Orc Attack

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Use of Computer 90%

Graphics 90%

Playability 92%

Getting Started 95%

Addictive Qualities 96%

Value For Money 82%

Overall 91%

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Producer: Creative Sparks Memory Required: 48K Retail Price: £6.95 Language: Machine code Author: Phil Snell and Dean Lock This new release for Thorn EMI under their new imprint, Creative Sparks, is a clever reworking of the 'Siege' theme. The fearsome army of Orcs besieging your castle, are now mounting a frontal attack. Your weapons are rocks, swords and boiling oil. The screen shows the walls of the castle with its battlements and you at the top. In either top corner is a symbol identifying the type of weapon available, and to the corners you go to collect them. In the first stage a large force of orcs start mounting ladders to climb up and you may hurl rocks down at them. These must be thrown between the battlements, so it is made difficult by the fact that the ladders are often placed in a position where you can't throw rocks down, easily. As soon as the ladders are erected the orcs start climbing. Others at the base of the wall fire cross bow bolts at you. When an orc reaches the top, your weapon automatically changes to a sword and you can swipe away at them. The orcs hammer at the battlements, eroding them. If you are hit (in the eye), you lose a life and have to get another weapon. These are not unlimited. Boiling oil (when it's ready) may be poured down on the attackers, causing a conflagration that destroys them all. When this is done, the evil sorcerer sends his spells up the wall, and these skull shaped things may be bombed by rocks. This returns you to another orc and ladder attack. Surviving this will lead to an attack by giant trolls who appear in thin air, and then come the Stone Warts, who again try to scale the wall under your hail of rocks. COMMENTS Control keys: 6/7 left/right, 0 to fire Joystick: ZX 2, Fuller, AGF, Kempston, Protek Keyboard play: responsive Use of colour: very good Graphics: excellent Sound: good Skill levels: 1 Screens: 4 Lives: 9 (you need em)

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