Harsh Ratings

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Professor Brian Strain wrote:Delta was rated too low, Nemesis was rated too high, in my opinion... (both should have been mid-eighties, Delta probably a percent or two higher)
Nemesis only got 80%! :lol:
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FX23 wrote:at the end of the day, sabre wulf was a brilliant game, but a brilliant spectrum game.

it was a straight spectrum port.
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FX23 wrote:at the end of the day, sabre wulf was a brilliant game, but a brilliant spectrum game.

it was a straight spectrum port.
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PaulEMoz wrote:
Professor Brian Strain wrote:Delta was rated too low, Nemesis was rated too high, in my opinion... (both should have been mid-eighties, Delta probably a percent or two higher)
Nemesis only got 80%! :lol:
Oh, I thought it got more. Still, I stand by what I said. Both should have been mid-eighties :)
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I was always shocked at the score for the music in Spellbound - from memory it got something like 60odd percent and said another assault on the ears by Rob Hubbard. I loved the music on that game - deserved high 80's at the very least
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Ninja was underrated.
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jumhed wrote:Ninja was underrated.
Do you mean the Entertainment USA/Mastertronic game?
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Professor Brian Strain wrote:
jumhed wrote:Ninja was underrated.
Do you mean the Entertainment USA/Mastertronic game?
If that is the case, then I think the reviewers were correct - Though the game was very popular in sales terms, I do believe its way too easy and not very impressive at all.
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It got a ZERO in CU. Or was that the Firebird one?
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That was Ninja Master.
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Speaking of harsh ratings, CU gave Deceptor a ''1'', while it was a pretty good, original game. Zzap! rated the disk version 80%.
I wanted to include it into the DEF Tribute, but it was infact only to point and laugh at CU, so I dropped it. (there was already enough pointing and laughing at CU in it, hehe)
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I always wondered whether Zzap! went ape over that game just because they really wanted a decent Transformers game, but the two to date had been appalling. I never really liked Deceptor, but I think 1/10 is very harsh indeed (even for the tape version); that said, I'd have been perfectly happy giving the disk version a 4 or 5.
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Now that was a quick honeymoon! :D

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Would have to say that the Amiga versions of Turrican 2 and Lemmings deserved a Gold Medal rather than a Sizzler
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