Reviews

1986 Ocean Software (UK)
by Roy Gibson, Simon Butler, Martin Calvert and Steve Cain

I think the folks from Ocean were relying on the movie licensed name, the big sprites on the back of the cassette inlay or in one or two payed magazine reviews to sell this incredibly lousy beat-em-up.
There is nothing appealing in here, bad graphics, boring, monotonous and badly executed gameplay. One of the worst games ever.

I'm sure Mel Gibson never played this game, otherwise he would no longer be among us.

This could well be the worst game Ocean ever released. You can't do anything in this and it's near impossible to win a match. Some of the worse gameplay in any game let alone a Spectrum one.

Possibly one of the worst games I have ever played, probably the worst licensed game I've ever played.

Highlander was an awesome movie for it's time, and back when this game was reasonably new I can safely say I am so so glad it was my friends copy I played and not mine. If I had paid the almost comical £7.95 I'd have been one of the few 8 year olds on record to commit suicide...

The graphics are terrible, semi colourful backgrounds which look OK if not a little boring surround an all black floor, upon which lazily ported chunky cut n' pasted C64 sprites bumble around with no true purpose.

Swing your sword at the stickle brick man with your equally useless stickle brick man and watch in dismay as your health bar keeps decreasing, and his goes back up. Then your head falls off in one of the most terribly animated and pathetic deaths in a computer or video game.

Gameplay is lost somewhere? Because I for one could not find it anywhere, sound is pretty much none existent, presentation is fucking crap.

The game is a joke, an absolute farce, and is no doubt one of the nails in Ocean's coffin.

I mentioned it was my friends copy I played back in about 86'/'87, my friend was almost lucky he got this game as part of a compilation, at least he had a couple of other games to play.

We were both quite excited to play this though, but alas about 2 minutes after it was loaded and we'd both had a go, the Speccy was reset and I don't think he ever played it again.

Let's hope he didn't anyway, this game is pure poison! Raw untreated sewage with an 89% shit content, the rest is tampons and used condoms...

Loading this game up these days even in an emulator is an unjustified waste of time even if it takes less than a second to load Avoid like the plague

by Canvas (Roy Gibson, Simon Butler, Steve Cain, Martin Calvert)
Horribly blocky sprites, non existant sound, almost empty background, and a whole movie reduced
to a solo beat'em up that could be whatever sword fight from anything. The fight itself is hard and boring,
you don't even clearly understand what you're doing. It's a game that makes you want to cut off your head,
especially if you spent money on it. Roger Taylor in original soundtrack recorded by the Queen for the movie sang a tune titled "Don't Lose Your Head", and I think he played this game too and he was trying to resist to do hara-kiri. Anyway, never thought much of the movie too, even as a kid. Hey, the loading screen is very well done and drawn. Surely worth 7.95 £!
1/5