Eeeeeeeeeeee (etc), it's Emlyn!
The man with the most famous
grin on TV bounds onto your
Speccy courtesy of Empire's new
barg label. And put me in a bucket
with a slug called Elspeth if it's not
a corker.. The management/arcade
footy format's been tried many
times before, but this time it's
actually come off. Blimey.
As you might expect, there are
options for choosing how many
options you want with your options
(ie, quite a lot), but the jolly
friendly pull-down menus thang
makes fiddling about with settings
rather good fun. Honestly. Really it
is. And that's a darn good thing
too,
considering there's
so much of it. You
can alter
everything from
individual player
skills to team strip
colours. When
you're satisfied, or
at least less
grumpy about your
blokes than you
were five minutes
ago, you can arrange a
match and take on the
footy might of the Speccy (or
an everso handy pal). This bit is
really splendid, with loads of
moves and a fair amount of
chucklesome animation as the
players hack and slide their way
about the pitch. Even the chirpy
sound is pretty good.
Emlyn is an ace game. There
were two teams of programmers,
one for each bit, and it shows.
Each is well-presented, extremely
involving and, most importantly,
staggeringly good fun to play.
Eeee, great.
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7/10
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9/10
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| Info supplied by the SPOT*ON database |
