1st August 1988
Split Personalities
After a successful first release on the Domark label, Split Personalities is now making its presence felt on Elite's Hit Pack Volume One. Yet another variation on the sliding puzzle game, Split Personalities attracted attention to itself by making the object of each level the unshufffing of a picture of one of a list of celebrities which includes Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Clive Sinclair and Marilyn Monroe.
The game boasts a few other novelties, such as doors which whip tiles away, bombs which have to be pushed off screen before they explode, and a host of other objects which are brought together for bonus points.
The gameplay is cluttered by all the extra bells and whistles tacked onto it, and so loses a little of the simplicity which made some of the other puzzle games so successful.
Still, Split Personalities does have the same fast and furious gameplay, and its novel content makes it a game well worth getting hold of.
