however, there
s really no reason why much more of the film couldn
have been included; after all, both the movie and the CD are owned by Disney, so there shouldn
t be any copyright problem.
Bored with the movie? Then check out some of the activities tastefully strewn about you
r cushion. You can find your way through a maze, match identical pairs of objects, or find pairs of cards; you can play join the dots, colour in pictures, or test your musical memory by repeating a sequence of
notes; or you can spell out words you hear pronounced.
This is all very well, and the genie does pop up in an entertaining fashion, but 20 minutes in we
re getting a little bored by these puzzles
so let
s lea
ve the film theatre and see what delights the Palace, Marketplace and Cave have to offer. Er
exactly the same ones, as it turns out, only with different backgrounds.
Take away the pop-up genie, the music, the
monkey playing the pots and pans, and the Arabic-style backgrounds, and all you
re left with is a collection of tired games and puzzles repackaged as this year
s merchandise. No new games, no new ideas, no fre
sh thinking whatsoever and over 400Mb of wasted opportunity.
Given the leaps forward that children
s software has made, this is dull stuff indeed. If you really want to cram more Disney down your children
Europress takes a dive down a rabbit hole for an interactive teaparty
Sooner or later someone had to bring out a multimedia version of Lewis Carroll
s surreal children
s classic. Afte
r all, it
s not every day you can program a game where the Queen has a beheading fixation and a turbaned caterpillar smokes a hookah. So Europress Software, recognising the story
s potential, has done just that
, and with Alice
s Adventures launches its new Living Classics series. Interestingly, this CD has been developed using Klick & Play, the company
s consumer multimedia creation tool, which it claims has cut deve
lopment time drastically and enabled the relatively low price.
Alice
s Adventures is based on an abridged version of the story, and the program has been faithfully recreated with the original illustrations of J
ohn Tenniel (though with added colour). The result is that the CD looks just like a Victorian storybook, with pages of text accompanied by colour illustrations. After installing the CD (a simple affair as long
as you have the correct Windows audio drivers), you
re treated to the Map screen from where you can go to key points in the story, play a selection of games or have the story read to you from beginning to end,
as you follow the highlighted words on-screen.
The digitised speech is entertaining enough, each character being graced with an appropriate voice
from the persuasive purring of the Cheshire Cat to the spaced
-out slur of the Caterpillar, all supplied by a cast of Shakespearean actors. Clicking on the small illustrations on the page will prompt a short animation accompanied by speech
but these, although smooth, ar
e fairly basic and ultimately disappointing. Even if you click on an illustration, the picture will perform another basic animation, like Alice falling stiffly through the White Rabbit
s rabbit hole
hardly ja
w-dropping stuff. And it
s here that the program fails to make the grade. If you look at, say, Br
derbund
s Living Books series, which has also been adapted from children
s stories, the pages are a moving, audi
o-visual feast with heaps of interactive illustrations, showing the merits of a multimedia story over an ordinary book. Admittedly, Alice
s Adventures does contain a number of games to add a little variety, but
there are only four in total. These range from the Caterpillar
s Game
a rather dull
Simon Says
-type jaunt
to the not much better smash-
em-up Duchess
game where Alice has to hurl food at the crazed croc
kery. Marginally more entertaining is Alice
s Game
an avoid-
em-up featuring our Al drinking potions and gathering keys. Once again, there could have been more inventiveness when it came to both the games and
the presentation of the story. The illustrations are colourful and pleasant, but they
re overshadowed by the text and just don
t do anything exciting. A couple of short biogs of Carroll and Tenniel have been t
hrown in, but these consist of a page of text with a badly digitised, sepia-toned photograph of each man
destined to send any child straight to snooze city
when a cartoon or puzzle piecing together their liv
es would have been far more innovative. On the plus side, you can listen to the story being read aloud on any audio CD player.
The box text capitalises on Alice
s words at the beginning of the book,
What is th
e use of a book without pictures or conversation?
But then what
s the use of a CD-ROM without interactivity? If it weren
t for the price, I
d say get yourself the pop-up book and audio tape instead.
Amaya Lop
Alice
s Adventures In Wonderland
Special Requirements 386 PC (486 recommended); Windows 3.1; 4Mb RAM (8Mb recommended); 256 colour graphics; Windows-compatible soundcard; can be used on an audio CD player
PSprice
19.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Europress Software
01625 859444
Category
Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
19.99G
Europress Software
01625 859444H
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fliers whether they would rather look at the menu
or the passenger list.
That kind of humour was perhaps the only way people could handle the enormity of what the 19 survivors had done to stay alive for 62 da
ys before help arrived. Cannibalism is one of the last taboos, and would hardly seem an issue for mainstream Hollywood to tackle.
With such scope for sensationalising and trivialising the subject, the makers o
f Alive deserve credit for producing a film that tells the survivors
story with dignity and understanding. Of course, many elements have been Hollywoodised: the accents are more UCLA than Uruguay, a couple of
the survivors must have been a dentist and hair stylist, and the movie
s slogan
They survived the unimaginable by doing the unthinkable
plumbs the marketing depths . But in the end the courage, ingenuity
and raw-edged resilience of the survivors make this an inspiring movie. It doesn
t shrink from showing the actual eating of the corpses, but then it doesn
t linger lasciviously on the act of cannibalism either.
Indeed, the meat becomes a side issue
the real story is the brave quest by a trio of survivors to get help by walking out of the Andes and into Chile.
The widescreen format of VideoCD (the first letterbox r
elease since Ghost) is welcome and the Dolby soundtrack is excellent, but the video encoding is a letdown. There are no artefacts to speak of, but the image is so
edged that at times it seems out of focu
s. Still, it
s never less than watchable and the quality of the movie provides plenty of mental, if not visual, inspiration.
Mat Toor
Alive
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
17.99
ContacJ
t Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Director Frank Marshall
Starring Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton
Platform VideoCD
Encoding Average
17.99
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
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ped by French adventure game supremo Infogrames, the game is loosely based on the chilling books of H.P. Lovecraft. The original PC floppy disk version introduced us to the 3D animated polygons that made up Emi
ly Hartwood and Edward Carnby, the two intrepid investigators of paranormal happenings, who form the game
s central characters.
The 3DO version is a faithful conversion based on the CD-ROM of the PC floppy vers
ion and follows the plot of the original.
Your friend or uncle Jeremy Hartwood, depending upon which character you choose to play, has apparently committed suicide in his creepy old mansion Derceto. Rumours ab
ound of decidedly dodgy and devilish doings at the mansion and you decide to sniff around.
When originally released it was the near definitive action/graphical adventure game of its time. And it still is, altho
ugh there are a few minor niggles with this version.
The one we tested was an NTSC disc and therefore occupied a smaller space on-screen; the PAL version, I am assured, will use the full screen. This version a
lso seemed to run more slowly than the floppy-based title, causing the characters to look like they were running through treacle at times. The final complaint is the fact that using joypads for games like this
is a pain when exact positioning of your character can make the difference between solving a puzzle and having to go back and load your saved game, which can be intensely frustrating.
None of these factors seem
s to affect my enjoyment of the game too much, though, and I still found myself being sucked into its nightmarish atmosphere, despite the fact that I spent days and nights playing the original and knew exactly
what to expect. This is an excellent game on PC or 3DO and if you like puzzle-solving/adventure games, it
s well worth buying.
Duncan Swain
Alone In The Dark
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Teleport yourself into the latest version of a game that promises superb gameplay with even more locations, puzzles, ghosts and ghouls
Many people complained that the first Alone In The Dark game (reviewed for
the 3DO on page 104) was too simple. Infogrames countered this with Alone In The Dark 2. This is a much bigger game with more locations, puzzles, characters, ghouls, zombies and just about everything else that
made Alone 1 such a superb game.
The story is slightly different this time and revolves around the shady netherworld of voodo and reincarnation. It is Christmas Eve,1924 and Carnby gets a call for help from hi
s old buddy Ted Striker. The daughter of a wealthy Californian family, Grace Saunders, has been kidnapped. Striker believes she is being held captive in a creepy old mansion high on the Californian cliffs calle
d, appropriately, Hell
s Kitchen. On arrival, Carnby discovers that Striker is missing
your cue to creep into the crumbling mansion and discover the fates of both Striker and the cutesy Grace.
Alone 2 has sup
erior animation to the first, the most notable improvement being that Carnby now runs like a man instead of a woman sidestepping her petticoat. And the movement of the characters in general is smoother and fast
All the characters are fully animated and calculated in real time 3D. The action is viewed using the same kind of
cameras
as in the original, but now there are more of them.
In Alone 1 you had the choice
of playing two characters. In Alone 2, for the most part, you can only play Carnby. But in a later section you take the part of Grace. This is one of the best parts of the game. Instead of the usual macho mann
er of resorting to fisticuffs or the nearest available shotgun to defeat the resurrected pirates that are after your blood, you have to use a combination of childlike cunning and ice cubes, marmalade and teddy
bears. This may sound silly but it is immensely satisfying to see the supposedly helpless Grace running rings round the murderous cut throats.
The CD-ROM edition includes various enhancements that have been add
ed to the original floppy disk version but don
t really do much more than the original floppy-based Alone2. Digitised speech has been provided as voice overs to the numerous books that you have to read, most of
which are of the
Aaargh, me hearties, there
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s nest
school of acting. For some reason the soundtrack now contains Irish folk songs and is of audio quality played directly off the
Thankfully there is a now a teleport so that you don
t have to complete the difficult and rather tedious maze at the beginning of the game every time, although if you are playing the game for the first tim
e you should get around the maze yourself as it gives you good practice and some handy hints for what to expect later. A new sequence with a couple of fairly easy puzzles involving Grace, a tree and what looks
like a zoot-suited, three-piece jazz band in the grounds of the mansion has also been added.
The CD-ROM version of Alone 2 is well worth a look. It is a worthy and improved sequel to Alone 1 that still manages
to sustain the brooding, dangerous and frightening themes of the original. The gameplay is improved upon purely because of the amount of puzzles, problem-solving and hand to hand combat. The addition of Grace SQ
aunders is the icing on the cake.
Duncan Swain
Alone In The Dark 2
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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In this latest version you are taken to the world of alchemy, Navajo Indian magic and reincarnation in this sinister but outstanding game
Poor Emily Hartwood. Just when she
d put the horrors of Alone In The Da
rk 1 and 2 behind her, things have started to go pear-shaped again. Desperate to get out of the interactive entertainment business and into a normal life, Emily has secured a job with the Hill Century film comp
any. But no sooner has the company set off into the Mojave desert, to shoot a Western in the sinister sounding Slaughter Gulch, than the cast and production staff start to disappear.
A few days later, an exhaus
ted and terrified horse turns up in the desert, with the words
Call Carnby
written on its saddle. This is more than enough information for the discoverer of the horse, a man of infinite resourcefulness who se
lls the horse to a porn director to cover his expenses, and gets word to Edward Carnby
star of AITD and AITD2 and professional Emily Hartwood recoverer
that Emily has once again landed herself in the brown
stuff. Which is where you come in.
Following the Lovecraft-inspired world of AITD, and the voodoo hobbies of the pirates in AITD2, we are now taken to a world of alchemy, Navajo Indian magic and reincarnation.
Controlling Carnby, all you have to do is save Emily, find out what happened to the film crew, recover the cash from the making of the film and hopefully do something about whoever
s responsible. Daunting for
some, but all in a day
s work for the private eye with the knack for the macabre and the walk of a haemorrhoid sufferer wearing fibreglass underpants.
AITD3 is like a blend of the styles of the first two games
. The principal charm of the original AITD was that mixed in with the puzzles was a significant dollop of out-and-out edge-of-the-seat terror; AITD2 kept the puzzle elements, but concentrated more on action. Th
ere was an awful lot of fighting and shooting to be done, but unfortunately the constantly-changing camera angles that typify the series made shooting at people as straightforward as nailing jellyfish to the wa
Aware of these problems, the designers have tried to go back on themselves in this version, restoring the genuinely sinister atmosphere of the original and at the same time reducing the amount of combat ne
cessary to progress. This more balanced approach takes the best elements of both preceding games.
For those of you who really can
t hack the combat elements, either because you have the hand-eye co-ordination
of an England opener or simply prefer puzzles to fighting, help is at hand in the form of three selectable difficulty levels: the easier the level you select, the more damage your blows do to the villains, the
less harm their blows do to you, and the more likely you are to survive long enough to try your hand at the next mind-bending puzzle. You can select the easy level in the happy knowledge that you won
t miss any
scenes from the game, and that the puzzles themselves aren
t affected. You won
t, for example, find annoying little cowboys popping up whispering:
The inflatable cricket bat
s hidden behind the bearded lady
shaving equipment.
Another improvement is in the number of saved game slots: there are four areas to save to, each of which can hold up to six saved games, and you can also have the same number again to any
number of floppy disks.
The graphics are up to the usual standard, with animation that
s been tweaked to the point where some sections in the game have a frame rate of 94 frames per second, a level usually rese
rved for animation classics like Jungle Book, Fantasia and Captain Pugwash. Although the sound is only SoundBlaster quality, the SFX are atmospheric and work well.
Where the first two games involved getting out
of and into big old buildings, this one uses a Wild West ghost town, so there are ramshackle buildings all over the place with treacherous floors, knackered stairways and scary passages; but there
s the added
dimension that it
s also been used as a film set, so there are facades on some of the buildings, some visual trickery and a fair few props to utilise. And, of course, there are the villains
gun-toting ghost c
owboys, whose pleasure involves hanging about in side streets shooting at passers-by. Their presence means that to explore the town, you
ll have to be inventive. There
s none of this swaggering down Main Street
for you.
As you play your way through the game, the plot is revealed in a series of film clips, flashbacks, and the usual mountain of reading material (read aloud for you by graduates of the Lee van Cleef Scho
ol of Cowboy Acting). This includes reincarnation, big cats, deadly green slime, Indian magic and what appear at first to be
70s-style disco medallions, but later turn out to be even more ominous.
Selectable d
ifficulty levels mean that it
s more accessible than the first two games. In terms of size, the game
s bigger than either of its predecessors, and will give the average puzzler more than their money
s worth in
game-playing time. What other game allows you to die and be reincarnated as a cougar and your evil twin, perform a pole vault across a bottomless pit, and wander around with a Gatling gun tucked under your arm?
s packed with shovel-loads of ingenuity and you don
t have to be a professional marksman to succeed.
Patrick McCarthy
Alone In The Dark 3
Price
49.99 (inc VAT)
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Americans in Space is what it says, and that
s what you get: the Soviets barely warrant a mention in the Apollo-Soyuz mission, although the V2 does get a bit of a look in.
The program opens with a display of a
hall, from where you choose Pilot
s Manual a help file), Express Tours, which covers the Race to the Moon, and Mission Control.
Express Tours also contains a detailed section called Turning Points (the X15, ea
rly shuttles), Disasters (Apollo 1 & 13, Challenger), Living in Space and Cruising the Planet. All the subjects are supported with text, stills and video.
Mission Control covers American exploration from the ea
rly days through Mercury, Gemini and Apollo to Sky Lab, the Shuttle and beyond. Each is supported by photographs of the crew and craft together with video footage, if there is any.
The program contains some stu
nning photographs and film from the early days, and it would be difficult to find a better collection. The American bias is sometimes intrusive, but this is a thorough, if sanitised, account of one of the pione
ering endeavours of the twentieth century.
Americans In Space
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Microsoft, famous for its own empire-building, takes time off to see what happened to others
efforts
Hell hath no fury like a wannabe Pharoah. Poor old Thutmose, kept off the Eygptian throne for 20 years by H
atshepsut, he ordered her image chiselled off every statue in the land when he finally made it. Clearly a man with a castration complex, he later became one of the most aggressive rulers of the era, despite the
fact that he was rather short.
Thutmose is one of the heroes of Ancient Lands, a ziggurat of a CD-ROM from Microsoft examining the ancient civilisations of Greece, Eypgt and Rome. Our guides, if we choose to
employ them, include Roman slaves, Greek poets, Corpulus, Nero
s right hand man, and, somewhat surprisingly,
Melvin, world travelling accountant
, who does an Eygptian tour of which Thomas Cook himself would b
e proud.
Guides provide overviews of different aspects of life or culture. Other routes into the contents of this CD are via specific entry headings
Monuments and Mysteries, People and Politics, and Work and
Play. Navigating is very simple: choose a culture, pick a subject area, and you
ll arrive at a series of illustrated entries; how the Roman baths worked, what Caligula thought of the notorious poisoner Livia (
Ulysseus in a dress
), what contemporary historians think (she was much maligned); and the fact that upper-class Romans looked down on dancing
to the extent that the phrase
dancing in a toga
was a term of a
buse.
The information is wide-ranging, covering a huge range of subjects, with wonderful details dropped in; there
s an entry, for example, explaining that cuniform, the first writing, was developed by tax ins
pectors, and that the scarab beetle was sacred because it was believed to push the sun across the sky.
The text is clear, with highlighted terms explained, the illustrations are well chosen, and the video is
as good as could be expected given the limitations of the medium. Beneath a general heading
say, Troy
other entries are grouped as clickable icons. There
s information on Helen, the wooden horse, and on the
German explorer who found the nine cities of Troy. A useful chronology for the relevant civilisation, and a regional map, can be accessed from two icons at the top of each entry. Every so often you stumble acr
oss a puzzle or game
fit the Greek personality to his invention, for instance, or decide who looks more dead, Rameses III, or Boris Karloff playing a mummy.
In many entries, icons suggest related areas worth
exploring from other cultures or other areas, so the Hanging Gardens of Babylon points to an entry on the Lighthouse at Alexandria, another of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Apart from the three major
cultures, there
s a fourth category for civilisations that got away. To be found here are China, actually the oldest continuous civilisation in the world, and the Sumerians. A series of themes run through all
the entries, so it
s possible to compare, for instance, the life of women, soldiers or children across the different cultures.
The pictoral index is adequate for specific entries, but there should be a full tex
t search because while it
s simple to locate a subject category
for instance, cooking in Rome, or Spartan battle dress
s not so simple to find a single city, say Epheseus, or a more obscure artefact, or
even to be sure whether it
s there or not. This is a shame because there
s a great deal packed on to this disc from impeccable sources including the BBC, National Geographic and Dorling Kindersley.
In all, an a
bsorbing general introduction to ancient cultures with a huge bearing on our own.
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Do they exist? Can they heal? Do they really need wings? And why do they all seem to shop at Laura Ashley?
Complain about evil spirits in Papua New Guinea and you will probably receive a sympathetic nod and th
e address of the local witch finder
Do the same in Hemel Hempstead and you
re an immediate candidate for care in the community.
As this CD-ROM makes abundantly clear, the perception of madness, and a whole lot
of other unexplained phenomena, is cultural. Here, when people retell their experiences of meeting angels, being healed by them or being taken to meet God (it
s a he, by the way, with a beard and gown), you can
not help noticing how normal they appear.
Unlike UFO abductees, the many subjects of this discs are neither spooky, spooked nor mad.
Of course, the USA (where this CD-ROM comes from) is a vehemently Christian s
ociety. And if you believe, as most Americans do, that angels are real, have bodies and can be called down from heaven to help us, then it is only natural that people are going to meet them.
There has been a h
uge resurgence of interest in the subject of angels in the US in recent years, and to a lesser extent here. Somewhat disturbingly it seems to be caused by seepage from the Last Days mentality of fundamentalist
Christians: that Doomsday is immminent and that we will see the Book of Revelations come horrifyingly true.
Although most of this disc is devoted to the good side of angels, the portion that is devoted to dark
angels
or devils
contains testimony from a New York priest who says he is seeing an exponential growth in the number of possessions and exorcisms in his city. Thirty years ago there were none, now there are
more than 200 a year.
If the Rapture is coming, then it is not surprising that we should see an upsurge in the divine as well as the evil: hence the rise in the number of angels, and, bizarrely, angel shops. T
his disc is a complete resource to angeldom. There are histories of angels, angels in art (quite a lot of kitsch Victorian dead children here), angels in films, angels in songs and a complete listing of angel g
ift shops in the USA, Mexico and Canada. I scrolled through this section to see how long it was. Awesomely so, was the answer. And if you
re too lazy to drive to your nearest angel emporium, there is an interac
tive mail-order catalogue for you to peruse.
This is one of the most interesting, well made, imaginative CD-ROMs I have yet come across. The research is impeccable. Every topic is linked to others by marvellous
ly designed (if slightly camp) icons, and most topics contain a round table discussion between angel experts. Click on one of the experts (ranging from bishops and priests to New Age seers
although no Satanis
ts to balance the debate) and they explain such vital questions as
Do angels have wings?
Why do they always play musical instruments?
or, more substantially,
Do they have the power to heal?
Of course,
s all hogwash. At least that
s this agnostic
s view. And I suspect even a true believer might find this disc
s angel propaganda a little too much to swallow. Nevertheless, other CD-ROM developers could do wi
th getting hold of this, just to see how well this type of thing can be done. Stop sniggering at the back.
Take a fantastic voyage around the human body sidestepping American humour along the way
The premise of AnnaTommy
An Adventure Into The Human Body
is that Anna and Tommy (two odious American children) have
demonstrated a prodigious interest in anatomy for which they get
rewarded
, by being miniaturised into a little ship and
la Fantastic Voyage packed off for a good nose about in someone else
s insides.
heir journey, they are accompanied by a self-proclaimed zany computer, and all three take every opportunity to indulge themselves in humorous asides. As you can probably gather from the finely-honed wordplay in
the title, it
s belly laughs all the way.
Unwelcome though many of these jokes are, they are nowhere near as unsettling as the PA-style announcements that accompany our heroes
approach to a new area of the b
ody:
Attention
approaching testes
booms the computer. I suppose it
s nice to be warned.
While bobbing about, the kids are either quizzed on the purpose of their current location, or have to perform certain
tasks that help the body to function effectively.
These tasks take the form of bizarrely-adapted computer games from the early
80s. In the kidneys, in a weird version of Breakout, they have to use their ship t
o bounce pill-shaped nutrients back into the body while allowing the nasty brown waste products to leave. If you think that
s mind-bending, wait for the testes, where our heroes are called upon to play a game o
f Asteroids inside a gigantic testicle, in order to decoagulate a lumpy sperm. These tasks and quizzes can either be selected by navigating around the body internally, or by clicking on them from a diagram of t
he body and selecting the various systems
skeletal, circulatory, lymphatic, or whatever; a completed section prompts irritating hand slapping and cries of
Good jaahhb
. And that
s about it.
You might be forg
iven for thinking I think this product is entirely useless, but that
s not quite true. This disc at least attempts to be entertaining about a subject that might otherwise have come across as dry as a bone. The
idea of bolting on games and
jokes
to educational content is a good one. And there is a good deal of solid educational content here. There is also a high degree of enthusiasm. Everyone involved certainly seem
s very enthusiastic about internal tubing.
The reproductive system is a pretty intense place!
, for example. The trouble is, you don
t get the feeling that their enthusiasm will translate to the kids. Perhaps
this is because the games are not very good, and not particularly well linked to the content; the kidney blasting game, for example, teaches you nothing about the way kidneys work, which is a real wasted opport
unity. Meanwhile, the jokes are lame and very American.
Unlike most so-called
edutainment
products, this one has a fair amount of
. Unfortunately, there
s not much in the way of compelling
tainment
go with it.
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With the 3DO version, the game-mechanics remain identical. Under your control, Lester performs the usual platform-hero
s repertoire of running, shooting, sw
imming and jumping across a hazardous terrain infested with bad-guys, solving puzzles and struggling towards the next cunningly placed password stage. The screen-update is razor-sharp and Interplay have made ge
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s palette to provide some spectacular backdrops. Every screen has been hand-painted before being digitised, giving the landscape a rich textural look.
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racters look decidedly nondescript. It
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s power, nevertheless it is by far the best version yet.
Created by self-styled video-punk producers Hex, this CD-i is certainly a change from the run-of-the-mill CD-i programs (chiefly digitised films, rock videos and dreadful edutainment programs)
but not necessa
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that would have been far more useful.
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morale raising
show of Playboy bunnies degenerate into a
drink, drug and hormone-induced riot of horny soldiers.
Apocalypse Now brims over with fine cinematic metaphors for the madness of a war where all the manpower and high-tech weaponry that money could buy were
defeated by the resourcefulness of an enemy determined to win. One Gulf War later, we appear to have rediscovered our faith in bloodless, mechanised, Nintendo-style war
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hattering experience, and without doubt the best VideoCD released so far. Buy it.
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Apocalypse Now
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Philips 0171 9J~11 3000
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they will do. So it is with Orpheo
s Curse. Two children, Terri and Alex, set off to explore a creepy old vaudeville theatre opposite their grandfather
s house. The theatre was built by The Great Orpheo many ye
ars ago after his great success as a magician. However, one night, during his world renowned teleportation trick, he teleported his assistant
his daughter, Elizabeth
into limbo, never to be seen again. Orph
eo went mad, never performed again and the theatre closed. It is rumoured, though, that midnight performances still take place at the theatre after all these years. So what do you do? Avoid the place like the p
lague? Or see if you can get into the theatre and scare yourself to death? Foregone conclusion, really.
This is only the second title (after Director
s Lab) that Nickelodeon (the international cable and satelli
te children
s TV channel) has released. It
s based on its Are You Afraid of the Dark? TV programme and is the product of Nickelodeon
s philosophy of producing television you can do.
The intention of the disc i
s that you tell your own ghost story by choosing what to do in the theatre. Once you
ve got into the theatre and have had the willies scared out of you by your first meeting with a ghost, the story stops and yo
u, as the user, are introduced to the Midnight Club
a group of all-American kids sitting around a campfire who tell each other ghostly tales. To join the club you have to tell them a spooky story, so you
re or
dered to go back to the theatre and direct Terri and Alex through a story made up of your decisions.
If you do happen to suffer a grisly demise at the hands of Orpheo, for whatever reason, the cheery members o
f the Midnight Club will give you some advice so you can do better next time, and then give you the choice of quitting or going back to some point in the game.
After the initial meeting with Orpheo, when he tel
eports you (as the girl, Terri) to somewhere within the building, he leaves you to snoop round his theatre pretty much as you want. You can click around rooms and corridors in much the same way as in Myst, but
Orpheo
s Curse also contains a series of photographs of a real vaudeville theatre in Chicago in addition to the rendered images. This means that the pictures of the stage are given an added sense of realism. S
omeone has even gone to the trouble of photographing the entire boiler and machine room for you to click around for no apparent reason.
Your hand icon changes to an eye when you move the mouse over things you
can interact with, although the icon and the type of action you can perform are not always consistent. The clickable hotspots can also be very odd shapes and you can sometimes end up clicking on the wrong thing
, or on the same thing twice because the hotspot is so big.
There is an awful lot to explore here and you do get the feeling of creeping round a disused theatre. Having said that, the scene changes that result
from your clicks can often be so great that you
re left not knowing which way you
ve ended up facing.
The game is structured so that if you collect a set of objects, deliver them to the right place, and rescu
e your sibling along the way, you can get out of the theatre before Orpheo
s midnight performance (where he plans to teleport you into limbo) and get home
which is where you should have been in the first plac
The game suffers from the same problems as all adventure games in that if you get stuck it gets boring, and if you find out that you need something that you know is on the other side of the theatre, you
got a lot of clicking to do to get it and get back.
Interspersed through the adventure, and triggered as a result of your choices, are short narrative segments, each of which consist of a voiceover and a serie
s of still pictures. Occasionally, clicking on something in the theatre will reveal an animation rather than a slide show or a voiceover, but these are very jumpy and few and far between. The whole thing looks
as if it
s been put together by people who have never heard of QuickTime or Video for Windows.
Once you get to a bit of narrative it is added to your list and you can play them all,
like a VCR
, by clicking o
n an icon brought up at the top of the screen. Other icons let you go back to the Midnight Club campfire to replay your last bit of advice, keep tabs on the items you
ve picked up and exit from the game.
The di
sc contains pictures and digitised film of real actors from the Are You Afraid of the Dark? television series and Nickelodeon claims to have spent a lot of time on the costumes and the make-up for the monsters
you encounter. If a lot of time and money has been spent, it doesn
t show; the costumes are nothing special and the monsters look like they
re wearing the kind of rubber masks you find in a joke shop. Maybe, ho
wever, that
s the point. For a generation brought up on Freddie Kruger and late nights playing Doom, this is not going to scare anyone witless, but a welcome bit of pace is injected into the gameplay when you s
tart getting chased by a mummy and have to click madly at the mouse to get away.
Overall, there has obviously been a lot of time spent of the visual feel of the game but there is a huge gulf between the beautif
ul 3D-rendered lobby of the theatre and the monsters who look like they were filmed in someone
s garage. The game comes across as a fairly simple, though extensive, puzzle-solving adventure.
There
s a lot of fu
n to be had here and it will keep the eights and above involved for a long time and it
s the kind of thing you need to go back to several times to complete (there is a save function) which is no bad thing. It
a worthwhile game despite some problems, and promises a lot for the future from Nickelodeon.
Conor McNicholas
Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
The Tale of Orpheo
s Curse
Price
49.99 (inc. VAT)
Contact CIC 0181^: 563 4013
Category
Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
49.99G
CIC Interactive
0181 563 4013H
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The first thing you notice about Armored Fist is how similar it is to Comanche: Maximum Overkill, a playable combat helicopter sim released by Novalogic
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a year ago. This used the company
s Voxel Space technique, used to create detailed landscapes, and it worked well.
Armored Fist, a tank combat game, uses the same technology, although the game has a few extra
trimmings such as billowing smoke, a night vision mode and a built-in mission construction set which enables you to create your own battle scenarios. There are eight pre-defined campaigns to wade through and fo
ur different types of tank to control (two American, two Russian). You can opt to play the game as an armchair general from the Command and Control Vehicle or get right in among the action and control a tank yo
urself.
It plays well and there
s always plenty going on in every mission, be it a FIBUA in Bosnia or a hoohah in Cyprus. The interface is intuitive, animation and sound are generally first class (the radio ban
ter is a nice touch) and the Voxel Space Landscape Generator brings the whole thing to life, as do the animations that crop up when you
ve completed a mission or been hit.
The only real niggle is that the graph
ics look blocky when you use the external view or are close to other tanks. A two-player link-up option would have been nice, too. In all, it
s very well done. Armored Fist is immensely playable even if it isn
t totally original. It
s Comanche with knobs on, only on the ground.
Jeremy Wells
Armored Fist
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact US Gold 0121 625 3388
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Atari Pack For Windows
Retro games are certainly in vogue now, but is dredging up 15 ancient Atari VCS 2600 titles taking things just a bit too far? Archaeologists we
re not.
When Activision announced that it was going to publish a
CD of its top VCS 2600 titles for Windows at the CES in January, much of the
interactive entertainment
industry paid an inordinate amount of attention. This was mainly because there was no other decent produc
t on show, but partly because it
s the largest collection of retro games to be published commercially.
I will admit to approaching the product with a certain amount of trepidation. I
d played many of the origin
als in their intended manner
sitting on the floor of my parents
front room playing the things with those excellent Atari joysticks and my nose inches away from the TV. OK, I
ll admit that retro is certainly
at the moment, but surely playing the thing in Windows and with a keyboard is going to remove some, if not all, of the enjoyment? All of the games here had their day more than ten years ago and, to be tru
thful, that
s where many of them should have stayed.
If you
ve only recently discovered what a computer game is, this product is going to mean absolutely nothing. It may have 15 games on it, but unless you
layed them before it just isn
t worth looking at. If, however, you fall into the category of people who remember the original and either haven
t got their VCS anymore or can
t be bothered to dig it out of the l
oft, you
ll find a certain degree of enjoyment from sifting through it.
The contents of the disc covers a number of years when Activision was in what many consider its heyday. Kaboom!, Pitfall!, River Raid, Box
ing, Chopper Command, Cosmic Commuter, Crackpots, Fishing Derby, Freeway, Frostbite, Grand Prix, HERO, SeaQuest, Sky Jinks and Spider Fighter make up the full collection, and between them they
re probably respo
nsible for generating entire genres of video games.
Cosmic Commuter and Chopper Command are some of the first horizontally scrolling shoot-
em-ups I remember seeing. The two classics HERO and Pitfall! are proba
bly some of the earliest platform games ever dreamt up (and, believe me, you may have fond memories of them, but they
re completely bloody boring compared to anything released since), and River Raid and Sky Jin
ks were almost certainly pioneers in the vertically scrolling shoot-
em-up market. Spider Fighter was, er,
not very good
no, oops sorry, a sort of Phoenix type thing, except not as good, and both Frostbite
and Freeway are a bit Frogger-y.
What does that leave? Oh yes, Kaboom! and Crackpots which are very similar games involving things dropping from the top of the screen to the bottom. The former involves catching
bombs from a frantic looking
criminal type
resplendent in stripy jersey and silly mask, whilst the latter has you throwing plant pots at spiders which are crawling up the screen. That just leaves Boxing whic
h is a top-down beat-
em-up (ish), Grand Prix which hails from the days when racing games were horizontally scrolling affairs and you just had to move up and down, and Fishing Derby which defies description
s a fishing game for chrissakes!
The fact that the graphics and sound are utterly, utterly
not very good
is beside the point really. No, my main point is that people will only buy this for nostalgic reasons
and to be honest, a penny short of twenty-five quid is a bit much for something that potentially is only going to entertain you for a very short while. It
s brilliant for digging out and showing your old mat
es and doing the
Wow! Do you remember this one?
conversation. But, as I discovered, this also soon deteriorates.
Me:
Remember when we used to play HERO round at your place and your mum used to harp on abo
ut doing homework and stuff?
Pal:
Yeah
it was brilliant, wasn
t it?
Me:
Well, I
ve got it for the PC now
an exact copy.
The game is then loaded from Windows
no flashy music, no fanfares. It is, i
n fact, exactly as we remember.
Pal:
Wow! What a classic.
Five minutes of gameplay ensues.
Pal:
Er, John.
Me:
s crap, isn
t it?
Pal:
What the hell were we on when we
were kids?
tried it with a few people, all of whom remember the originals, and the reaction was the same. If you do want to dredge up your video games playing past this is probably the best nostalgia kick you
re going to
get since Microsoft Arcade came out, but it serves a different purpose to that of a
At best it
s something you have on your hard drive (despite being on CD it only takes up 6Mb of disk space
and you d
t need the disc once you
ve installed) and play every now and then to alleviate the boredom.
Part of me feels an obligation to give it a good mark because of the pedigree
but, nah, it
s a bit boring.
hn Davidson
Atari Pack For Windows
Special Requirements: 33MHz 486
Price
24.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Activision 0181 742 9400
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Aviation Adventure
Strap on your goggles for an aviation disc that
s earned its wings
This is a vast CD-ROM. It contains three aviation games, four reference areas, a movie theatre, a paper plane manual and a boundless sense ofB
fun.
Put like that it seems like a recipe for an awful mess but, in fact, the whole thing hangs together well, despite the noticeable differences between each section.
The four reference areas are a case in po
dogs
bottoms?
Patrick McCarthy
P.A.W.S.
Price
29.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Astrion 0181 202 0011
Category
Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
Maxis
39.99
Contact Natural Wonder 01923 858043
Category
Entertainment/Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
MPChould love this disc - it
s fun, imaginative, well presented and entertaining, too. The animation is excellent and even if your child doesn
t like writing they will still love putting the pictures together. M
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MediaVision
001 415 770 8600H
MPC is probably a good idea to use the program with some parental guidance initially, to help draw out these opportunities as, left alone, the child would probably concentrate on the hI
ot spots, become a highly skilled Gopher catcher, and ignore the educational aspect of the program. Wouldn
t we all.
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Forever Growing Garden
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Wiggins In Storyland
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int. The first is The Reference Library
a hypertext encyclopaedia of aviation where you navigate through hundreds of articles by clicking on icons, pictures and hot words. The second is The Aviation Museum, aD
Doom-style virtual reality museum where you can wander around under the control of the mouse, inspecting the exhibits. Some are pictures and some are rendered animated sequences that look very slick. The third
, The Aviation Lab, is a collection of aeroplanes that you can examine in detail and even take their outer skin off to inspect their innards. The fourth, The Aircraft Encyclopaedia, is a simple database of aeroF
planes.
