Previous Next

Even software houses can't let Sir Clive forget his car experiment, and Scorpio is no exception. A good, simple, tonguein-cheek game that puts you in the seat of a C5 that can fly and do 60 miles without stopping.

The first screen offers options of Learner, Sunday, Experienced or Advanced driver and Instructions; which explains that returning home from work at a software house you meet Honest Lez, who sells you a C5 at a bargain price of £399.99, which you drive home.

You start off with four batteries and it moves across the screen unaided. Failing to avoid obstacles such as ghosts, trees, cats, walls and runaway prams causes you to lose one each time.

The first part of the game requires you to collect batteries from each of the screens and the second part sees you driving through rush hour city streets. There's an extra life given after screen 20. Each screen is one mile long! and the number at the top states how many miles left.

While it is assuredly good value for money, it may be that for those who are used to 3D representations the graphics will cause frustration. You do not move behind trees or walls but above them - otherwise you'll crash into the treetop foliage, for example. Once used to this, and that the sky itself is an obstacle - it is a fun game.

D.H.