3D Seiddab Attack

Your Spectrum

Brian Pedlar 9/10

Gerralt Jones 8/10

Ieuan Davis 7/10

Your Spectrum is continuing to scour the country's computer clubs to get the undiluted thoughts, feelings and impressions of dedicated games enthusiasts - in order to provide our readers with unbiased evaluations. Any club wishing to offer its reviewing services should contact Ron Smith, Spectrum Soft, [redacted]. We sent this month's batch to the Bangor Computer Club of North Wales, where their expert reviewers got to work; their plaudits and barbs can be seen over the following pages. First, let's have a look at the club and what it offers its members. The Bangor Computer Club was formed 18 months ago by noted author, Dilwyn Jones. He wanted to meet the needs of local home computer users, and holds meetings in member's homes on a spur-of-the-moment basis. There are currently 25 to 30 members whose ages range from 13 to 30 and, although there's no longer a fixed membership fee, those attending are expected to splash out towards the cost of the evening. Its members have the chance to try out each other's software and exchange ideas. Members can always call upon their colleagues to help solve problems. Anyone in the area who's thinking of joining the club should contact Dilwyn on [redacted], outside office hours. THE LINE-UP This month's reviewers are Ieuan Davis (25), Gerralt Jones (22) and Brian Pedlar (31); all three are long-standing members of the club and avid games enthusiasts to boot. They represent the 'Old Gold' strata of Speccy users, so we won't be expecting starry-eyed reactions to our selection of new games. 3D SEIDDAB ATTACK Hewson Consultants £5.95 Patrol the city streets and later the countryside destroying any Seiddabs that come into range. You control both surface-to-air missiles and a short-range radar display.

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Personal Computer Games

Graphics 4/10

Sound 3/10

Ease Of Use 5/10

Originality 4/10

Lasting Interest 2/10

Overall 3/10

Chris Anderson 3/10

MACHINE: Spectrum 16/48K JOYSTICK: Kempston, Optional CATEGORY: Arcade SUPPLIER: Hewson Consultants PRICE: £5.99 Yet another unimpressive attempt at 3D space action on the Spectrum. The buildings your craft is moving past are all identical and only look interesting when you're turning round corners. The attacking craft are indistinct and the action unexciting.

Crash

Use of Computer 75%

Graphics 79%

Playability 81%

Getting Started 78%

Addictive Qualities 83%

Value For Money 78%

Overall 79%

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Producer: Hewson Consultants Memory Required: 16K Retail Price: £5.95 Language: Machine code Author: Steve Turner In a world turned upside down and back to front, the Baddies are back again as Seiddab. We first encountered them in the deepest reaches of space, alone in our attack craft in 3D Space Wars. Now the Seiddab have landed on earth and are attacking the cities at night. You are in control of a 'Drone' - a sort of remote control modern tank, patrolling the streets on the look out for the Seiddab space ship in your sector. The screen display shows a 'cockpit' view through the front of your tank, the details of its armour plated front and hatches before you. Beyond that, the darkened city streets stretch out in perspective, the sides lined by glass tower blocks ablaze with- myriad lights, their inhabitants evidently happily unaware of the nightmare taking place outside. Below the cockpit view there is a local A to Z street finder - a radar which shows the city blocks, streets and the enemy fliers as well as your own position. This radar actually wraps around top to bottom and left to right, and so is theoretically infinite. To its left are your three drones (lives) and the status of your man. To the right are the scores for players one and two and the hi-score. The object of the game is to destroy at least ten Seiddab (on the first screen - more later) at which time your radar will detect the Task Force Leader and identify him by a trail left on the radar. To clear the screen you must destroy him whereupon the action switches to the countryside. COMMENTS Control keys: Cursors with 0 to fire Joystick: AGF, Protek or cursor clip on, and Kempston (watch out for Kempston command during loading) Keyboard play: responsive Use of colour reasonable and realistic Graphics: good 3D, fast and smooth with good explosions Sound: reasonable Skill levels: progressive difficulty Lives: 3 Screens: 2

Below - retiring to the peace and quiet of the country proves fruitless.

Colour screen above - a fistful of baddies bomb the bezazz out of Birmingham.

Sinclair User

Gilbert Factor 5/10

SEIDDAB HUNT CONFUSING Memory: 16K Price: £5.95 Joystick: Kempston 3-D Seiddab Attack from Hewson puts you in command of a space-age tank, or "drone", in which you must patrol the city streets, shooting down any Seiddabs - whatever they are - within range. The screen display offers a 3-D representation of the streets and the view through the drone's windscreen. You can move your sights up and down to frame the enemy and the left and right keys move your vehicle in relation to the outside scene. If you clear the first screen, by shooting down at least 10 Seiddabs followed by the enemy task force leader, you are transported to the open countryside, where you must face the fresh hazard of enemy bombs. In spite of a sophisticated concept and some very satisfying explosive effects whenever you make a direct hit, the screen display of 3-D Seiddab Attack is not as clear as it might be, with flickering graphics adding to the confusion. Improving your skill at scoring in the game is reasonably addictive and it offers the well-tried pleasures of shooting things out of the sky to addicts of that pastime. 3-D Seiddab Attack is produced by Hewson, [redacted].

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