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- FLIGHT OF THE AMAZON QUEEN by INTERACTIVE BINARY ILLUSIONS
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- Animated Adventure
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- Review by Lu Richardson
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-
- Apart from the rather odd intro, everything else will seem very
- familiar to you when you start playing this game. Particularly if
- you have played Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: same
- excellent graphics and animation, easy interface, cute sound
- effects, blond antihero and mad professor. It's even funny, at
- times.
-
- Really, you can't fault this game on any of these accounts. Perhaps
- the interface could have been a little cleverer, since you find
- yourself doing rather strange things when you don't want to because
- you've clicked the wrong button, but that is not a real problem, I'm
- just picking nits. At least you get a nice clear play area with the
- commands and inventory neatly tucked beneath. Sweep the mouse over
- them and you get all the information you need. Scrolling through
- your items can be a lengthy affair, and you tend to forget the ones
- not in view, but its still a nice and easy method of controlling the
- game.
-
- The puzzles you have to solve to get anywhere are so very simple you
- won't even think about their solution, since you start looking for
- odd twists where there are none. You get given plenty of clues, so
- there is no excuse for getting stuck. But perhaps, for that very
- reason, people will (it can't be THAT simple, they'll say to
- themselves).
-
- Not terribly original, not terribly difficult, but very pleasant to
- look at and fun to play. Experienced adventures will have seen it
- all before and won't get very excited, but newcomers to the world of
- computer games should enjoy it very much. And, let's face it, its
- not as if we are in a position to look the jolly old gift horse in
- the mouth, what with the present scarcity of good adventure games...
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- Text Copyright (c) 1995 Eurowave Leisure Ltd.
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