C&VG


Star Wreck
By Alternative
Amstrad CPC464

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #72

Star Wreck

This, as the title suggests, is a rather corny Star Trek spoof.

As Captain James T Cake, you command the Starship Paralysed. Together with your crew, Lieut Yahoo, Mr Zulu, Mr Checkout and Mr Spark, you are taking to the planet Dandrox.

There's quite a lot of starship to explore, but most of it consists of "empty" locations, described with a section number and deck level.

The vocabulary, on the whole, is adequate - until you try to do something a little special, such as using the transporter. Then, words begin to fall, and no clues are given to point you in the right direction.

Like Life-Term, this is also by Charles A Sharp and probably GACked. Both games suffer from the problem that the text window is very small, and the location description, together with its object list, soon scrolls out of sight. Therefore, if there are three or four objects which you want to take, the descriptions are lost before you can get them all. If there is a command that turns graphics off, I didn't find it.