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- From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
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- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Diggers/Oscar CD32
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- Date: 26 Apr 1994 15:27:30 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: game, CD-ROM, strategy, platform, commercial
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- Diggers/Oscar
- Commodore CD32 disc
-
- Software Company: (Millennium/Flair)
-
- Address: Quern House, Mill Court, Great Shelford, Cambridge,
- CB2 5LD, United Kingdom / ?
- Phone: (0223) 844 894 / (0661) 860 260
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- List Price: 29.99
-
- Review by Jukka O. Kauppinen (Finland) and Alan Buxey (England)
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- Jukka
- ----- (rev.3)
-
- These games come with CD32, with some packages at least. Diggers is
- an interesting, good looking, and good sounding game of gem digging and
- strategy, while Oscar is basic platform game.
-
- Diggers: you choose one of the four digging-races, and control them
- to glory and richness. Each race has its own reasons for getting loads of
- money, and you, master digger, must fulfill their dreams. The game can be
- controlled by joypad or mouse. Joypad isn't an ideal choice as it's a bit
- hard. Diggers certainly doesn't appeal to everyone, as it requires a certain
- "mood." Each game lasts quite long and it sure isn't arcade-action - you
- slowly design your mines, guide diggers, and buy new equipment for better
- efficiency. But personally, I think it is quite fun.
-
- As far as graphics go, they look very nice, and there are remarkably
- more of them than in the standard AGA floppy version. There are more
- animations and stills. Best of all, background sounds and music come from
- CD, so the audio experience is also good. The CD music, in my opinion, gives
- quite a nice feeling to the gameplay.
-
- Diggers is good choice for people who like management, business, and
- strategy-like games.
-
- Oscar: this looks great. It uses lots of Copper-produced colours as
- the background, and has very beautiful fore/background graphics. But
- gameplay sucks. There's nothing that keeps you playing and coming back time
- after time.
-
- Diggers is quite good, while Oscar fails.
-
- Alan
- ----(rev. 2)
-
- Diggers was hyped up by the press to be THE puzzle game 1993, but
- for me is simply does not cut the mustard (as the expression goes). The
- graphics are nice (AGA) and the mellow sounds from the CD make for an
- interesting atmosphere, but the shallow (and the slow) gameplay just trash
- the game unnecessarily.
-
- Oscar is far too colourful for its own good: the baddies are hard to
- see. But the sound IS good, and for a platform game, a generous number of
- "continues" are given. This game is the first of its genre for the CD32.
- The game has a nice idea, but the execution of this idea has failed
- miserably.
-
- All I can say is thank God this Disc came with the CD32: I wouldn't
- like to have bought it. There again, it gives bad impressions of CD32
- capabilities. By the way, these games are now free of the pack and on the
- shelves :|
-
-
- RATINGS (Diggers/Oscar)
- -----------------------
-
- Jukka Alan
-
- Graphics: ****/**** ****/***(too many)
- Sound: ****/*** ****/****
- Playability: ***/*** ***/**
- Lastability: ***/* **/*
- Overall: ****/** ***/**
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