All these are very different approaches to the same problem
making a database of aeroplane facts interesting. Despite the fact that they have obviously been sourced from different developers, none rea
lly overlaps the others and you are left with an agreeable sense of getting more than one perspective on an interesting subject.
The downside to this is that there is no cross-referencing between the separate rH
eference areas. Neither is there any
command in any of the programs which limits the amount of reference work for which the disc can be used.
The three games on the disc are the Macintosh classic Glider
(brought to Windows for the first time), F4U Secret Sortie (a World War Two flight simulator) and a trivia quiz. I say Glider is a Mac classic advisedly. It is, in fact, a fairly dull puzzle game, but it is stiJ
ll one of the better games for the decidedly non-gaming Mac platform. F4U Secret Sortie is an ancient-looking EGA game that runs from DOS, although Aviation Adventure can launch it from the main interface by qu
itting from Windows.
The trivia quiz is a simple point-and-click multiple choice after which is too easy to be challenging.
The other parts of the CD-ROM are a paper plane manual and a movie theatre. The theatrL
e contains a number of too-short video clips, most of which have had new soundtracks put to them by Aviation Adventure
s designers. The results are somewhat unsubtle and cartoony, but quite funny. There
s also
some distressing footage of a mocked up airliner crash that I wouldn
t advise watching before going on holiday.
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in the audience and they will talk to you, tell you a joke or just laugh. Likewise click on any dummy button on the mock-up database control panels and you will be rewarded with a sound effect such as radio st
atic.
There is lots to do here, lots to see and lots to play. This reminds me of the multimedia equivalent of an Eagle annual, providing good quality edutainment for the younger teenager and upwards.
Jim SmitP
Aviation Adventure
Special requirements 486 25SX, 8MB hard drive space, 4MB RAM
Price
29.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Random House 0171 973 9000
Category
Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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There are 50 million golfers, 80,000 professional golf tutors, 12,000 books on playing golf and 400 instructional videos. Mind you, these frightening statistics come courtesy of Leslie Nielsen, the silver-haire
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d master of deadpan slapstick (Airplane!, Naked Gun, Red Rock commercials), so of course they could be complete rubbish. And unfortunately, so is this title, but there
s clearly money in them there golfing hill
What other explanation could there be for the dismal run of comedian hosted cash-ins? We
ve already had to suffer Tom O
Connor
s wacky golf
CD-ROM and surely it
s only a matter of time before the late Pete
r Cook
s funny golf video makes it onto the silver disc.
Nielsen attempts to explain the theory of bad golf to a vile pink-shirted nerd called
Billy
(imagine Michael J. Fox crossed with John Denver) and resc
ue a leaden pastiche of the rapid fire humour of the amusing Naked Gun series.
Despite the odd pithy gag (
I drank a hearty breakfast, made passionate love and walked a mile in another man
s shoes to warm up f
or this game
) this is poor stuff. Example: Billy needs an iron (some kind of golf club) and he
s handed an electric iron. Nurse, pass the stitches. Not.
Even if you like wacky golf videos, this is measly fare
lasting a paltry 30 minutes. The encoding is not particularly good either with smeared, garish colours and impaired resolution
possibly becasue the title was mastered onto NTSC video.
Overall this is only ju
st better than the Tom O
Connor title, but as Mr Nielsen puts it
the reason this game
s called golf is because all the other four letter words have been taken.
You said it.
Paul Nesbitt
Bad Golf Made Easier
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact PolyGram 0181 910 5841
Director Rick Friedberg
Starring Leslie Nielsen, Archie Hahn, Robert Donner
Platform VideoCD
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Barron
s Book Notes
Take a book, reduce it to the sum of its parts
plot, motive, characters
and what do you end up with? Crib notes
Book Notes are tools for the very lazy, and for those who find themselves in desperate straitesperate strait
s the night before exams. At this point fabulously informative statements like:
George Orwell was a quiet decent Englishman who passionately hated two things: inequality and political lying,
become straws to
be thankfully clutched at. And there are many such nuggets in Barron
s collection of Book Notes.
There are 68 authors, and 101
complete, unabridged
literary guides in this CD-ROM collection. Writers range fro
m Edward Albee (Who
s Afraid of Virginia Woolf) to John Milton (Paradise Lost). It
s a decent selection, weighted towards older English and more modern American literature
including Faulkner, Vonnegut, Tennes
see Williams, and Miller.
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s also a sprinkling of classical texts
Plato
s Republic, The Prince and a few other non English speaking authors
including Dante, Voltaire and Hesse.
Each guide includes a b
iography of the author, plot summary, chapter by chapter breakdown, and major and minor character summary. There
s a potted history of the issues raised by the work, a discussion of how it fits into the author
s canon, and a brief consideration of its literary merits, or cultural significance. Each entry is coded so it can be reached faster although scrolling through individual entries is simpler.
Barron
s is factual
ly reliable, although alarmingly definite on motives
as indicated by our Orwell example. Searching by word is fast and easy within each entry, and although the screens are prettified DOS with that subtle ASCI
I text look
they are readable.
Accessing guides and the information within the screens is easy enough, but not particularly intuitive even in Windows. This product can, by the way, also be run under DOS.
he home screen provides two basic selection options
title or author. Choosing a single work, an author
s writings, or a group of related articles is a matter of click selecting. You can then run through the c
hosen articles either manually or via a useful Autoscroll feature.
The result of searching tends to be a welter of windows cluttering up the screen
nothing is closed unless you tell it to be. Close Window is
therefore a useful command.
Selection can be honed via a word tool which includes standard search functions
you can run words together or include wildcards. It is thus possible to discover
hopefully in ti
that Ishmael, of The Bible fame, was also the character in Moby Dick.
Searching can be set to run across selected works or across the entire product and it has to be said, it
s fast. Type in sheep and gun
s and wham! you
re straight into a discussion of Animal Farm. Try Love and Technology and you can choose notes on Brave New World, The Prince, The Hobbit and All The King
s Men.
In all, this is a reasonably c
ompetent tool, even though the CD-ROM version doesn
t really do a great deal more than the tree-based editions.
But to really exploit the possibilities of the medium, surely the texts themselves should also ha
ve been included. That way when you
d found your references to love and technology in the notes, and read up what it all means, you could look up specific instances in the works themselves, and end up with winn
ing cross-referenced quotes, or even, perish the thought, a better understanding of the work in question. Incidentally, the illustrations are terrible.
Caroline Bassett
Barron
s Book Notes
Price $49.95 (inc RkVAT)
Contact The World Library
001 714 756 9500
Category
Reference/Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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stone-age characters, loosely based on rock stars and the like, driving high-powered sidecar combinations. Naturally enough.
There are six couples to choose from, each with varying ratings for acceleration, to
p speed, durability of bike and physical toughness, and all punningly-named to such a desperately tenuous extent that you feel sorry for whoever had to come up with them.
Like Mario Kart, there
s an admirable
element of slapstick violence, except there are no pick-ups lying around the track with which to shoot people. You have to resort to hitting opponents over the head with guitars, baguettes, or whatever it is yo
ur passenger happens to be carrying. Unfortunately, you can only hit to your right, which limits the fun somewhat. By about 50 percent, actually.
There are eight courses to race around. They
re short and simple
and four levels of difficulty give an element of longevity. Two player games can be played over a network. When playing in split screen the players have to choose any two controllers
keyboard, mouse or joyst
ick. There
s no facility for two joysticks, or even for two keyboard users, which is odd.
From various reports I
d heard, this was supposed to be pretty awful, but it
s really not that bad. There are some nice
details in the animation, it
s fast, and the in-game music
s passable. It
s only intended as a bit of lightweight fun, and that
s all it is. If it were
20 cheaper it might have been worth a punt.
Patrick McCIbarthy
BC Racers
Price
34.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Core Design 01332 297797
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Da Da Da Dum! The deaf guy with a great ear for music gets the interactive multimedia treatment
Stealing a march on Microsoft
s multimedia exploration of Beethoven
s Ninth Symphony, Software Toolworks has deci
ded to tackle the Fifth in a much more multimedia fashion
and almost pulls it off.
To begin with, you can take for granted the quality of music. This CD-ROM can be played on an audio CD player, and the recor
ding, by the Edlinger/Zagreb Philharmonic, compares favourably with my Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic audio CD. You can also assume that any classical music CD-ROM worth its salt is going to include a detailed
critical dissection of the piece and a biography of the composer
s life and times. It
s what you get on top of these basics that distinguishes a winner from an also-ran.
With Beethoven
s Fifth, Software Toolwo
rks is clearly aiming for the
I recognise that tune and want to know more
market, where listening to the music and learning a little about it take precedence over the minutiae of the reference portion of the
disc. Presumably for this reason, the interface is extremely friendly, attractive and intuitive, with good use of colour and graphics.
You can see at a glance the structure of the symphony, play each section in
dividually, with accompanying text boxes explaining what is going on. You can also consult the score as you go along to see how the piece looks to a musician
although this area is annoyingly placed in the cen
tre of the text and can
t be moved or re-sized.
The symphony as performance is right at the top of the agenda. There is a huge section devoted to explaining how the symphony orchestra works. You can explore the
various sections, finding out about the instruments, their sounds and ranges, and then run a mini movie showing the instrument being played. At this stage in multimedia
s development, the quality of on-screen
video still leaves a lot to be desired. The actors look like they are talking out of synch, or have no top lip; and when it comes to
physical
musical instruments, such as the cello for example, much of the bo
w work is lost. But the idea is a brilliant one, and when the technology finally matches up to the concept, I will happily trade in all my audio CDs.
s hard to say why Benny & Joon, the 1993 oddball romantic comedy, has been released on VideoCD. Okay it has a good cast (Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson and Aidan Quinn ) plus a quirky sensibility that co
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s a film that few people have heard of and even fewer have liked.
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epp on a train reading a Buster Keaton biography, looking moody and cool, with an unfeasibly upbeat Proclaimers song bursting off the CD in majestic digital audio. Things go downhill from there, though. Depp pl
ays Sam, a talented eccentric who falls for Joon, a mentally disturbed (in the nicest possible Hollywood fashion) young woman who lives with and depends on her brother Benny. Benny is a tough but tender car mec
hanic who loves his sister so much that he can
t get out and have a proper relationship with the winsome waitress Ruthie.
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Whoah there!
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is ways and gets together with Sam to rescue Joon from the madhouse.
Before you can say
corny Hollywood denouement
Sam and Ruthie are back together while Benny and June live happily ever consummating their ne
w found domestic bliss by toasting bread with an electric iron.
On the encoding front, though, this is a corker. The picture quality is splendid: bright colours, natural flesh tones, and virtually no artefacts.
The sound quality is tub-thumpingly good, especially if you
re a Proclaimers fan. The interface is the standard Philips 3.1 but graced with a lovely menu screen. Great presentation, shame about the content.
Mat Toor
Benny & Joon
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i/MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Philips Media
0171 911 3000
Director Jeremiah S. Chechnik
Starring Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart MK:asterson, Aidan Quinn
Platform Video CD
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17.99
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
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u. Because of this, says this CD-ROM, spoken Japanese is not that hard to learn. Don
t you believe it: the pronunciation might be quite simple for English speakers, but understanding spoken Japanese is a differ
ent proposition, and as for trying to understand written Japanese, forget it.
To be fair, this disc doesn
t pretend to teach you Japanese overnight, but instead aims to arm you with enough basic Japanese to ge
t by on a business trip. The whole thing is done in a cartoon schoolroom run by Sensei, a colourful tutor and guide who takes you through tutorials on basic expressions, arrival in Japan, booking and managing a
hotel room, using the telephone, eating out, travelling around, shopping, and entertainment and leisure.
You learn how to say sword (katana) and bear (kuma), which may be useful round the negotiating table in
Tokyo, but in the interactive dialogue sessions
meeting a Japanese woman outside a lift, for instance
it won
t be easy to get a sword or bear into the conversation and a few more words like ruko*ru (alcoho
l) would have been useful.
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Avoid wearing t
ight clothing as you will be sitting down a lot
is one invaluable travel tip.
Whether you will get anything from this is up to you. Sensei admits that there
s nothing to worry about when you arrive in Japan be
cause the airport signs are in English, and many people speak English. Okay, so it
s polite to have a smattering of conversational Japanese, but most Japanese business people will understand good English better
than bad Japanese.
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Berlitz For Business: Japanese
Price
99.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Sierra 01734 303322
Category
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Berlitz Think and Talk: French
Based on the Berlitz method of language instruction used in publications and schools all over the world, the Think and Talk CD-ROM series teaches by imitation rather than translation. The idea is that you pick
up a new language in the same way as you learned your mother tongue. Extended periods of listening are designed to give the student an understanding of French based on the context in which the words are used ra
ther than the content of what is being said. The whole CD is therefore in French and the student advances through 50 lessons listening, repeating, reading and eventually writing as they go.
The emphasis through
out is on the spoken word
on the dubious assumption that reading and writing are built on an oral command of French
and you are encouraged to repeat everything you hear, parrot fashion, and guess what is go
ing on from the graphics that flash up. For example, when a picture of a clock appears, you understand what it is and how to tell the time without translating a thing; when two people greet each other, it
s obv
ious what Bonjour means; and so on.
The idea is reasonably well implemented; however, the program is difficult to install, the interface is agonisingly slow and there is no way of judging how well you are doing
until you advance to the writing level
if you ever get that far
Berlitz Think and Talk
Reviewed On Mac
Special Requirements Microphone or MacRecorder
Price
170.37
Contact Softline 0181 401 1234
Category EH"ducation
Platform Mac MPC CD-i 3DO
170.37
Softline
0181 401 1234H
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Beverly Hills Cop
Three minutes in and we
re already into our first car chase. This film, like its main character, doesn
t hang about. Eddie Murphy plays Axel Foley, the fast-talking, ass-kicking, street smart cop from Detroit w
s murder hunt takes him to the boulevards of Beverly Hills
a world of pastel shades and blonde people with blonde lives. Can motormouth cut it among the
Armani-clad West Coast sophisticates? You bet yo
muthaf***ing ass he can.
The encoding is good but not exceptional. Surprisingly, it
s not the car chases that cause the problems, but the overall lack of cont
rast and colour depth. Sound quality is fine
although the 1984 vintage pop songs have dated horribly.
Susan Marino
Beverly Hills Cop
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
.99 (double bill including Beverly Hills Cop II)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Director Martin Brest
Starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Stephen Berkoff
Platform VideoCD
Encoding Very Good
34.99
(with Bev Hills II)G
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
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an evil gang led by, I kid you not, a former East German attach
to Honduras (J
rgen Prochnow) .
Streetwise Detroit cop Axel Foley, again played by Eddie Murphy, hears that a buddy in the Beverly Hills Police C
Department has been shot by the gang, so of course he drops everything and heads for the West Coast.
From then on the film is more or less an exact remake of the original, even copying the establishing montage
of the bizarre and exotic Beverly Hills citizens (an excuse for lots of blondes with legs up to their cerebellums, out walking their pink poodles).
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t particularly matter, though, as the whole point ofE
the film is to provide Murphy with set pieces so he can do his bad-assed mother thang. Second time round,his charm, such as it was, begins to wear off. God help those who paid to see Beverly Hills Cop III
san Marino
Beverly Hills Cop II
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
34.99 (double bill including Beverly Hills Cop)
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StaGjrring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jurgen Prochnow, Brigitte Neilsen
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Planning a holiday on Mars? You
ll find that there isn
t a Fodor
s Guide yet. Will this disc do?
s face it: the universe is big. Even the Solar System is a pretty huge undertaking, so it takes a lot to nav
igate it. And if you were travelling to Mars and beyond
as this CD-ROM, from The Discovery Channel, promises
d want a bloody decent guide.
Unfortunately, this CD-ROM is a long way from being the best gu
ide around. It
s not that the information isn
t interesting; it
s actually pretty difficult to be uninteresting about the subject of extraplanetary travel. It
s more that Beyond Planet Earth doesn
t put that in
formation together in a very coherent or compelling way.
For a start, the four sections of the disc are essentially split up into the media used. So, from the opening screen you get the choice of The Planetary
Theatre (narrated movies), The Solar Gallery (still images with some un-narrated movies), The Space Experts (talking heads answering questions), and Mission To Mars (a bit of everything). If you
re investigatin
g the Solar System, don
t you want to do just that and use an interactive diagram of the Solar System to find your way around? I know I do. To be fair, there is a Related Topics button, but this makes life more
difficult than it needs to be.
It may also sound churlish to complain about the captions to the still images, but these are universally banal.
Fractured surface, Europa,
one tells us, without inviting us in
and telling us why the surface is fractured, why that is interesting and why this picture was thought so important that it is one of only 200 photographs on the disc. All of them are viewed in a miserly quarte
r-screen window, with no option to blow up what must surely be pretty high-resolution pictures to full screen size. There
s a narrative at the side of this particular photograph, but this never mentions the fra
ctured surface.
Buried further down in the disc is a commentary which tells you that the first Mariner probes to Mars took over 200 high-resolution photographs. We don
t know what the pictures look like, though
, because the tantalising photograph we have to accompany this piece of information is a rubbishy-looking picture of a probe, with the usual intelligence-free caption
A Mariner probe
The Space Experts sect
ion is where you pose questions to the four eggheads
Doctors Louis Friedman, Kathryn Sullivan, Bruce Murray and Buzz Aldrin (surely some mistake
Ed). These people should know what they
re talking about, alt
hough none of them have much to add to the well of human knowledge when it comes to other life in the universe. Kathryn says intelligent life is widespread; Louis says it is one of the great mysteries and, with
no actual train of argument, it looks like there
s a 50-50 chance; Bruce thinks there must be, just has to be; and Buzz? Well, Buzz says that those who have thought about it a lot think there must be
and, ha
ng it all, it
s great for science fiction, ain
t it?
Thanks, Buzz.
Stuart Price
Beyond Planet Earth
Price
39.99
Contact Astrion 0181 202 0011
Category
Entertainment
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If Chuck Norris is the poor man
s Bruce Lee, then Cynthia Rothrock is the poor woman
s Chuck Norris. Like Norris, she
s a former martial arts champion who has karate chopped her way onto the shelves of video sh
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Beyond the Law is an early example of her oeuvre, when she was still earning a crust on the production line that is the Hong Kong film industry. The plot, as usual, is perfunctory. An FBI supergrass flees from
the Mob and takes refuge in Hong Kong with his sister. Rothrock plays a tough-as-nails G-woman whose orders are to bring him back to the States. Several clownish Hong Kong policemen alternately help and hinder
her, as do the massed ranks of the notorious Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza.
Either you love these chop-socky movies or you don
t. Fans of the genre will be glad to know that all the key ingredients are in place: p
oor lip synching, ridiculously OTT sound FX (if someone picks their nose expect an ear-splitting
thwaaack!
) and splendidly choreographed martial mayhem.
Personally, I can never watch these films without thin
king of Mike Myers
splendid pisstake of the genre in Wayne
s World 2. And this particular movie is further spoilt by the actress who overdubs Rothrock
s lines. She has a grating, squeaky whine that would make
Betty Boop chunder.
The VideoCD transfer is poor, and suggests the master tape wasn
t up to much. The speed of on-screen fisticuffs often results in digital blocking as the MPEG encoder struggles to keep up, a
nd the overall colour balance is noticeably dull and lifeless.
All told this is a title strictly for committed shlock movie and/or Rothrock fans (believe me, they do exist). But for most of us in the cultural
mainstream, Beyond the Law is beyond the pale...
Mat Toor
Beyond the Law
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
12.99 (inc VAT)
Contact CD Vision 0181 503 0589
Director Lau Kar Wing
StarringKJ Cynthia Rothrock, Kirk Miu, Shing Fui On
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inc VAT
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find out who you are, where you are, and why you
ve acquired such strange tastes in face make up. All the player can deduce from the intro is that one minute you were to be seen jetting smoothly through space
in a rather unstylish, but no doubt perfectly functional ship; the next you were awake on an operating table and somebody who looks like Anthony Valentine in futuristic surgeon
s garb was shoving an assortment
of Black and Decker
s finest products into your thorax.
At this point, you (understandably) blacked out. The game starts with you regaining consciousness. You find yourself in a cell, under the guard of a robot
equipped with a giant hypodermic syringe; your body has more weird-shaped metal attachments than a gynaecology department and more electrical circuitry than Blackpool Illuminations. In fact, you look like a hu
man equivalent of the Lloyd
s Building. And you
ve only got two fingers on each hand, which is going to play merry hell with your career as a translator for the hard of hearing.
Naturally, you
re keen to get ho
ld of whoever did this to you and exchange a few words. Escaping from your cell is the first priority, after which you find yourself in a kind of human experimentation laboratory-cum-high security prison comple
x. The gameplay is a cross between that seen in Ecstatica or the Alone in The Dark series, involving wandering around various locations, interacting with machinery and picking up anything going, all the while s
olving puzzles or dealing with problems.
Just as in Ecstatica, the only way to survive the confrontations with security guards, robots and rampaging aliens is by indulging in hand-to-hand, and later armed, comb
at. (Those who are less proficient at this sort of thing will be pleased to know there are three levels of difficulty, concerned almost entirely with making it easier to survive a fight). The fighting moves ava
ilable to you are surprisingly varied, especially given that they
re being carried out by a huge bitmapped main sprite and that the game isn
t a dedicated beat-
em-up: using the CTRL and ALT buttons in combinat
ion with the numerical keypad, you have a number of evasive and blocking manoeuvres, and a complete range of punches and kicks including jabs and uppercuts, spinning, roundhouse and side kicks and a back somers
ault; you can also stamp on people
s knees, kick them in the packet and even head-butt them.
These fancy moves are all very well against other humanoids, but they won
t really serve you too well in a fight with
some of the enormous security robots that litter the place. Trying to fight one of those is like punching an oil tanker. Fortunately, you
ll quickly acquire a laser blaster or two, which are a little more effe
ctive. In some locations, these laser blasts even bounce off the walls, which means that the cowardly (or sensible, in this game) can shoot things around corners before they
re aware of your presence.
To help y
ou in your quest, you have an electronically controlled health and energy system. The energy from your powered suit can restore the health of your remaining biological parts after a fight, and any batteries you
find around the base can be used to power up the suit. You also have an inventory which, in true adventure style, you
re free to pack to the brim with rubbish you find on the floor. Items range from the obviou
sly useful, like laser blasters and medical devices, to the more obscure, like flutes. How you
re supposed to play a flute with only two fingers on each hand is another matter.
Everyone in this game seems to b
e equipped with a personal log, into which they spend hours recording their inner thoughts and which they then leave lying around
either because they
re naturally forgetful, or they never made it back from th
e operating room alive. And the only way you
re going to piece together any information about your situation is to forget the impeccable manners you picked up at finishing school, and read everyone
s diaries. U
nfortunately, being locked up and operated on by mad scientists doesn
t tend to encourage a light literary style, and most of them are heavy going. Equally unfortunately, you have to struggle through them, beca
use hidden among the dull stuff (usually several pages down) are essential things like codes for security doors.
Gradually, it emerges that you
re in a Mondite base on a planet belonging to another couple of ex
tremely dangerous races of rock-eating, acid swilling monsters. Don
t ask how the Mondites got there, it
s a long story. You discover that the mad doctor with the DIY tools is a Mondite called Dr Mastaba, and t
hat you
re not the only person who
s been experimented on in this way. You also find that you
re not the only thing that
s rampaging about the place, kicking hapless Mondites to a pulp. There
s also a seemingly
unstoppable monster with home field advantage, who
s determined to blow up the nuclear reactor that powers the Mondite base. Can you stop it? Are you really stupid enough to try? And how about those Mondite ma
rines that are out to get you?
In other words, unlike similar games that look this good but turn out to be one dimensional plodders with little to recommend them, it
s pretty action-packed. And the graphics rea
lly are good. The ambient lighting effects are excellent: windows cast shadows across floors and machinery; faulty lights flicker and crackle. And it
s not just the backgrounds that look good
the characters a
re all bitmapped to high heaven, too. Camera angles change to frame the action, but unlike Ecstatica, the effect isn
t so intrusive that it hampers your chance of success. The sound effects are outstanding (esp
ecially when bits of ex-robot rattle around the stairwells); footsteps thud in close-up shots, and diminish as you walk away.
The atmosphere and attention to detail is excellent, to the extent that you can log
onto most terminals that appear: if you look through maintenance data logs, for example, you
ll see requests for repairs to things you
ve destroyed previously. It all helps to add to the atmosphere.
But, it i
t the easiest game in the world. Even at the easiest setting, you
ll still need to make good use of the nine saved game spaces. There
s a degree of trial and error about it, with certain tasks that must be c
ompleted before others; and there are sections that need to be completed within a tight timescale. The only other thing to bear in mind is the need for a good, fast machine with plenty of memory to run the game
(we reviewed it on a Pentium 60). If you
ve got the hardware, though, you
re in for a treat. Make that a tough treat.
Patrick McCarthy
Bioforge
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Electronic Arts
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among life
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hunky Douglas of Basic Instinct meets even classier director Ridley Scott of Alien and Thelma and Louise
seem perfect for one of the first majo
r movies on the brave new world of CD-i. Unfortunately, what you gain in technology you lose in terms of good old-fashioned Hollywood virtues like a decent plot or script. The basic idea is strong: American cop
s chase Japanese gangsters in the seedy underworld of Osaka and meet a bullet train of problems. Andy Garcia
ve sidekick to Douglas
foul-mouthed loner is also a fresh element, but he
s for the chop half w
ay through. And from then on it
s lots of soul searching for the revengeful Douglas as he struggles to comes to terms with strange Japanese notions like honour, friendship and loyalty. Shame.
Scott
s direction
revisits the steamy streets he created in Blade Runner, but despite the fact that this film has more dead flesh on display than the average sushi bar, the action is slow and adds up to no more than a straighta
head buddy cop thriller with all the subtlety of a karate kick to the groin.
Technically speaking, the dark shadings make for a fairly efficient CD-i encoding, that slightly drizzly effect in long focus shots
working well for all the rainy backgrounds Scott loves. The superb sound quality is wasted, though, on the constant crack of small arms and the roar of assorted Yammies and Suzukis.
George Kaplan
Black Rain
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
15.99
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Paramount
Director Ridley Scott
Starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Read all about it, er, hear all about it, er, see all about it, oh, hell, this is the first music magazine on CD-ROM
Launched in the US in November, Blender is a fast-paced pop-culture and music magazine on CD
-ROM that is aimed at the 18 to 30-year-old generation brought up on MTV, Rolling Stone magazine and video games.
Described by its US developer as the first significant effort in the development of a new form
of journalism, Blender purports to cover every form of global pop culture ranging from music to film, through underground culture, television and technology.
The name is a statement of intent that these elemen
ts can be convincingly combined in an interactive magazine that contains text reviews and interviews, video, music, non-linear comic strips, computer game-type features, horoscopes, documentaries, jokes, pop ps
ychology, fashion and a healthy dose of counter-culture attitude.
Surprisingly, it works really well, and it is surely only a matter of time before it spawns a generation of imitators, as did its print-based p
rogenitor Rolling Stone.
Aside from an astute cultural mix, Blender is an impressive technological achievement, from the superbly designed interface that guides you around the various sections to the fast cut
animations and rollover soundtrack.
The main menu divides Blender into four key areas called Microwave, Icebox, Fixtures and a guided tour of the highlights which lasts 15 minutes.
Microwave contains 25 new
music reviews split into five sections: Dance and Trance, Make Mine Funky, Rock!, Commercial Alternative (or Indie in the UK) and The Highly Unusual. Each album gets a fairly brief but thoughtful and sometimes
amusing text review, accompanied by around 20 seconds of a sample album track and (frequently) a short QuickTime movie of either a band interview or promo video.
The Highly Unusual section certainly lived up t
o its name featuring a re-release of an album by LSD guru Timothy Leary in which he reveals:
You can be the Maharishi this time around, you can be anyone this time around. You can sit in a cave with a ten-foot
erection, laughing and smiling...
Er, quite.
In a separate byway of the Microwave menu is a goofy horoscope where, after choosing your sign, your future is revealed by a member of cult US band They Might Be G
iants.
The Fixtures menu is the best part of Blender. An interview with American musician and author Henry Rollins makes imaginative use of CD-ROM technology. Initially we see an outline of Rollin
s spartan ho
use/HQ and clicking on different rooms triggers a short video sequence in which he shows us his living room, his weights room and even what
s in his fridge
fascinating stuff in a voyeuristic sort of way.
3-screen text-based article on Rollins then follows, generously supplemented by video clips of Rollins talking about related topics. For example on the third screen we are told:
But even in his own environment
, though whip-smart, Rollins is a guarded, tightly wound individual. A plastic toy strongman on a shelf in his informal digs reveals a self-aware sense of humour. But Rollins
lightheartedness doesn
t seem to g
o much further than that.
Click on the accompanying still of Rollins talking and his disturbingly intense manner admirably illustrates the point.
Another witty and well observed article compares the Woodstock
1994 and Lollapalooza festivals:
The enjoyment comes not so much from the event itself, but from a collective sense of unity through adversity,
concludes the author over a backdrop of an idiot falling repeat
edly into the mud at Woodstock
94. Other, less cynical points of view from participants are included in short video clips that appear throughout the piece.
Also in Fixtures is the Digital Gallery which shows
off the black and white photography of seminal NME photographer Chalkie Davies together with an audio interview, this suffers from the small size and dubious resolution of the featured photographs.
The final p
art of this section presents a non-sequential digital cartoon strip called Refrigerator Johnny. There appears to be no set running order to this story only a set of interlinking events. Puzzling, but an interes
ting use of CD-ROM.
The Icebox section is filled with more general pop culture items, including a pop psychologist, a fashion section, a Get Stuffed-type cookery feature, a bluffer
s guide to new trends and th
One Stupid Question
section which asks a number of musicians the question,
What really makes you happiest?
A bowl of spaghetti,
is Tori Amos
first and least pretentious answer.
Overall, Blender is gr
eat fun. I spent at least four hours trying out all the different sections. And even though this is the first issue, the program runs smoothly, rarely crashes, and is remarkably free of the click and wait syndr
ome that bedevils so many CD-ROM multimedia titles. The background music, specially composed by House artist Momus, is surprisingly unirritating, even after three hours.
And Blender was only let down, if at al
l, by the poor sound quality in several of the interview sequences, and the slightly flakey but nevetheless immaculately lip-synched QuickTime video that pervades the disc. Editor-in-chief, Regina Joseph, claim
s that the second issue, due out in February will overcome these faults, and at around $10 per issue it looks a reasonable proposition. It costs around the same as an audio CD in the US, is much pricier than a
music magazine, but is considerably cheaper than the average CD-ROM. So is there a market for it?
If the future editions pack as many features in as this first issue, I
d say the era of the CD-ROM music magazi
ne has arrived.
At the moment Blender is not distributed in the UK. Non-US subscribers can fax 0101 315 437 9863 for details.
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will know what to expect from an interactive CD-ROM out of the same stable.
If you
re prepared to leave your political correctness to one side, drop any preten
sions to sophistication and settle for a few belly-laughs instead, you could do a lot worse than checking out this CD-ROM, which takes Blind Date to limits Cilla Black could only dream of.
You play Mr Slightly
-Below-Average, a lonely guy who turns up at the offices of DUDS (Dates Unlimited for Desperate Schmucks) looking for a date.
We know every man has his needs
s say you
ve been fulfilling yours manually r
ecently,
begins the man behind the desk.
Now, I know in the past I
ve set you up with a few water buffaloes
hey, how did I know that cheerleader used to graze during halftime? But I
ve a good one for you th
is time
s perfect.
And so you
re off to meet the gorgeous Sandi, who opens her door in a low-cut black number with the words:
Hi! Wanna shoot some stick?
Then it
s down to the pool room, where the earl
y part of the evening unfolds.
As far as plot goes, your motivation is simple: you try to get Sandi to go to bed with you. The mode of play leaves little room for manoeuvre; she speaks, and you make your choice
from two or three responses printed at the bottom of the screen. In the corner is a Mood Ring, which changes colour between red (bad) and blue (in with a chance), depending on your choices so far.
You can get
hints from Max the bartender; from DUDS helper Burford, who pops up when you
and tells you why; and, sometimes, from Sandi herself. But the golden rule is
when in doubt, buy her a drink, if you
ve got
the cash; your $100 starting fund doesn
t stretch far when you have to fork out for drinks, taxis and pizza. But don
t get her too drunk, or she
ll pass out on the pool table. And don
t get her angry, or you
e likely to end up with a pool cue in the groin.
One of the biggest problems is that your character
s a real jerk.
Mmm, delicious,
says Sandi after the first drink. To which you have the choice of replying ei
ther:
Of course it
s good, I paid for it
You know, if I made that at home it would cost, like, 20 cents.
And it gets worse.
I feel like I can tell you anything,
says Sandi, just as you
ve got her mood
ring glowing bright blue. To which you have the choice of
I want to build an industrial park in your cleavage
ve been fantasizing about you all night
and
I feel the same way
I still wet my bed.
Being
cool in this context is simply a matter of being less of a jerk than you might be.
Eventually, if you
re not a complete schmuck, you make it back to Sandi
s apartment
and, if you really play your cards right
, dodging nieces, flatmates, psychological tests and deranged German exchange students, you
. What do you win? Well, it would be a shame to give too much away
but it involves heavy metal music, loads of
dry ice and bikinis.
Despite its 18 certificate, there
s nothing pornographic about this CD. Which, after struggling through to the end, will be a little disappointing for some. Sob! But when all is said and do
ne, Blind Date is simply good, dirty, adolescent fun.
Steve Caplin
Blind Date
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Domark 0181 780 2224
Category
Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
39.99G
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The cynic in me wanted to headline this piece,
another clapped out old rocker goes interactive
. But that would be drastically unfair both to the artist and Graphix Zone, the developer of this disc.
, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is arguably the greatest singer-songwriter of the 20th Century, and this dual-format CD-ROM traces his life and times from his birth in 1941, through his 30-year recording and per
forming career, while striving to recreate the myriad social and political events that influenced his work.
What exactly is Highway 61 Interactive? Well, when you boot up the disc (itself a challenge, it needs
an absolute minimum of 4.5Mb free RAM to run on a Mac) you are presented with a rendered montage of Dylan memorabilia. There
s no menu or index
Graphix Zone wants you to work for your enjoyment. Most of your
initial interaction with the program involves randomly clicking on icons to see what happens
a kind of Fisher Price activity centre for grown-ups. Some links are pretty obvious
the camera takes you to a pho
to album. Others are more obscure: a falling leaf transports you to Dylan
s family scrapbook? Er, I
ll have what you
re having, guys.
Many of these links are simple audio or video clips, but some take you away
from the montage to a rendered 3D environment. If you
ve seen
Interactive you will be familiar with the form. But instead of a tour of Prince
s bachelor pad, you are catapulted into a variety of locations th
at have figured strongly in Dylan
s career. There
s Greenwich Village back in 1961, complete with a bongo-beating hobo loitering outside the Coffee House. There are the Columbia Recording Studios, circa 1965. A
blow me
now we
re backstage at Madison Square Gardens for Dylan
s 30th anniversary bash.
To encourage your exploratory exploits, the developers have ensured that the most desirable goodies
never-seen-
before footage of Bobby D
s 1993 performance at New York
s Supper Club
can only be accessed once you
ve visited all the other six 3D locations. Each time you go 3D you get a portion of the Supper Club ticket,
which builds up gradually, until
hey presto
the CD-ROM crashes and you have to start all over again (I know, it
s my fault for not saving my progress).
So what about the content? With the support of both
Dylan and his record company Sony, there
s no shortage on that score. For starters, there
s a full CD digital audio track of Dylan
s electric version of
House of the Rising Sun
, recorded two years before the
Animals took the song to the top of the charts. Elsewhere there are 10 complete songs and over 40 clips. There are four full-length videos, including the ground breaking promo for
Subterranean Homesick Blues
In the recording studio you can unearth out-takes from the
Like a Rolling Stone
sessions, complete with muso banter.
