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This review has been long in coming. Someone in the Lemon Amiga mini-chat suggested me to review this game, but I never got around to do it until now. Naturally I reviewed the C64 version first since I was more familiar with that one. Well, Thundercats was not a good game on C64, and the Amiga version is not much better.
Thundercats is an arcade-platformer game based on a cartoon which had a lot of potential to become a decent game. The story is simple...you belong to a team called Thundercats. Unfortunately several members of your team have been kidnapped by the henchmen of an evil dude called MUMM-RA, who also managed to steal the magical jewel Eye of Thundera from the Cats-lair. Your mission is, of course, to rescue your friends and recover The Eye (and hence save the world).
While The C64 version looks more like a Speccy port, it is obvious that the Amiga team put more some effort in making the game look half-decent. Although the graphics are not good by Amiga standards, at least the sprite animations are fluid and the colours don't torture your eyes like they do in the C64 version. The backgrounds are still simple and repetitive though.
The sound effects are nothing to become excited about, however, the music by David Whittaker is excellent which is not surprising.
Still all these would have been forgiven had the developers improved the gameplay over the 8-bit counterparts...but that is not the case. The gameplay suffers from many basic flaws. First of all, it is boring. A lot of the features that made the cartoon so popular are missing in this game, therefore making it a simple and boring hack'n slash game. There is not much variety in the baddies in each level, and although you see new enemies as you advance in the game, most of them are simple rehashes of the ones you saw in the previous levels, and they follow the same attacking pattern. All you do basically is to run around in similar looking levels and kill similar looking enemies.
With so many excellent titles released on Amiga at 1988 no wonder Elite's Thundercats was an utter failure.
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A huge improvement over its 8-bit counterparts, but still very disappointing by Amiga standards.
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Although the music is very good, the effects suck.
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A very boring game that would probably hold your attention for only a few minutes.
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| An ambitious idea that suffered from way too many flaws. Stay clear. |
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