Looking something like an early blueprint for
Atic Atac,
Captain Slog makes an uncertain sort of arrival from CRL's new
budget arm. Perhaps amputation might help?
You play, funnily enough, Captain Slog who, according to the
brief instructions, has a funny feeling in his nutrition pouch.
Whether Captain Slog's personal problems have any great
relevance to the game, I couldn't discern. But he was walking a
little oddly. Meanwhile, back at the playpen, your only means of
escape from certain death, blah, blah, is to collect nine blueprints
to what I think is a spacecraft, though this wasn't particularly clear
in the instructions either. Also standing between you and a trip to
McDonald's when you get home are three colour coded gates to
which you must find the key, plus a number of robot nasties who
drain your energy levels on impact.
For a £1.99 game,
Captain Slog is technically very good. Nice
clear graphics, excellent animation and two years ago it would've
probably become another
Jet Set Willy. Unfortunately for
Alpha Omega the gameplay is now very old hat and leaves this
reviewer with an attention span of approximately 2.5 minutes. On
the other hand, for new Speccy owners,
Captain Slog
is a perfect way of making
up for what you've missed
while the Spectrum's been
alive...
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3/10
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2/10
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| Info supplied by the SPOT*ON database |
