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Vendetta
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Spectrum 48k
Vendetta, a Spectrum conversion of the C64 game by System 3 in 1990.
"Your brother, a highly regarded professor who works for the ministry of Defence, has pulled you through a personal hell. If it wasn't for him, where would you be after your heroic career in the army came to an abrupt end. A one-time war hero, you had put your unit on the map. You were the best and they knew it. A role model to all the young rookies. Your methods, though questionable, got the right results. However, your type worried the men at the top: "no man is bigger than the job", you had to go...
Intent on obtaining the secret formula your brother had devised from developing the ultimate weapon, a blood-thirsty terrorist gang has kidnapped him and his daughter. The same terrorist syndicate you had dispersed in Saigon some years previously. Your work now seemed incomplete... You have to squash them once and for all...
The police think you were involved in kidnapping, so you must also endeavour to clear your name. Your paramilitary skills will be tested to the full. With your own personal collection of weaponry and an elite weapon system installed in your Ferrari F40, your strategic mission unfolds across the country.
There are docklands, army camps, airports and parks, all linked with hazardous driving sectors where possible death looms with every turning and every new piece of the puzzle solved.
This has become personal... This is now a Vendetta.
...IT'S PAY-BACK TIME..."
Another lazy conversion again taking no advantage of 128k Spectrums that had been out 4 years at this point. While the C64 game wasn't exactly difficult, the spectrum version is even easier as the enemies only kill you if you stand around and ignore them. 1 enemy will always be running on screen and it only takes a few stabs to finish them. The challenge comes from finding all the evidence in a 1 hour time limit which seems to countdown in double time in this version! The levels seem to get shorter and shorter as you progress and once you know where everything is the game is a cake walk.
I think it was good to have to different game types to break up the levels but those driving sections are quite short. really short with the last one and the final level is just walk to the end! Playing through this I even wonder if the developer doing the conversion even played through the C64 game as the spectrum version just seems like a rush job that had to be made in 20 days and released in whatever state it was in.
Vendetta, a Spectrum conversion of the C64 game by System 3 in 1990.
"Your brother, a highly regarded professor who works for the ministry of Defence, has pulled you through a personal hell. If it wasn't for him, where would you be after your heroic career in the army came to an abrupt end. A one-time war hero, you had put your unit on the map. You were the best and they knew it. A role model to all the young rookies. Your methods, though questionable, got the right results. However, your type worried the men at the top: "no man is bigger than the job", you had to go...
Intent on obtaining the secret formula your brother had devised from developing the ultimate weapon, a blood-thirsty terrorist gang has kidnapped him and his daughter. The same terrorist syndicate you had dispersed in Saigon some years previously. Your work now seemed incomplete... You have to squash them once and for all...
The police think you were involved in kidnapping, so you must also endeavour to clear your name. Your paramilitary skills will be tested to the full. With your own personal collection of weaponry and an elite weapon system installed in your Ferrari F40, your strategic mission unfolds across the country.
There are docklands, army camps, airports and parks, all linked with hazardous driving sectors where possible death looms with every turning and every new piece of the puzzle solved.
This has become personal... This is now a Vendetta.
...IT'S PAY-BACK TIME..."
Another lazy conversion again taking no advantage of 128k Spectrums that had been out 4 years at this point. While the C64 game wasn't exactly difficult, the spectrum version is even easier as the enemies only kill you if you stand around and ignore them. 1 enemy will always be running on screen and it only takes a few stabs to finish them. The challenge comes from finding all the evidence in a 1 hour time limit which seems to countdown in double time in this version! The levels seem to get shorter and shorter as you progress and once you know where everything is the game is a cake walk.
I think it was good to have to different game types to break up the levels but those driving sections are quite short. really short with the last one and the final level is just walk to the end! Playing through this I even wonder if the developer doing the conversion even played through the C64 game as the spectrum version just seems like a rush job that had to be made in 20 days and released in whatever state it was in.
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