The One


Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Disk 2192

 
Published in The One #50

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Bet this is one film tie-in you never thought you'd see. The player takes on the envious role of Leatherface, the classic horror film's mask wearing, electric-chainsaw-wielding 'hero'. Viewed from a top-down perspective (like Gauntlet), the player has to guide the leather-clad lovely around the scrolling landscape, messily chopping up the clean-shaven, all-American teenagers who mill aimlessly about. There's no 'death' as such - you are Leatherface, after all! - but the game ends if your chainsaw runs out of petrol. Fortunately, though, handy refills can be found if you look hard enough.

And that's it really. It's good fun, if a little slow, and the gory blood-spattered deaths are a right hoot (well, they are if you share my deranged sense of humour!) but it all wears thin very quickly.

There's no progression in the challenge or the setting - you just keep wandering around the same scenery, endlessly killing similar-looking people. Good for a quick giggle, though.