Espionage

Sinclair User

Gilbert Factor 4/10

Richard Price 4/10

ESPIONAGE Modular Resources Ltd Memory: 16K Price: £8.95 Get your O Level chemistry textbooks out if you have the slightest intention of buying and playing Espionage. The posh packaging may well lead you to think that you are getting some kind of fancy spy adventure set in the cut-throat world of JR. No way. The program is a set of tests about oil and its chemistry and, unless you are interested in hydrocarbons in a really heavy way, you'll soon find yourself swimming around in a big greasy mental pool of ethane, ethene, butene, butane, gasp, help. You may deduce from errors in the information the identity of the mole in the company for which you are working. If petrochemicals are a closed book to you, this might be rather difficult. Espionage is either mutton dressed up as lamb or homework masquerading as good clean fun. The presentation is dull, the content dry and specialised and both the introductory and main programs failed to autorun. It may be useful if you want to be chairman of BP but if you just want a good time steer clear. Must rush off, my catalytic cracker's boiling.

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Your Spectrum

HYPE A SPY A new company called Modular Resources literally flooded the YS office with the promotional material its putting out for Espionage. Large posters, small posters, car stickers, pens, club memberships, small stickers and table displays came stuffed in a large brown envelope. Oh yes, and there was also a copy of the game! Espionage is a game of "intrigue and skill in the oil business". Fair enough, the game seems quite good as it happens, but has the market got so rough that a program need this many gimmicks tied to its rear end to help it sell? Maybe the software business is going the way of the pop world! Worrying stuff...

Modular Resources' Espionage - a HyperGame?

Your Computer

Overall 1/5

Spectrum and Commodore Modular Resources Adventure £8.95 You have to catch the mole in your oil company before he gives away the company secrets. You do a Bobby Ewing impersonation - this is done by answering questions of a petrochemical nature and sussing out which of the people asking the questions is the phoney.