Plus you get all manner of other Dylan-related material, including a collection of bootle
g album covers, Internet addresses for wired buffs, celebrity interviews (including Eric Clapton, Lou Reed and Pearl Jam
s Eddie Vedder), a compendium featuring the lyrics to every Bob Dylan song and there
en a chance to view Mr D
s etchings.
s all good solid stuff, a lot of it previously unavailable and often leavened with a dose of irreverent humour. And QuickTime 2.0 means that the video footage is pretty
darn good. But I do have a couple of nagging doubts.
There
s no real objective overview of a career that has had its fair share of the rough as well as the smooth (remember Farm Aid?). The
interactive timeline
feature is shallow on information and the interaction is limited to the odd fragment of hypertext. The lyric compendium is also a missed opportunity. You can only search it by song title, so if you
re trying
to source an isolated lyric you
ll be disappointed. Why didn
t they make it a full blown concordance of Dylan
s work? A feature allowing you to tap in words like
Guthrie
Mister
, and track their usage acr
oss the artist
s entire canon of work, would have justified the asking price alone. But perhaps the developers are saving that for another day.
But perhaps I
m seeing the odd dead tree and missing the lush for
est. Whatever your doubts about Graphix Zone
s slightly esoteric interface, this is a superbly realised CD-ROM product. I
m not a great Dylan fan, but I kept coming back to the title. Dylan was more than just a
songwriter, he was a crucial focus for the cultural, social and political revolution that swept through the United States and beyond during the 50s and 60s.
Like Woody Guthrie before him, he had an unstoppabl
e desire
to tell it how he saw it
. And nuggets thrown up by the CD-ROM keep reinforcing this: for instance, the disc tells the story of Hattie Carroll, a black woman who died in 1963 after being assaulted by
a certain William Zantzinger. He was sentenced to only six months in jail, and Dylan went on to immortalise her fate in the
Lonesome Death of Hattie Caroll
. But as well as providing the full lyrics to the son
plus photos of Zantzinger and Carroll
the CD-ROM also reveals that 33 years later, Zantzinger was in court again: this time for collecting rent from blacks occupying run-down properties which he didn
en own.
The times they haven
t changed that much. But such insights help to make Highway 61 Interactive a fascinating experience as well as a worthy, if occasionally flawed, exploration of one of the giants of
20th Century music.
Mat Toor
Highway 61 Interactive
Special Requirements
PC: 486SX 25MHz or faster, 8Mb RAM (recommended), 16-bit colour, 15Mb hard disk space, Mac: 8Mb RAM, thousands of colours, 10Mb hard\V disk space
Price
49.99
Contact Wienerworld 0181 954 8777
Platform MPC Mac CD-i 3DO
49.99G
Wienerworld
0181 954 8777H
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Fun health and anatomy from Body Park to get your kids in touch with their body parts
If you
ve ever wondered how the hip bone
s connected to the thigh bone, then Virtual Entertainment
s Body Park might have
the answer. It features an unusual journey through the human body aimed at teaching children in the four to ten age range aspects of anatomy, nutrition, health and safety.
The program starts off on a political
ly correct footing. When you
re introduced to Albert (a sort of pink bear-type thing), you find all his friends aboard the Cool Bus to be a motley crew of multi-racial kids, including a disabled character in a
wheelchair. The message is clear from the outset
no matter what we look like, we all have the same bodies, and should know what makes them tick.
In an attempt to jazz up the potential boredom factor of strai
ght learning, you
re taken on a trip to the Body Park. The park itself has been designed in the shape of a large, verdant human body
a kind of anatomical Alton Towers
which appears on the map screen. Dotted
over this shape are the various
rides
you can visit. By clicking on Albert
s Gizmo (a little gadget attached to his belt), you can easily call up the map screen and explore parts of the park without taking t
he scenic route.
You quickly learn that Professor Frankenslime (profession: mad scientist) is lurking in the park waiting to turn real people into robots which he can then control. So far the Prof has managed
to turn one person into a dummy, the unfortunate Harvey, whose silhouette appears on the map screen. If you manage to win one of the many games en route, Harvey has a magic body part added to his physique, and
once you
ve mastered them all, he comes alive and joins his chums.
Signing up at the ticket booth as a new visitor to the park, you embark on your journey with Albert who gently coaxes you through a series of
games, lessons and experiments. These have been well crafted with a good balance between education and fun. Each of the body attractions is composed, basically, of the same elements. The first is a screen with
a house in the shape of a human heart with a selection of Albert
s friends or foes hanging around outside. Clicking on characters or objects will produce a series of animations connected to the body part theme
and clicking on the door of the house will lead you into a screen with an icon menu. If you click on the Discovery icon, you
re presented with text and a picture describing, for example, how your lungs work acc
ompanied by Albert
s running commentary. The associated Health & Safety icon goes into frightening detail about the dangers of smoking.
Most enjoyable are the experiments and games. The former have a heartenin
g Blue Peter feel to them: best of all is The Skeleton experiment where I learned how to make a rubbery bone using a glass container, some vinegar and a chicken bone.
The majority of games have a time limit an
d, should you fail to beat the clock, Frankenslime rears his ugly head in mocking victory. The games range from dragging and dropping parts of a skeleton onto an empty human shape to the fab blood game where yo
ur task is to lead the red blood cells to safety while avoiding the mean old viruses.
Some of the screens, particularly the lessons, were a little unexciting graphically, but overall it
s colourful, cartoony a
nd appealing, boasting a user-friendly interface, clear digitised speech and catchy music. And where else could you learn how to make a rubbery bone?
Prepare to be entertained, amused and enlightened by Stephen Hawking
s immaculately-conceived guide to the most complex issues of our time
When Stephen Hawking
s A Brief History of Time hit the bestseller list
Entertainment's
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, no-one was more surprised than the publishers. Perhaps it was the enigmatic charm of Hawking himself
wheelchair-bound, unable to speak except through a computer-generated voice synthesiser; perhaps it was t
he dry humour and fresh approach to a subject which has alternatively baffled and bored the layman in equal measure.
Producing it as a multimedia extravaganza seems, in retrospect, to be a natural stage in the
Hawking phenomenon. And from the start, it is clear this will be no dull scientific tract.
The disc launches straight into the control room of the man
s spaceship, with a cartoon Hawking sitting in his wheelc
hair surrounded by clickable objects: the book itself, annotated throughout with icons to lead you into the events on the CD; a microscope, which takes you deep into Quarkland; portraits of Newton, Einstein and
Galileo explain the men and their theories. Or you could step onto the flight deck, where you can steer your course in search of black holes.
Humour is the key note throughout the disc. Jokey drawings of the m
ain players of science accompany their life stories; animated Quarks turn smoothly into animated Hawkings and back. A caricature of Bertrand Russell gesticulates wildly to a packed lecture hall, as his pompous
tones drone out the current universe model of his day, only to be interrupted by a Pythonesque woman expounding her view of the universe as an infinite series of tortoises sitting on each others
backs. The sun
is so hot it sweats, and a hand comes out to wipe its forehead; and when it runs out of nuclear fuel we see it standing by the roadside with an empty fuel can, hitching a ride.
But there
s more to this CD than
just jokes and cartoons; all the scientific theory is there, but made even more accessible than the book.
Drive down Relativity Street at the speed of light and see what happens. See what happens to cannonbal
ls when you fire them into space. This CD uses a similar technique to those Marx for Beginners, Einstein for Beginners books
a mixture of serious fact and cartoon, making difficult topics easy to understand.
The commentary throughout is narrated by Hawking, with his familiar computer-generated voice playing a subtle counterpoint to the humour inherent in his words.
s hard to compile a multimedia project as comp
lete and as rigorous as this without at some stage falling into the boring-facts-at-the-end problem; but this CD avoids that entirely. Every paragraph, and often every sentence, is imaginatively illustrated
riginal, humorous, and always with a sense of fun and discovery. Dull historic facts come to life and are made fascinating through the use of animation and wit in what is an immaculately conceived, perfectly pl
anned CD.
For all those who found A Brief History of Time (the book) hard going, this is the easy and enjoyable way to understand some of the most complex scientific issues of our time. More than that, this CD
fully exploits the potential of multimedia in its constantly inventive, never repetitive exposition of Hawking
s ideas; part Rius, part Terry Gilliam, and wholly new, this is perhaps the most innovative CD-ROM
yet produced.
Steve Caplin
Brief History of Time
Price
58.70
Contact WH Freeman 01865 726975
Category
Reference/Entertainment/
Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
58.70G
WH Freeman
01865 726975H
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Some speech has been added and there are some new graphics. It
s no extravaganza
As CD-ROM releases go, Bureau 13 is another of a growing number of games which see the transition to this newer media as nothing
cartoons are all from the very earliest period, this Bugs Bunny collection shimmies back and forth from the days when Bugs had still only narrowly escaped being called
Jack Rabbit
to more familiar post-war mC
aterial.
The highlight of the collection is the Second World War
toon Falling Hare, in which Bugs is tormented by a gremlin while chilling out at a military airfield. The cartoon is based around the extended
chase that seems to be the recurring theme of all the great Warner cartoons. It features most of the world
s stock of being-hit-over-the-head sequences and a sizable allowance of the trying-to-break-a-door-downE
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The better cartoons are directed by one of the lesser Warner animators, Robert Clampett. Sadly, the only cartoon directed by the Godhead himself, Chuck J
ones, isn
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s called, where Bugs becomes the object of desire for two starving, shipwrecked sailors. Bubbling over with gags, it ain
s most eagerly awaited game arrives and proves to be a winning combination of movie, adventure game and shoot-
em up
If you haven
t seen the
making of
feature which starts on page 38 of this
more than the addition of some speech and
graphics. So it
s worth noting that this game is going to be no multimedia extravaganza.
The bizarre plot centres around a secret American government agency whoC
se sole purpose is the tracking down and possible extermination of paranormal or supernatural phenomena, basically X Files stuff. The really strange part is that of your six agents, one is a witch, one a vampir
e and another a priest whose special ability is that of prayer! When one of your agents goes rogue and tries to assassinate a small town sheriff, your group, or, rather, two of your group investigate.
Up to thiE
s point the story is animated in the usual 3D, but from here on in the standard VGA adventure stuff takes over, such as the
slightly from the air
type view of the screen
all of which was terribly ground-bre
aking four years ago! The user interface is a very poor point-and-click affair with a pull-down menu thing which takes up half the screen!
But the voices. These have to be the worst voice-overs ever done. The
you find nothing
and
you can
t do that
type statements are supplied by a drole American voice speaking in monotones and trying to crack jokes! Plus, an Irishman in the same league as Dick Van Dyke
s Cockney
in Mary Poppins.
Bureau 13 doesn
t break the boundaries of gaming technology, and worst of all, it
s littered with annoying bugs. A shame really, because it definitely had potential.
Gareth Ramsey
Bureau 13
PILrice
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Gametek 01753 553445
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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issue, you
d be forgiven for thinking Burn:Cycle is a mindless shoot-
em-up or a frustration-relieving road race. In fact, it
s an intriguing adventure game/movie for the CD-i (due on PC CD-ROM in early 1995),
and is fiendishly complex to boot. In Burn:Cycle you play Sol Cutter, a cyberspace chancer who picks up a computer virus while up to no good in a software corporation. Only two hours remain before the bug takes
a hold of Sol
s grey matter and gives him a semtex lobotomy.
Sound familiar? Well, that
s because it is. Anyone who
s read William Gibson
s Neuromancer or seen our Arnie in Total Recall will get the idea. And
those who
ve watched Blade Runner (is there anyone who hasn
t?) will instantly feel at home as
the lifter
flies round the neon-lit cityscape.
Burn:Cycle is a base case title and so doesn
t require a digital
video cartridge, but it does make use of several digitised actors
all of which have a transatlantic accent (though their mouths don
t always sync with the words).
There are around 100 live action video scene
s, and whenever Sol is killed by a gunman
s bullet
in my case about every five minutes
blood splatters all over the wall and floor and the cyberspace actor falls to his death. Sorry, mate. This was enough t
o give Burn: Cycle a 15 rating by the BBFC, though to be honest, with the exception of the shooting, I
ve watched more violent Disney movies. The sound is good quality stereo (but not Dolby Surround), and const
antly changes from scene to scene as the player shifts round the various 3-D environments.
And what a journey it is. Anyone who likes to check their brain in at reception before picking up a games console shou
ld forget Burn:Cycle. It
s not for the stupid. Each of the scenes contains several visual clues as well as items that must be picked up and added to the inventory
miss them and you could find yourself six fee
t under or retracing your steps later on in the game.
Several scenes also contain puzzles which must be completed before any progression can be made. These generally make The Krypton Factor seem like a multipl
e-choice test.
Gordon Burns would be particularly proud of the one where you have to make a hexagonal shape out of six flying pieces. Others, such as Psychic Roulette, where shapes from which you have to make
a triangle come flying out of the screen, are much easier.
The arcade action, by contrast, is strictly no-brainer, cursor-as-gunsight, point-and-shoot material. Think Mad Dog McCree or Ground Zero Texas and you
ll know the score: without a gun this bit quickly becomes repetitive and tedious, though it
s always nice to see a bit of gratuitous blood
guts.
Philips reckons that the average playing time for this game
is over 30 hours, and I can vouch for that. After several evenings of not getting very far I began to feel that it was my brain, rather than Sol Cutter
s, which was being dissolved by a software program.
Deriv
ative it may be, but then so is your typical Quentin Tarrantino movie. And like a Tarantino movie, Burn: Cycle is a compelling cocktail of blood-spattered violence and dense, sinewy plotting with the added bonu
s of exciting and addictive gameplay. A winning combination.
Chris Price
Burn:cycle
Price
44.99 (Limited edition includes free audio CD)
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
44.99G
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
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Caesar
s World of Boxing
If you think that Frank Bruno
s a bit of a baby, and Lennox Lewis is a loser, then maybe, tough guy, you should try taking a few hard knocks yourself
Caesar
s World Of Boxing, the first decent beat-em-up for C
D-i, is a bruising experience. Not because of its punishing fighting sequences, incorporating special killer death blows
that
s only part of the fun. Caesar
s is also an intelligent mix of arcade action and e
ntertaining FMV sequences, which will keep you bleary-eyed in front of the telly until the early hours with joypad in bandaged hand.
The meat of Caesar
s World Of Boxing is in the boxing bouts, which are always
fought against a computer-controlled opponent (unfortunately there
s no two-player option). The range of moves doesn
t come close to Sugar Ray Leonard
s repertoire, totalling just four shots
punch up and pun
ch down with either hand
that wouldn
t trouble Frank Bruno. With this limitation, you might think that Caesar
s is going to have the lifespan of a clumsy lemming; but the mixture of digitised boxers with ultr
a-fluid, lifelike movements, the incredible sound effects, and the pure drama of unleashing a flurry of punches that actually cuts your opponent, make this one of the most exciting, if ideologically dodgy, titl
es in the CD-i catalogue. Even the rather annoying fact that the bottom third of the fighting screen is taken up with an energy bar doesn
t spoil your enjoyment once the bell has gone.
As with any video-based e
ntertainment title, action is only half the story. Caesar
s requires a DV cartridge, and is thus packed with video footage. Your trainer, manager, promoter, journalists and tongue-in-cheek groupies are all real
actors (surprisingly good ones), and their stereotypical dodgy characters are at worst quirky, and at best hilarious.
The idea of the game is that you choose a fighter to take through the ranks from amateur to
pro and ultimately up the rankings to world champ. The object is not just to win, but to make as much money as possible along the way; you can carry on fighting into your 40s if the lure of cash proves irresis
tible to you, but by this stage your powers weaken and you run the risk of contracting Parkinson
s disease (tasteful touch, that).
It sounds easy enough, but as you become successful, hordes of hangers-on will
try to lead you astray. Journalists hound you before each fight, promoters pop up to tempt to you to their stable with lucrative contracts, and if you win the title floozies drop at your feet trying to lure you
to bed (this is a Philips game so there had to be some cleavage in there somewhere).
Philips is now packaging Caesar
s for free with its 210 player with DV cart
a sensible move, as once you
ve played it you
ll be hooked on DV for life.
Andy Clerkson
Caesar's World Of Boxing
Requires Digital Video cartridge
Price
49.99
Contact Philips Interactive Media
0171 911 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
24.99G
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
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s progress for you.
Still, if a software company is to convert an old game, then Cannon Fodder is no bad choice and it
s pretty cheap. Universally ac
claimed by games players and the press alike, the only people who didn
t seem to like it was the Royal British Legion, who objected to the use of poppies in the artwork, and no doubt, the trivialising of war.
or those that haven
t seen Cannon Fodder
and I can
t believe there are many of you
d better fill in some gaps. You control a squad of miniature soldiers (
lemmings with guns
, according to the Reviewers
Clich
Handbook), which you move around the scrolling terrain by pointing and clicking. Levels are cleared by destroying everything in sight basically, although shooting the wildlife and watching it wiggle in b
lood is optional.
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the same, but the graphics are noticeably sharper and the sound has been beefed up.
There
s also an excellent five-minute cartoon intro and a slighlty pretentious video of Sensible Software larking about to th
e original theme,
War has never been so much fun
. More irony really, because for 3DO owners war has been more fun. It
s called Return Fire.
Warren Chrismas
Cannon Fodder
Price
34.99 (inc VAT)
Contact VirgiI7n Interactive
0181 960 2255
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
34.99G
Virgin
0181 960 2255I
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3A'Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert
What has six legs, appears every four years, weighs the best part of 50 stones and warbles? The three tenors, of course.
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rotti, Carreras and Domingo
s concert last month. In keeping with the topicality of VideoCD releases, this is the concert recorded in the run-up to Italia
90. That said, it
s pretty impressive stuff: two orche
stras, a clutch of rabble-rousing arias (including two renditions of Nessun Dorma), high-voltage conducting from Mehta, and the stunningly-lit backdrop of Rome
s ancient Terme di Caracalla.
And then, of course,
there are the three tenors themselves. Smiling like synchronised swimmers, each tries to trump the other with vocal pyrotechnics and vein-straining facial grimaces.
Although musical purists will argue that an
hour and a half of male tenors showboating is slightly de trop, never mind that. This isn
t classical music. This is showbusiness. And with VideoCD you can always nip straight to your favourite bits, be it
ole Mio, Tonight or
yawn
Nessun Dorma.
The video encoding quality is for the most part fine, although there is some
blocking
in evidenceduring the cuts to the audience
as usual. Sound quality is absolut
ely stunning
as one would expect from a Digital-Digital-Digital (DDD) recording supervised by the experts at Decca. Overall, a package which plays to VideoCD
s strengths
and the format delivers in spades.
Mat Toor
Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in concert
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC or Mac
Price
15.99
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Platform VideoCD
Encoding Good
Track List Il lamento di Federico;
paradis; Recondita armonia; Dein is mein ganzes Herz; Rondine al nido; Core
ngrato; I vespri siciliani; Torna a Surriento; Granada; No puede ser; L
improvviso; El lucevan le stelle; Nessun dorma; Finale (Mari
a; Tonight;
O paese d
o sole; Cielito lindo; Memory; Ochi tchorniye; Caminito; La Vie en rose Mattinata; Wien,Wien,nur du allein; Amapola;
O sole mio); Encore (
O sole mio); Encore (Nessun dorma).
17.99
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
VideoCDI
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4A!Chadwick And The Sneaky Egg Thief
An interactive colour-in storybook to keep kids egg-cited
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a colour-it-in story book for kids from three to eight. The story is fun and
Hindsight can make us contemptuous of our past. How could Neville Chamberlain have been so na
ve? Why was the British Government so blind
there is plenty to do with each page: from colouring to seeking out hidden surprises. The story can also be stepped through word by word to help with reading, but best of all there are no performance problems C
when running the animation.
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e only 20 pages to the story. The program works in a straightforward fashion. You open a storybook, the program reads out the text while Chadwick the cute, high-voiced dinosaur enacts a story about his mother
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ind the objects in the scene.
Once you have finished doodling around the scene, accompanied by squidgy synthesiser versions of the popular classics, you can click the right arrow to watch the final piece of ani
mation on that page, before the program opens a new, uncoloured page. Once all of the pages have been coloured in, clicking on the movie theatre icon plays the whole story through, with your colourings used thrI
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s worth the moneyO
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Chadwick and the Sneaky Egg Thief
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towards Gandhi? How could it have taken so long for women to get the vote? Presented as history, the events of the last 200 years are merely episodes in a completed story.
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y, a database search facility will enable you to seek out specific words in any of the reports.
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tractive screens of text make no concession to visual stimulation: this disc is about pure information. There are also virtually no keyboard shortcuts, and there is no way to change the font in which text appea
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s Craz
Galactica, except with better special fx and no Lorne Greene (he
s dead
Ed).
So it
s the usual futuristic gumf about aliens discovering the Voyager space probe, looking at the famous plaque and deciding we hC
omo sapiens look good enough to eat. Following the handy directions provided, they reach our solar system, kick the stuffing out of our Martian colonies and then head towards Earth. Only you
a female rocket j
ockette called Jessica Darkhill
stand between Earth and alien domination. And, er, that
s it.
Chaos Control is a typically French game, in that it
s more than a little weird. The cut scenes, for instance, miE
x the usual Softimage-rendered visuals with the ropiest animation I
ve seen since Captain Pugwash. The Manga-styled characters look the part but are hopelessly out of synch
as if they
re chewing on some indus
trial-strength Hubba Bubba.
Thankfully, the action is free of such gaffes. It
s a wham-bang-thank-you-ma
am blaster where your task is to mow down everything that moves. The action is set against the concrete cG
anyons of a war-ravaged New York, the virtual
inner space
of a computer, an orbiting space station and finally a Star Wars-style labyrinth of trenches in which you come face to face with the alien mothership.
Two things strike you immediately. The first is that moths tend to fly into your mouth when your jaw has hit the floor
a side-effect of the awesome graphics on show. The second is that this is yet another CI
D-ROM game that runs along the programmers
pre-rendered tramlines so it
s basically one long strip of MPEG encoding
backdrops and aliens ships included. The only
real time
sprites are the laser bolts, ener
gy bars and, crucially, the explosions. Why crucially? Well, the enemies are part of the encoded footage, so the only way to show they have been destroyed is to mask them with an explosion which continues buzziK
ng around for another five seconds or so.
The nature of the game also means that there is no real control over the path your spaceship takes.
It swoops, it swerves, it loops the bloody loop, and all the while
m swigging a can of Tennent
s Super while scratching my arse. Now as a professional games reviewer, I should say that all this rendered tomfoolery is bollocks because, to borrow Trip Hawkins
mantra, only reM
al-time games are real games.
But being far too honest, I
ll admit that I found it mondo enjoyable. The graphics are abso-bloody-lutely stunning. And the programmers have kept plenty of visual aces up their sl
eeves for the later levels.
The stereo soundtrack deserves credit, too, for its accomplished blend of spot fx, vocal interjections and music score (shame it wasn
t Dolby Surround).
Last, and probably least, isO
the gameplay. Yes, it
s just an into-the-screen blaster, with precious little in the way of power-ups and bonuses, and
heresy
s not real time. But as a piece of short-term visual and visceral gratificat
ion it
s hard to beat.
Mat Toor (issue 7 review)
Chaos Control
Requires DV Cart for CD-i
Price
49.99 (CD-i)/
39.99(MPC)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000; Virgin 0181 960 2255
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
game which looks better on CD-i than PC? Too weird!
In our February issue we reviewed the CD-i version of Chaos Control, and with the lack of decent shoot-
em-ups available for the platform, we felt comfortab
le in recommending it. However, the PC version was never likely to get the same mark even if it were converted verbatim, simply because on the PC there are better games in the genre and a much wider choice.
it is, PC owners get a second-rate version anyway, and I have no hesitation in declaring that Chaos Control on PC CD-ROM is rubbish. The graphics, which were stunning on the CD-i, are vastly inferior here. What
s more, the enemies are still spooled off the disc as part of the backgrounds, and so rather than disappearing when destroyed, they
re covered up by smoke. A truly terrible piece of programming.
For the uninitU
iated I should explain that the gameplay consists of, well, shooting things. You
re sent down a pre-determined path, and are never bothered with such complex matters as, say, deciding which way to go. Essential
ly there
s zero gameplay and while the introduction, cut sequences and music in Chaos Control are very good, who really cares when there
s no gameplay to enhance it all? Five times zero equals zero.
Regular reaW
ders will know that we dislike games such as Novastorm and StarBlade, and on the opposite page you
ll see that we
ve dismissed Loadstar. Basically we feel that shoot-
em-ups need a twist and that little bit of
flair to be enjoyable. Rebel Assault from LucasArts and Cyberia from Interplay are just two games on the PC which have that flair, Chaos Control doesn
t. It
s that simple.
Warren Chrismas (issue 12 review)
aos Control
Special Requirements PC 33MHz 486DX; CD-i DV Cart
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Created by three eminent historians this mighty four-volume reference book has now been updated and put onto disc
The Chronology of World History, compiled by historians Neville Williams, H.E.L. Mellersh and Rsh and R
y World of Home Movies.
The unthinking man
s Denis Norden takes us through the usual stale archive of Jeremy Beadle-style You
ve Been Framed clips and, I have to say, I was not particularly amused.
Perhaps it wC
as the water rates bill I received that morning. Or maybe it was the fact that I wasn
t tanked up on six pints of lager and a quarter bottle of vodka.
Even the shot of an unwitting moustachioed male straining
to deliver the goods on the loo failed to tickle my late night lavatorial sense of humour. You will be glad to know that all adult expletives are, of course, deleted to ensure this programme is done in the bestE
possible taste.
As you would expect, the film quality of home video material from around the world is often extremely poor. And although this is a weakness in all
candid camcorder
efforts, it is exacerbated
by an MPEG encoding process which can suffer severe indigestion when compressing and decompressing all the on-screen muck.
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o ask, just what is the point of this programme anyway? We can see equally throwaway stuff each week on ITV, or pick up a VHS copy for
2.99 in a Woolworths bargain bin.
No, this disk is a stinker. Chris
you
used to be much better sending yourself up on Tiswas on Saturday mornings, rather than being cruelly smug about other people making idiots out of themselves.
I assume you were paid well for this effort. I only I
hope I will be as generously paid for having to sit through it. (That
s enough humour
Ed.)
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Peter And The Wolf
Prokofiev's classic orchestral tale for children gets a multimedia treatment
"A spectacular interactive celebration of animation and music,
clamours the cunning 3D packaging, promising a bonus audio CD of the
.L. Storey, was published in four volumes between 1966 and 1976. This mighty undertaking listed over 50,000 events occurring between 10,000 BC and AD 1966 and ran to some 2,800 pages. It became a valuable referC
ence both for working historians and students.
The Chronology has been out of print for many years but has finally been rescued by publishers Helicon who commissioned Oxford historian Philip Waller to update th
e modern history volume. Helicon has now republished the Chronology both as four substantial printed volumes and a CD-ROM.
In common with various dictionaries from OUP and Chambers, and McGraw-Hill
s Science NE
avigator encyclopaedia, the CD-ROM Chronology employs AND software
s CompLex system. Much of the structure of the printed books has been retained in this electronic version. In particular, the full time span fr
om 10,000 BC to 1992 is still split into four books.
The Ancient World stretches from the beginning of the food-gathering Middle Stone Age circa 10,000 BC to AD 799, around which time the Book of Kells was beiG
ng produced in the monastery of Iona.
The Medieval World leads from the crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 to 1491 when Perkin Warbeck was persuaded to impersonate a son of Edwar
d IV.
The Expanding World begins in 1492 with Columbus sailing to America, and Da Vinci drawing a flying machine. The volume ends in 1762 with Rousseau publishing The Social Contract and Mozart beginning concerI
t tours, aged six.
The final volume, The Modern World, starts in 1763 with the Peace of Paris between Britain, France and Spain which ended the Seven Years
War. In that same year there was a rising of Red Indi
ans near Detroit. It ends in December 1992 with the announced separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales and a High Court ruling that the British government
s decision to close 31 pits was illegal.
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ach volume, events are laid out in pages, each page relating to one or several consecutive years. Two strands run in parallel. Pages with usually gory, military and political events are interleaved with positiv
e themes of cultural development: the Arts, Science and Technology, Economics and Religion, as well as notable births and deaths. Each page has a heading with the appropriate date(s) together with the most promM
inent events.
It is possible to browse, reading one page after the other in chronological order. There
s a fascination in following a sequence of related events, as there is of discovering sets of unrelated but
contemporary happenings across the world.
Full text search for words or phrases across all four volumes is possible, with the option to restrict your search to a range of dates. As well as page headings and fuO
ll text indexes, you can search just for military and political events or through one of the themes, such as Economics or Music.
Special hierarchical topic indexes are also available. Clicking on Transport in
the Modern World topic index reveals eleven subtopics: aircraft, Channel Tunnel, motor buses in London, motor bicycle
and clicking on the subtopic Channel Tunnel reveals nine events from
first proposed
in 18Q
82 to
two halves meet
in 1990.
Invaluable as these indexes are, it
s still surprising that you can
t simply type in a year and go straight to its events, but instead, need to go through quite a complicated r
igmarole involving the headings index of the appropriate volume.
Whenever a search results in more than one hit, you
re presented with a list, and clicking on one of the items takes you to the page in question.S
A full text search on Shakespeare yields a list whose first item is
1564 Themes: The term Puritan is used - The Tuileries begun
. You have to go to the page in question to discover that Shakespeare was born i
n that year. The problem is that all events are organised within pages, yet page headings more often than not make no reference to the event of interest.
If the underlying data was based on individual events tU
he list of hits would have constituted a valuable specialised chronology in its own right, which you could have saved or printed out.
The CompLex system provides publishers with a relatively easy and fast way o
f porting their reference material to CD-ROM. However, they
re then forced to work within its limitations. In this particular case potentially valuable uses of the Chronology
s raw material have been sacrificedW
Generally, each entry is a single sentence long, although when an event clearly interests the chronology
s compiler a description can take up a whole paragraph. Overall, the chronology provides a comprehensiv
e, text-only skeleton of world history.
Those who prefer a little flesh on their bones may prefer to wait until the autumn when Helicon is publishing the Hutchinson History Library CD-ROM, which will include pY
ictures and maps, a compact version of the Chronology, the contents of several historical dictionaries, and the shorter edition of J.M. Robert
s acclaimed History of the World.
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The not-so-secret files of the world
s largest club of spooks points to incompetence on a grand scale
The files on the CIA
s overthrow of the president of New Guinea
on the orders of J. F. Kennedy
are stil
full orchestral work and a bonus arcade-style game along with all the multimedia. With animations from Chuck Jones
the man behind such cartoon classics as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Roadrunner
the program C
promises plenty. Unfortunately, it doesn
t quite deliver, partly because what
s really needed is full-screen, full motion video.
The animations are certainly clever and attractive, employing a cartoon-book fram
ing approach, but they aren
t interactive. You can use an index facility to dip into the tale at any one of 30 points, or control the pace at which the story unfolds, but otherwise all you do is sit back and waE
tch.
Much of the
point
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at represent them in the music. You can go on to see/hear the character
s theme while watching the score light up as it is played.
There are biographies of Prokofiev and Jones, but cruddy text scrolling obscur
es the details, and the video titles that set out Jones
life
s work are so small as to be unreadable. Yup, there is an
arcade-style
game - but in the style that wowed folks almost ten years ago.
Children wilI
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t have to wear naff jumpers and make hand gestures like a Thunderbirds puppet to be a film buff
Cinemania
95 is a celluloid cornucopia
Cinemania has won awards as one of the best reference CD-ROMs a
l secret after 30 years. Such documents that the CIA have released under the Freedom of Information Act have, not suprisingly, been heavily censored.
The CIA has released its own programs in the past, usually C
shareware demographic data. CIA
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eliver?
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t be that secret. Sure, there is a hisE
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t contain anything you couldn
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but when I say
files
, don
t get car
ried away. The amount of information in each would fit on a cigarette card. The clips are shown in a mock-up cinema with a family crowd
weird when you are watching a film on Savak torture techniques.
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metimes difficult to understand the link between intelligence, as a human attribute, and intelligence in the context of CIA operatives.
Forecasting political events in other countries is the most difficult par
t of intelligence and it
s sometimes done well, but more often then not it
s not. It
s unfortunate.
So says Turner, a retired spook. Lucky old American taxpayers, forking out for this kind of insight
The CIA I
come across as unable to bribe even a postman: the CIA sees Khommeni as being
in distributing his messages on cassettes,
there was nothing we could intercept really
. Occasionally the agency scores. When
the Iranian revolutionaries overran the CIA listening post at Kapkan, a USAF officer, Schaefer, was sent to ransom the hostages. He carried millions of dollars in Iranian currency and such was his bargaining sK
kill, he brought half of it back!
If you want a potted history of US post-war foreign policy, this no worse than some
encylopaedia
collections. There is some cross-referencing, but not enough for a serious wo
rk, and while the interface tries to be friendly, it ends up as flakey as the content.
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The Secret Files
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The French have the same kind of glorious love affair with the motor car as do the English, and just about every wealthy nation on Earth.
Throughout Europe there a
round, and Cinemania
95 builds on this reputation, updating the content, cleaning up the interface and adding a
suggestions
options
a new but not particularly spectacular feature.
The disc is, quite simplyC
, the most definitive CD-ROM-based film reference guide around. Microsoft really scores over its competitors because of its source material. Rather than using just one reference work, the company has gone out a
nd bought rights to a range of major titles including Roger Ebert
s Video Companion, Leonard Maltin
s Movie and Video Guide, and Pauline Kael
s 5001 Nights At The Movies.
This adds up to more than 22,000 revieE
ws, sometimes giving you three different views on the same film
great if you get the impression that, say, Ebert had eaten some dicky popcorn when he wrote his piece. As well as the reviews there is also a hu
ge glossary created from books like The Encyclopedia of Film and How To Read A Film. Oh, and the Academy Awards (Oscars to you) are included, all the way from 1927.
So what about the multimedia side? Well, how G
about more than 2,000 photographs of actors, directors and other industry figures, 139 clips of music and songs, 168 snippets of dialogue and video clips from more than 20 of
the best movies of all time
(it s
ays here)? The movie clips have been well digitised, and were very smooth on playback (at least, on our test 486 PC).
All the text is hot-linked, so clicking on a film title in an actor
s biography, for exampleI
, will take you straight to reviews of that film. One slight criticism here is that there are no full credit lists included, so some contributors
notably composers
often don
t appear in a film
s details. On
the other hand, the individual biographies and filmographies (more than 4,000 of them) are exceptionally detailed.
The user interface retains the same basic appearance in Cinemania
95 as in its predecessor, aK
lthough it has been tidied up slightly; there are far fewer glitches and hiccups, and the whole thing seems to work rather faster in this new version.
There is also a new section to the disc: a
suggestions
tion. You pick the type of film that you want to watch (comedy, action movie or whatever) and the program will produce a list of suggested movies for you to try. It
s a nice idea, but it
s been implemented in aM
rather rudimentary way, and if this is the sort of thing appeals to you then you
d be much better off checking out Movie Select (see right).
All in all, Cinemania
95 is an excellent product, and well worth th
e price for anyone interested in cinema. Whether you should buy the new version if you already have Cinemania
94 depends on whether you want the most up-to-date information available
s rather like asking O
yourself whether you need to buy the Variety 1994 Movie Guide if you already have the 1993 edition.
Oh, and for any Mac users out there, the Macintosh version of this new edition is due soon.
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Classic Cartoons
Chestnut
s odds and sods collection is called Cartoon Classics. Er,
Classics
? Not quite. There is a Woody Woodpecker cartoon on this disc, though no Woody you
d identify in front of a jury. There
s also a Mig
re groups of men discussing, in reverent tones, such mysteries as ABS braking and alloy wheels. The French, however, can call on the latest technology in their quest to become champion European car bores.
Now C
my French doesn
t stretch very far but luckily you don
t need much to get into this disc as large sections of it are made up of universally-understood pictures and diagrams.
In the car reviews section you can l
ook at a model
s colour range and paint the car with a click of a button. This section also lets you add up the cost of all those optional extras by letting you click on a list to automatically tot up the damagE
There is an interesting news section and the shopping page lets you browse through a selection of manly consumer goods such as portable CD players, surround sound TVs and digital organisers. The disc conclud
es with a look at legal issues.
