I'm not a huge fan of sports sims
(with the possible exception of a
bit of tennis), nor do I have a great
love for complicated games. So
when
Cyberball, probably the
world's most complicated sports
sim, glared up at me from the Jiffy
bag, my initial resentment quickly
turned to horror as I realised I was
going to have to try and play the
blimmin' thing.
After a brief period of blubbing, I
gave it a shot. Discarding the
feebly superficial instructions, I
flunked my way through a series
of bewildering tactics screens only
to flounder in the turgid gameplay.
Loads of beefy robots chugging
around smashing lumps off each
other and trying to score a
touchdown before the ball
explodes - great in theory, crap in
practice. The presentation is fine,
but as the game plays more slowly
than a half-dead inebriated sloth
with chronic verrucas, by the time
anything starts happening you've
completely forgotten the tactics
you'd chosen. Not that they meant
much in the first place.
So, unless you're one of the
world's top American Football
players or a whopping great fan of
the original coin-op, I'm afraid
you'd have more success trying to
decipher a rap by
MC Kinky.
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4/10
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6/10
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