Leicester Mercury du lieu suivant : Leicester, Leicestershire, England • 16

A 16 LEICESTER MERCURY SATURDAY JANUARY 20 1996 Footieon the net Loaded with gore Kam Patel COMPUTERS Carling Net Is on wwwfa-carlinecom iiffii I mm OttlCial Carling NE of the best-known British software houses is back on the map after releasing some of the best games ever put out by one firm over such a short time Fatal Racing and Actua Soccer have been emourmous hits on the PC and all have been in-house productions from those marvels of Sheffield Gremlin Their latest attack on the Playstation is the gruesome and savage game Loaded Simply put this game is fun! You start by picking from a set of sickly thought-up characters and then you get to just blast the hell out of anything that moves And simply it Just shoot the guys and they splat splot and spatter all over the place The graphics are smaller than you could imagine but they still retain their great detail and are well done Ultra-responsive controls The play control is ultra-responsive You never miss a shot even when firing rapidly The sound FX are cool with loads of different splats and wild yells which gives the game that little bit more as fun as it is can get old fast Loaded has 15 levels but most likely get tired of the game around the third one But if killing and killing and killing is your thing you go wrong with this one Merc Rating: 98 As in most games of this ilk the music is a little repetitive and could have used a little more thought but the theme song is very original and enjoyable This game while being as cool as it is does fail in one respect replay value Splattering punks being Great Gremlin Giveaway THE wonderful people at lowing simple question: envelope to Loaded Gremlin Gremlin have done it again Which software firm based in Games Giveaway The Com- and given The Computer Zone Sheffield wrote Loaded puter Zone PO BOX 5 FIVE copies of the master- a Ocean Leicester Mercury St piece Loaded for the Sony Gremlin George Street Leicester Playstation All you have to EA Sports LEI 9FQ Editors's decision do to win one of these incred- Send your answers in on a is final Winners will be ible games is answer the fol- postcard or sealed down announced next week International Soccer gets the de-luxe treatment COMPLEX STRATEGY GAME 1 ball and cram in loads of new features These new features include 10 brand new teams new player animations new player skills and techniques like the push and barge tackles a 4-way play option new strategies and methods of executing them a unique man-to-man marking system and an improved CPU intelligence In fact a whole new ball game! A massive 20 new features added to Deluxe plus 20 improved features a minimum of 40 improvements over the original! So there are more teams more tournaments more tactics Game play is fully customisable from simple difficulty and handicapping settings through to intricate team formation and player manipulation There are over 12 unique features not appearing in any other video soccer game The original ISS sold over half a million copies and was the Number One SNES game for a massive four months! In fact still riding high in the charts So there are two excellent soccer games from Konami in the charts and they are ISS and ISS De-luxe ONE of the biggest hits last Christmas and the sequel to one of the best ever soccer games is still popular and riding high in the charts International Superstar Soccer Deluxe has been improved quite dramatically and is attempting to kick every other footie game mto touch When the original was released we said it could never be bettered Well I was wrong This game is more than just a sequel as doubled the cartridge size up to 16Megs This means that the Konami teams have had a massive amount of space to run with the Calling all budding transport tycoons WINNERS by The Strat Man Krazy Ivan Russian to the shops soon WE IukI a terrific response for out Playstation games competiton and here the winr THERE are scores of god games on the market but only one gives you the chance to start your omnipotent career as a clippie on a downtown bus Microprose the masters of strategy continue their string of late-night mind-benders with Transport Tycoon De Luxe Of course you don't start off being all-powerful the money-god is really the only deity in evidence But once you've got a few passengers on your buses coal on your trains and goods in your aircraft the cash starts rolling in On the easy level at least that's enough to give you first option to try out their new designs Beware as these may turn into the best plane or boat to have but during their trial period they could prove costly in tenns of breakdowns However if you agree to take one on and then don't use any the inventors will turn to your competitors in the future and you could be left out in the cold This is a very complex game but the screen layout is clean enough for you to pick it up after a short time and the depth of play graphics and sound add up to another superb offering from the team at Microprose give you the power to buy out any rivals bribe local authorities and erect statues to yourself all over the playing area You start out with some pretty basic transport choices Although there's a range of buses lorries ships trains and aircraft on sale nope of them are particularly fancy and you pan't imagine anyone wanting to pay first class rates to travel in them But as the game progresses and time moves on new developments constantly come on line In fact inventors will when enemy forces in Siberia are attempting to spread an impenetrable energy field across the world Krazy mission is to blast his way through the energy field rescue human hostages and annihilate the enemies and their sinister plot to take over the world Krazy Ivan wears a 40 foot high power suit This can be tailored by power-ups to allow faster movement or more powerful weapons This will enable you to blast through a spectacular array of enemies including 19 sentinet robots and 12 drone droids Played through first person action Krazy Ivan has to be one of the most visually exciting games of the New Year Krazy Ivan battles his way round the world through truly authentic landscapes The amazing 3-D graphics include depth fading techniques which draws the graphics into the horizon for greater reality of movement WITH MORE kick than a Moscow Mule this crazy up will blast you all the way from the UK to Siberia Krazy Ivan the stunningly realistic up game from Sony Psyg-nosis is set to blast its way onto the PlayStation later this month This fast-paced action game will take you around the globe and through five huge environments of shooting drama in crazy quest to save the world The game is set in 2086 WlpeOut Winners: Michael WeHen Leicester I Armstrong Coalville Gary Nordgren Leicester Destruction Palter Winners: Levinson Leicester Morales Nuneaton lames Tlrrell Leicester 3D Lemmings Winners: Jennifer Hanson Ashby Brian Sterling Quom Bound Leicester 8 ar -T sr- iinwifcii'iuiiiiiiiiiiM.