The QuickTime quality is poor, highly compressed and grainy, but then there is a lot of it. And some of the video clips and dialogues are a bit reluctant to get off the screen evG
en when you have moved to a new section.
Nevertheless while not exactly a Porsche, this disc is a nice little runner that hopefully will provide UK CD-ROM publishers with the fuel to start similar ventures up o
1 a time from the bookshop at the railway station, this disc should be right up your siding
What constitutes Great Literature? Works by Aristotle, Tolstoy, and Conan Doyle.
hty Mouse, if you
re into that sort of cartoon.
The other four slots are filled by The Three Bears, A Coach For Cinderella, Little Lulu, Old MacDonald
s farm and the spectacularly winsome Raggedy Ann. In short,C
these are the kind of cartoons that Tony Robinson would introduce on Cartoon Time with an apologetic look and the excuse that he was showing them because the second colourist had later become famous. In other
words these are the dregs.
Woody Woodpecker
talks like him, laughs like him, and that surely is his theme tune. But it doesn
t look like him. So early is the cartoon, that Woody
s appearance
like his cartooE
n betters such as Mickey Mouse
had not been finalised. Here he looks like a fat blue bird rather than the slinky, strangely-ruffed creature of his most popular era.
The overall digitisation is actually quite
good, with Woody being a poor example. Unfortunately, the cleanest video belongs to the worst cartoon: Raggedy Ann, about a lost rag doll and the joy she brings her new owner. Pass the sick bag.
Is MTV plumbing the depths, or tapping into a rich vein with its first interactive foray?
This CD-ROM is MTV
s first foray into the world of interactive entertainment, and from the moment the game begins you
But not, it seems, Wordsworth, Flaubert, Alexander Pope or Salman Rushdie.
The Classic Library is a collection of 2,000 digitised texts from
all ages and cultures
, or so it claims. It includes poetry, drama,C
novels, philosophical, political and economic tracts ranging from the Wealth of Nations, through Plato, to Kipling
s Kim, Jane Eyre and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not to mention works from Fran
k L Baum, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (whoever she is).
As with all such compilations, the temptation is to quibble with the choices of the compiler: The Pot of Basil, with its E
immortal last line
Oh Cruelty/To steal my basil-pot away from me
t something that I would normally have included in my seminal 2,000 texts. And the paucity of texts from the 20th century suggests that co
pyright fees (or lack of them) played as significant a part as aesthetic judgement in the choice of the works included.
However, this is probably inevitable in an anthology of this breadth. And publishing liteG
rature on disc does have its advantages. The disc is undeniably more compact than the paper versions of these works. It is also cheaper. And, most importantly, it allows you to cross-reference and navigate arou
nd texts easily.
The software is fairly efficient at all these tasks. It comes with a clear Windows-based interface that provides a Bookshelf (albeit one that oddly indexes titles without authors), a separate I
Authors index, a Bookmark, and search and word processing facilities. The texts are unabridged, and access times are reasonably quick on a decent 486
under 30 seconds for the Critique of Pure Reason and less
than 10 seconds for the Ode on Melancholy.
Within the texts, clicking on any word brings up a list of other texts containing that word, making searching across texts phenomenally quick. Searching across texts iK
s also possible via the Field, Author, or Word tools. However, you can only search by single words related by the logical operators AND, OR and NOT, rather than by phrase. A search which included the words Darl
ing Buds of May, for example, threw up 20 works containing the individual words rather than the obvious one we were looking for.
The word processing tools are also a little alarming. Using the search and replacM
e feature, you can help the Ancient Mariner out of a jam by swapping the notorious albatross for a pussy cat. But it is difficult to see what this feature could be used for
except for passing off great works
of poetry and literature as your own. Seducers and plagiarists take note.
Classic Library suffers from a perennial problem; that of convincing lovers of literature to read books on a computer screen, rather thaO
n on paper
not least because it is so wearing on the eyes. And the absence of heavyweight analytical tools undermines the use of the disc as a professional research tool. You could not, for example, use the d
isc to search the works of Shakespeare for the author
s favourite scatological adjectives, and arrange them in ascending order of preference. Even if you wanted to.
But so long as one avoids the temptation to rQ
egard Classic Library as an attempt to collect
the cannon
of literature, it is an interesting and enjoyable CD-ROM.
And where else could you get 2,000 novels for under
Caroline Bassett
Classic Library
Price
34.99
Contact Andromeda 01235 529595
Category
Reference/Entertainment/
Education
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Interactive multimedia, a new dawn in consumer entertainment. Somehow the buzz-words fade away when you start playing the CD-i ver
re not allowed to forget its pedigree. Club Dead is loud, brash and impossible to ignore
just like the network itself.
Star of the game is Sam Frost, a cyberplumber working at the Hotel Alexandria
a 17-stoC
rey monstrosity offering its rich and famous clients an unparallelled experience in virtual reality.
, as it
s known, is rife in the future and everyone does it
even our hero, who wakes up on the floor of
his hotel at the beginning of the game in the throes of a flashback. From this moment on you realise you don
t have a clue what
s going on. It
s a feeling that stays with you throughout. Even discovering that SE
am is working undercover doesn
t help much.
The first thing to do then, naturally, is explore. In the beginning you have only restricted access so most of the hotel
s floors remain elusively out of reach. Howev
er, as you progress and talk to people you
ll find this access widened, allowing you to explore further afield. Movement between floors is via a lift and each area you visit is presented by means of some beautiG
fully rendered graphics.
Every time you step out of the lift and enter one of these rooms a video clip will play and a scene unfolds, advancing the plot. A clock at the top of the screen keeps game time and cli
ps can take up anything from five minutes if you
re at a dead end, to several hours if something important is happening.
Sam has several secret missions to complete in order to stay alive, but they are so secreI
t he doesn
t know what they are. In fact, his brain
s so fried he doesn
t know much, fullstop. Fortunately, you begin the game with several tools to help you get to grips with what
s happening. These include an
on-line visual ansafone and an invaluable guide to the hotel, its facilities, guests and staff.
You also have a Personal Data Assistant or PDA which allows you to record and review your daily activities. AfterK
going to a room, the PDA will take a visual snapshot of the event which you can download and study at your convenience. Along the way you
ll also pick up or be given items of interest. These are stored in a in
ventory, but you can only use one at a time so it
s vital to carry the right one.
The graphics in Club Dead are all superb, from the rendered rooms, through the video clips
which cut and flash in true MTV shoM
rt-span style
to the various animations that run throughout. Where the game really scores points, though, is in its sound. The effects are never less than stunning, the voice-overs brilliant and the music bli
stering. Nine Inch Nails producer Martin Atkins is the man behind the score and from the funky options screen music to the subliminal lift musak, it
s faultless.
Club Dead may not be the best game ever
it canO
get ridiculously difficult and the gameplay really isn
t all that involving
but the plot is excellent and whole thing fits together so well that, just for once, it really doesn
t matter all that much.
David
P` Williams
Club Dead
Price
Contact CIC Interactive
0181 563 4013
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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CNN Time Capsule 1993
Feel like becoming a walking reference work on last year? Then take a look at the year that was with CNN
s interactive news digest
This was the year of Woody and Mia, Bobbitt
s digit, religious fervour in Waco
sion of Cluedo. In their place drift dim and distant memories of playing Cluedo as a nipper: orange note pads, blunt pencils, lead piping and that tatty black envelope at the centre of the playing board.
The plC
ot of Cluedo on CD-i recreates that of the board game. Set in a posh country manor, the master of the estate
the unpleasant Mr Boddy
has been done over. Your job is to work out who done it, where the deed w
as done and what implement the doing over was done with. All the old suspects (Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard et al) are in attendance, and the weapons still include the revolver, rope and lead piping. AlthoughE
sadly the orange paper pads and pencils have given way to wipe-clean cards and colour co-ordinated felt pens.
When you load the game, one of three possible scenarios is randomly selected. Each plotline is intr
oduced with a full motion video sequence featuring the Butler, and its own web of motives and alibis for the murder. The programmers have cleverly managed to create a shared set of
criminal resources
which meG
ans that even if you
ve already played the scenario before, the murderer is not necessarily the same person.
To begin, each player selects a character and the game then shifts to a representation of the Cluedo
board. You move your playing piece in and out of the various rooms on the board by rolling the on-screen dice. This moves you into a photorealistic environment where you can hunt for clues by using your on-screI
en magnifying glass. Is that stain on the carpet important? What about that empty cupboard? And what are those kinky red gloves doing in the punch bowl? But clues alone won
t reveal the murderer. You also need
to grill the suspects by taking their statements and uncovering their alibis. And find out each suspect
s motive for topping Mr Boddy.
If you
re completely stumped you can ask the butler for a clue
which willK
cost you one of your three chances to make an accusation. To prevent the other players eavesdropping on your clue you must push one of the two action buttons to elicit a truthful or false statement from the Bu
tler. So if he says the murder weapon was one of three pictured on screen
only you know whether to believe him. Finally there are the digital video flashbacks that accompany each room. These flesh out the ploM
t and characterisations and also carry important information. The films are supremely well acted (by a cast of British stalwarts led by Joan Sims, Susan Wooldridge and John Standing) and are enjoyable to watch
in their own right
at least for the first couple of times.
The big challenge for the developers of Cluedo was to find a way of reinventing an established board-game into a piece of enjoyable multimedia. ThankO
fully they have fashioned a fun and
compared to most of the other
interactive movies
on the market
refreshingly original piece of software. The sensation of quality is reinforced not only by the sky-high
production values of the video footage (well Sky TV standard, at least), but also the cleverness of the interactive code. Screen changes are relatively fast, the controls are responsive and the interface logicaQ
l. And, at last, we have a game with a comprehensive on-screen manual
the only thing it lacks are hypertext links between the topics.
The gameplay may not be to everyone
s taste. Inevitably there is a certain
amount of repetition as different players conduct similar enquiries and, as you would expect, the pace is leisurely. But the process of tracking down, and finally nailing, the killer through a combination of eS
limination, deduction and sheer guesswork can be immensely enthralling. Like the boardgame, Cluedo on CD-i is not something you
ll want to play every night (and with only four different outcomes to each scenari
s probably just as well). But, under the right conditions, with a group of mates or your family, Cluedo is a great way to waste an evening.
Mat Toor
Cluedo
Requires Digital Video Cartridge
Price
39.99 UG(inc VAT)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Bob Morlock is a sprightly 800,000 years old. He
s a cryogenic stiff and he
s dying to see the Big Bang. Your mission, should you decide to take it
Every now and then, you come across a game that defies descr
Landis runs a tight script, keeping a deft handle on Murphy
s usual tendencies to drift into comic excess and, in the process, uncovering a supreme talent for mimicry and impeccable timing.
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a molly-coddled African prince who rebels against his lineage and longs to sample life in the real world. By
real world
he means New York
s mean streets, where he believes he can find a woman who loves him fo
r himself and not his worldly riches.
With his disgruntled servant (Arsenio Hall) in tow, Akeem shacks up in a less-than-salubrious tenement block in Queens and hardly before the boys have had time to shed theE
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life environment, he stumbles across the lovely Lisa (Headley). The rest i
s utterly predictable, but still fun.
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re usually light, bright, intricately detailed and awash with movem
ent) are fast becoming the most serious of MPEG-busters. But that
s a minor grumble concerning a two minute scene in a two hour movie.
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FA'Compton
s Interactive Encyclopedia 1995
Crammed with information and packed with innovative features this latest edition promises to give other encyclopaedias a run for their money
Now this is what I call multimedia. Humongous armfuls of assets
iption. Commander Blood is so abstract and bizarre that I
d like to think up a new category to describe it
if only I could. The best I can do is to sneakily appropriate a word from the world of celluloid, whicC
h describes a wide range of cult, exploitation, and downright unusual movies: it
s a psychotronic game.
ll keep the plot description brief since it makes my head spin. The game begins with your starship, the
Ark, floating in deep space following a trip through a nearby black hole. You are carrying the cryogenically frozen form of Bob Morlock, the oldest man in the Universe. Bob is over 800,000 years old, and has buE
t one desire
to travel back through time and witness the Big Bang before he finally kicks it. Your mission is to uncover a path through the time-space continium to the dawn of creation, while discovering the
secret of the meaning of existence along the way (cough).
What this all boils down to is a weird and occasionally wonderful journey through the galaxy, with the emphasis on interacting with a cast of perplexingG
and improbable aliens. There aren
t really any problems to deal with (aside from the meaning of life), there
s no combat, no time limit, and no sense of realism.
What you do get, however, is a large helping of
extremely slick FMV sequences and lashes of imaginative design and animation. Make no mistake about it, this game looks very nice indeed.
Most of the time you
ll be moving around from console to console in thI
e Ark cockpit, making use of the beautifully animated 3D virtual
(controlled by the mouse), which you use to select various features. Sometimes you
ll have the opportunity to enter into cyberspace which
surprise, surprise
represented by an ethereal void populated by brightly-coloured chunks of data. Again, these sections look fantastic, featuring by far the most convincing cybernetic manta rays I
ve eveK
r seen. It
s rather like playing the CD-ROM equivalent of an Orb video.
The aliens themselves are even better, taking the form of either (a) smooth, rendered computer animations, or (b) unemployed French actors
in unconvincing rubber suits, the likes of which haven
t been seen since
Godzilla vs Mothra
As far as I
m concerned, these rubber suits simply add to the game
s appeal: the people behind all this are quiteM
clearly disturbed, and that can only be a very good thing.
But there
s a huge void at the heart of Commander Blood
there isn
t much of a game there. If you find it entertaining, it
ll be due to its sumptuous
feel and inherent oddness, rather than a burning desire to see the challenge through to the bitter end.
Much as I appreciated its flair and originality, it didn
The undead have risen. Again. A megalomaniac scientist goes on the rampage. Again. It
s an old-fash root-
em-up
with a dash of voodoo
A zombie lurches out of the undergrowth. You can tell it
s a zombie becau
ictures, music, sound, movies and text
all crammed onto a single disc with a control system that allows you to access it in half a dozen radically different ways. From the main interface screen, which ComptonC
s calls The Tableau, there are six basic routes into the data
Contents, Idea Search, InfoPilot, Topic Tree, Atlas, and Timeline.
The really innovative feature though, is the Editing Room which allows you to
repackage the information you uncover and come up with your own mini-multimedia presentation.
As you surf the megabytes of data held in Compton
s, you simply mark an item for future use by clicking a bookmarkE
button.
Once you have completed your trawl, you can then pop into the Editing Room and assemble your bookmarked extracts into a linear, multimedia slideshow. Simple facilities for adding titles and timing the
flow of material are on offer and, if you like, you can add your own sounds or voiceovers. This is true participation, and the educational application is clear: not only do you get an introduction to the conceG
pts behind Audio Visual production, you can save your own projects to disk and play them back to friends or teachers.
Another new feature in this edition is the Explore interface, that allows you to use one of
four graphic
environments
as the front-end to the content. Via the preferences option, you can choose between an attic, a newsroom, a spaceship and a playroom as your environment. Click once on an active objeI
ct on one of these screens and you will be treated to a simplistic animation; click twice and you gain access to the linked Compton
s screen. Aimed at information grazers who don
t like the feel of a
computer
interface, the Explore option is an interesting approach that will certainly appeal to younger ones, and while it lacks the polish and finesse of the other interface options in this programme, it will be interK
esting to see how the producers develop this concept for the
96 edition.
On the whole, the Compton team have done themselves proud with the interface redesign. In use, it proves to be intuitive, powerful and b
est of all: fun.
To get you going, there
s a Guided Tour option, which is presented from the comfort of a video window by the ubiquitous Patrick Stewart, the former Star Trek: TNG captain who is rapidly becomiM
ng multimedia
s answer to Tony Slattery. This help link is carried into the main encyclopaedia so that if you ask for a bit of advice, there
s every chance that Mr Stewart will deliver.
For linear searches, the
alphabetical Contents path or the hierarchical Topic Tree menu system take you quickly to the information you want to access. If you are less certain about what you want, you can use Idea Search or InfoPilot tO
o cruise through the encyclopaedia.
Idea Search allows you to select the data categories you are interested in (articles, pictures, movies, sounds and tables); you then input a phrase or question and the syste
m comes up with a list of related items for you to browse through. InfoPilot, on the other hand, attempts to
brainstorm
around your query; delivering first a shortlist of related articles, then putting up a sQ
creenful of articles and buttons to give you access to more entries in the encyclopaedia.
Finally, the Atlas and Timeline paths order the contents in geographical and historical perspective. With the Atlas oper
ational, you can wander around the globe, zooming in and out to the appropriate level of detail or entering place names to drive the map to the correct location. The Timeline interface organises events into
such as Renaissance Europe or The Iron Age at its highest level; zooming in to the detailed level brings up panels that summarise significant events; clicking on these panels calls up the relevant entry in
the encyclopaedia; and all the while, there are permanently active hotlinks that allow you to click on any word in a text window to call up its dictionary definition.
Competition is hotting up in the multimediaU
encyclopaedia market, with the major players working hard on their presentation and interfaces, lowering prices
and even offering upgrades on each other
s discs. With this new edition, Compton
s remains a se
rious contender.
Graeme Kidd
Compton
s Interactive Encyclopedia
Price
69.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Active 0181 838 1280
Category
Reference/Education
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Count Basie-Swinging The Blues
Liking jazz is one of those things, like whisky and knowing what a MIRAS form is, that says you have truly grown up. Jazz is difficult stuff, goes the reasoning, with all those complex harmonies and intricate c
se the face is a twisted, rotting, maggot-sanctuary. The real giveaway, of course, is the drunken knee trembling shuffle that passes for a walk.
The zombie has spotted lunch
this being a US Special Forces paC
ratrooper whose
chute has caught in a tree and left him a helpless, dangling bundle of protein. The zombie
s grabbing the trooper
s legs, trying to get his decaying choppers into a nice piece of well-toned cal
f when suddenly a jeep pulls up. A Rastafarian jumps out and spin-throws a large machete.
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thunk!
aaarghhhhhh (subsides into standard undead death rattle)
. The Rasta retrieves his weaponE
from the dead (?) zombie
s chest, rushes up to the camera
s a first-person perspective shot from the trooper
s eyes
and shouts:
Welcome to HELL, mon!
Yes, it
s interactive movie time, though Corpse Ki
ller, the new game from Night Trap developer Digital Pictures, has far higher production values than most. For a start, it
s the first game I
ve seen that is filmed on a real Caribbean location (as opposed to uG
sing blue screen chroma-key to
drop in
a computer-generated background).
The use of professional actors (including Vincent Schiavelli, the wired subway spook in Ghost) also lifts the production to half-decen
B-movie
levels. The video quality
using Digital Pictures
proprietary DigiChrome system
is superb, with even my LC475 churning out two-thirds screen, high frame-rate images.
The plot concerns a shady PI
entagon plan to resurrect dead prisoners and create a zombie army. Unfortunately, the nefarious necrobiologist Dr Elgin R Hellman has spun out of control and used the undead shocktroops to seize control of the
Caribbean island of Cay Noir. Your job, as an elite US Special Forces strike team, is to
chute in and terminate Hellman and Co. with extreme prejudice
The gameplay will be instantly familiar to anyone who
layed Operation Wolf or Terminator 2 in the arcades. As the screen scrolls slowly from left to right, you control an on-screen crosshair to shoot every zombie in sight. And, er, that
s it.
Well, not quite. A m
odicum of variety is provided by the introduction of magical voodoo accessories to add potency to your bullets while offering protection against some of the higher level zombies
special attacks.
You have to apM
plaud Digital Pictures for doing its utmost to squeeze some extra drops of gameplay from an arid old formula, but the end result is still disappointing. Using your mouse to move the gunsight castrates the gunsl
ingin
machismo of this type of game. The Sega CD version is compatible with all lightguns, sadly no such options are available for Mac or
so far
3DO users.
Corpse Killer falls into the familiar trap of beiO
ng more game-video than video game. The filmed sequences make an excellent entr
but no amount of trimmings can conceal the fact that the main course is an unappetising stew of stale leftovers.
Mat Toor
Porpse Killer
Requires 8Mb RAM, LCIII or better
Price TBC
Contact Acclaim 0171 344 5000
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Frank and his dog go jellybean-counting in this bright and cheerful maths adventure
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ross-rhythms, so you have to be some kind of goddamn sophisticate to appreciate the stuff in the first place.
Whoever formulated that sweeping generalisation had never heard of Count Basie, because while other C
jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman or Cecil Taylor might be genuinely difficult, Basi
s stuff is more your heads-down, no-nonsense, good-time boogie.
Or, to be precise, good-time swing. Basie
s music was calle
d swing because it made you dance
that was its whole purpose. Count Basie
Swinging The Blues falls neatly into one particular Jazz documentary genre: the old codger film. The majority of the hour-long MPEG E
movie is taken up with ex-members of the Count Basie band, including the pungently named Sweets Edison and Illinois Jacquet, sitting round a table drinking wine and reminiscing about the great days of the 1930s
when swing ruled, before the bastard hybrid bebop took over. The interviews are punctuated with classic black and white footage of the Count and his band doing what they do best. It
s an incredibly unimaginatiG
ve format, but it works very well.
For the undemanding this offers a neat history of Count Basie, swing and its (and his) origins in Kansas City. What it doesn
t explain is why Kansas City was such an important
city for American jazz (it was the first stop up from the South as black migrant workers moved towards the industrial North). But hey, learned analysis isn
t really in the Count Basie tradition.
Jim Smith
ount Basie
Swinging the Blues
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
14.99 (inc VAT)
Contact CD-Vision 0181 503 0589
Platform VideoCD
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146.88
15-minute
15.99
150mph
15inch
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34.99G
Electronic Arts
01753 549442H
Young ChildrenJ
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40[ Under
Creature Shock
It might have an uninspiring story line, but Creature Shock is a compelling and atmospheric 3D adventure shoot-'em-up that'll have you panting for more
Like many other CD action games around at the moment, Cre
venture game and a living book.
The plot is far from convoluted: Frank
s aim is to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in Mrs Sherman
s General Store, and he
s got his calculator and notepad to help him. PlC
us, of course, his sunglasses-wearing dog Henry and quasi-girlfriend Ginger. During the game, when you see the cursor turn to a jellybean, you access one of the mathematical problems. Solve the problem correctl
y and Frank gains a clue which will help him guess the number of jellybeans in the jar. When the cursor turns into a dice, you
re about to access one of the four mini-games tucked away behind the main adventureE
. All this action takes place over eight screens: the store where it all begins; the park between the store and Frank
s home; four rooms in Frank
s house; the garden (or Front Yard) and a treehouse.
There
s lot
s of fun to be had in each location
clicking around on the bright cartoon graphics reveal jokey surprises.
hidden
games in themselves represent good value, although only two of them have anything to doG
with sums. Concentration, as its name implies, is essentially a number recognition and memory game, while Geometron encourages thinking about shapes. In this, the two contestants take it in turns to place a li
ne on a grid, and when that line completes the outline of one of the cells, a point is won. Then there
s Math Machine, in which you sit at a console and assemble the components of an equation that will produce I
the required answer, and Magic Numbers, a kind of mathematical noughts and crosses.
At the lowest level
exploring the play area and enjoying the multi-level mini-games that are hidden away
Counting on Frank
should provide worthwhile entertainment. There
s plenty of fun and challenge to be had and a couple of the games have a two-player mode so parents or friends can join in. The main adventure, that jellybean-couK
nting quest, can be enjoyed at three levels of difficulty. The units of measurement can be set to metric, although, strangely, all the shopping deals still have to be done in dollars!
All the elements that prov
ide the infrastructure of a good adventure game are here, including a save and restore game facility and a hint option that can advise on the way to go about solving the mathematical problems to earn a clue. AtM
any time, Frank
s handy notepad and calculator can be called up by clicking on his pocket, the notepad being used to store clues and other text notes you may wish to make.
The only slightly annoying element is
the North American emphasis. The game was developed in conjunction with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and is firmly in tune with the curriculum requirements on the other side of the Atlantic.O
Counting on Frank seeks to improve calculator skills by setting mathematical problems in a
real world
environment. The only way you can get to a right answer is by working out the sums on Frank
s calculator
keyboard
a bonus option for doing the working out in your head and entering the answer directly would have made this programme a real humdinger.
Graeme Kidd
Counting on Frank
Price
34.99 (inc. VAT)
ContactQJ Electronic Arts 01753 549442
Category
Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Virgin
0181 960 2255H
GamesJ
3.5R Under
50[ Under
Crime Patrol
If you enjoyed Mad Dog McCree and want more this may well interest. You
re a cop up against some nasty baddies
The Mad Dod McCree format of shooting
baddies lends itself to different scenarios, and Crim
ature Shock has a distinctly unoriginal and spectacularly silly story-line. In the distant future, Earth is over-populated so the US sends the SS Amazon off into space to find a new world for Earth
s inhabitantC
s. On its way, the space ship collides with a giant alien asteroid (nice rip-off from Empire Strikes Back, eh?) and its only crew member is hurtled into space. Your task is to find her.
From the opening scenes
of the highly impressive animated introduction, right through to the later stages of the game, Creature Shock oozes polish and class. Well, most of it anyway. The first section is a real put-off. This is a simpE
le shoot-
em-up, but the graphics are so bad it
s difficult to tell what exactly you should be shooting at. There
s a guardian at the end of this level to dispose of but this simply involves shooting at him any
where you like (the guns home in on his weak point automatically) and sitting there for absolutely ages waiting for him to blow up.
When you finally make your way to the asteroid, you find an alien ship inside G
it which, surprisingly enough, is home to a large number of aliens. The graphics for this, the major part of the game, are superb. All the characters and backgrounds were created using 3D Studio and the smoothn
ess of the animation has to be seen to be believed.
You view the environment through the eyes of your hero and move him around using the mouse. The interface is a dream to use and you
ll soon be navigating aroI
und the game area with confidence and ease. The general idea is to find your way through the twisting caverns and shoot everything you come across. The larger creatures have different weak spots and you have to
figure out what they are and then, er, blast the hell out of them. This is not as easy as it sounds. Finding the weak spots is not in itself very difficult, but some of the monsters move so fast you
ll need a K
large amount of luck as well as quick reflexes.
Creature Shock is a compelling and atmospheric 3D adventure game unlike anything you
ve ever seen before. It has its problems, though. The music could have been
better, and the lack of an automap facility in the tunnel levels is slightly annoying. The weakest parts of the game, though, are the shoot-
em-up sections between the main levels. These are very poor, and ultiM
mately spoil an otherwise excellent game.
Chris Anderson
Creature Shock
Price
49.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Virgin 0181 960 2255
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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0171 636 2666
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Criterion Goes To The Movies
From the prolific Voyager Company comes Criterion Goes To The Movies, a self-proclaimed guide to
the greatest movies of all time
based on the Criterion Collection
s library of classic movies available on lase
e Patrol is the latest in an evergrowing series. Here, rather than taking part in a Western shoot-out, you
re an American cop who shoots first, asks questions later.
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department store, warehouse, airport runway, nightclub, bank and so on. If you
ve played any of the Mad Dog McCree games, the gameplay will be exactly as you expect too. There really is no difference, asi
de from the video footage.
The problem is that while the naff acting and storyline in Mad Dog could be forgiven, it
s becoming harder to forgive American Laser Game. Your partners come out with such rubbish
s kick some butt
You bozzo
Later dude
and so on
that before long you
ll want to shoot them rather than the baddies.
Probably the major set-back (for 3DO owners at least) is that control is so blood
y difficult. Using the B and C buttons you can speed up the crosshair movement to twice or four times the normal speed, but to do really well you
ll need to anticipate the locations of the bad guys
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ng the gun to the right position before they appear and not a split second after. This undoubtedly takes the fun out of it.
The answer is to use a GameGun (lightgun), but these aren
t widely available in the UK
for the 3DO and aren
t due to be launched at all for the PC until the summer.
If you have a GameGun and you
ve had your gutful of Mad Dog McCree, then Crime Patrol is worth a look.
Warren Chrismas
Crime PatI|rol
Requires GameGun recommended
Price
30 (3DO only)
Contact TCR Computer Exchange
0171 636 2666
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Critical Path
A video-based multimedia adventure in a post-holocaust world where one wrong decision is the difference between life and death.
Critical Path combines video, sound and awesome graphics to a create a science
graphs of the major cast members of almost all the films featured. (The selection of films can be slightly suspect at times, though
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as one of the gr
he default 3.5Mb had to be increased to avoid jerky playback. Nevertheless, this is an interesting and informative offering, and one that any film fan should check out.
Criterion Goes To The Movies
Reviewed OnG\ Mac
Price
39.99
Contact Astrion 0181 202 0011
Category Reference
Platform Mac MPC CD-i 3DO
uickTime excerpts smoothly, with few glitches
as long as enough RAM is allocated to the application; t
eatest movies ever is an interesting concept.)
The interface is generally easy to use, and a good deal of thought has gone into making navigation through the information as easy and intuitive as possible. The bE
rowsing application is written in HyperCard, and for the most part works well, playing back the numerous QuickTime excerpts smoothly, with few glitches
as long as enough RAM is allocated to the application; t
rdisc in the States. This CD-ROM is essentially a multimedia catalogue of the collection including QuickTime movie clips, critical essays on the films, cast and credit lists and synopses of the 150 movies featuC
red. There are also photographs of the major cast members of almost all the films featured. (The selection of films can be slightly suspect at times, though
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as one of the gr
You know the basic premise from the first Crocodile Dundee film: wide-eyed and naive child of nature visits the Big Apple, takes on the whole of sophisticated civilisation and uses his Outback simplicity to unrunrA
the world
s population have met with untimely deaths, and the majority of the survivors have turned into asthmatic mutants of the Darth Vader variety; a nice enough place to visit but you wouldn
t want to li
are capable of this is one way to do it, but if the adrenalin rush of a shoot-em-up is what you crave, you may have to wait a little longer until designers work out a way to make interactive movies more involviO
Jim Morgan
Special requirements PC: 386/33MHz, 256-colour, SVGA display
Price Under
Contact MediaVision
001 415 770 8600
Platform Mac MPC CD-i 3DO
and saying
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in Bill and T
ete. This is a shame as some trickier puzzles would have worked well with the inspired and often extremely violent video to enhance the value of the game
50 is fairly expensive for just a few hours of gameplM
Interactive multimedia games are still in their infancy, but this offering shows the enormous potential that is there. If you want to show your DOS-bound friends the stunning graphics that Windows machines
s sparse. This is doubtless a consequence of the interactive movie format
which forces you to watch what is happening on the screen until you reach a decision point and then make a decision based on informatiK
on gleaned from General Minh
s insane scribblings. The puzzles are not desperately taxing either, especially for more experienced players, which means that the game shouldn
t take more than a few hours to compl
twise games players will soon get the hang of using the aforementioned booby-traps to waste a few mutants and help Kat on her way.
The action is a mixture of animation and video, and is the game
s strong point.I
When you run the game with a 16-bit colour video card at 640 x 480 resolution, it looks impressively realistic and really draws you in to the scenario.
Aside from the opulent graphics, however, the gameplay i
ed-like appreciation of his grungy handiwork.
Things get worse by degrees. You are injured and your only hope of not being turned into stir-fry lies with Kat, the chopper-flying heroine. You are holed up in a cG
ontrol room and have to guide Kat through General Minh
s secret lair, by means of a rudimentary communications device. You can also see a signal from a video camera mounted on her head and hear her voice. Stree
ve there. Most of these unfortunates seem to have migrated to a small tropical island, where as luck (and the demands of narrative) would have it, your helicopter develops a fault and you are forced to land. AsE
well as the understandably irate mutants, you have your first encounter with the evil and deranged General Minh, whose hobbies include laying booby-traps, torturing people and saying
Excellent!
in Bill and T
iction saga described by the manufacturers as the world
s first interactive movie. Hmmm
The story is set in the post-apocalyptic confusion which reigns after a little local nuclear difficulty. Ninety per cent C
of the world
s population have met with untimely deaths, and the majority of the survivors have turned into asthmatic mutants of the Darth Vader variety; a nice enough place to visit but you wouldn
This slapstick DIY musical disc gets a standing ovation from three to six-year-olds
If, like me, you had no idea who Sharon, Lois and Bram were before setting eyes on this CD, you
ll probably soon wish you nev
avel the overblown and complicated edifice, revealing it up for the empty hyperbole it really is
at the same time making us all hanker after some lost Golden Age when men were men and women were grateful.
sequel is also concerned with masks. Mick
s girlfriend, ace reporter Sue Charlton (again played by Linda Kozlowski, who doesn
t actually seem to report anything), becomes embroiled in a Colombian cocaine baron
s dreams of respectability, when ex-husband Bob takes incriminating photos of drug-thug Rico and then mails the film to Sue.
Rico kidnaps Sue, Mick rescues her, the DEA can
t properly protect them, so Mick whiE
sks Sue off to the Outback
knowing Rico will follow
the gladiatorial arena he knows so well.
Crocodile Dundee II is slightly more knowing than its pre-decessor, so the humour is not as biting. But for all t
hat, it
s a good romp and the Aussie scenery is used effectively as a stark contrast to the city. No complaints about the encoding either, there are few visible artefacts even in the numerous fast-action scenesG
Barbara Smith
Crocodile Dundee II
Special Requirements DV cart for CD-i
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Director John Cornell
Starring Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Charles DuttonH&
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001 201 307 8866H
Young ChildrenJ
Cyberia
The adventure sections seem more like 'walky-round bits', but dismiss this game at your peril
On the surface, Interplay
s Cyberia looks like just another CD-ROM-based action game with gorgeous 3D pre-rendered
er had. Sharon, Lois and Bram are the US equivalent of Rod, Jane and Freddy out of Rainbow. Much jazzier than our dungareed equivalents, the US trio smile, dance and sing their way through life in a way that wiC
ll cause most grown ups to lose their lunch. Unfortunately, kids love them.
Aimed at three- to six-year-olds, CyberBoogie lets kids create musicals from a pre-defined set of characters, sets, songs and props. T
hough it may teach your child a few mouse skills and creative assemblage, there isn
t much educational worth in this CD. It
s played strictly for fun.
And with this simple aim in mind, Cyberboogie is well-suiteE
d to its target audience. The screens are visually interesting, the buttons large and colourful, the songs are lively (read nauseating if you are over five years of age) and kids love it.
Once you
ve found the
instructions for installation (in a readme file on the CD rather than in the manual), CyberBoogie leaps to a cartoon stage with a remarkably rhymic elephant dancing to Sharon, Lois and Bram
s Skinnamarink songG
The cheery trio act as guides through the main menu area telling kids what to click on and how to do things. With another dancing elephant, a very bad joke and a
live audience
Sharon, Lois and Bram then in
troduce themselves, their songs and the concept of musicals to kids. The trio also take part in an excellent
Learn How to Make Shows
area where the mouse pointer moves around the screen and helps kids find thI
eir way around.
From thereon, kids can either create their own shows or play and edit one of the ten shows bundled on the CD.
The main creative area of CyberBoogie looks like a traditional stage with the curta
in lowered. Four toolbars surround the stage on all sides and provide single-click access to backgrounds (15 of them from a bathroom to a train station), 10 songs, 20 Wacky Things and five characters. Wacky ThiK
ngs include everything from a dancing toilet, a toothpaste tube with a snake inside to a dancing cactus, while the characters, or Animates as they
re known, include Rosa the giraffe and Agnes the cow.
To put o
n a show, all the producer has to do is combine the elements, choreograph the characters and then record the show to the hard disc using standard VCR-type controls.
s not all plain sailing with Cyberboogie.M
The package is power hungry and it
s probably not a good idea to run it on a PC with less than 8Mb of RAM. And while Sharon, Lois and Bram help kids along the way, the help menu itself leaves a lot to be desir
ed. Hidden away on a two-sided toolbar, with an awful colour combination and 10 point text, the help is designed for adults and kids don
t stand a chance.
CyberBoogie is one of those programs that needs to be sO
een to be believed. It
s full of fun, colour, music and interesting noises.
