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- From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
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- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: James Pond 2 - Robocod CD32
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- Date: 26 Apr 1994 19:03:31 GMT
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- James Pond 2 - Robocod
- Software Company: Millennium
- Address: Quern House, Mill Court, Great Shelford,
- Cambridge, CB2 5LD, United Kingdom.
- Phone: (0223) 844 894
- Fax: ?
- E-Mail: ?
- List Price: 29.99
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-
- Review by Jukka O. Kauppinen (Finland) and Alan Buxey (England)
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- Jukka
- ----- (rev.2)
-
- Pond is back! This time, evil thieves have stolen all the toys from
- The Toy Factory, and carried them away. So James must recover them - from
- the North Pole!
-
- This is wild and funny - if you like platformers. James is a nice
- (though not furry) thing, and even has special equipment for this mission.
- There's a huge castle with dozens of rooms (levels) that James must run
- through, jumping, avoiding pikes and other "bad things" and collecting lots
- of bonuses.
-
- JP2 has three major points:
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- o The graphics are great for a platformer: background coppers
- and colourful backgrounds.
-
- o Playability is quite good
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- o The sound is GREAT! James' audio is possibly best I've heard
- in any game. It comes from CD, so quality is naturally
- CD-quality, and also the music is GOOD! Great going!
- Without this music, JP2 would be only "above average", but
- now - it adds huge amount of gameplay.
-
- As an added bonus, the game contains an excellent intro animation and
- advertisement for next James Pond-game. I think somebody from Millennium
- mentioned somewhere that those animations cost around 40.000 pounds!
-
- Music makes a game - this doesn't happen too often (anybody remember
- Cybernoid/Cybernoid II?), but it's real this time. You could even listen
- this music while reading a book.
-
-
- Alan
- ----(rev. 2)
-
- A great platformer! Well, the floppy version was anyway ;). This
- version is Robocod AGA with CD soundtracks throughout the game. The graphics
- are just as bouncy and cute as the original - but I would say that with a
- better controller, this would be better! The CD soundtrack pushes this
- platformer above any other current one - they really are great and take me
- back to the days when we used to have quality music in a game (e.g., Last Ninga
- or Sanxion on the C64).
-
- There are many other great features; e.g., I loved the cartoon that
- can be selected from the menu too (a trailer for James Pond III - Operation
- Starfish) - it certainly impressed some friends!
-
- Features: "mpeg" cartoon. The cheat has been removed - its a new
- one. ;)
-
-
- RATINGS
- -------
- Jukka Alan
-
- Graphics: **** ****
- Sound: ***** *****
- Playability: **** ****
- Lastability: *** ***
- Overall: **** ****
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