Review by judasezt on 06 Jan 2014 (Rating: 5)
Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Racing, Strategy, Maze, Race against Time, Dinosaurs, Technology,..
8-way scroll, Inertia, Great Explosions, different everytime you play it..
Great game.. moreover when you have in mind that at mid 80es all great toys/TVSeries licenses were dire games just to make fast money. Not with this MASK. Kevin Bulmer, Tony Porter, Ben Daglish, etc did a great job.. again.
Mask [Gremlin Graphics]
by Stuart Gregg, Tony R. Porter, Kevin Bulmer, Ben Daglish
Technically very well done multi-directional shoot'em up, in which you must rescue your friends, and in order to do that you have to find keys, find masks, activate your scanner, which will finally guide you to your pal, buddy, homie.
So, there's an attentive search involved, while you're buggered by tanks, jets and bombing helicopters in the first level, dinosaurs of various kind in the second level, including pterodactyls as substitutes for the helicopters, using eggs instead of bombs, I suppose, which don't seem to be any less lethal. You also have to take care of your vehicle, of course, and use time bombs to open new adventurous paths, or pushing boulders, or whatever.
I didn't find it addictive, and your car is hard to control - although, overall, it's a playable game, with various nice touches. I think it was a Sinclair User classic. Not a classic of mine.
3,5/5