A mere review and a few pictures don
t do it justice. It is virtually guaranteed to challenge and entertain your children, but like b
uying them a tin drum for Christmas, it may also take its toll on your sanity. Don
t say you haven
t been warned.
Avril Williams
CyberBoogie
Requires 486SX 8M RAM
Price $49.95
Contact Ehrlich Multimedia
001QH 201 307 8866
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Entertainment/Education
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graphics and precious little gameplay. But to dismiss it as such would be doing the game a grave injustice.
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have to be shot in some sort of order. Much better, though, are the bits where you have to jump through a spiked fan. Let
s just say this is not for the squeamish. Well, not if you don
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ugh, anyway.
Although the puzzles do vary throughout the game
and become undeniably harder as you progress
on their own these sections are little better, although definitely some improvement, on those found
in SCI
s Cyberwar (reviewed on page 83). Cyberia, however, has an ace up its sleeve, and it
s enough to turn a strictly average game into a rather good one. For the second type of sub-game in Cyberia sees our I
hero take to the skies and fly around in a spaceship shooting things Rebel Assault-style.
These action sections look absolutely amazing with stunning pre-rendered landscapes and enemies. Granted, you don
t so m
uch fly the ship around as sit in it and move the crosshair onto what you want to kill (yes, this is one of those games that is
on the rails
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The atmosphere created by the gorgeous graphics (including some great cut-sequences), mixed with good sound effects and an excellent soundtrack from Thomas Dolby, make it so
exciting you just won
t give a hoot whether or not it
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interactive
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ll love the battles in Cyberia. Besides, you can always pretend you
re Luke Skywalker.
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ria is a strange mixture of styles, and we have a feeling that few will initially like all of the sections. However, as a whole it definitely grows on you
there
s enough variation to keep it interesting over
long periods and the excellent arcade sections more than make up for all the walking around you have to do.
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s hall of fame
Poor old Accolade. When we first saw this game some eight months ago, there was nothing else li
he equivalent of the tunes which weren
t quite good enough for the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest. Only less entertaining.
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n another stab with a sequel. Sadly, it appears the company hasn
t learnt a great deal in the past year. The graphics are much improved and the soundtrack is very good, but where
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yberwar looks state-of-the-art, but beneath the glossy exterior it
s obvious that this game could have been written 10 years ago.
SCI has tried to disguise the inadequacies by throwing it into an in-yer-face lu
minous orange box. You also get a long-sleeve T-shirt and an audio CD of music from the game. But none of this makes Cyberwar worth the
60 asking price.
s tempting to say that this is one of those games to I
show off to your friends, but it isn
t. Take it from me, no matter how computer-ignorant your chums may be, they
ll be more impressed with a great-looking game that plays as well as it looks.
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Cyberwar
Price
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Contact Sales Curve Interactive
0171 585 3308
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Whoop, whoop, whoop, interactive movie alert. But it's got Tia Carrere in - coorghhh!
s 2135 (that
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Bannon, are a gunner in a space fighter. There y
ke it. A fast-paced motorbike racing game with realistic graphics? Wow
this was going to be good. Since then, however, the world has seen the launch of the 3DO version of Road Rash from Electronic Arts
turnC
back a few pages if you haven
t. Sadly, Road Rash beats Cyclemania hands down in virtually every department, except one: the former is on the 3DO
a machine which few people currently have, whereas Cyclemania
is for the mass-market multimedia PC which is a platform starved of decent CD-ROM racing games.
In Cyclemania, each of the five race tracks has been digitised. The graphics are streamed off the CD as you raceE
(the frame rate adjusts to give a strong feeling of acceleration and deceleration) with the sprites of the bikes and various other objects overlaid. The backgrounds look great
static screenshots don
t do the
m justice, but the rest of the graphics are a bit of a let down. The bikes, for example, have a digitised feel, but they don
t fit in perfectly with the feel of the scenery graphics, and the text is overwrittenG
in an appalling typeface.
There are three modes of play
a quick game which throws you straight in at the deep end, a single race game and a full-blown championship. In each of these you get to choose the bik
e, the distance of the race, and whether the bike has automatic or manual gears. In the championship, you race each of the five circuits, gaining points and money depending on your final positions. The cash canI
be spent in the shop on shocks, tyres, exhaust or engine. Each lap is timed, and a points tally collated. This can be increased by knocking off any of the five opposing riders. Don
t expect any Road Rash-style
fighting here, though, you can only bump them (if you
re careful).
You do, however, have an array of obstacles to avoid, including a variety of cars and trucks which travel in both directions, some animals andK
the obligatory oil on the track. There are even helicopters and planes which fly overhead in an attempt to put you off. Hit any of the hazards and you
ll crash, losing precious energy. Although you do get some
health restored as you complete each lap, it can be heavy going staying alive so maintaining your health is an essential part of the game. Still, the opponents also have their health to worry about too, so donM
t be surprised to see them drop out of the race.
As I have said, this game can
t match Road Rash on the 3DO. The presentation isn
t nearly as good for a start, despite some nicely rendered scenes and some exce
llent sound effects. But gameplay-wise (and let
s face it, this is what really counts) it isn
t really that far behind. The bike control and animation are excellent, with just a few minor letdowns, and despite O
less emphasis being placed on violence, Cyclemania is still capable of generating a fair bit of excitement. As a result, it
The only similarity between this disc and the others reviewed here is that it features dinosaurs. Dandy Dinosaurs is a Max The Dragon interactive CD storybook and is aimed squarely at children aged three to nin
ou are, cruising through space with your chums Ari (who
s played by Tia Carrere, the
babe interest
from Wayne
s World) and Zack (who isn
t). You
re entertaining them with sophisticated low-gravity jokes involC
ving bodily fluids, when suddenly, before you have the chance to tuck everything away, you
re attacked by enemy ships. What with one thing and another, your marksmanship isn
t what it might be. The Vakkars hit
your ship and you
re all forced to eject
unfortunately, you eject straight into the path of a chunk of flying spaceship
When you regain consciousness, your health seems to have taken a turn for the worse. YoE
u don
t seem to have any legs. Or arms. Or, for that matter, any ears, nostrils, nipples, eyes or skin. In fact, all that
s left of you is a brain. In a box. Still, look on the bright side. At least you don
ave a headache.
The war
s over. Ari (who, interestingly, is played by Tia Carrere from Wayne
s World) and Zack (who isn
t) have stolen you from the lab where you were being held, in the belief that you will be G
better off joining them in their new career as intergalactic salvage merchants. You don
t seem to mind, but you have little say in the matter
mainly because you don
t have any lips.
What you do have is the a
forementioned brain-in-a-barrel arrangement, along with a
over which you have remote control, and which you
re supposed to utilise to solve the problems that will appear during the game. Off you all go, aI
nyway, in your new-found careers. Unfortunately, no sooner do you set underway (with a brief training mission to get you accustomed to the controls), when your ship crashes into, and becomes hopelessly entangle
d with, a huge organic ship. This ship is heading straight for a binary star
s corona. The only way to save yourselves is to board the ship and alter its course. You don
t know what
s on the ship, but there
fairly good chance it won
t be friendly.
By now the game
s well and truly under way. It
s just a matter of recognising the fact. Because this, unfortunately, is one of those much despised, new-fangled
intera
ctive movies
. To most people,
interactive movie
is already synonymous with
crap game
, and
it has to be said
rightly so. And I have to say right now that this is probably the most
interactive movie
ve seen for some time.
What does it mean to be on the receiving end of an interactive movie? In this case, it means sitting in front of the monitor for several minutes at a time, watching a QuickTime movie, wit
h nothing whatsoever to do. You have
control
of your pod: if you watch the movie in reduced view, you have a range of commands to click on; watch it in full view and you have keyboard shortcuts, but no on-scrO
een indication of what you
ve done. But neither keyboard press nor icon-click work unless the game situation demands it, and in fact you can
t actually do anything until you
re told to. The pod flies about of i
ts own accord, framing the action and appearing in the background. You can
t even shoot anything when you
re bored, because your laser is deactivated until the moment you need it.
So there you sit, watching twoQ
actors (one of whom, interestingly, is played by Tia Carrere from Wayne
s World) pretending to interact with computer effects, wasting precious, hours of your life which you could more profitably have spent, w
ell, sleeping or something. Occasionally you
re presented with a single-screen, spatial reasoning problem to solve, or something to shoot with your laser.
What I found annoying was the abstract nature of the puS
zzles: they
re like puzzles looking for a game. Admittedly, they are tied in to a certain extent; upon completion, they open doors into the next section of acting, and so on. But they
re not an end in themselve
s, as in, say, Myst, or Return to Zork. They
re more like the ones in The 7th Guest, sitting uncomfortably on top of the action.
A typical puzzle entails completing an electrical circuit, linking four slots on U
the outside of a board measuring nine connectors across by seven down. Almost all of the connectors are right-angled, and they only revolve clockwise. Another involves rearranging a set of hexagons to open a do
or. Others, like the one where you have to search through about 60 pods in a huge room to shoot an alien and find an orb, are simply trials of patience.
This game makes three assumptions: one is that you
ll soW
mehow know what you should do in any given (blank, unspecified) situation
the second is that when you realise how little there actually is to do, you
ll want to persevere. An awful lot of time, money and talen
t has been spent on this game
as we
re repeatedly told in the promo video, it
s basically one long special effects film. Graphically, it
s outstanding, which is why it
s got the score it has. And it has to beY
said that overall, even the script and the acting are bearable. If they
d used the same material to make something like one of the LucasArts adventures, with puzzles a little more in keeping with the game, the
d be on to a winner. Instead, the acting stops every now and then and a few logic puzzles appear in front of you.
And bear in mind that even to run it effectively, you
ll need a Pentium or PowerMac. The basi[
c spec for a Mac is a 68040 processor, but we couldn
t run the game on a Quadra 840AV without considerable break-up on the dialogue. As for the basic PC and Mac requirements, take a look for yourself. Certainly
, the performance of the 3DO version, due later this month from Panasonic, could be very interesting.
Anyway, have I mentioned that Tia Carrere, the woman from Wayne
s World, is in it? Good, because that
s the ]
third assumption the game makes: that people will buy it just because she
s in it. Which probably makes it the gaming equivalent of one of those awful puzzle magazines with a picture of a bikini-clad
sexy chic
on the front. Daedalus Encounter is a technical achievement. But as a game, it
well, an
interactive movie
Patrick McCarthy
Daedalus Encounter
Special Requirements 33MHz 486 PC or 25MHz 68040 Mac, 8Mb_
RAM, Recommended: Pentium PC or PowerMac with 25Mb hard disk space, tri- or quad-speed CD-ROM drive
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Virgin Interactive
0181 960 2255
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Dangerous Creatures
If you
re the sort of person who becomes squeamish a the sight of a money spider, don
t leave your undies lying around in the Amazon Rain Forest
Arachnophobes watch out. Microsoft
s Dangerous Creatures chronic
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MPC and Mac
and includes a bright green baby dinosaur/dragon soft toy.
Multicom has attempted to use the CD medium to produce a fully interactive package for young cC
hildren that, according to the back of the box,
is sure to spark your child
s imagination with plenty of games and easy to make projects for children and parents to do together.
Herein lies a major criticism:
does interacting with an animated film on-screen, rather than a parent, really spark a child
s imagination? Although there are 11 appealing Blue Peter-like projects or crafts to choose from, all with easy-to-fE
ollow instructions, you could easily have bought a book of similar projects for a lot less than
41.11.
A child would no doubt enjoy watching Max The Dragon and his friends come to life in the story, but though
the cartoon illustrations are skillfully composed, the animation is limited to say the least. Okay, so there are also four games to play, but again, with a book and a little imagination you could engage a chilG
s attention just as well.
If this package had a more realistic price tag, perhaps it could be recommended for those with young kids, but as it is, it looks like it has simply been repurposed from the Max The
For the casual observer this may be ideal but for the serious student of aviation it
s full of holes
People dreamed of flying for thousands of years before the Wright brothers got their first triplane off the
les the rise of the killer bee, the eating habits of marching ants, and the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider. Even more horrific, the cockroach (up to six inches long) is ubiquitous on every continent exC
cept the Arctic, where the polar bears will get you anyway.
Based on a whole series of children
s reference books from Dorling Kindersley, this is a peepshow of the nastiest creatures on Earth. Informative and
pleasantly gory, with some great puns, it
s ideal child-infotainment
if you can
t shunt them off to some South American wetland of a Sunday afternoon at least you can sit them down in front of the CD-ROM.
the heart of the disc are around 250 articles and pictures of the wildest animals on earth. Each entry includes basic facts about the animal, its habitat and what makes it potentially dangerous.
There are furth
er clickable hot spots with extra information, and punning titles (dental daggers, check the fridge), explaining how the stinging sacs keep on pumping when a stinging bee dies, for example, or how sharks replaG
ce their teeth, and how and why leopards have spots (so they can
t be seen among similarly spotted youths at suburban raves is not the right answer). There are other helpful hints ranging from reassuring statis
tics
there are more people eating sharks than sharks eating people at any one time
to advice along the lines of
What To Do When Confronted by a Standing Grizzly
. (Panic, for a start.)
This CD retains an aI
dmirable attitude of respect for the environment and for the creatures themselves. The record is put straight for maligned animals like the much misunderstood wolf, while the entry for man describes us, probabl
y quite accurately, as being the most dangerous creature of all.
Overall, the text is fine, if inevitably superficial, the images are interesting and well drawn, and audio is excellently used to provide linksK
between entries. The disappointment is the quality of the video. This isn
t because of the originals
video credits include the BBC, National Geographic, Oxford, Bayer and Anglia
s just that Windows mult
imedia really isn
t good enough to make much of a blurred attempt by one blurry insect to kill another.
The most direct approach to entries is via a Habitats and Weapons listing, but there
s also an Atlas, an M
A-Z, and a series of helpful Guides. All these entries are options on the opening contents page and remain accessible via a panel running along the bottom of every entry.
Weapons approaches creatures at their m
ost lethal point, looking at how they sting, charge, squash, or bite their victims. The Habitats button divides entries neatly into the main environments to be found on Earth: forest, ocean, Arctic, grassland, O
wetland and desert. Opening screens for each of these areas explain why these are valuable resources, before giving users the options of cycling through different terrains where these creatures live. There
so an atlas so it
s possible to find groups of animals living in one location
clicking at any point on the atlas brings up the nearest country.
If you know what you want, the Index is a simple A-Z with pictuQ
res, which takes you straight to the desired beastie.
If you prefer guided tours, Microsoft has provided 12 named guides, with tours covering Amazonian, Australian, North American and African creatures. But the
re are some more unusual options including Dreamtime, About Australia, Native American Stories and Dumb Things People Do, as well as the straightforward tours. The guides are personable, with tips, hints and adS
vice. Fergus, for example, will tell you cool facts as he leads you around the jungle: his favourite food is chocolate covered ants and he likes the Alfa Alfa flavour of gnu food. Guides warn you if you are str
aying from their tour, but it is possible to wander off on your own at any point.
Other options include a screen saver, so dangerous creatures can break out into your PC. There
s also a picture gallery from whiU
ch to choose desktop wallpaper, and you can turn off the sounds if they get too wearing.
According to Dangerous Creatures, the range of the Brazilian killer bee extends inexorably every year. In much the same w
ay, Microsoft expands its CD-ROM catalogue, and this is a jolly fine addition to the collection, not to mention the fact that a portion of the profits go to the World Wildlife Fund.
Watch out, there
s a BraziliW
an wandering spider behind you.
Caroline Bassett
Dangerous Creatures
Price under
Contact Microsoft 0345 002000
Category
Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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0171 490 2333H
MPCI ReferenceJ
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Dark Forces
Everything you wanted to know about the most eagerly awaited PC game ever with no Star Wars clich
s, and no mentions of Doom guaranteed (maybe)
Doom. There, I
ve said it. Sorry, but there
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exhibits, following one thread within the history of flying, or you can watch a story, each of which is like a narrated slid
ery exhibit is linked to related subjects a few mouse-clicks away throughout the CD-ROM.
For someone with a casual interest in flying and a very disorderly, easily distracted mind, it would be ideal
I enjoyedQ
it, after all. But the apparent target audience, young teens, would probably be better off with a pot of glue and a packet of balsawood.
Jim Smith
Daring To Fly
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Maxis 0171 490 R12333
Category
Reference
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
e that came from.
It would be hard to research a school project on flight from this disc: the information is too partial, and it has been selected for impact over historical worthiness. It is a pleasant enough O
experience wandering between the exhibits, though. Like a good encyclopaedia it engages you enough to make you want to cross-reference from one item to another, a task which is greatly aided by the fact that ev
ts. Did you know for example, that Hermann Goering took over von Richthofen
s squadron
the original Flying Circus
after the Red Baron was shot down? (Goering painted his plane white.) Or that King Lear becaM
me king after his father, King Bladad, leapt from the top of the Temple of Apollo in London, convinced that the healing waters of Bath had given him the power of flight. And there
s plenty more weird stuff wher
ritten by early fliers, but there is very little sense of connection with the main thread of the disc. Many of the video clips seem disconnected, such as the 90-second movie of a man explaining his love of glidK
ing, or how to restore an old aeroplane. And even their technical excellence is let down by folksy narration and cloying Discovery-channel music.
The overall effect is of a cornucopia of obscure and bizarre fac
story. There are nuggets of video hidden about the program and technically these are very good. The program installs QuickTime for Windows on your machine, which works without a hitch. And there is a consideraI
ble depth to the information on this disc, but it is invariably of the bitty, contextless variety that the CD-ROM format encourages. Some exhibits are accompanied by original magazine articles, or even poetry w
xperiments
or the Airplane Gallery, where you can admire early biplanes and triplanes.
If you opt to explore on your own, you are faced with an initially confusing selection of icons, and rather too many pictG
ures with too little information attached to them. This is because they are usually explained in one of the tours or stories. You can hotlink from pictures to related items, but not necessarily into the tour or
eshow. The difference between the two is that on a tour you can stop the narration and explore the other exhibits in each category before continuing, while in a story you are more or less limited to sitting pasE
sively in front of the machine.
You can also make your own way through the exhibits item-by-item or simply jump to specialist areas such as the Kids
Corner
this offers a cutdown set of tours and scientific e
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Reference
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
ground. Daring to Fly chronicles those dreams, myths and many of the early experiments in aviation, taking the viewer all the way up to the death of the Red Baron
von Richthofen
and the end of the chivalrouC
s age of air warfare.
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Fantasy meets chess in SSI
s latest impressive mix of strategy and action
Dark Legions is a fantasy combat game with an impressive pedigree
it comes from the SSI stable
and a complex plot about battling my
sons can be avoided when looking at Dark Forces. Doom and its sequel are the PC games, and every title in the genre ultimately has to be judged against them.
In the 15 months that have passed since the release C
of the original Doom, a huge number of imitations (read,
rip-offs
) have appeared. Problem is, almost without exception, the designers have completely missed the point. Most PC owners don
t want more of the sa
me, what we want is Doom and then some. What we need is a game which is to Doom what Doom was to Wolfenstein 3D and any other action game which came before.
Fifteen minutes of playing
enough time to complete E
the tiny first level
and it
s obvious that Dark Forces isn
t the game which offers that technological leap. Sure, the game engine enables the user to look up and down but that
s also a feature in Id Software
s Heretic, and, yes, you can even crouch or jump, but these functions, initially at least, appear totally superfluous.
Give it an hour or so, though, and you
d better call the office and tell them you won
t be G
in for a few days. Make no mistake, Dark Forces will grab you by the throat and refuse to let go.
Dark Forces is the latest in a long line of Star Wars-inspired games from LucasArts. You play Commander Kyle Kat
arn, a mercenary employed by the Rebel Alliance
s covert intelligence team, who embarks on a series of solo missions. The first (which you
ll find in the demo on this month
s cover disc) is immediately recognisI
able
steal the Death Star plans and get out as soon as you can. But thereafter you
re working towards one specific goal
find and destroy the Dark Troopers, a new breed of super Stormtrooper, which are heavi
ly armed, heavily armoured and equipped with jetpacks.
Completing each mission gives the Rebel Alliance more clues on the capabilities and whereabouts of the Dark Troopers. You may, for example, have to find thK
e remains of a Dark Trooper weapon, return to your ship, set some explosives and get out sharpish, or find a particular person to winkle out information from. But, things aren
t as simple as they sound. On the
way to completing each mission you might also need to fire at panels, find coloured keys or code letters, or set off a sequence of events to unlock doors to vital passages. And that
s just for starters.
Off on M
a slight tangent here, you begin each mission having just exited your starfighter. Not in an animation as you might expect, but actually in the main environment. In other words, you can run around whether the p
olygon-generated craft is taking off, landing or waiting for you. Not impressed? You have to see it to appreciate it I guess. (The TIE Fighters have to be seen to be believed.)
Revealing too much of the plot wiO
ll ruin it for potential buyers
suffice it to say that after battling through various terrains and beating off the prototype Dark Troopers, you
ll end up on a spacecraft called the Arc Hammer in the last of t
he 14 missions, where you finally get the chance to wipe out the Dark Troopers.
The strong storyline is a major difference from the blast-everything-in-sight monsterfest of Doom, and the inclusion of superb aniQ
mated cut sequences between each mission keeps the story ticking along nicely. As with all previous Star Wars games, everything ties in perfectly with the original stories, so don
t expect the chance to kill Lu
ke Skywalker. In fact, none of the main film characters feature, aside from Darth Vader who pops up regularly in the cut scenes, and Jabba the Hutt who appears in a video sequence.
What you do get are hundreds S
of Stormtroopers to blast and a variety of bit-players including Imperial Commanders, Gamorrean Guards, Star Destroyer Commanders, Imperial Torture Droids, those
boggle-eyed swamp creature thingies
, and, er
look I don
t know all their names, okay?
Possibly the biggest improvement over Doom is the way the levels are constructed. Although multi-levelled buildings were a feature in Doom, the game engine did not alloU
w for rooms built on top of other rooms. It sounds a minor limitation, but Dark Forces, which doesn
t suffer from the same problem, shows the major handicap it was. Here, not only are most of the levels a lot l
arger than those in Doom, the architecture is vastly more complex. Buildings are often several stories high, caverns many levels deep. There are floating walkways, huge lifts, giant moving structures, and much W
more besides, making the whole environment seem much more, dare I say it, interactive.
When you find yourself in a complex area you
ll learn to use the look up and down facilities before you leap, as you lose e
nergy (thus risking a life) if you fall too far. At times you
re forced to crouch to get through small gaps, and running jumps across platforms are often essential, so it becomes clear that those extra moves weY
t included for show. In fact, at times Dark Forces feels like a 3D platform game or even a 3D adventure, as much as a 3D shoot-
em-up.
What I particularly like is the variation in the settings for each miss
ll find yourself in swamplands, mining territories, icy wastelands, spaceships and more. You
ll also come across specific features which aren
t repeated
from gas chambers to giant rotating mining dr[
ills, right down to simple graphic details. And the variety keeps it all fresh and exciting.
Talking of things exciting (nice Radio 2-style link there, eh?), the weapons certainly don
t disappoint, although don
t expect a Light Sabre
re not a Jedi Knight, you know. You start the game with a simple pistol, but it
s not long before you
ll be able to grab a Stormtrooper rifle, and then Thermal Detonators (grenades]
) which are pretty much essential for making holes in walls to find secret rooms.
These basic weapons aren
t very accurate, but later you
ll find more advanced weaponry including mines, repeater and concussion
rifles, a mortar gun, and the highly powerful cannons used by the Dark Troopers. Many have dual functionality: press the standard fire button to release a grenade, for instance (the longer you depress the butto_
n the further it goes), and it
ll explode on impact, but hit the alternative fire button and it bounces around for three seconds (literally) before exploding.
As you would expect, LusasArts has the weapon noise
s down to a fine art, but the special effects on some levels
such as howling winds, rushing water and moving machinery
are excellent, too. As in fact is the context-sensitive soundtrack, but unless you havea
a MIDI-compatible sound card, you
re definitely not going to hear the music at its best.
A really neat touch is the narrative and the (pre-determined) radio conversations between yourself and base
there shou
ld have been more of both. Conversely, the shouts from the Imperial forces
There he is!
Stop, Rebel scum!
Surrender immediately
re in violation of Imperial law
t fail to impress, but aftec
r you
ve heard them for the thousandth time
Blimey, I
m finding negative points now, aren
t I? Well, yes, brilliant though Dark Forces is, it
s not perfect. One of the biggest faults is that there
s no way of
knowing how much of a level you
ve seen. Like Doom, the maps only show areas which have been explored. This is no bad thing. The problem is that you
re not given a completion or
secrets revealed
score when the
e objective is fulfilled
you could have missed something and you
ll never know.
Also, the variation in mission objectives, rather than the usual
find the exit
scenario is a great feature, but when you find
a person as asked, you would at least expect them to move, wouldn
t you? Here, they
re not remotely animated, and sadly the missions end there and then. It would have been cool if you had to escort them back tog
your starfighter.
The enemy characters
especially the Dark Troopers
are very well drawn, and the animation is spot on, too. Particularly good is the way Stormtroopers and the like fall back when hit, and f
ly in the air when blown up. Shame, then, that the enemy seems devoid of any sort of intelligence. It
s sometimes possible to open doors directly behind Stormtroopers and they still won
t turn around until you i
fire at them. Doh! And all too rarely do they follow you through doors.
The most intelligent enemy would have been human, but sadly LucasArts has denied you the chance to take on a friend over a network or via
modem
Dark Forces is one-player only. Still, I
m not convinced that the game as it stands would be suitable for multi-player games
the levels are too complex, and as I said before, this is as much of an adk
venture as a blast.
t let the minor negative points and lack of multi-player options put you off, however. Doom and Doom II remain the best games of their type if you want to play against friends, but for t
he soloist this game beats them both hands down.
Dark Forces is more than just a blast
which sets it apart from its rivals. As a result, it
s not just the Star Wars fan
s Doom, it
s the thinking man
s Doom.
Warren Chrismas
Dark Forces
Special Requirements 8Mb RAM, 33MHz 486 recommended
Price
49.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Virgin 0181 960 2255
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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YA Dark Seed
A dark and macabre graphic adventure inspired by the Alien worlds of H R Giger.
Dark Seed is a cinematic game that seems filled with promise. Anyone who has ever seen the film Alien will recognise the designer
stics and two mystical orbs. You own one orb and your enemy owns the other. To become all powerful you need both of them
as does he
and so the two of you have mustered armies to battle against each other
the idea being to beat your rival and grab his orb, while stopping him from doing the same to you.
Building up your army is no simple matter. A total of 16 different beasts are available and these range from pu
ny orcs to all powerful conjurers. Each recruit costs a number of credits and the more powerful the monster, the more expensive the cost so you have to decide which will serve you best. Your credit limit is setE
before a game and the higher it is, the more you can afford and thus the longer the battle should last. Once you
ve spent your cash and built up a suitably impressive war machine you then have to nominate one
character as the orb carrier. Regardless of whether you choose your most powerful monster, or a lesser individual once he
s killed it
s over.
The strategy part takes place on an isometric grid or, if you preferG
to see a little more of the action, on an overhead map. Each side takes it in turns to move its army forward and each piece moves a varying amount of squares at a time. As things progress either one of your ch
aracters will attack an enemy opponent or be attacked. This causes the screen to change to the combat arena. Both antagonists appear in the centre and battle from a top down perspective, with the view zooming iI
n as the contenders near each other and zooming out as they get further apart
la Star Control.
Although everything is beautifully presented, the game does sadly have some annoying failings
particularly th
e isometric grid, which doesn
t really show enough of the screen at any one time.
The CD version offers no enhancements over the floppy edition except for the fact that it can be run straight from disc. Still,K
the game does offer you the chance to battle against another player, either by taking turns on a single PC or by modem or serial link, and the sheer playabilty of a head-to-head monster-bashing challenge does
go some way to making up for its shortcomings elsewhere.
David Williams
Dark Legions
Price
35.99
Contact US Gold 0121 625 3388
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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The Bowie VideoCD provides a stark contrast to Tina Turner
s. He can
t dance so that makes for much moodier and more static pop vids which put less of a strain on the encoding than Tina Turner
s jiggery pokery.
monsters and nightmare mindscapes in Dark Seed, because both are the work of H R Giger, the designer who provided the inspiration for Ridley Scott
s seminal sci-fi work. If you liked Alien, you will probably lC
ove Dark Seed.
The parallels with the film turn out to be more than just graphically based. Dark Seed is one of a growing number of computer games that borrow heavily from traditional Hollywood techniques. It h
as an opening credits sequence, a musical score (albeit a long and tedious one) and a cinematic progression of scenes and actors. To make the actors move as realistically as possible, the Cyberdreams developmenE
t team has used digitised movies of real people. But despite the use of such techniques, the results are just about okay, and it seems we are still some way off truly realistic movement in games. More impressiv
e is the 3D aspect of the playing environment, which is enhanced by the use of translucent overlays, highlights and shadows. Cyberdreams has paid significant attention to detail here.
The game is divided into tG
hree days in the life of the hero, Mike Dawson. Your job is to guide Mike through the maze of life-threatening environments, picking up clues and tools along the way.
The game opens with Mike waking up in his
new house complaining of a headache after a terrible nightmare. Unfortunately for him, the nightmare turns out to be real. An embryonic alien really has been implanted in his forehead, and it will burst out in I
three days
time, causing mayhem and further headaches unless he manages to locate and placate the infant
s elders in that time. Your job is to help him find the secret gateway to the parallel universe of night
mares so he and the world can be saved. You soon discover that this involves a lot of walking about collecting various objects, with very little help and even fewer clues. It is only once you are in the underwoK
rld that your troubles really begin. Life turns really weird and hideous surprises lurk around every corner. In these sequences, Giger has succeeded in giving Dark Seed a very real sense of foreboding.
Dark See
d is incredibly difficult to crack. You are given only the briefest of instructions, telling you how to actually manoeuvre Mike via the mouse. After that you are on your own. It
s a good idea to constantly saveM
your game so that you don
t have to keep starting all over again.
Dark Seed undoubtedly advances the art of the computer game on CD-ROM, and will especially appeal to experienced game players. The imagery and
graphics are excellent, and are certainly up to the highest video game standards.
Cyberdreams provides a UK based dial up help line for this game. You
Bright, bouncy and irritating...it's the Dazzeloids
New York artist Rodney Alan Greenblat brings his creative talents to Dazzeloids
strange, colourful creatures who inhabit a very surreal world. Will this gr
The Video Collection keeps true to its title and delivers 25 videos featuring of some of the best Bowie tunes, spanning 1972 with Space Oddity to 1990 and the re-vamped Fame
90. Some classic Ziggy Stardust gC
ender-bending and corruscating guitar on Jean Genie begin a delightful trip down memory lane which takes you through the smacked-up, gaunt-faced Bowie of the excellent Heroes to the clean-cut and Armani-clad sm
oothie of China Girl.
Sound, as per usual on these VideoCD discs, is exemplary, and picture quality was fine on the less energetic videos. Digital
blocking
is noticeable in places but overall the disc can be E
recommended over a VHS copy (it
ll sound better and won
t degrade as you play your fave tracks over and over).
Like all the current PMI releases, there is no interaction on the disc, bar the bog-standard skip,
search and slo-mo functions. But there is nothing wrong with that; for twenty quid you get 94 minutes of digital Bowie, which is excellent value whatever way you look at it. If and when VideoCD replaces magnetiG
c tape as the dominant medium for pre-recorded material, this disc will be remembered as one of the pioneers which got the ball rolling.
Andy Clerkson
David Bowie
The Video Collection
Requires DV cart for CD-
i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
19.99 (suggested retail price)
Contact PMI 0171 911 3000
Platform VideoCD
Encoding Good
Track List Space Oddity; John I
m Only Dancing; The Jean Genie; Life On Mars?; Be My Wife;I
Heroes; Boys Keep Swinging; Look back In Anger; DJ; Ashes To Ashes; Fashion; Wild Is The Wind; Let
s Dance; China Girl; Modern Love; Blue Jean; Loving The Alien; Dancing In The Street; Absolute Beginners; Unde
J^rground; As The World Falls Down; Day In Day Out; Time Will Crawl; Never Let Me Down; Fame
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Astrion
0181 202 0011H
Young ChildrenJ
2R Under
40[ Under
\A%Delicate Sound of Thunder, Pink Floyd
Context is everything. And there is a vast difference between attending a Pink Floyd pompathon in a Moscow arena and watching it on the 24-inch TV in the corner of your front room. Whatever your view of the grogrooA
Jk RAM
Price
29.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Astrion 0181 202 0011
Category
Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
ous characters to see the story unfold.
You h
a special ray gun that can bring back the shop and the captured Dazzeloids. Unfortunately, it doesn
t seem to matter how you put it together, the contraption still works regardless. Not much of a puzzle there.
Dazzeloids makes extensive use of QuickTime movies, but the lack of any substance means this disc isn
t going to entertain kids for very long.
Malcolm Smith
Dazzeloids
Special Requirements
PC, 486SX-25, 8Mb
the Habitroids, leaving the kids to watch TV and play video games. Pointed satire indeed.
A Child is Bored
, you have to decide which Dazzeloid will save little Jeremy Gerbilman from becoming a square-eyed G
zombie. In
Banker, Spare that Pet Shop
, the Dazzeloids have to rescue the smelly but lovable Probe and Poke Pet Shop from the void of the Mediogre
s Transglumifier. You have to help Anne Dilly Whim construct
ave two stories to watch but you can also get a history and outline of each character
s good and bad points. The goodies include Stinkabod Lam
, daredevil, prankster, and fan of nude gymnastics, and Yendor TalbE
neerg, technology whizzkid and occasional depressive.
On the baddies
side is Mediogre, head of Blando Corporation, aided by his techno-weasel sidekick, Pin Bleeper. Their plan is to wreak a wave of boredom on
ab the attention of kids? Initially, yes. The brightly-painted, imaginatively-drawn characters will certainly engage children, but the dumb storylines and lack of interesting interactivity will not drum up muchC
repeat viewing. While there are a few songs and a number of very short books to read, there are no real puzzles or games. It
s simply a case of clicking on the various characters to see the story unfold.
Sly Stallone hits the small screen, but is this long awaited 3DO game set to make an impact?
Games based on movies are nothing new, but none previous to Demolition Man has tied in so closely. Here, both the pl
s aesthetic sensibilities, the live experience is at least an experience. What takes place in the shade of your domestic yucca is not the same thing. Unless, of course, you
re the sort of person for whom reaC
ding is believing.
The Floyd have never been good in close-up. And though the grandiloquence of the show itself, and the artfulness of the vision-mixing, do contrive to suggest that something marvellous is goin
g on behind the foliage of the medium, the sense never leaves you that this thunder is clapping at a distance, and that it
s moving away fast.
Many of the classics are there, including Shine On You Crazy DiamonE
d, One Of These Days, Time, On The Run, The Great Gig In The Sky and Wish You Were Here. The image-quality is sharp
s at least up to the precision and tonal subtlety of broadcast video
and the sound is c
lean. However, you
d need to hook your telly up to a hi-fi to get anything like the best out of this format
s claimed sonic capabilities, and even then you
d have to put up with the fact that in this particularG
case the original was mixed with audience delirium included. Audience noise is always sublimated to a degree in the concert hall, partly by the sheer presence of the music. At domestic volume levels, however,
the audience intrudes like canned laughter on random release.
In place of actual experience, CD-i ought at least to counterfeit an illusion of power: power to control the way information reaches you; power to mI
anipulate that information once it
s arrived. And, in truth, The Delicate Sound Of Thunder does offer you a basic set of tools. You can do all kinds of stuff, like fast-forward, rewind, stop, pause, slo-mo; exc
iting stuff you
ll have recently mastered on your VCR. It even goes one step further: you can search, programme and loop individual tracks, mimicking the most enlightened operation of your audio CD player (and K
to facilitate which feature, the makers have thoughtfully included some abrupt blackout edits between tracks, which enhance verit
no end).
