Atahualpa

Copyright : Transoft | Reviewed by : Malc Jennings

It will come as no surprise to our regular readers that this is one game we certainly didn?t play on our real Amstrad CPC home computers because it?s written in another language and was unavailable in the UK. As such we have no story line for this title but we can tell you that you play a half naked lady that can fly, can?t be all bad, can it?

Graphics

From the moment the game loads you will think that you stepped into Spectrum worlds as the graphics are nothing better than what you would expect from a 48K ZX Spectrum. Colours may be slightly improved but they still aren?t overly impressive, the colour scheme leaves a lot to be desired by even the most die hard retrogaming fan won?t find much to hype this game about. It also suffers from a number of graphical glitches, collision detection is way off balance, flying past any other object leaves the main character almost invisible (see screen grab 1 for an example) and as such does nothing to improve the gameplay. Problems like this can be fixed quickly and easily in most cases so it?s pretty lazy if you ask us.

Sound

Sound is pretty nice in some cases with a melodic background track playing while you walk around the place but it?s spoiled by the massively increased in volume death music, it will overpower your speaker and may cause unwanted distortion. Because of this its hard to keep the level of your speakers at a comfortable level, another bad thing about the game.

Gameplay

Gameplay isn?t up to mutch unless you owned the original title and are fully aware of what exactly you?re supposed to be doing. Okay it?s a half naked woman with the ability to fly over other buildings but why can she do this? what is she up to? we may never find out without the help of our CPC Zone readers - if you have the story for this title please send it in to us (English only please).
Even if you did know the story for this title the graphical and audio glitches don?t make it a very enjoyable experience and in our opinion at least we say that most CPC fans should avoid this title at all costs - unless you like inflicting pain on yourself.