Hi there. You may know
me. The name's Sprog, Sam
Sprog. Okay, so you don't know
me, but that's not important
right now. What's important is
that
they are after me. No, not
the Inland Revenue, but - the
Mob. They're everywhere, and
- wait a minute, who's that at
the window?... BANG!...
kaargh! Caught in my prime by
an ... uhhrrr.
Poor guy, caught in his prime
by an uhhrrr, and just as he
was about to tell you all about
Infogrames' new shoot 'em up,
Prohibition. The idea's this -
you control a gunsight which
has to be manoeuvred across
several run-down Chicago
tenements to pick up and
dispatch a gangland killer
who's trying to do the same to
you. It's hard - first you have
to find the critter, and you only
get a few seconds to do it. But
all is not lost, as you can reach
the required block (usually
made up of two columns of five
or six windows) before the
clock starts. If you don't find
him in time, rest assured that
he'll find you. And it's not just a
case of find the window and
blast the bad guy, oh no. They
don't just fire out of windows -
they fire from the rooftops, the
fire escapes, the attics, the
basement grills, from the street
and even from under manhole
covers!
The graphics are black on
white, although the pavement
is pink(?) Everything's very well
defined, and if the scrolling's a
little jerky, it doesn't detract
much from the gameplay. I also
like the way that the baddies,
when killed, either slump
forward or get blown
backwards. And whenever you
fire a shot, the sights move
slightly off target, as they
would in real life. One gripe is
that there's barely any sound,
and the music's nonexistent.
And the gameplay definitely
reminds me of an arcade game
that did the rounds a while
back. In all, though, it's an
entertaining enough reaction
test from those clever chappies
across the channel. Hang on,
who's that in the window? It's
our Ed! What's she doing up
... BANG!... oh, that's what
she was doing. Caught in my
prime by an... uhhrrr!
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