Nick Coleman
Pink Floyd
Delicate Sound Of Thunder
Requires DV cart
for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
19.99
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
Encoding Fair
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n The Turning Away; One Of These Days; Time; On The Run; The Great Gig In The Sky; Wish You Were Here; Us And Them; Comfortably Numb; One Slip; Run Like Hell; Pink Floyd discography
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44.99G
Virgin
0181 960 2255H
GamesJ
2R Under
50[ Under
Descent
In some ways it
s like that other game that starts with D, but Descent is tougher, control is harder, and the beasties are more intelligent.
Nuff said
Energy crackles all around as you materialise in the mine
ot and the action in the game accurately follow the original using clips from the film combined with specially recorded sequences of Sly Stallone and Wesley Snipes.
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t in any game, and the sound is great too
they
ve even wisely omitted the title song by Sting. The problem is the bits which come in between, usually referred to as the gameplay.
There are 16 sections in all,
nine of which are shooting galleries, similar to the Operation Wolf games of old. Whilst these aren
t bad, they hardly push back the barriers of gaming. Of the other levels, four are Sly versus Wesley fightingE
sections. Digitised footage of the actors has been used and as a result the available moves are very limited. In short, this is no Street Fighter II clone.
There are two Doom-like 3D maze sections where the ob
ject is to shoot the baddies and find a way out, and these have been done very well
the fast movement is particularly commendable, but there
s little variation in scenery and the novelty soon wanes. The finalG
type is the car chase. The less said about this the better, except to say that the road is perfectly straight.
Virgin
s first foray in the 3DO market is a major disappointment.
While the presentation is first
class, Demolition Man is essentially a collection of strictly average and wholly unoriginal sub-games. A wasted opportunity.
Warren Chrismas
Demolition Man
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Virgin 0181 960 225I
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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40[ Under
Desert Strike
Another MegaDrive classic gets ported over to the PC, and it
s still a good blast. Forget the nuclear sites
bomb Saddam
s software factory instead
Desert Strike was probably the first of many games to shamel
. The dual struts of the cockpit are before you, lasers are fully charged, there are missiles on board and you
re ready to go to work. Slowly, you move the ship forward. There
s a drop beneath you but you
re weC
ightless in this place, so it doesn
t matter; you point the ship
s nose at the floor and accelerate forward, hitting the ground with a slight crash. You turn and take a moment to re-orient yourself
re loo
king down a corridor on its side. The ship turns over and you
re upright; you move forward again slightly, rounding one corner. Suddenly there
s an electronic hum, the distinctive sound of a robot coming alive E
s there, out of nowhere, darting down from above
you panic, try to accelerate away, readjust your view but it
s not working, and now you
re being shot at from all sides. The last thing you see before the
ship explodes is the ceiling
This is Descent, a first-person perspective 3D game with a difference
there are no limits on where you go. Descent is similar to a lot of space flight games except this time it
s inside a mine, a claustrophobic environment of twisting tunnels, vertical shafts and dark corners.
You play the role of an employee of the Post Terran Mining Corporation, a troubleshooter sent into the mines
to rid them of a new batch of malevolent robots. They
ve gone AWOL, and now they
re holding the mines, along with a few miners for good measure.
Your mission is to enter each mine in turn, destroy all the robotI
s you can find, rescue the miners, blow the reactor and get the hell out. Sounds simple, eh? Like the plot to a million and one games. Well, you
re right
partially. It is a hackneyed plot, but by no means is
it easy.
Descent has a lot in common with a certain other game beginning with D. It
s hard not to make comparisons, but they are sufficiently different to be great games in their own right.
In a lot of ways, DeK
scent is much tougher than
that other game
. To begin with, the control method is much harder to master. While in Doom you only had to worry about seven keys, for moving forward, back, strafing and so on, in D
escent you are looking at a minimum of six keys just to move your ship, with up to 12 if you want to fully use the ship
s manoeuverability. I don
t have to tell you that you
ll need to grow extra fingers if youM
want to play with the keyboard. I found using a mouse was the best compromise; however when initially playing, you
ll probably find yourself both hopelessly lost, and also staring at the ceiling or looking int
o rooms on your side for a while. It takes time, but the controls can be mastered, and when they are you begin to appreciate how different Descent is from other games
not least in how it
s played.
These are mO
ines, after all, so don
t expect every mission to be a single-level, move from room to room killing bad guys affair. Far from it
Descent
s mines are structured in three dimensions, and you won
t forget it. Yo
ll soon find you
re checking the roof for tunnels, avoiding holes in the floor as they might lead down to hordes of robots, swooping down twisting passageways and generally living up the 3D experience. If youQ
suffered motion sickness playing Doom, then you
ll probably be reaching for the sick bag before too long. Despite turning green at the aerobatics you
re performing, though, you
ll be pleased to know that the m
ines themselves are completely texture-mapped and shaded, with moody lighting, steaming lava pits, generators, secret rooms and plenty more besides.
Apart from a fully 3D playing area, Descent scores over otherS
games in offering real intelligence in the bad guys. No more creeping right up behind them and letting them have it
they know you
re there and will react accordingly. It doesn
t take too long for them to fig
ure out how you fight, either; they dodge your missiles as soon as you fire them, hide around corners and wait for you, attack in groups
even back off in tunnels and wait for you to come closer. I swear, you U
can hear them giggling as they wait for you. There
s lot of variety in the metal beasties, too
different degrees of intelligence, weaponry and abilities means you
re always on your toes.
Descent was originall
y released as shareware, so you might be wondering what you get in addition in this full release version. Well, to begin with, despite coming on a CD, this is just a convenient way of shipping the game as it inW
stalls completely to your hard drive (needing 24Mb to install, and preferably 15Mb of free space to use as virtual memory), and has no extra features. However, we are promised a CD-enhanced version this summer,
with extra levels, more robots and power-ups, animated cut-scenes and all the usual stuff.
If you
re slavering at the mouth to buy Descent, there is one more thing to mention
as is de rigueur these days, DesY
cent has a full network option. Supporting up to eight players, and allowing for network, serial and modem play, this is the icing on the cake. If your Doom death matches are getting boring, try an eight-player
Descent game
after a few minutes of frantic chases through the tunnels and shafts, you
ll be wondering why you ever bothered with
that other game
Stephen Reid
Descent
Special Requirements 486DX with 8Mb[r RAM, 24Mb hard disk space minimum
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Interplay 01235 821666
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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0114 275 3423
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Digital Bar
Stage your own cocktail hour with this digital recipe book
As an enthusiastic user of bars and CD-ROMs, I was excited about the prospect of reviewing this disc. Especially since it is one of the first non-ga
essly cash in on the Gulf War, casting you as a marauding chopper pilot in a familiarly sandy Middle Eastern country. The game involves flying at a fixed height around an isometric landscape and shooting the heC
ll out of anything you don
t like the look of (people with funny
taches and funnier looking hats).
Unlike the real thing, however, there
s a strong tactical element. Your helicopter is the cat
s pyjamas when i
t comes to wreaking airborne devastation, but its armaments and supplies aren
t limitless. So the desert is littered with things to aid you: cratefuls of weapons, big piles of fuel drums and huge tubes of high-E
factor sun-cream. To balance this, the landscape is equally crowded with excitable foreigners with heavy weaponry, SCUD launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and Deirdre Barlow wigs.
The tactical part involves ensu
ring that you pick (or blast) your way through the bad guys, complete your missions, and balance your fuel and ammo. This sounds like a doddle until you realise that the stuff has to last you an entire campaignG
comprising of several missions.
There are set objectives to each mission, all listed on the on-board computer. You
ll be called on to provoke male-bonding scenes by rescuing a comrade behind the lines, outbrea
ks of projectile vomiting by blowing up chemical weapons plants, and the growth of extra heads on infants for miles around by blowing up nuclear reactors. (Apparently the desert irrigation and tree-planting misI
sion was too bugged to release).
The helicopter behaves as you
d expect: the nose points up and down when you fly forward and backward, and off to the side when you crash into a camel. The shooting, however, is
left to your
intelligent
co-pilot. You point the chopper vaguely in the right direction and he (or she) fine-tunes the aim. Thanks to the beauty of isometricity, this can sometimes lead to what in a sitcom wK
ould be called an hilarious mix-up. You might have fancied blowing up the rather dangerous anti-aircraft missile launcher, only to see him use your last Hellfire on the chip shop next door. Later in the game, y
ll locate and save an ace co-pilot, and things will get a little less hit and miss. The difficulty level rose quickly in the console game, and this version seems a little harder, largely because the enemy
rate of fire is quicker. This CD-ROM version has an extra level which is harder still. At least you won
t finish it in a hurry. It
s fast, tricky, action-packed and politically incorrect.
And it
s probably you
r only chance to fire-bomb a camel and get away with it.
Patrick McCarthy
Desert Strike
Price
34.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Gremlin 0114 275 3423
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Dinosaur Safari
s the perfect example of a multimedia product that has tried to combine education and entertainment but has not quite brought it off on either count. As a game, it is too difficult to get into and not quit`
mes products to make use of full-motion video, courtesy of Sigma
s RealMagic MPEG decoder. Any disc that promises to reproduce the authentic bar-room experience in the comfort of my own front room mini-bar is oC
kay by me. Unfortunately, Digital Bar left me stone-cold sober, playing more like a digitised Oddbins catalogue than a
perfect mix for learning, entertainment and Great parties!
as the back of the package pro
mised.
The interface is underdeveloped. Even as a rudimentary guide to preparing and mixing cocktails, it is flawed by its sluggardly performance and miminalist presentation.
Stocking Your Bar offers advice onE
the basic ingredients
the spirits (or liquors) and mixers
you are likely to need, as well as de rigeur cocktail glasses and extras, and the tools of the trade, each accompanied by a how-to video. As with a
ll of the clips on this disc, though, the only way we could play anything like full-motion video was to hack in through the back door and play the MPEG files via the Windows Media Player. All we got through theG
program interface were the usual scratchy AVI files.
Preparations takes you through the various stages of cooling glasses, salting and garnishing, and
trade secrets
. These consist of four admittedly useful
tips on flaming, layering, shaking and straining.
Recipes offers the lowdown on over a thousand exotic concoctions, running from A.J. to Zanzibar, while Popular Drinks offers video clips showing the more famouI
s of these recipes being mixed by your resident hostess.
Like most of the information on this disc, the recipes and mixing tips are comprehensive and genuinely useful. On the whole, though, the presentation is
so weak, and the rate of accessing the disc so frustratingly slow, that you
s Dinosaurs! The Multimedia Encyclopedia is essentially a reference work. You
ll find no 3D glasses, cartoon animations or snazzy sound effects here. And though it could have been very`
e enough fun, and as an educational tool there aren
t enough articles and the reference material is too difficult to access.
You begin life as a rookie photographer armed with a camera. Your mission is to travC
el through time, track down extinct reptiles and dinosaurs and capture them on film in their natural habitats. Data Crystals enable you to take photos (you begin with five) which you then sell to the National C
hronographic society for energy points.
As you progress through the ranks to junior photographer and so on, you receive additional tools like video cameras and radar devices to make your assignment easier. OncE
e you
ve taken a picture, you can view it to gain more information on each dinosaur, like height, weight, diet, time it lived and classification.
This is a frustrating package, and the information is limited. T
hough there are a number of animations, they are all more like cartoon images and the soundtrack is minimal. Multimedia should bring something new and innovative to software; this package doesn
Join Eric Idle, Jon Pertwee, Tony Robinson and friends for what may be the best adventure game ever. And that's official!
s been a long time coming, but the official Discworld point-and-click adventure is f
venture is f`
dry and boring, Media Design Interactive has obviously gone to great lengths to produce a package that is stuffed full of easily accessible information.
This program is certainly less detailed than Microsoft DC
inosaurs in terms of textual material, but it features much more background information. It
s like attending a very good lecture with sophisticated presentation techniques like videos, slideshows and narrative,
all backed up with a colourful card index.
There are five sections in the program: Age Of The Dinosaur, Ask The Experts, Dinosaur Directory, Story Of The Fossils and Dinosaur Gallery. Within each of the Age aE
nd Fossils sections are further chapters, which you can move in and out of by means of the dinosaur head at the top right of the screen.
The Dinosaur Gallery and Ask The Experts sections are a series of illust
rations and a question-and-answer session in video format. The Dinosaur Directory features an index of all entries, with icons displaying what type of information is available for each entry (still photo, map, G
movie, museum listing); clicking on an entry pops up its associated card. All of this information is displayed within the space of a 13-inch screen, so the pictures and videos can often be difficult to make out
, although you can choose to zoom in on still pictures.
Information is simple to access, but moving about the fast index (selected by clicking the magnifying glass) takes some getting used to. When I did a searI
ch for T-Rex it found no entries. This was because I was still in the Sauropod family, as I had previously been looking at Diplodocus. Check your parameters before searching!
Dinosaurs! The Multimedia Encyclope
dia is perfect for students at lower secondary school level and anybody with an inquisitive mind but if it
s entertainment you
re looking for, get Valley Of The Dinosaurs out on video.
Dinosaurs! The MultimediKka Encyclopedia
Price
39.99
Contact Gem 01279 822822
Category
Reference/Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Distant Suns, by Mike Smithwick, covers much of the same ground as RedShift. The differences between the two programs are minor and, for most purposes, irrelevant.
Like RedShift, you can position yourself almosmos`
hat this is as close to the books as you are likely to get without Mr P learning how to program himself.
Although basically a typical point-and-click thingy, Discwor
character I was disappointed not to find was Mort, but apparently he
ll be popping up in Discworld 2.
Discworld is quite possibly the best adventure in this genre. It
s not a victim of its own hype, it complemeO
nts its pedigree well, is well structured and the voice characterisations are superb. Just for once a licence-based game is worth every penny.
John Davidson
Discworld
Price
49.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Psygnosis P'0151 282 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
mini
quests
which you find yourself on throughout the gameplay are long and complex, you never really get bored with the action. For Discworld buffs, you
ll be pleased to know that virtually every major locaM
tion in Ankh Morpork is in the game, along with many other locations dotted around the disc. As far as characters go, they may not all be here but the vast majority of really
famous
ones are around. The only
e thought of doing this before? If you want to use an object you simply pick it up from the window and drag it onto the thing you want to interact with. Simplicity itself.
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adventuring
goes, itK
has to be said that this is one of the best games I
ve played since I first booted up Monkey Island 2 (still one of the best point-and-clickers ever). The puzzle structure is really quite superb, and while the
t really shines is in inventory manipulation. While pretty much every other game in the genre uses either an on-screen inventory (such as Indy: Fate of Atlantis) or a separate screen system (like Gabriel KnightI
, or any other Sierra game for that matter), Discworld uses a unique windowing system. Double-click on Rincewind and a window pops up which can be re-sized and moved just like in Windows. Cool. Why hasn
t anyon
g an original game. Not only is it an original storyline as opposed to something lifted from the Discworld novels, but also employs a new point-and-click graphics engine which is quite simply superb.
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ld differs from many others in a number of respects. First, it
s English which is a novelty in itself. Second, it
s funny. Funnier probably than Sam & Max or even Monkey Island. Third, it has famous people
ic Idle provides the voice of Rincewind (the hero of the tale) with all of the other character voices being provided by Jon Pertwee, Tony Robinson and Spitting Image voice-actors. Finally, it has a stab at bein
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inally here, and thankfully it is more than worthy of the licence deal
developer Teeny Weeny Games has managed to produce something truly worthy of the much loved Terry Pratchett books. By involving the authoC
r at every major point the team has ensured that this is as close to the books as you are likely to get without Mr P learning how to program himself.
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Described by its creators Day at the Beach as
hot, humid and happening
, this is another interactive music CD, though, thankfully, there
s not a menopausal rock star in sight. Instead we have 10 songs from uns`
t anywhere in the Universe. You can
t stand on a planet
s moon (except Earth
s), but you can travel on comets, asteroids and artificial satellites.
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lates to it, and stars can be labelled with the SkyMap, Draper or Smithsonian catalogue numbers.
Distant Suns comes with a core database of 9,824 stars up to magnitude 6.7, but you can load in the full NASA Sky
Map catalogue of 255,000 stars, as well as the complete Hubble Guide Star Catalogue, which amounts to something over 16 million stars.
You can view eclipses, precession, conjunctions and alignments, and like ReE
dShift you can print out ephemera and predict meteor showers. The program comes with a selection of orbits
of asteroids, comets and satellites
which you can load and view. And it
s simple to add your own.
he stars and deep sky objects are clearly marked, but the display of the planets is not as impressive as the bitmaps of RedShift. However, there are lots of small, nice touches in Distant Suns. For instance, yoG
u can emulate light pollution (various environments such as country, town, city or New York are available) with the Skylight option, and see the devastating effect that street lights have on astronomical observ
ation.
Distant Suns is a more
open-ended
program than RedShift, with the ability to add in extra movies, objects and orbital data, and I expect a number of add-ons
either from the author or from users
thaI
t will make this great program unbeatable.
Distant Suns
Price
59.95
Contact Meridian 0181 543 3500
Category
Reference/Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Doom II
The greatest PC game ever is updated and put onto CD-ROM, but has it lost any of its magic?
If you haven
t played, seen, or at least heard of, Doom then I hope you had a nice time
t imagine where you
igned artists and groups drawn from hundreds of hopefuls. The name Don
t Play Track One reflects the fact that the digital data for the interactive elements of the disc is stored on the first
. So you canC
play the songs on your hi-fi
as long as you don
t play track one etc
Interactivity arrives in the form of full-screen computer animations and (rather less than full screen) video windows which interpret eac
h song
often in a very
creative
way. As usual, you can point and click on
hot spots
within the imagery to make something
interactive
happen. There are also humorous video intrusions from a certain MC RoE
b who explains, for instance, why keeping CD-ROMs in the fridge is a good idea
provided, of course, that you keep them away from the cat food
I really wanted to like DPTO. I felt that here was a disc with th
e attitude and approach to hijack interactive entertainment back from the propeller heads. But sadly the implementation is deeply flawed. Much of the computer animation is clumsily executed and the interaction G
is anchored firmly at the Fisher Price Activity Centre level. Click a hot spot and see a bed levitate. Click on a plane and
gasp
another plane appears. Ho hum.
However, there
s not a single duff song on the
CD and there are several that are really rather good. In fact, after a couple of hours reviewing this disk on a PC, what I wanted to do most was say
bugger the interactivity
and stuff the damn thing in my hiI
-fi. Which kind of defeats the object of the exercise.
t Play Track One. Great name. Great idea. Great album. Dodgy CD-ROM.
Mat Toor
t Play Track One
Requires 33MHz 486, 8Mb RAM, 30Mb of hard disk sp
ace, thousands of colours recommended
Price
19.95 (inc VAT)
Contact Day at the Beach Productions 0171 233 9924
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Over
Dr Drago
s Madcap Chase
Cross a
60s race movie with Monopoly and what do you get? A
60s race movie crossed with
Dr Drago
s Madcap Chase reminded me at first of the film Monte Carlo or Bust. Both revolve around a frantic, obstacle-`
been for the last year. This ultra-violent 3D shoot-everything-in-sight-and-find-your-way-out extravaganza is, quite simply, the best game available on the PC
in fact any platform
especially so when you pitC
your mind against human opponents in a multi-player serial, modem or network game.
Now, among the countless rip-offs, both released and forthcoming, comes Id software
s own sequel
Doom II. Cosmetically the c
hanges are limited to just one new weapon, seven new monsters, an original soundtrack and the occasional new graphic including burning barrels and a few nice backdrops. You can run the game straight from CD, E
albeit jerkily, and the first eight levels from Doom are thrown in, but it costs
54.99, making for a very, very expensive game. Nasty.
Gameplay wise, initially it
s a disappointment, with not much extra over
the original. However, as you move further into the 32 levels, subtle differences do become apparent. For a start there are more traps
including disappearing floor panels
and harder puzzles. Pressing a swiG
tch to open a door to safety, for example, is more likely than ever to shut a door behind you or unleash a horde of monsters. Oh yes, the monsters. There are hundreds of them, even on the easy levels.
With it b
eing so difficult
some would say ridiculously difficult
it seems Id have aimed the game at the seasoned Doom player. But here
s the problem. Despite the changes, Doom II really isn
t that much different froI
m the original. The new levels are welcome, but then anyone who is that into Doom will have probably got hold of a map editor by now and created their own levels, or at the very least had their hands on some of
the numerous shareware levels.
Also, the programmers have committed a major sin
the well-publicised Doom cheat-codes work. So you soon find yourself jumping to the end levels to see what they look like.
For K
Doom pros this is perhaps not the game that it should have been, while virgin players are probably better off checking out the eight-level freeware disk version (available at most shareware libraries) rather th
an heading straight into the onslaught that is Doom II.
Still, playing either edition is a unique gaming experience, and one well worth trying.
David Williams
DOOM II
Price
54.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Virgin 018M$1 960 2255
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Blue Byte
01604 232200H
GamesJ
3.5R Under
40[ Under
Dr. No
s get this out of the way now. James Bond is a nasty, snobbish, right-wing, government thug who treats women like dirt. With his small-minded pursuit of the trivial
Dom Perignon
54, shaken not stirred vo`
ridden race through Europe, with dubious-looking entrants gleaned from all over the world. Both are prone to the odd nasty deed or two as well. However, once fully immersed in this
interactive multi-player
me, it
s apparent that there is far more to it.
The aim is to arrive at a designated European city before any of your opponents, with a financially superior bank account to boot. These destinations are chosen a
t random by computer and announced to players by the game
s excessively side-burned commentator. The players
up to eight can play including the extremely fast (but beatable) computer
are then transported, iE
n the guise of stereotypical ethnic characters, to the starting line. So begins this straightforward racing game. Well, not quite
The road to victory is paved with numerous coloured squares. These represent ei
ther good or bad tidings to those who land on them: a blue square provides a player with a bonus (usually money); a yellow square means a Chance Card will be issued. These give players such goodies as free moveG
s or the chance to disrupt an opponent
s journey. (Chance cards can be bought when you land on a purple square.) White squares enable players to buy or sell property and, although these range from public houses
to cheese shops, you can
t help but compare this feature to the board game Monopoly.
The fact that you progress via squares, dictated by a score between one and six, only serves to reinforce the resemblance. PI
enalties and forfeits are represented by the ever popular hue of red. Finally, information signs are dotted throughout the routes and these give you access to snippets of data on the various cities you will vis
Where, though, does Dr Drago feature in all this, I hear you cry. Well, once players have completed the opening lap of the game, Dr Drago emerges to embark on a mission of destruction. Dressed in a top hat K
and sporting a rather nasty sneer, his objective is to penalise whoever is losing after each lap. The most demoralising thing about his deeds is that he forfeits after every move, so if you are unlucky enough t
o fall way behind your opponents due to a run of low scores
I speak from experience here
you are well and truly stuffed.
The one saving grace for us
losers
, though, is that following the initial race youM
are presented with an opportunity to catch up in the Master Rally. The destination here is Brussels and all the competitors start the race 30 squares away, thus ensuring fair play. For this contest, however, D
r Drago attaches himself to the player with the most assets.
The main attraction of Dr Drago is the animated effects which do make a difference to the playing experience. So, when you win a flight from a ChanceO
Card, you get to see yourself transported through the air, rather than rely on someone nearest to your piece, picking it up and moving it around a board manually. In the same vein, domestic arguments and cries
cheat
can be prevented when buying or selling property, as the computer works out how much to debit from your account and shows you a
monthly
statement after each round.
The one major disadvantage is siQ
tting seven people around a PC to play (a Mac version is due in September, incidentally), although for an extra
10, a gamepad (QJ PC Propad) is provided which goes some way in alleviating this problem.
Marc S
teward
Dr. Drago
s Madcap Chase
Special Requirements
4Mb RAM, 33MHz 386
Price
34.99 or
49.99 (with QJ Propad) (inc VAT)
Contact BlueByte 01604 232200
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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50[ Under
s Sing-A-Long Classics
A program whichaims to teach kids
classics
like Mary Had a Little Lamb
Singalong classics for ages three to ten? Yes, your pre-school child could be belting out Nessun Dorma after just six easy sessions. Wel`
dka martinis
s a miracle he found the time to save the world from the gaggle of megalomaniacs working on behalf of the acronym-monious conspirators of SMERSH and SPECTRE. But then, that was all part of theC
fun.
Dr. No (briefly translated as
I Don
t Want Any Doctor
by its Japanese distributor) is the first of the 17 Bond movies produced by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Like its successors, it pits Briti
sh secret service agent James Bond (Connery) against a mega-villain with a fatal flaw
he doesn
t shoot Bond in the head immediately. The action is set in the Caribbean, where the sinister Chinese rocket scienE
tist Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is using hi-tech hanky-panky to sabotage NASA space launches.
Bond fends off tarantulas, flame-throwing tanks, blood-crazed dogs, floods, fire and
ho hum
bullets before giving
Dr. No an early bath in some superheated radioactive isotopes, leaving just enough time for a snog with the scrumptious Honey Rider (a dubbed Ursula Andress). The Vatican famously denounced the film on its releG
ase, and even now it
s possible to see why. Bond is a ruthless bastard with no qualms about shooting people in the back. The sex was all the more effective by being implicit: the image of Ms Andress emerging bi
kini-clad from the sea singing
Underneath the Mango Tree
is indelibly printed on millions of male baby boomers
minds.
Connery is magnificent as 007, Wiseman chilling as the bad Doctor. And in the early dayI
s there was still a decent plot to be followed. Special credit should go to Monty Norman
s score, which can turn a walk through an airport arrival lounge into an edge-of-the-seat viewing experience.
The VideoC
D transfer is probably as good as we could expect from a 30-year-old master tape. Indeed, it looks like Philips has uncovered far better source tapes for all three of these titles than the ropey old Betacams ITK
V dusts off every Christmas.
Mat Toor
Dr. No
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC/Mac
Price
49.99 (part of three-title set)
Contact Philips Media 0171 911 3000
Director Terence Young
Starring Sean C
LJonnery, Joseph Wiseman, Ursula Andress
Platform VideoCD
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40[ Under
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Nosferatu returns in a gory, cinematic adventure game.
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s original story, Dracula Unleashed follows the adventures of Alexander Morris, brother of Quincey who died in the initia`
l, no actually; Dr T (an unpleasant little squirt with a squeaky voice, the program reveals) has a more child-like opinion of classics
Mary Had a Little Lamb, I
ve Been Working on the Railroad, and so on.
e idea of Singalong is either heroic or deeply foolish. It is a multimedia program that runs under Windows and, rather than using its own drivers, uses the Windows ones already on your system. It combines compu
ter-generated voice and music (allegedly, in the latter case) with CD audio, and comes with a spectacularly abbreviated manual and a large songsheet. My basic prejudice is that this is not a good idea, as WindoE
multimedia capabilities are more than a little flaky, and installing the program on two machines confirmed this. In both cases the program complained I was using the wrong MIDI device (OK, I was
) and I sho
uld edit the MIDI mapper; and although personally I have a vague idea of what a MIDI mapper is, I doubt that many of Singalong
s target market will.
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s troubleshooting gui
de tells you to disconnect all other software and gives you a large list of video and sound board manufacturers in the US to badger
Once you have got it going, it
s briefly popular with the kids. There
s an anI
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s popular, albeit noisy, wi
th kids who aren
t too concerned about quality software authorship. The
over 25
songs turn out to be 26.
Once you
re sick of the computer making this racket you can slam the CD into a normal audio player in sK
ome other room (preferably in some other house) and hand them the song sheet. Nice touch, but it doesn
t really overcome the quick and dirty impression that pervades the program throughout.
John Lettice
L~s Sing-A-Long Classics
Price
35.19
Contact Guildsoft 01752 895100
Category
Entertainment/Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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0181 563 4013
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Stunning Scenery is no substitute for exciting gameplay as adventurers to this beautifully-rendered landscape may find
Things have come a long way since the old days of adventure gaming on the Commodore Pet. A`
l defeat of the evil Count. After a Romanian priest contacts him regarding the events surrounding his brother
s death, Maurice travels to London where he meets original protagonists Jonathan Harker and AnnisettC
e, to whom he becomes engaged.
All this you learn by way of a dream-flashback which culminates in the sudden death of Annisette
s father. You awake after a troubled sleep with just four days to solve the myste
ry surrounding the headless corpses that have begun appearing in the streets of London and, by doing so, to prevent the re-emergence of Dracula.
The gameplay of this Interactive Horror Movie is pretty straightfE
orward, thanks to a particularly intuitive interface. To travel to any location Morris simply gets into a cab (driven by a variety of loveable Cockney characters, all of whom appear to have graduated from the D
ick Van Dyke School Of Dialectical Training). Inside he is presented with a list of possible destinations. Arriving at a destination triggers a short piece of video footage which you can watch as often, or as lG
ittle, as you want and record the salient points in your journal. Then it
s back to the cab, where, depending on the nature of the scene you
ve just witnessed, the list of addresses known to you may have increa
sed. Rather unsurprisingly, you also get to pick up the occasional object along the way.
The key dramatic element of the game is time. You have four days to solve the mystery, but within this timetable you alsoI
have to achieve a certain number of objectives by the end of each day. Unfortunately you don
t know exactly what these are, but you
ll know if you
ve failed. The tell-tale sign is finding yourself horribly mut
ilated a foggy London street. It
s also important to bear in mind that if you arrive at a location at the wrong time you could miss a vital clue. For this reason, you are provided with a pocket watch.
The concK
ept of the Interactive Movie is still a little shaky, often tending to be a catch-all for CD-ROMs that are more movie than active gameplay. Dracula Unleashed is not free of these faults, and adventure games pla
yers will waste many a fruitless hour clicking on objects before realising that the only thing they can interact with is the door. However, the developers have attempted to increase the perception of interactivM
ity by including a new element in the inventory. Certain scenes rely on you having the right object in your hand at the right moment
which at least increases the feeling of interaction in the game. Unfortunat
ely, by the nature of the product, you must place this object in your hand before entering a location (since you can
t interrupt the video). This is rather more limited than a conventional adventure game in whiO
ch you can think
Of course, if I use the vinegar on the bike pump and then show it to the actress she
ll give me her collection of Doris Day videos,
but it does at least give the impression of activity. On th
e down side, Dracula Unleashed has a strongly linear feel, and far too much repetition in the action sequences (I never want to hear another Cockney accent as long as I live).
Nevertheless, the weaknesses of gQ
ame are somewhat compensated for by its success as a film. The quality of the sound and video is impressive, and is complemented by the sets and costumes (although where things get too complicated or expensive
re replaced by slightly dodgy paintings). With the exception of the cab drivers and other
local colour
characters the acting, while not outstanding, is of a higher quality than is usual in these things. Sm
Paul Lakin
Dracula Unleashed
Price
42.99
Contact CIC Interactive
0181 563 4013
Platform Mac MPC CD-i 3DO
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44.95
44.99
44000
49.95
49.99
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500-1100
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44.99G
Mindscape
01444 246333H
GamesJ
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50[ Under
Dreamweb
Something
s not right with this cyberpunk adventure. Three years in the making, but 15 hours to finish
This strange mix of cyberpunk and mystical adventure contains some much-vaunted
adult
content: people ha`
h yes, those lost hours staring at a green-screen line drawing map of the Caves of Kathmandu, slowly typing
turn North
and trying to imagine what the trolls looked like. Of course, nowadays the troll would apC
pear as a monstrous, hairy thing gnashing its teeth and swinging a huge spiky club. You can actually see it and hear it
nothing is left to the imagination.
Dragon Lore
s superb 3D Studio-style opening sequenc
e is a good example of how far adventure games have come since the good old days. It tells the childhood story of Werner von Wallenrod (the central character) and explains, with beautifully rendered graphics, hE
ow and why he came to be milking cows in some distant valley. Far away in his rightful birthplace, he is really destined to be a great warrior and Dragon Knight. But as with so many games that have been release
d on CD-ROM, more thought seems to have been put into the presentation than the gameplay
all mouth and no trousers if you like
and this is the only explanation for the fact that it comes on two CDs.
In someG
ways, Dragon Lore does remind me of those old adventure days, well, sort of. Instead of typing
North
to face North, you click on the relevant part of the screen and in the blink of a wizard
s eye you are fac
ing in that direction. There is no smooth scrolling of the scenery in a gentle arc as you bravely turn to face your opponent or to run away like the true coward you are. Just a click and all of a sudden the sceI
nery has changed
the same system used in Myst. There are some animated cut scenes that link parts of the game but these can seem somewhat disembodied.
Dragon Lore will keep you occupied for a good few hours.
Most of the puzzles involve simply using the right object from your inventory or the right spell at the right time. Most aren
t too difficult so you can progress at a reasonable rate. The objects you need to fK
ind are easy to spot, usually being a blocky bitmap on a rendered background.
At some points you will have to engage in some strenuous physical combat so there
s a wide variety of different situations requiring
different skills. Besides, it
s always healthy to take a break from taxing your brain to give the nearest orc a good few whacks.
s worth mentioning that this game is a complete pig to set-up
it needs nearM
ly 590K of free base memory
so expect to make some calls to the technical support team if you
re not an expert.
t get me wrong, in most aspects Dragon Lore is a reasonably decent adventure game and defin
itely looks fantastic, but as they say, looks aren
t everything.
Duncan Swain
Dragon Lore
Requires 33MHz 486 with at least 8Mb of hard disc space
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Mindscape 01444 246333
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moother-than-silk
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44.99G
Empire
0181 343 7337H
GamesJ
3R Under
50[ Under
Driving Test
About to take that nerve-racking test? Perhaps this disc can help you brush up on the essentials
Hey, drivers! Do you know how many penalty points you get for driving a car with no MOT? Or at what age a child `
ving sex, swearing, that sort of thing. Ultimately though, the really big fault comes in the difficulty
or rather the lack of it. Seasoned adventurers will have no trouble finishing this game quickly, probablC
y in 15 hours or so.
In the dark and scary future, a planet is controlled by a powerful mystical force: The Dreamweb. It controls the minds of the sleeping populace, and is controlled in turn by seven disembodi
powers
inhabiting physical hosts on earth. Some are good, some are evil: if the goodies have control, it
s pleasant dreams all round; too many bad hosts and it
s Tortured Sleep City, with people waking up E
in sweats after dreaming they
ve been given a makeover on the Richard and Judy show.
Unfortunately, the Web
s now thoroughly bad: terrible nightmares abound and everyone
s wandering about looking like Klaus Kin
ski. So the Keepers of the Web enter your mind, urging you to kill the seven evil hosts and set things right.
The game uses an unusual top-down viewpoint, each location being divided into a number of single-scG
reen rooms. One nice touch is the in-game computer terminal with its limited command language, from which you can glean more information as you discover passwords.
But, the pace of the game is slowed by the cum
bersome inventory interface and the unusual navigation system
you can
t walk around freely. Worse still is the fact that entering many of the buildings requires you to key in a code number repeatedly.
The spI
eech on the CD-ROM version does add a little to the experience, although the droning in-game music will quickly irritate. Meanwhile, the graphics are what
s politely known as retro. Dreamweb has taken nearly th
ree years to make, and it shows. While the concept may have been passable when the idea was first mooted, the likes of Sam & Max, Ecstatica, the two Alone In The Darks and countless others leave it standing. ItK
s not totally bad
but it
s not that good, either.
Patrick McCarthy
Dreamweb
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Empire 0181 343 7337
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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South American drug barons are not the only clich
s in this predictable shoot-
em-up
The war on drugs is the scenario for American Laser Games
latest in the Mad Dog McCree
series
s not technically a ser`
is legally responsible for wearing their own seatbelt? Do you know how many milligrams of alcohol you can have in your blood to stay under the limit? Or more to the point, whether you have to report running oveC
r a deer? If you did, then you know more than most drivers out on the roads.
All the answers to the above questions and more are here in this attempt to make learning driving facts a little less tedious than r
eading the Highway Code. And so we are invited to play a series of rather primitive but not totally unentertaining puzzles which require you to answer questions about driving and road safety correctly before yoE
u can progress.
