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- {subhead}SPACEBALL 2000{def}{p}
- Review by Barry Riddiford
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- Does anyone remember Shufflepuck Café? Great game wasn't it. Only let
- down by the fact it was one-player only. Well SpaceBall 2000 is a
- Shufflepuck type of game but it has a two-player option. Can it fill
- the gaps?
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- I downloaded this game because I thought it would be a speedball
- clone. Wrong! Turned out to be a good choice of game anyway.
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- As mentioned on the intro screen there are no options just the bare
- game and one or two-player or practice modes. Once you've chosen the
- one-player mode you're greeted with a fairly basic "Press Fire To
- Start" screen but the tune is pretty cool. Press fire and the game
- begins. The first noticeable thing about this game is the fact that
- Speedball has inspired the graphics. They are as good as Speedball
- was but the game is a cross between breakout and tennis. Your first
- opponent is Billy Bob. He's meant to be easy! Took me three goes to
- beat the bugger! The ball appears from the central dome and all you
- have to do is deflect it past your opponent, using your shield,
- without it rebounding off the blocker walls in the centre of the
- court. First to five wins. The only other thing is that after a while
- the central dome becomes charged and if the ball passes over it while
- it's charged it then flies off in a different direction. That is a
- real pain!
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- In two-player mode this game really kicks in. There's nothing better
- than taking on a mate with the sole purpose of thrashing them. It can
- be made even better with the addition of a few cans of beer!!
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- The game, as a whole, plays really well and the sound is very good.
- It would be nice to have stuff like power ups and I think the shields
- are a bit small but power ups would solve that. A great game that it
- would be nice to see a version 2 of.
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- {bold}Available from{nobold}: Aminet:game/actio/spaceball2000.lha ({link ftp://uk.aminet.net/pub/aminet/game/actio/spaceball2000.LHA}Download This{end}){p}
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- {bold}Graphics{nobold} : 85%{p}
- {bold}Sound{nobold} : 85%{p}
- {bold}Playability{nobold} : 80%{p}
- {bold}Lastability{nobold} : 75%{p}
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- {bold}Overall{nobold} : 85% A top 1 or 2 player game
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