Reviews

When this game was released, it was seen as a pointless, pound-shop rip-off of 'Head over Heels', the game which had made any further isometric arcade-adventures a waste of everyone's time. This was, and is, a little unfair. Yes, 'Rentakill Rita' owes something to Ritman and Drummond's masterpiece and, yes, it's "just another" isometric arcade-adventure but this doesn't deserve to be consigned to the big dustbin labelled "also-rans".

'Rentakill Rita' plays like a mixture of the aforementioned 'Head over Heels' and 'Sweevo's World'. It has the slick, detailed look and feel of the Ritman/Drummond stuff but the gameplay puts the player more in mind of the metal Stan Laurel lookalike. Rita must enter a mansion house (made up of numerous isometric rooms, naturally) and kill a variety of creepy crawlies. Killing the bugs means having to solve clever puzzles and reaching them in the first place requires negotiating simpler puzzles in the different rooms. This all adds up to a challenging game which needs a fair bit of time spent on it. The modern era, with its emulators and save states, means that it's a good time to dig up and replay this forgotten classic.

An old style 3d Isometric game with a difference: your aim is to squash all the bugs infesting a manor, and one of the best way to do it is by letting fat women fall over them from the ceiling.
3,5/5

Never have been a huge fan of the Iso-3D genre as it were, but you know what? I have a massive soft spot for this game.

I got this right around the time it came out, and it's actually a decent attempt at the by 1987 already flooded angular plod fest market, that everybody seemed to think was the be all and end all of games.

Rentakill Rita's puzzles were decent, not too stupid or annoyingly obscured by scenery, like some of these games, played at a decent pace, didn't suffer from the usual massive amounts of slowdown.....Sounding familiar?

Hello Ultimate!

Anyway to cut it short Rentakill Rita was actually fun to play, and I'd go as far as to say I'd rather play this than fucking Knightlore any day, and that nonsensical Batman shite!

£1.99 as well, it's sad when a Mastertronic imitator is better than the supposed lead runners in the genre. There were some decent high end Iso's that pissed all over this game from a great height, like Head over Heels, and Movie to mention a couple, but as it stands this game gave some of the forerunners a damn good run for their money, and cost a fraction of the price! Well done Mastertronic, you're not as shit as everybody said you were....