Games include: Word Park, where you try and guess a word by adding letters for each correct answer; Patience where the questions get in the way of the card game; Rear Mirror is another quiz in
which you get bonus points by reading mirror writing;
Clunk Click
is the road sign version of the memory card game;
Speed Trap
is a dubious race against time with the added
thrill
of seeing cars trundle sG
lowly across the screen while you try and work out the meaning of, say, an empty red triangle sign; and Signpost is another quiz where answering correctly reveals an, em, roadsign, which you then have to identi
After competing the quiz games, you can do a driving test, which is yet another quiz with the same set of questions but without a game attached. If you succeed, you are awarded a flashy certificate which yI
ou can then print to impress your friends.
The overall effect is not unlike a lowbrow game show in which the questions are just an excuse to give away prizes. A shame really, because this title could have been
so much more.
Paul Nesbitt
Driving Test
Price
34.99
Contact 10 out of 10 Educational Systems 01142 780370
Category
Education
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001 505 880 1718H
GamesJ
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s Symphony No.9
From The New World
Voyager brings you Dvorak's masterpiece symphony on CD-ROM - but is it the best thing since sliced bread?
From the opening screens, including a stunning animated locomotive, a Czechoslovakian landscape, not to`
ies, but each game is so similar in format that you
ll know roughly what
s in store from this comparison.
The mix of still, shoot-out screens (where digitised hoods randomly pop up from behind their cover likeC
a fairground duck-shoot) is adequately interspersed with first person perspective, motion-video sequences. By filming each video section as a
perfect round
, the action appears smooth and natural
until you
miss a shot and it
s a quick cut to your assailant in action.
Now this format works, but that
s in the arcades. PC games are different. The only freedom of choice here is the assignment order and the decision tE
o shoot or be shot! The mouse accuracy is sloppy so unless you invest in a light gun (due out this spring) you may wind up very frustrated. And, the whole kit
kaboodle seems to be shot in
Clich
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prepare to cringe as your partner says:
re dealing drugs in this bar
what say we buy these guys a six-pack?
Gareth Ramsey
Drug Wars
Special Requirements GameGun recommended
Price
Contact AmericG9an Laser Games
001 505 8801718
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Earth Command
This disc melds two CD-ROM obsessions: space and ecology. Sadly, it's heavy on ecology, but short on gameplay
You are the commander of a spaceship orbiting earth who has been given ultimate power over the worl`
mention a rural black guitarist, Geronimo and Wall Street, Dvorak
s Symphony Number 9 has the mark of sheer quality, and there
s not a Hovis wagon in sight. While some classical CD-ROMs leave much to be desireC
d when it comes to the quality of the sound and performance, Voyager Software has chosen one of the best recorded interpretations of Dvorak
s seminal symphonic work. The digital performance is from none other t
han Kiril Kondrashin and the Vienna Philharmonic, and, although it dates from 1980, the sound comes up fresh as paint.
All the excellent CD Companion research tools which readers will have encountered on previoE
us Voyager music titles are available, including: expert commentary and musical analysis; glossary definitions (with musical examples); a section on instruments and the Romantic orchestra; more than 325 supplem
entary illustrations; and an essay on Dvorak
s life. Most of these sections are arranged like a book with chapters that divide deftly into sub-chapters. While the mixture of text plus graphics plus optional souG
nd is a simple formula, it is more than adequate to illustrate such things as the authentic sounds of the American orchestra that gave the symphony
s premi
re performance. Neither will punters who thrive on his
torical and bigraphical detail be disappointed. In the section entitled
Dvorak and the New World
you can hear fascinating eyewitness accounts of the composer
s life in the astonishingly vital America at the dI
awn of the 20th Century that spurred Dvorak to his symphonic masterpiece.
The heart of this CD is the section entitled A Close Reading. This focuses on the minutiae of Dvorak
s music right down to the individu
al bars; notes are highlighted horizontally as they are being played. But you control the order in which the work unfolds, and an erudite commentary by the American music scholar Robert Winter is only a click aK
way. Winter loathes jargon, which means there are none of those abstruse, off-putting sentences which are all too common in classical music CD sleeve notes. It
s impossible not to be swept up by his knowledge,
enthusiasm and wit.
In the final analysis, some viewers may feel that not enough has been made of the multimedia possibilities
such as incorporating more graphics. But the title
s great strength, apart from M
its encyclopaedic treatment of the subject, is that it will appeal as much to the Classic FM listeners as to hardened classical music buffs. And the next time you pass the Hovis shelf at the local supermarket y
ou will be able to hold your head up high.
Jonathan Webster
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Astrion 0181 202 0011
Category
Entertainment/Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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qA Ecstatica
If you were the sort who pushed a Ouija board around during break at school, this nightmarish game will be the answer to all your dreams
The first thing that strikes you about Ecstatica is the sheer quality of
s ecology by the UN. You can use taxes, laws, sanctions and advertising to promote a cleaner, greener, fairer world. You can control things globally or zoom down to hundreds of individual countries where you C
can meddle on a more intimate basis. It is a great concept and dazzlingly executed with real news footage of environmental disasters and real actors integrated into the game. Unfortunately, there isn
t much of
a game there to play.
A key requisite of strategy games is that they should involve some sort of decent feedback. Sadly, Earth Command fails to supply the player with any substantial, or more importantly compreE
hensible, information as to how they are doing.
There are charts indicating the relative rates of pollution, quality of life, industrialisation and the like for every level. But even on the full world view thes
e apparently have a life of their own and at country level it is impossible to keep track of any kind of global view, so overwhelming is the data.
The other feedback mechanisms are through the little red, yelloG
w and green dots that appear on the map, and through video e-mail from your bosses. The dots lead to a report on some aspect of ecology or life on earth. Red invariably means an environmental catastrophe, yello
w is a warning, while green always seems to take you to Danish toilet-paper recycling success stories.
When you zoom into a catastrophe there is nothing you can do except tinker with the country
s UN budget andI
hope for the best. Even then it can be years before anything happens, if indeed the simulation has registered that the catastrophe has happened at all. Sometimes the report can scream about an industrial accid
ent while the pollution meter reports that things are getting better.
The video
e-mail does give a vague sense that you are connected to the planet you are supposed to be saving. You get calls from your boss aK
nd from a spiteful gnome who monitors the world
s newspapers and adds to the frustration quotient by yelling at you to do something now, while, because of the ridiculously long time frame, you can
t. The result
of all this lack of feedback is that the game plays like Sim City without the maps. You can see generally whether things are going right or wrong, but it is hard to do more than nudge events in the right direcM
tion.
The other disappointment is that the game is too easy mainly because of its heavy-handed political theme. Go to the taxes window, for example, and tax fossil fuels at 100 percent and then subsidise renewa
ble forms of energy. Likewise encourage free trade, discourage meat eating (inefficient use of resources), encourage small families, discourage the use of pesticides and so on. After a while (after a long whileO
, thanks to the lack of a feedback loop), the world will start getting better. The disc might as well have a big arrow over each ecologically sound option with the words
This one here, dumbo
flashing in big r
ed letters.
If Philips can get the game aspect sorted out for a future version, then this disc could be a cracker. Unfortunately, I think its didactic purpose, banging the converted over the head with the messaQ
ge that green is good, makes the gameplay superfluous.
Jim Smith
Earth Command
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Softline 0181 401 1234
Category Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Elvis on CD-ROM
The King of rock
roll gets a less than stately treatment on this disappointing biography
Elvis was King and don
t let anyone tell you different. Okay, so he abused prescription drugs, made some terrible fi fi`
speech, and is packed with atmosphere. Well worth blowing your sweets money on.
Patrick McCarthy
Ecstatica
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Psygnosis 0151 282 3000
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
sed in what I was doing I
d forgotten all about them until someone pointed them out to me while I was playing.
These minor faults aside, Ecstatica is a mighty bundle of tension-packed fun. It
s big, and has a f[
airly open-plan approach where you always know roughly what you should be doing and where you should be going, so that it never becomes frustrating. It
s brilliantly animated, has a great soundtrack and sampled
mes cause you to misjudge your path through a doorway. This can lead to your character becoming stuck against the wall rather than dashing smoothly through it
which, with a horde of ravaging beasts on your taY
il, often proves hazardous to your health.
Still, there
s always the Save Game facility. There are occasional on-screen glitches when camera angles change, too, but nothing major. In fact, I
d become so engros
poil your enjoyment of the game, because its design involves the discovery of these things. What you definitely won
t become is hopelessly stuck on a single puzzle for hours on end, until you get fed up with thW
e game and never go back to it.
The game isn
t entirely without fault. The Alone in the Dark-style camera angles alter to frame the action in an atmospheric and cinematic manner, but just as in AITD, can someti
s that can be mixed as potions to help you in your task ahead. And gradually your frustration evolves into a dogged determination; you learn how to avoid or survive the beatings, and everything starts to come tU
ogether. The Lady of the Lake makes a special appearance and you
ll be knighted, which will eventually lead to you learning magic spells to enable you to attack monsters with fireballs. To say much more would s
, constantly being captured, tortured and beaten to death can be a little off-putting, but gradually you start to get the hang of things. You can pick up bits of helpful information by reading various books whiS
ch are situated about the village and its surroundings, or talking to some of the few people who haven
t been impaled, tortured or beaten to death. You
ll find weapons
a knife here, a sword there
and object
but they
ll always be back. And if you let your energy drop below a certain level, they
ll kill you. Fortunately, there
s a haven where you can rest and replenish your energy, but you
ll have to find it and usQ
e it frequently if you want to survive.
The over-riding element in the game, helped by the music, is the fear of being caught. You start to dread turning the next corner
and usually with good reason. At first
es to hand. And they have to be. From the moment the game begins, you
re knee deep in fast-moving evil.
Each passage around the village largely consists of endless, nightmarish chases in which you
re pursued byO
seemingly tireless foes. They don
t just walk around in a circle in one area, like monsters do in most games, they come after you. You can lose them, or
once you get some weapons
dissuade them temporarily,
the town. Now the bridge you passed over has collapsed; you
re trapped, the monsters want to kill you, and the only way to leave is to sort out these underlings and the demon who controls these evil creations.
You have the choice of playing the game as a male or female, both of whom, you
ll be pleased to know, are equally adept at expressing themselves physically with knives, swords, teddy bears and whatever else com
embodiment of a young girl
s nightmares. She dabbled in the black arts, tried to summon a demon whom she thought she could control, underestimated his powers (isn
t it always the way?) and ended up a prisoner.K
Now the dark recesses of her mind are being used to rip the village apart.
ve stumbled innocently into the place in search of a swift half during a journey through the mountains which surround and enclose
ng else: there
s a bloody great werewolf who keeps jumping off rooftops or out of doorways and beating the crap out of you, sometimes until you die.
Why is this? (Apart from the fact that he clearly needs a comI
bination of powerful sedatives and caring analysis, instead of the care in the community he currently receives.) Because he, along with the minotaur, the giant spider and drunken half-man half-pig thing, is the
priest who
s been hung from a beam, and the beam creaks in a pleasing manner (although the priest may disagree, of course). Move near an area of potential threat (in other words, just about anywhere) and you
l hear the kind of spooky music that would have you hiding behind the back of the sofa if you were a few years younger.
Before you notice any of these things, though, there
s a good chance you
ll notice somethi
reatures, rather than arrangements of flat polygons, thanks to the new ellipsoid technology developed by Andrew Spencer, the game
s main creator. Between 60 and 80 separate ellipses have been used on each charaE
cter, with the result that they work in three dimensions and have accurate muscle definition which scales convincingly.
ll probably also notice the excellent sound effects and atmospheric music. Push past a
the animation. Whether you
re creeping past monsters, dashing about the village or hanging crucified upside down from an ironing board, you
re doing so in a beautifully animated manner
and all thanks to the C
work of Alain Mandron, former Head of Mice (or something) in the animated feature Fievel Goes West.
The other thing you notice is the excellent definition of the character sprites. They look like real living c
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Encarta 95
Designed with Windows 95 in mind, the upgraded Encarta is a joy to use, beautiful to look at and crammed with data
but still annoyingly American
On looks alone, Encarta 95 is the belle of the multimedia ency`
lms, toadied up to Richard Nixon, shot up his televisions and (possibly) died a lonely, bloated has-been. But none of this can detract from the fact that he was the greatest entertainer this Century.
And if heC
s still alive, flipping burgers in some small town in Mississippi, he would be horrified by this vile cash-in on his hallowed talent.
The cursory printed biography wouldn
t tell the Elvis novice anything he or
she didn
t already know. The discography covers only some of the King
s albums and then only lists the titles, leaving out any useful information like what songs are actually on them, who took part in the sessE
ion, whether the discs are available and there are no shots of any of the album covers. Paradoxically, the bootleg discography does include an album track listing. But given that the great
hunk of burning love
was primarily a singles artist, the omission of any information about his 45s is unforgivable.
Worst of all are the 23 tries at reproducing classic Elvis tracks using a wooden session band with a frequently G
out-of-tune lead guitar and an Italian session musician (Ralph Ottavio) who often mispronounces the words and sounds like he
s just choked on a particularly glutinous burger. The interface is also fatally flawe
d. Boxes appear where you don
t want them and if you click on one of the hot-linked references to an Elvis song, returning to the biography always leaves you at the start and not where you last clicked. MaddeniI
Most promising was the video section with black and white clips of The Pelvis in action. You can see rockabilly classics like Baby Let
s Play House, Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel.
These are well d
igitised but even with a state-of-the-art 486 PC they failed to play without the sound disappearing and the video jerking the great man more than usually around. One for the jailhouse.
Paul Nesbitt
Elvis on KsCD-ROM
Price
29.38 (inc VAT)
Contact Discworth 01438 757033
Category
Reference/Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Ephemeral Films 1931 -1960
A brighter guide to the American vision of a brave new world in this intriguing archive of public information films
I want lots of suds, every woman does.
And if you wanted suds you could get them by using Ox
clopaedia ball. Microsoft has evidently put a lot of effort into the cosmetics of the upgraded version and Encarta 95 looks even better than the pouting beauty that took the CD-ROM encyclopaedia market by stormC
in 1994.
Encarta 95 is designed in the same vein as the next version of Windows (incidentally called Windows 95, too) and if you
re a seasoned Encarta 94 user, you
re in for a shock.
Point and click, for inst
ance, is almost a thing of the past. Gone are the days of seeing a menu, clicking on it, choosing a sub-heading and clicking on it. Heaven forbid
and the Microsoft lawyers forgive
that Encarta 95 should looE
k like the Mac.
So, without the single click of a mouse, pop up menus now leap into view at dizzying speed as you move your mouse around over menus and over buttons. Each button or menu has what looks like a d
ownwards arrow and every time you move over one, a pull down, up or out menu literally falls out accompanied by a scrolling type noise. Once you get used to the idea,though, Encarta 95 menus are incredibly easG
y to use. The down side, in today
s mixed environments where 99.9 per cent of applications don
t work like this, is that users may take time to get used to the down arrow, meaning
minimise application
odd. If you
re a first timer to PCs, you
ll probably love it, though.
Looking very different from its predecessor, Encarta 95 is much prettier, much better designed, a lot faster and, all in all, a lot more enjI
oyable to have around.
It has a tad over 26,000 entries divided into 94 categories, 8,000 photos and eight hours of audio clips.
A beautifully designed opening screen takes you into the encyclopaedia itself or
on one of three tours: World of Encarta, Getting Around and Research and Reports, none of which is particularly good.
Once into the encyclopaedia, however, each screen (or page) is attractive and, more importaK
ntly, functional and simple to use. The interface is typically much less cluttered and easy to navigate than British challenger Hutchinson
s Multimedia Encyclopeda (HME), which is reviewed on pages 46 and 47.
Each article is categorised and the current category is pictorially represented at the top left of the screen in a toolbar. The product has nine categories (from physical science to art, language and literatureM
) each divided into many sub-categories. A find button also in the toolbar at the top of the screen brings up the aptly named, Pinpointer. This pop-up mechanism lets you search through all the entries either by
word, media (video, audio, animation, etc.) or any other criteria. It
s much faster and a good deal better looking than HME, and has a nifty spell checker which helps you search more effectively. The PinpointeO
r can be minimised and kept handy at all times. There
s also a Find Assistant Wizard which provides a step by step approach to searching the encyclopaedia.
A features button hides the atlas, the media gallery o
f multimedia snippets, the timeline and the MindMaze quiz. Its next door neighbour, a tools button, has a browse utility, a Post-it note type metaphor for appending your own thoughts and observations, and an AmQ
erican dictionary and thesaurus. In the far, top right hand corner lies the help menu which sensibly looks like the international Tourist Information Centre logo.
Below the toolbar is your chosen article, compl
ete with text, pictures and video clips.
There is a view button to customise this area of the screen into four pre-defined layouts and the font size of the text can be changed to
small
medium
large
a feature which is long overdue. Click on any red entries in the text and Encarta will take you to that entry. It
s quick and it
s efficient. Pictures can be enlarged to almost full screen, though annoyingly vi
deos can
t. Each page has a pretty watermark as backdrop that denotes the article
s category. And the majority of articles have a further reading list and usually a related articles box, though this feature onlU
y highlighted
novels
and
English literature
when we tried it out on Dickens!
The Atlas is much stronger than HME
s, going down to much finer detail. It recognised Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Oxford, London, Card
iff, for instance. It has a key showing rivers, mountains and the like. And there are lots of useful and educational animations in Encarta 95 including: how a plane flies, how a CD works and how a glacier formsW
The Timeline is a hands down the winner. It doesn
t even attempt to fit all the detail into one screen and is entirely scrollable. However, it lists nothing after 1974 other than the break-up of the Soviet U
nion.
Encarta 95 is a big improvement on the earlier attempt but has a couple of faults, too. As always, the product is too American and I
d be wary of splashing out for Uncle Samisms if there are children in tY
he house. It concentrates on American issues predominantly, is littered with American spellings like
color
and the dictionary doesn
t recognise peculiarly English spellings. The new interface is also confusin
g in places.
Some falling menus include a
close
option and others don
a close is top right. To exit the program you need to click
close
and not
, which can be confusing.
Hutchinson
s might be sl[
ow and cluttered but it is also cheap, thoroughgoing and to its great favour, English.
Encarta is fast, elegant but almost double the price of Hutchinson
s and, determinedly American.
Avril Williams
Encarta
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No, it
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interactive encyclopaedia from Microsoft. Honest!
We forgave Scooby Doo and those meddling kids for having American accents because we were en enn`
rarely seen American public information films and adverts dug up by media archaeologist Rick Prelinger and displayed as QuickTime movies, alongside an informative and wryly amusing background essay.
There w
he quality of the movie clips is much improved (thanks to QuickTime 2.0) and the graphics are now in colour. It was good before, but thanks to Oxydol it
s even better.
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as much a valuable archive as it is top notch entertainment.
The pre-war films portray America
rcely exists now. In
Two Ford Freedom
a second car is all an isolated housewife needs to solve her problems. In
Relax
, a crazed boffin torments women with loud noises to show how science will help them relaO
This CD-ROM contains all the contents from what were initially two separate CD titles To New Horizons 1931-1945 and You Can
t Get There From Here both of which were reviewed in Issue One.
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articular slut is informed that:
Parking with boys does not make you popular, not even with the boys you park with!
. Instead, the ideal couple Wally and Caroline agonise about whether to go on
a weenie roastM
or a taffy pull,
but one thing is certain, she
s back home before 11pm.
One of the most telling themes in these films is an unquestioning confidence in the joys of unfettered consumerism and science that sca
troopers Snap, Crackle and Pop slugging it out against Soggy, Mushy and Toughy in the fight for breakfast cereal hegemony.
After the war, McCarthyite America became obsessed by the declining moral standards oK
f its juveniles, so films like
What to Do on a Date
Dating Dos and Don
and
Are You Popular?
, were aimed at teenagers.
Girls are portrayed as either sluts or princesses and in
Are You Popular?
one p
home; along with the 30s
obsession of scientific advance:
Leave It to Roll Oh
shows us a housewife being made redundant by a robot.
To New Horizons
predicts clean cities of a quarter of a mile high, and thI
e forthcoming wonders of television include the prospect of a blonde actress stepping out of the TV set and into the viewers
living room.
One of the clips documents the first appearance of those Rice Krispies
as an all-white country with efficient, optimistic workers, untroubled by the depression, unions, hunger or the impending war in Europe which would eventually encompass America.
Most of the films go beyond adG
vertising and are designed to promote their sponsors
(typically auto giants and soap companies) view of the world, in a near Orwellian manner. The virtues of American capitalism and mass production are rammed
ere apparently 600,000 of these films made in the US during the 30 years before and after World War 2, and only a few of these amusing, fascinating and sometimes shocking insights into the US establishment
s atE
tempts to make its citizens behave, buy, and betray reds under the beds have survived. As such, Ephemeral Films is as much a valuable archive as it is top notch entertainment.
The pre-war films portray America
ydol, which was not some kind of narcotic, but rather a washing powder with its own little film portraying the fulfilled life of an inter-war American housewife.
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Eyewitness: Cat
"They say a cat has nine lives and is always prepared for the unexpected,
announces the narrator, as a small lovable tabby is ineffectually menaced by a large crow in front of a computer-generated background. `
tertained by them
we should do likewise with Explorapedia: The World of Nature. Hosted by Thaddeus
You can call me Tad
Pole, we
re placed on the good ship Information from where we can view an Earth just beC
gging for an eager mind to explore it.
The Explorapedia divides our planet into 16 environments, or
biomes
, including rain forests, deserts, mountains and even the Universe itself. Tad immediately starts ear
ning his keep by asking us what we want to do, and presents a choice of seven options including,
hear about Explorapedia
and
explore
. With these choices the CD caters for those who like to know exactly whatE
s on offer and how to get at it, while placing equal importance on exploration and discovery. Encouraged by the fact that help from Tad is only a click away, the more intrepid will not be left out in the cold.
To explore, you can either click on one of Earth
s environments which will beam you directly into that biome, or choose one from a menu. A sprog
s voice reads the on-screen text out for you, but if kids want tG
o practise their reading skills there
s an on-screen option to switch off the sound. Certain words within the text are either coloured or underlined. Coloured words, if clicked, will lead to more information or
a related subject; underlined words will give a definition. It
s quite easy to get lost in the labyrinth of information and so the interface includes a partial parachute in the shape of a
step-back
button anI
d, of course, there
s always Tad if you get seriously bamboozled.
Back on the ship there are plenty of things to keep activity levels running high. Some of the objects are just fun animations. Others, like
, will patch you into the comprehensive database which allows you to trawl for text clips, pictures and a sizeable resource of video. If you
ve seen something that inspires a bout of creativity, clicking on tK
he paint pallet will link you to your favourite drawing or writing program. If you fancy testing your exploration skills, click on Wise Cracker
the ship
s parrot
and it
ll challenge you to search for five p
ieces of information. Once they
ve all been collected the reward is a corny animation
which is a bit of a let-down. The radio plays songs, not up to the Muppet standard, but tolerable nonetheless. ExplorapediM
a also encourages non-computer activities (whatever next?). For example, find and read about the hare and the hyrax, then list the differences between them and their environments on a piece of paper (paper?).
n production terms, this CD-ROM is of the highest quality. The hefty database is hidden so well by the clear animation and graphics that the disc earns its rightful place within the infotainment bracket. AlthouO
gh getting lost with this type of CD-ROM is easy, even with the best of help. Explorapedia is no exception and Microsoft has room for improvement in this department
which hopefully we
ll see in future discs i
n the series.
Finally, American multimedia software inevitably means American accents, a fact that continues to grate on parents buying CD-ROM home products. Although, fortunately for companies like Microsoft, Q
these niggles don
t seem to upset young
CD-ROM users, for whom the Yankee accent is part of their everyday cultural diet.
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The designers have worked hard on this `
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s all uphill from then on in this very entertaining VideoCD, one of the first in a series of Eyewitness nature programs jointly produced by Dorling Kindersley and the BBC.
Cats are aloof and although thC
ey appear to show affection they do as they want,
we are told before cutting to a large spotted carnivore attacking something large and defenceless in the bush.
And not only are the striking similarities betw
een domestic tabbies and their ferocious wilder cousins fascinatingly portrayed in beautifully shot footage, but the role of cats in the history of mankind is also examined.
From ancient Egyptian times, when cE
ats were often worshipped as deities, up to the recent past when sailors attributed mystic powers to the ship
s moggies, mankind has been obsessed by felines.
This half-hour VideoCD is basically like watching
an episode of a superior BBC nature documentary, with a few hi-tech computer graphics between each section. And at
9.99 it was none the worse for that. The encoding is towards the top of the range for VideoCD.G
Only when leopard cubs began wrestling in a heap did the kaleidoscope of brown, orange and white spots begin to degenerate into little digital cubes. This would make an excellent stocking filler for anyone who
loves cats or who is interested in feline matters generally.
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Eyewitness: Cat
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0171 753 3488H
Reference
Over
Over
Eyewitness History Of The World
This is a superb exploration of human history covering the whole planet
The Eyewitness History of the World is a multimedia encyclopaedia covering world history from the first humans to the present day
as re`
product
it looks wonderful, full of detail and pleasing aesthetic touches, although in places, in my opinion, it is almost too pretty to be functional. It reminded me of an antique toy that I was too scared tC
o touch.
The opening screen, and the centre of the entire product, looks like a naval officer
s cabin with a sextant, a mahogany desk and barometer, and books littered over the place. Click on almost anything
on the screen and you will be taken to one of the 15 main areas within the product. The screen is immaculately designed but lacking in easily accesible audio help and pointers.
My other major bugbear with this E
product is the obvious sell-out to our American cousins. Despite Dorling Kindersley being a UK firm, all the voices and spellings are American so
Autumn
becomes
and
favour
becomes
favor
. This is a
shame, although DK tells us that localised English versions are in the pipeline. And even despite the American accent I forgave the CD-ROM because of the quality of content. Never mind the children, I sat enthrG
alled with this product for days. The disc covers everything from photosynthesis to nitrogen cycles to classification, the subject categories broken down into 15 main areas: Prehistoric life, the Web of Life, M
icroworld, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Insects, Invertebrates, Plants and Fungi, Habitats, Climate, the Green Book, Climate and a Quiz Master game. There is also a speedy index area where you can dynamically sI
earch the CD by any key word. In fact, unlike many CD-ROMs I
ve seen of late, this one trots along at a respectable pace throughout.
Each area includes plenty of narrative and hypertext links to help children (
and adults) with complex ideas such as Darwinism. Most words, such as amphibians and invertebrates, are pronounced (though in an American accent). There are tons of clever and helpful animations (see box) and 5K
5 excellent video clips showing in minute detail everything from the way birds fly to the White Tailed Sea Eagle catching its prey. Each screen also has plenty of dynamic links to other areas in the product, wh
ich is one of the CD
s other real strengths. Some have links to classification tables, or to other areas, each window has a
see also
button linked to related topics, and there are also key facts for trivia enM
thusiasts. Many areas also feature
to scale
boxes showing the size of the animal relative to humans. There are, however, few examples of animal noises which for a multimedia product seems a bit of a wasted op
portunity.
The Prehistoric Life section (shown on screen as a fossil) is a good starting point. It provides a timeline of information from the beginning of life to prehistoric animals moving through evolution, O
fossils, prehistoric plants, invertebrates and reptiles. Once again, it
s full of audio and animation. The Web of Life book has four chapters: the Biosphere, Natural Cycles, Energy Flow and Living Together, and
demystifies the whole art of life. The Natural Cycles chapter includes the same diagrams to describe rainfall and carbon build-up that have stayed the course over generations but include animations that actualQ
ly make sense of it all in a way that a textbook and the blackboard never could.
One of my favourite areas, the Habitats section, includes ten categories ranging from Tropical Rain Forests to Desert to Coral R
eef. Each habitat is highlighted on a sextant (and spinning globe) and a detailed picture shows you the environment above and below sea water. It
s easy and fascinating to scroll up and down through the environS
ment and you can click on any one of the hundreds of animals in each habitat to bring up its name, information box, and more videos and animation.
The CD also includes a Green Book area. Dedicated to eco-frien
dly issues and awareness, the book has chapters on global warming, pollution, threatened habitats and endangered wildlife. It also has sensible advice on saving energy. This is an excellent and thoughtful incluU
sion in a children
s product.
Each of the six drawers in the desk covers groups from amphibians through birds to plants and fungi. When pulled out, or clicked on, the drawers look like, well, drawers with comp
artments full of different examples of the animals or plants in that group and a
what is a
section to cover the basic similarities of each group. Every screen is bright red, which is little wearing on the eyW
es, and has no go back icon but does have a next icon to move forward. Again, each window has lots of interesting and, more importantly, relevant icons leading to classification, metamorphosis, key facts and so
The climate section, accessed through the Barometer, is also a really good way of understanding what on earth the daily weather forecast is all about.
Microworld, depicted as a microscope, looks at plant lY
ife, animal life and micro-organisms in minute detail. It shows how viruses replicate and how bacteria spread as if you were actually looking down the drawtube of a microscope.
I opted out of Biology early on,
put off by the thought of dissecting a mouse. With all the audio, lack of blood and guts and superb animation, this product almost eliminates the need for dissection altogether. Hundreds of animals are put unde[
r the microscope and under the electronic knife. This product is a must for the squeamish and morally conscious.
There are very few CD-ROMs I think are good value at
60 but this is one of them. It
s a book, a
teacher and a science lab all rolled into one. A must for anyone with a curious mind.
Avril Williams
Eyewitness EncyclopedIa Of Nature
Price
59 (inc VAT)
Contact Dorling Kindersley
0171 753 3488
Category
Re]+ference/Education
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Over
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Eyewitness: Horse
The beauty of these Eyewitness programs is that the producers (the BBC and Dorling Kindersley) manage to take a topic one would not instantly recognise as being worthy of VideoCD attention, and present it in a `
cent as Nelson Mandela
s election as President of South Africa.
The quality of the presentation on this disc is superb. It opens onto a lush 3D environment of a desk covered with a variety of objects. In the mC
iddle is a globe within a HG Wells-esque time machine. On the machine, world history is divided into ten sections
starting with Up to 500BC and ending with After 1945, with in-between sections divided into ag
es such as AD 500-1100, Age of Great Religions etc.
By clicking on an era, the machine will start up. When it stops, the globe and objects will have changed to represent the era you
ve chosen. You can then navE
igate by selecting one of the four geographical divisions (Africa & Middle East, The Americas, Europe, Asia & Australia), opening the document drawer of the desk to see what
s inside or by clicking on one of th
e objects on the desk. The desk also holds four books
Everyday Life; Culture; Innovations; Who
s Who
that let you access information by subject across the ages.
This is a very easy interface to get to gripG
s with and providing objects from the different times is an excellent idea. This way you have something you can immediately get your teeth into and which gives you a starting point from which to delve into the
rest of the disc. If you find something that particularly engages you, you can get at lots of information very quickly. Clickable icons bring up key dates on a subject, maps, quirky facts and related subjects.
There is a vast amount of information and all of it is easy to access. The information also has a very broad spread, covering events, cultures and peoples from all over the world in equal depth. And it puts Eur
opean events strongly into context by being able to see what was happening in the rest of the world in the same period.
The information on the disc opens up as a series of overlapping windows (though not using K
Microsoft Windows borders) and clickable picture icons let you navigate through the data. Other icons will point you to related topics. The cross referencing is good, although it was a bit of a drag to click to
a reference in another age and have the disc go through the whole rigmarole of the globe closing up and spinning and all the windows opening up for that subject.
Highlighted text only gives written informationM
and not pictures
which for a definition of something like
obelisk
is a bit disappointing
but there are moving examples of maps and diagrams which are well done and especially useful when talking about th
ings such as Faraday
s first electric motor. The textual sections of the disc have been written in a concise but easy to read way and the type is large enough to make studying easy.
This disc could easily get iO
ts gold Politically Correct certificate, but rather than trying to ram a point of view down your throat, it simply comes across as having a balanced outlook. It points out:
There is a huge gulf between the wea
lth of a country such as the United States and the poverty of Third World nations,
and has a movie clip labelled
First Person on the Moon
The desk interface also has other functions. There is a
flip-back
lever on the wall if you want to jump to your last entry; an Options menu that will let you copy or print the top window or the whole screen; a help icon that takes you to a clear help section; and a button th
at takes you to an incredibly long index function. It
s worth flicking through this vast index to pick up on things you might have missed.
There is also a Quiz Master box on the desk that gives you a quiz on thS
e disc contents and almost makes a worthy CD-ROM in its own right. The operation of the whole disc is very smooth and you will wait only a moment to get to the information you want, sometimes getting it instant
The first thing that strikes you about the opening screen (the After 1945, Modern World section) is that all the objects seem to be related to America in one way or another. There is a picture of Martin LutU
her King, a helicopter from the Vietnam war, a spy briefcase representing the Cold War, a TV showing footage from the Gulf War, the American lunar module, and a large broadcasting dish representing satellite co
mmunication. Granted, America has had a huge influence on history in the post-war period, but history has also been made in the rest of the world. This is the kind of opening screen that will immediately engageW
an American user but maybe not the rest of us. The fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of independence in Africa are covered in as much detail as the American issues on the disc, but surely the opening scree
n could also have included these monumental changes? This is just one example of a slight, but definite, American bias.
The most surprising feature of the whole disc is that it is narrated by American actors Y
throughout and all the spellings use American conventions. It
s common knowledge that the American market is the biggest in the world, but Americanisms from an English publisher? Happily, the developer, Dorling
Kindersley, is working on localised versions as well, but if these take as long as the Macintosh incarnations of previous Dorling Kindersley discs we could be in for a very long wait.
Apart from this, albeit f[
airly major, point, the disc is superb. It is a pleasure to use, and the content is interesting and genuinely entertaining. There is so much to browse through or learn that you will end up going back to it agai
n and again as you would do a book
which is a major achievement for multimedia. This really is about as good as multimedia is ever going to get.
Conor McNicholas
Eyewitness History Of The World
Price
59 (i]xnc VAT)
Contact Dorling Kindersley
0171 753 3488
Category
Reference/Entertainment/
Education
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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rrents that all creatures generate.
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lding weapons using sharks
teeth than by sharks themselves.
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al environment. The disc also features some beautifully visualised graphics and backdrops, which enhance the perception that you are watching a top-quality product rather than a cut-and-paste collection of old I
film clips.
Eyewitness: Shark is entertaining, educational and exciting
and it makes fascinating viewing for grown-ups as well as the kids it is aimed at. The colourful footage has been successfully transferr
ed to the VideoCD format with the minimum of pixellation
a minor miracle considering the demands that turbulent water can cause the MPEG encoding process. Highly recommended
and at
9.99, excellent value.
KyPaul Nesbitt
Eyewitness: Shark
Price
9.99 (inc VAT)
Contact CD Vision 0181 503 0589
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top stuff. I mean, that
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y, Family Feud is what the Americans call it, and they may offer bigger cash prizes over the pond, but they ain
t got our Les. Which means no Les in this US game conversion. Major disaster.
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DO title is basically the same as the UK show. Two families answer
social
questions in the hope that their responses match those of the general public, polled in pre-show surveys.
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s when you play against a friend that the game really comes into its own. Family Feud is so crap, it
s brilliant.
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eys have been conducted in the US. So, rather than choosing the obvious answers, you have to squeeze into an American
s mind and predict what they might have said.
Name a sport played on grass?
my partner was
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t think of Croquet which was in second place on the board. Oddly, she didn
t guess that Tag or Frisbee would be there either. Game to meI
excellent!
Okay, so the presentation is questionable
the digitised characters look like complete loons and there
s hardly any animation. And yes, spelling each of the answers letter by letter can become mo
notonous. But hey, the sets are so similar you can pretend you
re on the show! Up to ten players can participate! You can personalise the families
names, interests and personalities to match yours! It
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le for kids of all ages! It
s Family Fortunes!
Alright, so it
s not for everyone
Family Feud is really a cult game. All that
s missing is a cult like Les Dennis to present it.
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Family Feud
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39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Gametek 01753 553445
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17.99G
CD Vision
0181 503 0589H
VideoCDI
Digital Movies
2R Under
20[ Under
Fatal Attraction
A seriously scary thriller that's kept more married men well behaved than the threat of AIDS or Mrs Wayne Bobbitt. When Dan Gallagher (Douglas at his oiliest) engages in a weekend bonk-fest with Alex (Close wit`
s a mob of locals by holing up in a ch
teau inhabited by two women who seduce and manipulate the cocky villain into staying a while. The reason? He is the intended main course for a blood-curdling girls
night C
in, attended by a mysterious collection of other well-to-do women in this Gothic costume drama.
