Future Publishing
1st July 1991
Roger's Briefs
Kixx have been churning out budget titles like there was no tomorrow. I couldn't quite squeeze three of these in as fully-fledged budget reviews (and you shouldn't even think of spending that much money in a single month!) but here's a summary for the spendthrifts to froth over.
Gary Lineker's Hot Shot
Is an arcade soccer sim that looks good but plays like a turkey. It's pretty smooth, has loads of options but, alas and alack, it's far too easy to master.
Armalyte
Is a horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up with ultra-smooth scrolling and sprite animation, power-ups, end-of-level beasties to make you tremble and much more: basically, a quality blaster through and through. The only downer is the weird colour scheme that makes the action a little confusing at times.
Hawkeye
Was raved about when it first came out. Gawd knows why, it's a cross between Flimbo's Quest, a platform collect-'n-shoot-'em-up and CRL's recent Hell Hole.
Unfortunately, it's no better than either of them and decidedly worse than Flimbo's Quest. All it comes down to is running left for an item, then running right for another and repeating the process ad nauseam. There's nothing else to it. Polished it might be, but the bottom line is tedium.
