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An excellent
title screen leads into a somewhat boring game.
The graphics are quite nice, but the action is
very dull -- all you have to do is go into and
out of the screen, dodging the squares and chess
pieces. Sound is virtually non-existent, and so
are the instructions. Even at four quid it's not
exactly worth the money.
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Night Walker
is spoilt, initially, by the lack of instructions,
which render the game impossible to play. After
much playing and phoning I managed to discover
the game's aim, and so discovered too, that on
playing with instructions it was, well how shall
I put this, er, boring, unchallenging and, totally
unaddictive. Try something else.
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| Welcome
to Game of the Week! Each week there will be a
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average or diabolically bad, it really doesn't matter!
Just look at the pics, read the text and enjoy the nostalgia!
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The
Chess Game
1985 Microclassic
Programmed
by Peter Hodkin
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text of the present article comes from the review published
in the seventeenth issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64
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NIGHT WALKER
Microclassic,
£3.95 cass, joystick only
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Night Walker is a 3D game played on a chess board.
You control a girly (Penn?) character who, in repentance
for some ghastly and unnamed sin, has been assigned
the task of safely escorting five pawns across rite
board. Being a pawn courier may sound easy, but of course
it isn't, because the task has been transformed into
a full-blooded spectator sport, and the blood they're
after is yours. Eeek!
The
display is of a huge chess board surrounded by all manner
of jeering nasties, and you, poor defenceless girly
character that you are, find yourself standing on the
edge of the chequered arena. Then, from the shadows,
a giant Knight chess piece appears. Swallowing your
fearful bile as manfully as a girly character can, you
make your way across the chess board holding the hand
of an innocent pawn, leaving a trail of blue squares
in your path. The Knight also leaps onto the board,
moving around in an attempt to block your route, unhelpfully
chobbling dirty great red pits in the paths you've made.
As they are deep, these pits should be avoided at all
costs, else you may fall in and lose one of your five
pawns.
This
process continues until all five pawns have been safely
transported from one side of the board to the other.
If you have rescued one or more pawns, you're transported
to the next screen, again played on the chess board.
On this screen the black squares rapidly change colour
and you must try and get the pawns across without stepping
on a square while it's red.
Following
this comes a battle with a Bishop and on later stages
your wits are pitted against a King and then a Queen,
all the pieces moving in the directions specified by
the game of chess.
As
you travel through the various screens, the game gets
progressively harder with red squares appearing more
and more frequently and flashing irregularly, and as
the stages increase, greater numbers of pieces appear,
making the task even more difficult.
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What
we have here is a game that looks and seems quite
reasonable at first, but as progress is made,
it becomes apparent that Night Walker is
very lacklustre indeed. Presentation is not all
that bad but the gameplay is pretty dire, with
nothing much to challenge. I suppose if you like
being frustrated by a poor game that fails to
hit the mark then it might be fun. If you don't
then I should took elsewhere.
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Presentation
60%
Great title screen, but little else.
Graphics
65%
The board and characters are quite
good.
Sound
10%
Not a lot.
Hookability
65%
Interesting at first . . .
Lastability
38%
But the screens are all very similar.
Value
For Money 43%
More expensive than a budget game,
but by no means better.
Overall
40%
An interesting idea which hasn't
quite worked.
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Htmlized
by Dimitris
Kiminas (1 Oct 2007)
Only the first of the above screenshots existed in the
original review.
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