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- GUARDIAN
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- ¾Guardian Review
- ¢By²:¹ Plugster/Defiance
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-
- ²Remember all the hoopla surrounding
- the release of STARFOX for the Super
- Nintendo? It didn't look all that
- impressive to me. Yet, to those
- people that have never seen an Amiga
- in action, it was impressive. I knew
- the Amiga could handle a game like
- that with no problem (and since the
- CD32 is also an Amiga, I knew it could
- handle it as well.)
-
- GUARDIAN isn't exactly like STARFOX.
- It's more of a 3D version of DEFENDER,
- the old arcade game that put you in
- charge of destroying aliens before
- they could steal humans from the face
- of the planet.
-
- If you've never seen STARFOX, it's a
- 3D polygon based flight game in which
- you witness everything from slightly
- behind the on-screen representation of
- your ship. GUARDIAN has a similar
- type of setup, but allows more freedom
- in where you can fly and also allows
- you to change your view to be pretty
- much wherever you want it to be.
-
- Numerous enemies come after you in an
- attempt to snuff you out. A very
- confusing control system (that
- involves all four action buttons on
- the CD32 controller) makes it hard to
- concentrate on what you're doing while
- you should be doing it. I spent a lot
- of time flying around in circles just
- shooting blindly hoping to hit
- something until I thinned out the
- ¶²enemy enough to use the onscreen radar
- to single out opponents and go after
- them.
-
- It's a shame that the game is so hard
- to control, because it looks fairly
- impressive at first glance. After
- playing if for awhile, it's another
- frustrating and disappointing CD32
- game that doesn't do the machine
- justice. The controls do not need to
- be so confusing and the graphics
- appear to be more than the machine can
- keep up with when a lot is going on
- (which is most of the time.)
-
- It's obvious that a lot of work has
- gone into the game. The designers
- even went so far as to include a
- preferences option that allows you to
- move the screen position to allow the
- normally PAL mode game to fit on an
- NTSC screen. That's a feature I wish
- more CD32 games had.
-
- If you've been searching for something
- a little different, you might want to
- try GUARDIAN. It's limitations aren't
- severe, just frustrating. With a
- proper amount of patience, it might be
- possible to salvage some fun from this
- disc.
-
- ¾Ratings:
-
- Graphics: 85%
- Gameplay: 60%
- Control : 60%
- Sound : 80%
-
- ¹OVERALL RATING: 71%
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