Cybo Run

Crash

Use of Computer 55%

Graphics 50%

Playability 60%

Getting Started 68%

Addictive Qualities 58%

Value For Money 55%

Overall 58%

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Producer: Calisto Memory Required: 48K Retail Price: £5.95 Author: Andrew Taylor Language: Machine code Cybo-Run is a 'Berserk' game in traditional style, that is, a series of rooms with randomly generated walls to make them into very simple mazes. The rooms are infested with robots which shoot at you, and your job is to rove around, clearing all the rooms of the robots. One alteration on the theme, is the time bomb which flies into the room and chases you all over the place. The only way to avoid the bomb is to leave the room and enter another. Here, you appear in the centre of the room, not in the doorway, and of course it is full of a fresh complement of robots. COMMENTS Control keys: cursors and 0 to fire Joystick: Kempston, Protek, AGF Keyboard play: quite responsive (more difficult with joystick), although the cursors are a bad choice Use of colour: uninteresting Graphics: small, block movement, uninteresting Sound: above average Skill levels: 1 Lives: 3

Simple maze and idiot monsters make a rather out-dated 'Berserk' game in Cybo-Run.

Personal Computer Games

Graphics 6/10

Sound 6/10

Ease Of Use 4/10

Originality 1/10

Lasting Interest 6/10

Overall 5/10

Peter Connor 5/10

MACHINE: Spectrum 48K JOYSTICK: Optional CATEGORY: Arcade SUPPLIER: Calisto PRICE: £5.95 Cybo Run is is yet another Robotron variant for the Spectrum. Your time is spent blasting robots with your laser before they either blast or bump into you. Their touch is as lethal as their lasers, and costs you one of your three lives. You enter the game in a room with a few randomly placed walls. These can be used to shield you from your friendly Cybo-neighbours, but just happen to have a few thousand volts running through them, so don't touch them either. Once you've succeeded in blasting everything in sight, it's on to the next room, and a nastier species of robot. You have to be quick, though, as there's a time limit on your stay in each room, and if you don't get a move-on an invincible someone appears out of nowhere and kills you. This version is not as fast as some, and would score highly were it not for some very annoying features. First, it uses the cursor keys for movement, so you really need a joystick for satisfying control. Second, it doesn't tell you how much time you have left in each room. Third, and most annoying of all, the program occasionally starts the game by positioning you right next to a robot, costing you a life before you've even begun. Cybo Run scores well on playability, but Spectrum owners are spoilt for choice when it comes to games like this. Probably better to give it a miss.