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Big Run is a coin-up conversion of the arcade game which is surprisingly called Big Run as well. The game centres around the famous Paris-Dakar rally, which you have to drive with a Porsche 959 under your bottom. The coin-up wasn’t that good with dodgy graphics and wobbly game play, so one could question why The Sales Curve put in all the effort to make this conversion. At the time this game got released the magazine-reviewers screamed at their reading audience not to buy this pile of junk and they gave it freezing-low scores (Amiga Action: 17%, Amiga Joker: 38%), but is it really that bad?
Looking at the graphics I had mixed feelings. Although the intro and the cut-scenes have decent graphics, the in-game drawing is very blocky with an absolute minimal use of colours. There are six stages in this game and they all look exactly the same, just like your rivals by the way, who all seem to have bought a Peugeot 205! I suspect there was a sale at the Peugeot dealers. The only positive thing which distillates from this is the fact that this game plays rather smoothly and fast, but this isn’t a big surprise considering the total lack in graphic detail.
In the advert Big Run is presented as a game which needs “every ounce of the driving skills you posses”. This must be the overstatement of the year, because Big Run must be the easiest game I’ve ever played! Comprising of only six levels, it’s almost impossible not to finish in the top 3 in every stage, which is needed to advance to the next level. Add to that, that you have 3 credits which you can trade to advance to the next stage every time you haven’t finished in the top 3 and you can imagine that the lads at Sales Curve wanted to do everything they possibly could to let you finish this game within 15 minutes. And in that they succeeded marvellously!
Putting these big faults aside, Big Run’s playability itself isn’t that bad. As I said, the game plays rather fast and the car’s controls are pretty responsive. But I ask myself, who wants to play a rather playable game if there is absolutely no challenge and there’s nothing half decent to look at? I rest my case.
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The car-sprites are acceptable as are the cut-scenes, but everything else is blocky and anything but detailed. Add to that the total lack of variety throughout the game and you understand the low score.
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Sonics comprise of some acceptable tunes and decent in-game sound effects. Not bad but no way special.
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This is no way bad, it plays good and responsive with pretty fluent scrolling and speed. But the difficulty level is very questionable. If you’re not a complete retard you will finish this game on your first attempt within 15 minutes.
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| If Sales Curve would have spend more time making some decent graphics for this game, increasing the variety and making it more challenging, Big Run could have been a nice game. But, as it is… it’s not! |
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