Reviews

Action over a roof train on trail, a classic in action games of the eighties. A winner bet to get exciting action.

This 'Mountie Mick's Death Ride' delivers the effect very efficiently, and even with some excellence in the quality of the parallax scroll.. very smooth and with great flow. Also the sprites moves very well.

But the game is boring. And its flaws put the things even worst.

- First, to kill an enemy with your gunfire, you have to target upper part of his body, because if you impacts in their legs.. nothing happens.
- Second, whenever you release from stairs from down to up.. 99% of times you release jumping ( jumping like a stupid to be precise ) in middle of this involuntary jump.. you are cannon fodder.
- and Third, jumping and shooting is clumsy.

Mainly these three problems, and some more bugs, gets in detriment of the gameplay in a way that you do not want to keep progressing.

Graphics aren't great, but sympathetic enough. It could have been a nice arcade. Even better if they had included non train stages in between.


Note:
Two good poins about the controls.

First, you can kill enemies by falling over them.
And Second, you can download from some wagon roofs by pressing down in the middle of jumping.
Good luck!


btw, congrats to TheDeanOfGames for his 1000 review!

Mountie Mick's Death Ride [Reaktor]
by Timedata Ltd, WE M.U.S.I.C. (Ben Daglish)

A bunch of Lego men running, jumping and shooting on a train.
It's not that bad.
3/5

p.s. best looking version, compared to C64 and CPC.