Games Computing


Frenzy

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: CBS Electronics
Machine: Coleco Vision Games System

 
Published in Games Computing #13

Frenzy (CBS Electronics)

Trapped in an alien high-tech structure and surrounded by robots your Commando moves from cell to cell as you face a band of deadly mechanical monsters. Evil Otto, robots and skeletons are out to capture your Commando.

Your first opponents can not fire at you, but their touch is deadly. You can fire laser bullets to destroy them.

On the screen different kinds of walls can be seen. When robots and skeletons move behind dot walls your first shot eliminates a dot, your second shot eliminates the enemy. But, solid or dotty white walls reflect bullets so you could easily kill yourself if you are not careful, or, if used efficiently, they can reflect a bullet and destroy an enemy who is round a corner.

Frenzy

In each maze there is an exit door, but once you leave a maze the door closes and you can never return.

Some mazes contain a feature cell at their centre. You earn extra points for disabling and freezing its operation.

Evil Otto can enter mazes at any time. It takes three or four shots to eliminate this smiling, bouncing face. Frenzy is colourful, with very good graphics and it is unusual - which has to be good in these days of so-similar games. It has some nice touches. For example, the Commander is a thin green man with very realistic movements, and when you shoot at Otto his smile gradually disappears!