The sub-titling of the French dialogue helps preserve the audio impact of the film which, even if it is a long way
from Dolby Pro Logic, at least avoids the deadpan mid-Atlantic dubbing of its Redemption co-releases.
Picture quality suffers from pixel blurs and original film blemishes, but again the film was clearly shot E
in 1979 with a degree of directing aplomb by Jean Rollin.
Perhaps Rollin is not quite up to the nerve-jangling directing of the classic Hammer Horrors, but despite a sometimes disjointed first half, it actually
manages to stoke up the tension well as we discover why the gang are so keen to have the hero for dinner
A hankie is more likely to be required during this movie more for its unhappy ending than any other reaG
son. The dirty Mac brigade have been warned!
Michael Kavanagh
Fascination
Special Requirements
DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
17.99 (inc VAT)
Contact CD Vision 0181 503 0589
Director Jean Rollin
Starring Lina Romay, Alice Arno, Jess Franco
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Mothers
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Moths
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Holinshed's
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Hollywood's
Holmes
Holocaust
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PLATFORM
15.99G
Philips Media
0171 911 3000H
Digital MoviesJ
3R Under
20[ Under
Fatty Bear
s Birthday Surprise
Help a teddy bear collect the items it needs to prepare a little girl
s birthday surprise
Still receptive to the myth that teddy bears have a life of their own when the lights go down, I was enchanted with Fat`
h the wackiest perm since Kevin Keegan) he realises he's done bad and returns to cosy marital bliss with cutesy daughter and chocolate-box wife (Anne Archer). In true hell hath no fury like a post-feminist-careC
er-woman scorned fashion, Close wreaks all forms of vengeful havoc on the nuclear family she loves to hate. She also cooks up some trouble for the family
s pet bunny rabbit.
Lyne directs with a nice eye for dom
estic bliss gone sour, while Close brings a passion and credibility to Alex which the film doesn't deserve. Lyne was famously forced to change the ending - and sadly this disc doesn
t make use of CD-i
s capabilE
ities to allow you to choose between the director and studio versions.
Technically this is a well rendered encoding, almost up there with Star Trek VI in quality. During the final scenes, though, the steam effe
ct looks clumsy, while the occasional fades to black seem to leave a curious brief ghosting. However, most people will buy this disc for its shock appeal (or as a timely warning to hubby), so the occasional encG
oding glitch won't be too bothersome. Meanwhile the film's classic Hollywood structure slots in very neatly with CD-i's chapter format. And, of course, it makes it easier to skip the psychology and zip straight
to the blow job in the lift. Allegedly.
George Kaplan
Fatal Attraction
Requires DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
15.99
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Director Adrian Lyne
Starring Michael Douglas, GI<lenn Close, Anne Archer
Platform CD-i MPC
Encoding Very Good
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Electronic Arts
01753 549442H
Young ChildrenJ
5R Under
40[ Under
Fellini
Dubious film maker, dubious disc
One of the greatest film directors of the 20th Century, or an Italian egoist with an unreasonable sense of grandeur? It
s a tough question. Fellini was well known to be more th`
ty Bear
s Birthday Surprise from the very beginning. And although I am 20 years older than the target age group for this CD, I have it on good authority (my niece) that children are delighted with this product C
Fatty Bear, the hero of the program, belongs to a little girl called Kayla, whose tale begins to unfold on the eve of her birthday. As she falls to sleep, in fairy-tale fashion, her stuffed old Fatty Bear
leaps to life and with your assistance and the help of the other toys, dolls and stuffed animals around the house, sets about making a birthday cake, blowing up balloons in preparation for a birthday surprise fE
or Kayla.
Aimed at three-to-seven year-olds, Fatty Bear
s interface was simple enough for my young niece to use without getting frustrated, although it would be a bit challenging to a three year-old without con
siderable help from a parent. To guide Fatty Bear on his quest you simply click the moving arrow. In all, there are 30 different areas of the game to explore, taking Fatty from bedroom to kitchen to attic to gaG
rage in his bid to find the necessary cake ingredients, letters for a birthday banner and so on, before Kayla wakes. And when the child gets stuck, they can conjure up any number of funny little hints to help t
hem on their way, by clicking on Gretchen the doll or Matilda Rabbit (who can fly).
Kayla, Fatty Bear and all their friends talk in engaging and funny voices. There are no inanimate objects in the world of FatI
ty Bear: click on a hatstand and it comes alive; click on the answerphone and there
s a message from Daddy. You can also take a ride on a skateboard, send a book flying round rooms and open the fridge to take a
midnight snack
the list is endless in this innocent and exhilarating children
s adventure.
The CD even comes with a luminous Frisbee, a 48-page colouring and puzzle book, crayons and pencil. Though extremelyK
American and perhaps a little fattist in name, Fatty Bear is loads of fun for parents and kids alike. It is charming, fantastical and a great way to entertain and enchant the children on a rainy afternoon.
ril Williams
Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise
Price
39.99
Contact Electronic Arts 01753 549442
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an a little self-obsessed but it
s difficult to complain. Watch La Dolce Vita, 81/2 or La Strada, and you start to see the sparks of genius.
More important here, though, is whether Fellini fits well onto CD-ROMC
. This CD does a fairly poor job of shoehorning a lifetime of grandiose cinema onto a 5.5 inch disc. For a start, Fellini
s films, conceived on a massive scale, don
t fit well in a window the size of a book of
matches. It
s thoroughly uncompelling and unsatisfying after seeing them at the cinema.
Even when images are presented at full screen, as the stills are, the depth of meaning is lost because of the utterly banaE
l captions. Undoubtedly the worst are from The Clowns, where most captions say things like
A clown
or are simply erroneous. Even when we see an interesting picture of Fellini making up as a clown, the disc fa
ils to convey the story behind the image
that he was making up for the cover of Newsweek, which is not an inconsequential fact. This is not carping, it shows the poor editing of the disc contents especially sG
ince the half-baked approach is evident throughout. The disc simply doesn
t take advantage of the possibilities of CD-ROM. Film clips are thrown away because there is no commentary and no explanation. In a sect
ion on Fellini
s use of music in his films, there is no music
the music is under a separate button called
Other
There
s a massive tract by Fellini about light, but no examples of lighting in his films. WhI
y put something on CD-ROM if you
re not going to use the medium to its best advantage? A large number of opportunities have been missed here.
One thoughtful feature, and an interesting aspect for newcomers to F
ellini, is the highlighting of the drawings he made for his films. Each of the screens on the disc contains elements of them, which helps to tie the whole thing together in an interesting and clever way. There K
is also a separate section looking at these drawings and the general influence of comics on his style of film-making.
An interesting subject featured on the disc is Fellini
s work as a director of commercial ad
vertising shorts. But although there may be a section about it, sadly none of the films are available, and neither is there any explanation as to why Fellini did them. Neither are there any filmed interviews wiM
th Fellini himself, to put his work into context and set the scene.
For a director who came close to over-art-directing his movies, the disc
apart from the use of Fellini
s drawings
is under-designed. The
screens for each film are fine, but the timeline in particular flat and uninviting. Also, getting around the disc is made difficult because of the lack of cross-referencing. There are no hot links to other sectO
ions, no biographies of the major stars he directed
even Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg aren
t featured in any depth
or details of his collaborators.
This disc is well-priced and that
s a healthy mov
e for this kind of title (the additional half disc in the rating is there for the price alone), but anyone interested in finding out more about Fellini could usefully spend the money they would on this disc on Q
a La Dolce Vita video or some cinema visits. Watching the films he made will tell you a lot more about Fellini in a far more interesting way.
Stuart Price
Fellini
Price
19.99
Contact EMME 01923 240050
CategR5ory
Reference/Entertainment
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destruction as she seduces her victims and fellates her male lovers to death.
It is a storyline which many of us might find hard to swallow. But it
s a part which Romay seems glad to get her teeth into despiteC
the workaday acting of the bulk of the supporting cast.
The quality of acting in this 1973 French/Belgium co-production
another Jess Franco
masterpiece
would at times shame a sixth-form drama club play.
The soundtrack, for instance, is all over the place, while the dubbing is so flat and dreary that it becomes comical. It
s just as well the countess herself is mute.
The CD has obviously been encrypted from prE
etty cruddy film stock and the result is a washed-out look to the images. The interface and presentation of the discs are nice, though, with vaguely interesting sleeve notes and a proper title screen.
Somehow,
this absurd plot is stretched out to 93 minutes. As soft-porn directors well know, a little bit of a plot is never a bad thing
and the humorous possibilities available in this film
s storyline are there for tG
he taking, but ignored. Instead, there are plenty of bellies but not too many belly laughs in this film.
Michael Kavanagh
Female Vampire
Special Requirements
DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
17.99
(inc VAT)
Contact CD Vision 0181 503 0589
Director Jess Franco
Starring Lina Romay, Alice Arno, Jess Franco
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s available on CD-ROM, and it
s even better. The action kicks off with a new, and rather nicC
e video sequence. Well, actually it
s an advert for a football boots company, but they
re going to remain nameless (until we get a pair). The game looks exactly the same as the floppy disk version, but with one
major difference
more on that in a minute, I
d better fill in the gaps first.
FIFA is played from a unique isometric
in-the-stands
viewpoint, a system which is certainly refreshing and works rather well. AE
nimation of the players is smooth thanks to the use of several thousand frames. Each guy has a neat bag of tricks including back heels, sliding tackles, flying headers, bicycle kicks and more. Of course, gettin
g them to perform these feats doesn
t come easy, and although the basic running around, shooting and tackling is straightforward, really mastering the game takes time. Initially, you
ll find yourself stabbing aG
t the buttons wondering how you performed each action.
As with all good footie games, there
s no shortage of options to tinker with. You can play against a human opponent or any of the 49 computerised teams, in
a single game, tournament or league. There are different conditions to choose from, various play strategies and formations. Fanatics can even play a full 45 minutes each way. The only black mark is that penaltI
y shoot-outs have been replaced with sudden death, so you can
t quite recreate the
94 World Cup final.
What really puts the
special
in this Special Edition is the running commentary. Yep, not only do you get
the continuous crowd chants as you play, you also get a ball-by-ball analysis. Not from John Motson, thank God (a CD-ROM isn
t big enough for all the garbage Motty spurts out). No, here it
s Tony Gubba. And whK
at an enthusiastic fella old Mr Gubba is. Virtually everything he says is pronounced with an exclamation mark.
Corner to Brazil. Barbetto
great tackle by Wilson! Long hoof up the field. Hallsworth
great poss
ession by Ansell
strike by Ansell! Oh it
s off the crossbar! Strike by Buckner! IT
S IN!!!
Ah yes, it takes me back to the glory days at the Goldstone Ground. (When was that, exactly, then?
Ed.)
The monologM
ue is rather limited, but then, so is your average commentator
s. Generally it
s very entertaining
funny, actually. Sadly, the programmers still haven
t used real player names; instead we get ridiculous alter
natives such as a goalie from Eire called Terry Irish and an American goalkeeper called Peter Stryker, with many of the others being employees of Electronic Arts (nice ego trip, guys). The CD edition does allowO
you to edit the text, but needless to say the commentary names remain the same whatever, so it
s all rather pointless. Still, don
t let this put you off buying the Special Edition of FIFA International Soccer.
It was already a fantastic looking, fun-to-play game, and now it sounds brilliant too.
Warren Chrismas (Issue 4 review)
FIFA International Soccer CD
Special Edition
Requires 8Mb for running
commentary, 4Q
Mb without
Price
39.99
Contact Electronic Arts 01753 549442
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
FIFA INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
All-singing, all dancing FIFA on 3DO, but where's our Tony?
The all-new 3DO version of FIFA
International Soccer follows the PC CD-ROM version released in September (reviewed last month), but here the designers have effectively started again
with the graphics at least
as it looks nothing like preS
vious incarnations.
Instead of just a single isometric viewpoint we have a choice of seven views including Cable Cam, Sideline Cam and, erm, an End Zone Cam. Having a choice meant we often found ourselves in a
state of option paralysis
the truth is none of the views are perfect. The Ball and Shoulder views, for instance, show the action close-up but you see so little of the pitch it
s impossible to tell where the U
other players are.
The sound has been improved
there
s now a wide range of crowd noises including a chant of
Eng-ger-land, Eng-ger-land, Eng-ger-land
when playing as Terry
s boys and some pretty nifty drums
. Sadly though, there
s no commentary from Tony Gubba as with the PC CD-ROM version, due, no doubt, to the fact that this version is aimed at the American market.
The most noticeable difference is the speed
s gone up a gear
and also the difficulty factor which has increased slightly, mainly because the three main buttons on the 3DO
s handset have to be used in combination with the two shift buttons on top.
B/B/B/
at you get with the 3DO version is a host of neat touches
a great intro, digitised clips of
classic moments in football history
, a good replay facility with five more camera views, and even a six-player optY
ion. Ultimately though, it
s not any more playable than the PC version. In other words, it
At last, CD-i gamesters can breathe a sigh of relief as the game you
ve been eagerly awaiting has finally arrived
The release of Flashback
a console smash
could go some way to restoring CD-i
s waning crediB
bility as a games platform. It may have taken nearly two years to make the leap from PC, SNES and Megadrive onto the CD-i, but Flashback is the kind of copper-bottomed game property that the system needs to att
t every day you encounter a CD-ROM with so little content.
On loading the game, you are presented with a full-screen, full-motion video intro which shows various people using large guns to express differencesC
of opinion. Your objective is to take charge of a team of FBI secret agents and prevent a crazy scientist from blowing up Los Angeles.
As you move through the game you are shown a series of video clips, each
with an associated piece of dialogue. You respond by choosing from a list of responses. Sounds good, doesn
t it? Choose the right one and you go on to the next scene. Get it wrong and it
s game over. Your firstE
task is to interview your only two suspects. I interviewed one and looked through his personal effects which led me straight to an air hostess. She led me straight to the madman. I followed him to a stadium wh
ere he was planting the bomb, ordered my men to defuse it, messed with the madman again, and that was it. The end
d cracked the whole thing in about 45 minutes, and not a minute too soon.
If you
re lookingG
for a game that uses MPEG to provide full-motion video, check out Return To Zork, or splash out on one of any number of linear but well encoded VideoCDs. Whatever you do, avoid Flash Traffic.
Chris Anderson
Flash Traffic
Requirements RealMagic MPEG card
Price TBA
Contact Gem 01279 822 822
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
Gem Distribution
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Alex (Jennifer Beals) is a welder by day, but dances in Mawby
s Bar by night, dreaming of auditioning for the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance. Richie is a short-order cook in the same bar, but dreams of being `
ract in order to survive. (3DO owners are going to have to wait at least another month, by the way.)
To recap, Flashback is a shoot-
em-up puzzle platformer from the French developer Delphine, which was also reD
sponsible for the not dissimilar Another World. Like that title, Flashback has a very distinctive cinematic style thanks to the extensive use of cut-scenes, movie-style soundtracks and fluid, polygon-based roto
scoped graphics.
The game begins with a mysterious scenario
galactic investigator Conrad Hart wakes up on a jungle-infested planet to find that his memory has been erased
and reveals further details about tF
he whys and wherefores as the game progresses.
The key difference between Flashback and Another World is the complexity of the puzzles and the level of interaction with the on-screen environment. Flashback fea
tures over 20 functional items and 15 non-player characters. That means that in many ways it plays more like an RPG than a traditional platformer
aside from the usual hand-to-eye co-ordination skills, you neeH
d to talk to people, pick up clues, utilise your inventory and use good old-fashioned logic to progress to the higher levels.
But it
s not all problem-solving. Conrad has a gun and he has to use it regularly, b
ut the combination of RPG and arcade-action genres
what the Yanks call a cocktail of
thumb candy and brain fodder
helps make Flashback a very enjoyable time waster.
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brought problems. The screen image is smaller than the Megadrive and SNES versions
and two unsightly green borders fill the edge of the screen. Second, the control system is far from intuitive (you have to pr
ess the pad up and hit the jump button to leap sideways, for instance) and the game is impossible to play without a dedicated gamepad or joystick.
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the absence L
of an ongoing save game function. Yes, you can save your progress, but only at certain locations, which makes navigating the early levels particularly onerous.
But the transfer to CD-i has also brought with it
some improvements. The intro and cut-scenes, which crop up when you pick up or use an object, are now much more detailed and colourful. More useful is the increased deployment of sampled voices and sound fx, plN
us the chance to hear the stunningly atmospheric music score (so tuneful it was even released as a separate album in France) in its full digital stereo glory.
Otherwise, there is very little difference in the C
D-i version
after all,
if it ain
t broke, don
t fix it
. The animation of Conrad
s movements that made the original so jaw-dropping (even my cat was convinced that the sprite was a living
and possibly edibP
creature) have made the transition unscathed. The result is that Flashback is the best platform game on CD-i, easily eclipsing the childish Hotel Mario and the fun but simplistic The Apprentice. CD-i owner
s wanting a title that packs great graphics and sound with a very original blend of gameplay genres will find Flashback a worthwhile purchase.
Mat Toor
Flashback
Price
34.99
Contact Philips Media 0171 91130R
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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You might think a single-player one-plane-at-a-time flight sim is a crashing bore, but Flight Unlimited is so involving and realistic that it
s actually a smashing soar
Flight Unlimited is a single-player, sin`
a stand-up comic (dream on, the pathetic Polack jokes just aren
t funny). One night, Nick (Michael Nouri) happens into the bar and falls for Alex
only to be told that she
s one of his welders, and she doesn
date the boss. Except, of course, she does in the end. And this is the basic story line, dreaming of being an engaging plot.
Richie heads for LA and possible stardom (see above), Alex gets her audition, Nick g
ets his woman and they all live happy ever after. That
s all you have to do, dream, have a bit of talent and the world
s your oyster. The film was released in 1983
the height of the Reagan/Thatcher regime of E
film actors and grocer
s daughters wielding ultimate power. Hm, no such thing as (class-ridden) society, just supportive families and highly talented,
on yer bike
individuals.
Unlike the plot, the encoding i
s very good, considering this is a movie full of frantic , body poppin
action. There are few visible artefacts
the only problem seems to be occasional blocking where light is reflected on moist skin, which, G
unfortunately, comprises most of the film. If you
re into wet T-shirts and
80s music, you could do a lot worse. You could also do a lot better. The Red Shoes it ain
Travel through time to explore the cartoon worlds of Fred Flintstone and George Jetson
Fred Flintstone and George Jetson have been transported through a time warp to each other
s cartoon environment. An unlik`
gle-aircraft (at a time) flight simulator. The operative word here is
simulator
. There is no combat because there are no other aircraft with which to interact. All you do is take off, fly and land (or crash, C
depending on your ability). You may think this is about as exciting as listening to paint dry. And, in normal circumstances, you would probably be right. Flight Unlimited, however, changes the rules slightly. O
nce you have seen it running, you will understand when I say that the circumstances become anything but normal.
Flight Unlimited is what you might call a fifth-generation flight simulator. Although the choice E
of aircraft is limited to four single-engine propellor-driven machines plus a glider, and the world area with which you can play is limited, the flight model and graphics conspire to lift this head and shoulder
s (surely fuselage and wingtips?
Ed.) above everything else around.
To all intents and puposes, you find yourself flying within a fully digitised 3D world. Now that may not sound much, but look at the screen G
shots to see what I mean. The world is, as we all know, a beautiful place. Now it is possible to see that from within a simulator. No more blocky rotating bitmaps or triangular hills. This is photo quality scen
ery. Possibly even better than Magic Carpet.
All this splendour is allied to brilliantly presented aircraft which look just right. But the crowning glory is the flight model. I
m not exaggerating when I say thaI
t Flight Unlimited uses as much processing power to handle the behaviour of the air as most simulators use in total. Unlike pretty well all other sims of this genre, Flight Unlimited treats air as a fluid mediu
m, with associated dynamic complications.
That means that you are vulnerable to propellor wash, windshear, thermals, clear air turbulence and all those other arcane aviation terms you hear on the news but neverK
really understand. Let me put it more simply. I
m a pilot (no, really he is
Ed.). I love flight sims and this is the first time I can honestly say there are no significant problems with the way this game fli
es, outside of the physical limitations placed on it by the fact that it
s not the real thing.
Now we
ve all seen games which look fantastic but have all the long-term attraction of, well, something really not M
very attractive. We
ve also seen games which have no spectacular graphics but which play so well that we
ve still got them loaded (like Red Baron, for example). There are a few which combine the worst of both w
orlds. But recently there have been a couple of really nice games which both look good and play well. Flight Unlimited is the next step up. It looks great and plays marvellously.
Of course, there has to be a doO
wn side to all this wonderfulness. Don
t even think of buying this game unless you either have a DX2/66 with 8Mb minimum or an enormous amount of patience. For anything approaching a good experience here, you n
eed a Pentium with 16Mb and a good fast CD-ROM drive. You also need a really hot video card
VESA Local Bus or PCI preferably. Then the results are truly awesome.
From the ground buildings where you start to tQ
he really intense effort of trying to fly a perfect Cuban Eight, Flight Unlimited just oozes quality and atmosphere. With a good spec machine, everything is smooth and, for want of a better word, seamless. With
a bottom end machine (and by that I mean a DX/2), things start to get rather unsatisfying. Although the overall effect is still fairly smooth, the detail levels have to be turned right down and everything becoS
mes slow. Although a couple of years ago, I would have said that this was acceptable, I
ve been spoilt by progress.
One of the features of Flight Unlimited is the flying instructor who joins you in the aircraft
. Unlike pretty well anything I
ve seen with an instructor involved, the advice and instruction you get are actually useful. Not only that, but there is a level of artificial intelligence built in that makes thU
e whole experience far more involving. For example, in certain other sims I could mention, your instructor will give you generic sort of advice which will be repeated for a dozen different things. Here, your ad
vice is specific. You get into a spin and the instructor will advise you on recovery as needed.
Next time, he may leave you to get on with it until you make a mistake. So you pull back on the stick (big mistakeW
) and he
ll say:
No, try pushing forwards instead.
This is the sort of behaviour you expect from a real instructor, and it all adds to the experience instead of being an irritation. Virgin claims that Flight
Unlimited could actually reduce the number of hours needed to obtain a pilot
s licence. Although I have reservations about the wisdom of this, I suspect that the claim may well be true.
To sum up, not only is tY
his an attractive package, with excellent graphics and sound, but it has bags of depth and atmosphere as well. This is a refreshing change, and Flight Unlimited deserves to do well because of it.
Developer Look
ing Glass is likely to release a sequel later in the year which is set to include combat options and network play, and this is sure to be an even bigger hit. For now, though, Flight Unlimited does just fine. Ju[
st make sure you
ve got the hardware to run it.
Simon Bradley
Flight Unlimited
Special Requirements 66MHz 486DX2 with 8Mb RAM; Pentium with 16Mb RAM recommended
Price
49.99
Contact Virgin Interactive
0181 \"960 2255
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For All Mankind
Get fired up with this emotionally-charged collection of archive film from the NASA launches
I had the feeling this was going to be a five-disc review when I saw the box. For a start, the source is impeccable.
ely scenario admittedly, but one which provides a convenient backdrop for a game of exploration based on the characters
home environments.
The player is presented with an aerial view of the environment he or C
she has chosen from which they can select one of a dozen or so sections for further investigation. Once in Judy Jetson
s bedroom or Fred
s garage there are various hot spots to activate, some more interactive t
han others. In George Jetson
s apartment, for example, Fred can be taken on a virtual reality holiday, create a meal combining any number of ingredients and set households automatons about cleaning the house. BE
ack in Bedrock, clicking on Dino gets him to mow the lawn and clicking on the car in the garage takes George out for a drive into the Neolithic landscape.
Navigation around the scenes is easy, the graphics are
bright and clear, and you can easily swap characters by clicking towards the top of the screen.
The developers of this disc have attempted something genuinely innovative: instead of sticking to the linear narraG
tive pioneered by Br
derbund
s Living Books, they have created a free-form environment, where the emphasis is on exploration rather than straightforward story-telling. But this, unfortunately, turns out to be o
ne of the disc
s key drawbacks.
Random movement about the environments only engaged this user for so long and this program lends itself to a further level of sophistication
for example, the collection of clueI
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ntstone and Jetson characters.
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Flintstones/Jetsons Time Warp
Price
15.99
Contact Philips 0171 911 3000
Category
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0181 202 0011H
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Forever Growing Garden
Forever Growing Garden is designed to give children a rudimentary knowledge of plant-life by
planting
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media.
Jim Smith
For All Mankind
Price
39.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Astrion 0181 202 0011
Category
Reference/Entertainment
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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es the size of the viewing window at the cost of resolution and frame speed.
But these are minor quibbles compared to the achievement of getting the film and all its supporting materials on one smoothly runningO
and well thought out CD-ROM. Even if the Moon programme does not make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck you should still check this out as an example of masterly film-making allied to visionary new
all cross-referenced. The excursions and the glossary can be accessed from a separate menu as well as from within the movie.
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to another page it halts the film for a few frames. QuickTime has to compress the 79 minutes of video quite viciously to fit it all on the disc and there is a full-screen mode that is best avoided as it increas
right of the screen, you can click on a hot word or name for a quick definition or a biography, without halting the film. At points throughout the film an excursion icon appears in the bottom left of the screeK
n. Click on this and it takes you to a related article. Exit the excursion and you are returned to the point where you left the main program.
There is a reference section on each Moon mission and on each astron
in space.
But Al Reinert completes the paradox neatly by showing the other side of space flight. Watching the astronauts listen to country music, throw things at each other to relieve the boredom, and gurn for I
the camera uncannily brings back memories of John Carpenter
s grunge space film Dark Star.
On top of this, Voyager has added a layer of expanded information. As the film runs through its transcript pages on the
. This stranger side of the Moon missions is perfectly matched by Brian Eno
s ambient score and by the slow abstraction of the imagery Reinert has chosen.
The overwhelming emotional colour of the film is loneliG
ness. The most poignant moment is the sighting of nomads
campfires burning in the Sahara and the reflection of one astronaut that the lives of the nomads are infinitely alien to him in comparison to his being
gines.
The astronauts
perspective is quite unexpected too. NASA selected the calmest personality types, matched with superb flying skills and engineering backgrounds. What came back were the same God-fearing AE
mericans, but definitely changed by the strangeness of their experience.
Several of the astronauts described a feeling of being watched by a loving force on the Moon and several thought they had met God himself
Al Reinert spent ten years going through the millions of feet of 16mm film NASA shot of the moon programme and tracking down the astronauts involved to narrate their experiences. NASA stuck cameras on everythiC
ng going, so some of the most striking shots are from unusual angles: the inside of a jettisoned booster stage, the silence of the gantry before launch, stunningly broken by the protean sound of the Saturn V en
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral, the most successful British film ever, has been granted a welcome early release onto VideoCD. But how did a lightweight romantic comedy, part-financed by Channel Four, go on to makeake
seeds are
planted
in the holes provided, and after a quick watering session the garden starts to grow. This is the fun part
the seeds start to sprout and grow into a variety of wei
ble educational potential. It is probably a good idea to use the program with some parental guidance initially, to help draw out these opportunities as, left alone, the child would probably concentrate on the hI
ot spots, become a highly skilled Gopher catcher, and ignore the educational aspect of the program. Wouldn
t we all.
Gaynor Spry
Forever Growing Garden
Price Under
Contact MediaVision
001 415 770 8600
CJ+ategory Education
Platform Mac MPC CD-i 3DO
e level to see the plants shoot up on screen. For those with more patience, a game of Catch the Gopher helps while away the minutes as the garden
slowly grows. Once the seeds have sprouted, the plants can be hG
arvested and then sold at the market, or arranged in the flower shop where there are opportunities to set prices and further develop reading skills.
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s hard to resist setting the rate of growth to the fastest possibl
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Platform Mac MPC CD-i 3DO
, before taking a trip to the hardware store to make a selection. There is also an Almanac on hand, to help them with their choice, and to provide a valuable demonstration of how reference books work.
On to theC
garden itself, where the seeds are
planted
in the holes provided, and after a quick watering session the garden starts to grow. This is the fun part
the seeds start to sprout and grow into a variety of wei
Combining the best of hardball and Tony La Russa's Ultimate, FPS Baseball could be the hit of the year
The creator of Front Page Sports Baseball has nicked the best ideas for pitching, hitting and baserunning B
from Hardball, and the fielding from Tony La Russa
s Ultimate Baseball, creating a game that
s extremely intuitive to play.
The in-game graphics have scaled fielders and give a good sense of the distances invol
over $250m?
Well, as you all no doubt know, the film stars the flop-top toff Hugh Grant as Charles, a
witty and charming
bachelor who believes in true love. Along with his equally witty and charming pals
who, like him, have no discernible source of income
he flits from wedding to wedding, making raffish speeches and fending off former girlfriends.
All this changes when he bumps into Carrie, a beautiful Ameri
can (Andie MacDowell) who has slept with even more partners than Charles. Fate and circumstances conspire against them (there
s the small matter of their weddings to other partners , for a start), although in tE
he end everything
s settled with a spot of tongue-wrestling in the rain
Why has it been so successful? It
s hard to say beyond the fact that there are some good jokes, a smattering of excellent performances (n
otably from Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas as the ice maiden poleaxed by her unrequited love for Charlie), and a pervasive atmosphere of summertime escapism.
Only a hard-hearted cynic would draw attentionG
to the film
s numerous weak points, such as the episodic and uneven plotting, the jokes that fall flat on their faces (
s bonking?
asks a young bridesmaid.
s like table tennis
only with slightly sm
aller balls,
is the lame reply) and a performance of such mahogany-like stature from MacDowell that you expect someone to shout
timber!
when she falls into Hugh Grant
s arms.
But the encoding
carried out I
by Philips
team in Hasselt, Belgium
is nigh-on flawless. Visual artefacts were practically invisible and the sound quality crystal clear. The interface is the US-version of the standard Philips control bar
the main difference being a slightly jazzier slo-mo facility.
All said, Four Weddings is probably as good (and commercial) as VideoCD gets
at least for now.
Mat Toor
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Special RK
equirements
DV cart for CD-i; MPEG card for MPC
Price
19.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Polygram 0181 910 5841
Director Mike Newell
Starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott -Thomas
Platform VideoCD
EncoL
ding Excellent
19.99G
Polygram
0181 910 5841H
VideoCDI
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44.99G
Sierra
01734 303322H
GamesJ
4R Under
50[ Under
FPS Football
The upgraded version of last year's best-seller means you won't ask for your quarter back...
Front Page Sports Football
95 is an upgrade of last year
s best American football game on the PC, incorporating the`
ved, helped by the excellent ball-flight. The sound deserves a mention too, including digitised abuse from the home crowd when you
re the visiting batsman, good bat contact noises, an authentic ball-hitting-gloD
ve sound and even a peanut salesman hawking his wares.
There are three levels of arcade complexity and a manage-only option, so that two-player games can be handicapped if one of you has the hand/eye co-ordinat
ion of a hibernating tortoise. For the heavy-duty player, there are customisable leagues and full player career modes.
Since the game
s licence is with baseball
s Players
Association rather than the teams, plaF
yer names are real but team nicknames are approximations. In the pipeline is a data disk with the rest of the stadiums and 48 old-time teams, although I
d have thought there
d be room on a CD-ROM for those with
this release. Silly me.
Unfortunately we still haven
t seen a game that captures the inherent violence of baseball, with players rearranging the catcher
s face with a bat or deliberately pitching at the bridgH
e of the batter
s nose. Until we do, this is the best baseball game on the PC.
David Williams
FPS Baseball
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
ContactSierra 01734 303322
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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Sierra
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50[ Under
Freddi Fish
The kids have gone to bed, it
s time to play their discs
and if you haven
t got kids, we won
t tell
Freddi Fish is the latest game for children from Humongous Entertainment, the team behind such games as Putt`
new two-point conversion rule and the myriad personnel changes that took place in the off-season.
As with FPS Baseball above, endorsement from the NFL Players
Association means teams have correctly named plaC
yers on the roster, but can
t use the team nicknames.
You can play matches in coach-and-play mode, where you control everything yourself, or coach-only, where you trust your players to carry out your instructio
ns to their statistically accurate utmost. There are over 300 areas of player rating categories, with the option to personalise and print out game plans and play books. There are full rosters and depth charts, E
and drafting, trading and firing players over a number of
simulated years.
Happily, despite this typically American obsession with statistics, the arcade gameplay is still unmatched on the PC.
The play-editor
is the best around, with separate sections for before and after the snap and an intuitive menu system that will have you spending hours creating ever more bizarre plays. (There are over 200 ready-made plays anG
d the teams
default playbooks are grouped to imitate their tendencies in real life).
Attention to detail is excellent and impossible to fully document here. For example, you can specify the weather conditions
in an exhibition game in three different ways. The excellent manual contains clear tutorials, quickstart and troubleshooter sections, a quick reference card and even a reading list.
Highly recommended.
PatriIjck McCarthy
FPS Football '95
Price
44.99 (inc VAT)
Contact Sierra 01734 303322
Platform MAC MPC CD-i 3DO
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39.99G
Electronic Arts
01753 549442H
Young ChildrenJ
5R Under
40[ Under
From Russia With Love
From Russia With Love is the Bond purist
s favourite Bond movie. With a meaty plot that stays faithful to Ian Fleming
s novel (although the apolitical SPECTRE is substituted for the KGB), this succeeds as a thr
-Putt (the unnervingly chirpy car with the Dennis Healey eyebrows) and the rather unsoundly-named Fatty Bear. Already, streams of adults are racing to their nearest software shop, fighting through the crowds wiC
th machetes to buy it for make-believe children. Such is the reputation of Humongous Entertainment, and on this showing it
s certainly justified.
The premise of the game is that Grandma Grouper
s treasure chest
of kelp seeds has been stolen by two sharks, playing havoc with the ocean
s ecosystem and, more importantly, spoiling the view from her kitchen window. Naturally, Freddi (who, despite what you might think, is E
apparently female) volunteers to find the seeds. Before you can say,
Two of those with chips, please,
Luther, her pal with the serious Mohican haircut, has also volunteered to help.
The control system is simp
licity itself: you navigate around the screens by clicking on the direction arrows and any items that can be interacted with will be indicated by a change in the cursor icon. Collectable items, which will help G
you in your quest, will appear in bubbles at the foot of the screen for future use. To use them, you simply click on the item, then on the person or object you want to use them on. Basically, it
s a version of
the point-and-click interface developed for so many adult adventure games.
Every single screen in the game is awash with hot-spots which, while having no bearing on your progress through the game, activate a wiI
de variety of entertaining responses. It pays to click on something more than once because you often provoke a different reaction the second time. Where this game scores over others is that you don
t have to wa
it for one hotspots to finish for another to start. Those with little or no self-control can click all over the screen, and everything will work at once.
As you progress through the game, talking with the variK
ous characters, you
re given hints as to where to go next from bottles with messages inside.
Each time you play the game, the location of the bottles and the puzzles will unfold in a different way. If you have
a younger child and want to play it the same way every time, you can simply save the game right at the start and load it each time you play. There are plenty of saved game slots, which can be used and loaded aM
t any time.
Many of the areas of the game exist purely to provide an entertaining break from the quest for the kelp seeds. One lets you spend time in an undersea theatre, watching a number of less than top-clas
s acts such as Frank the Fabulous Frog, Lukefish von Basstoven and Carpen Marina. A big plus about this is that it will help your offspring develop a healthy resistance towards poor theatre, making them less liO
kely to grow up to be the sort who go on coach trips to see Cats.
Another diversion is a feeding game, in which you throw jellyfish from a bucket at a stream of steadily advancing turtles and fish. If you allow
the targets to reach the buckets, the buckets disappear and the game
s over; feed them successfully and they keep on coming with increasing frequency until you either get bored or your central nervous system gQ
ives out under the strain.
The most educational part of this edutainment is Mr Starfish, who teaches maths. There are five levels of difficulty to choos