Zzap


Speed Zone

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Mastertronic
Machine: Commodore 64/128

 
Published in Zzap #49

Speed Zone

Stories have been around for many years about the Bermuda triangle - the area of sea where things disappear mysteriously without a trace - and now a similar anomaly has been found in outer space.

Many ships have vanished without leaving a clue: no messages have been intercepted and no wreckage found. The first ship to be lost was a freighter of the Sarek-Kholinor line and the anomaly was named after it.

Scientists have decided that they want to know what lies within the SK Anomaly, so you are sent into the Speedzone.

What a terrible shoot-'em-up this is! The graphics are simply awful, the sound is hardly there at all and the gameplay... ugh! Thrashing a messy spaceship around, blasting even messier enemy spaceships isn't my idea of fun at all; one game of this is enough to convince you how bad it really is. What's the phrase? A yes, "a waste of tape".