I think Hi-Tec should give
themselves a
pat on the
back, buy themselves a
bunch of flowers, invite
themselves out for a
romantic dinner and then ask
themselves back for 'coffee', because I
reckon it can be safely said that this is their
best cartoon tie-in game yet.
Not that it's exactly brilliant. It's nothing more than
your average horizontally-scrolling
platform-and-ladders game (probably the least original type of game
on the entire planet). But at least this sort of thing's a
lot more fun on
the Speccy than
the poorly-written
scrolling beat-'em-ups
and crummy arcade
adventures that make
up the majority of the
other Hi-Tec tie-ins.
Right then, the
game. Scooby and
Shaggy have
wandered off in search of some grub
and haven't come back, so you've got
to go and get them. Conveniently, Scoob's
right at the end of the four levels which you
(as Scrappy) have to negotiate. On the way you get to
collect Scooby Snacks (for extra lives), apples, and
rather scurrilous-looking lumps (for score) which I
naturally assumed were dog turds (they later turned out
to be burgers). And there's the inevitable baddy lurking
on the odd platform here and there, along with the
unsurprising object which will kill you if you land on it.
And, to tell the truth, this is about as much like a
scrolly platform game as scrolly platform
games go (if not more so). The
difference here is that there's enough
quality for it to be far nearer the
standard that new budget
releases should be. In true Hi-Tec style, the graphics are gurt
tush (or whatever the latest
'hip' phrase is) but
underneath them still lurks an
addictive enough game to stop
me moaning on and on. It's all
rather too repetitive,
conventional and familiar to
achieve an astonishingly
high mark though.
Nevertheless, it's a bit of a
nice surprise.
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