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This is another isometric adventure set on a selected club of super heroes. One of them, Zarg, has convinced most of the other members to pass over to the 'dark side', sort of.

But Plutus, the most incorruptible member of the club will fight against evil Zarg and his henchmen by completing some tasks through over 500 screens. You start with the lowest rank, Zelator. As you complete tasks, you will increase your rank. Only when you get the highest, Ipsisimus, you'll be able to fight and defeat the evil Zarg.

This is an interesting adventure produced by Ocean with very good graphics, an excellent movement of the character and a interesting variety of enemies. But it's set on a monotone map (something very common in many isometric games)and it was released when the market was swamped with this kind of adventures. If Ocean had released it before, say, 1986, it would probably have been a classic.

Anyway, a very good choice for the fans of the genre that Ultimate started with Knight Lore.

1988 Ocean Software (UK) by Dusko Dimitrijevic, Dragoljub Andjelkovic & Simon Butler
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The Phantom Club, leaded by the evil Zarg has gone rebel. It's up to faithful member Plutus to regain control and reestablish the Phantom Club's honor.
The game was written by the same Serbian folks who gave us the excellent Movie and Kung-Fu.
It's easy to see similarities with the first keeping the same stylized thin model looking characters. The game is set in an isometric world, so common already and losing power to newer types of games, which gave predominance to colored big graphics and probably one of the reasons this Ocean's game didn't succeed so well.
Even so, Phantom Club is quite a good game, it's slightly more arcade than Movie, mainly because of the permanent shooting ability, but it's still an Adventure game, with interesting puzzles to be solved. It features 550 rooms, so be prepared to roam a bit.

It's another isometric game, oh goodie I can't get on with these anyone so this shall be fun. And this one is from what was then Yugoslavia. It has that same control issue where you have to spin him round facing the way you want and then you move him, a problem that wasn't present in Nosferatu, another isometric game I covered a while back that I actually quite liked. But I have to say, this looks bloody fantastic, really good graphics in this one. And the movement is very smooth and he has a nice somersault when he jumps, plus he fires and I turned an enemy into a spider, well there's more action here than in most isometric games I've played. The movement was confusing however, particularly moving left and right as in a massive panic you are likely to press the wrong button which only adds to the confusion, I never liked that in isometric games which was why I was so pleased that it wasn't a problem in Nosferatu. But if not for the controls this would have been a big hit with me. Genuinely impressed with how this looked and it's well worth a look if you're into these types of games.