Reviews

A strange hybrid of a game that borrows so many ideas, it almost becomes original. You play a Jetpac-like spaceman in a frenzy-type square room protecting jelly monster aliens as they make their way to your rescue ships. A large meteor splits into numerous asteroid-like boulders once hit, and to add to your problems, travelling along the bottom and sides of the screen are two laser guns that occasionally fire missiles at you in a gridrunner-like stylee. Once you have saved the required amount of aliens, you board your ship and traverse an asteroid belt until its back to rescuing aliens on the next level. The graphics are decent, flicker free and quite colourful, and the action gets quite hectic as you progress. A decent budget SEU that suffered in Crash from one of the reviewers taking an intense dislike to it.

This game wasn't well recieved by Crash and Your Sinclair nor is it particually popular with World of Spectrum visitors, but I actually think it's a nice little game. Suppose they are right when they said that boredom kicks in quickly and I suppose it does look outdated but I actually liked this game, it's quite fast and can get really frantic in later laters, it just felt like my kind of game.

No doubt it's not going to set the world on fire but I just think of this as under-rated.

It's quite nice but repetition kicks in quickly and it looks aged for 1988, looks more like a 1984 game. Still quite nice though.

2088 was given a poor review from Crash and Your Sinclair while the game was butchered by Mark from Crash, so this appears to be a game to miss, but really I don't know what the fuss was about.

They criticised the graphics, though they are not up to 1988 standards they are fine for me, they are tolerable. The gameplay is pretty good and enjoyable though a bit confusing at times. The sound was described at "bleep and bloop", not every game can have 128K capabilities "Mark from Crash", some of the best games contained "bleep and bloop" sounds effects written in 48K of memory. It's fine.

Overall this is a pretty good game that at the time was a victim of harsh and unfair criticism from supposed "analysts". And they gave Renegade III a great review too. "Analysts"?

The magazine reviewers have a point with the outdated graphics but the game itself is passible, and that's what matters the most.

1988 Zeppelin Games (UK)
by Ian Beynon and Michael Owens

Yes, this game does look outdated, both graphically, soundwise and even in gameplay, where it mixes ideas from several different well known games, even some classics, like Robotron 2084 and some maze game, which I can't remember the name. It's still a very competent and enjoyable shoot 'em up, not my cup of tea but I recognize the addictive factor of it.