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REVIEW
SUPER SKI PRO from MINDSCAPE
FORMAT: PC/CD-ROM
DATE: DECEMBER
PRICE: £ 39.99
This is a game of winter Olympic sports with all the components that go
with it. This includes, of course, snow, competition, speed, cheering
and more often than you wish, falls.
It is a game that you can play with up to three buddies (each of the four
players must have a different control device). First, you choose the game
mode: Training, Competition, Championship mode 1 or mode 2. You can then
choose your level of difficulty from amateur to professional. Now that you
are ready, select the events in which you are going to compete. Downhill,
Giant Slalom, Slalom, Snowboard, Snowboard Slalom, Ski Jump and finally
(CD-ROM version only) Bobsleigh.
Train, at first, and try to discover how to handle your player correctly.
Choose, therefore, the easiest skiing gear and then move up to the competition.
You can also play against a computer player and make him fall whenever you
bump into him. Yes, I admit I tried all the different ways to crash, hitting
trees, rocks, spectators or even the red and blue flags that you are
supposed to avoid, and it was fun. The sound for a 'bump' when bumping
into things is quite funny. Being airborne after a ski jump and then crash
landing was also enjoyable. But I had never seen a bobsleigh run off from
the main track like cruise missile, dropping one of the athletes and crashing
miles away. It was quite a sight in fact.
If you choose the competitions, you will have to climb from the amateur league
to the top professional league before you can win the cup. At the end of
each competition you have a smart looking presenter (animated) who
comments on your achievements and whether or not you are moving up or down
a league. I was the downhill professional champion three times in a row and
received three cups (nicely animated) but it was a bit too easy for me.
The impression of speed and slope shape rendering are good, but the problem
with this game is that everything looks the same. Even if in each event
there are four levels of difficulty, eight tracks, and four leagues, it looks
the same with the same background picture, the same yells and bell sounds.
The ski jump and the bobsleigh are an exception because they are each totally
different disciplines.
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Conclusion│
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In not so many words, it is a game that becomes boring quite rapidly. But
if you are a winter sports fan, perhaps you will play it a bit longer than
I did.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: │
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386 DX-33 MHz or better,
Min 4 MB memory,
MS-DOS 5.0 or later,
Hard drive required,
Single speed CD-ROM drive (150 Kb/s) or faster,
VGA 256 color graphic card and monitor,
Microsoft Mouse or 100% compatible and joysticks supported,
Sound Blaster and compatibles.
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┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │Mindscape,
│GRAPHICS├─────────────────┤ 80% │ │Priority House, Charles Avenue,
│SOUND ├─────────────────┤ 75% │ │Maltings Park, Burgess Hill,
│MUSIC ├─────────────────┤ 75% │ │West Sussex RH15 9PQ, England.
│GAMEPLAY├─────────────────┤ 82% │ │Tel: +44-(0)444-246-333
│INTEREST├─────────────────┤ 75% │ │
└────────┘ └─────┘ │Mindscape,
┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │60 Leveroni Court,
│OVERALL ├─────────────────┤ 78% │ │Novato, CA 94949.
└────────┘ └─────┘ │Tel: 415-883-3000
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