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Star Wars Trilogy
Domark £12.99/19.99 Oct 1989 YS46
Life Expectancy: 85 
Instant Appeal: 92 
Graphics: 75 
Addictiveness: 86 
Overall: 84°  
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 Return Of The Jedi   Star Wars   The Empire Strikes Back 
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 Return Of The Jedi   Star Wars   The Empire Strikes Back 
Not bad at all even if it does cost more than you usually have to pay for a compilation. A must if you haven't already got the games.
Kati Hamza
If you can remember when Star Wars first came out, you probably use Grecian 2000 and still wear thermal underpants. Yup, you're a bit of an old dodderer!
    So here's your chance to reminisce by using The Force and all that stuff, not once, but three times 'cos Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi are now available on one compilation.
    
Star Wars
A slick little 3D vector graphics thingy this, which has you blasting the stuffing out of the Empire's Tie Fighters, laser towers and harriers before plunging into the trenches of Darth Vader's Death Star itself. Phew! Course, once you've done it you've got to start the whole thing over again but you don't care 'cos you're a Jedi Knight. Lucky that. One of the best-known Speccy games of all time, it's dated a bit but the 3D's fast and there's plenty of action.
    '89 Rating: 80°
    
The Empire Strikes Back
Well, blow me if it isn't another one of those vector graphics jobs. Good old Tie Fighters appear in this one as well but first you've got to stop the robots sending transmissions of the Rebels' power generator to nasty old Darth. Next come brilliantly animated AT-ST and AT-AT Walkers and after that you've got to negotiate a pretty hairy asteroid field. There's just a tad more sound on this but the gameplay's even more faithful to the coin-op than on the 16 bit. The pick of the bunch.
    '89 Rating: 86°
    
Return Of The Jedi
Wossiss? Not a vector graphic in sight! Instead, you're slogging it out in the forest and the inside of, yep, the Death Star again. First off, you're on a speeder bike trying to blow up enemy bikes and making them crash into trees. Then you're negotiating the Millenium Falcon to the centre of the Death Star dodging Tie Fighters and watching out for energy gates before manoeuvring a Scout Walker through the forest again. It's a nifty little number this, but somehow it just doesn't match the atmosphere of the other two.
    '89 Rating: 74°
    
And that's it. If you've never seen them before, now's your chance to experience the whole kaboodle in one go. It may not be the most original thing since sherbert dips but who's complaining when you get three ultra-playable classic Speccy games for such good value?

Ratings given by other magazines
   Sinclair User  8/10   
Info supplied by the SPOT*ON database

YS Cross-references
 
pReturn Of The Jedi/DomarkYS35
FUT
R
pReturn Of The Jedi/DomarkYS37
7
 
pReturn Of The Jedi/Hit SquadYS63
81
 
pStar Wars/DomarkYS16
NEWS
 
pStar Wars/DomarkYS24
FUT
R
pStar Wars/DomarkYS26
8
C
pStar Wars (in Heroes)YS57
63
G
pStar Wars (in The YS Complete Guide To Film And TV Licences)YS60
80
 
pStar Wars/Hit SquadYS60
75
 
pThe Empire Strikes Back/DomarkYS31
FUT
R
pThe Empire Strikes Back/DomarkYS33
8
 
pThe Empire Strikes Back/Hit SquadYS61
76
Some info from Sinclair Infoseek+SPOT*ON


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