Reviews

1989 Dinamic Software (Spain)
by Enrique Mateu, Snatcho, Luis Rodriguez Soler and Deborah

This is actually a very good side scrolling beat 'em-up.
The white monochrome setting can be a bit misleading when looking into the pictures on the sleeve, because everything seems to merge into another, but playing the actual game removes that idea immediately.
The graphics are big and averagely animated, with the typical 80's gangs style, and the action happens more fluidly and easy than most Spanish written games, like Sgrizam for instance, which was a pain to play back when I was a kid.
Sound is competently used and is quite effective. All in all, a has-been-seen hundreds of times before beat 'em up, but still quite enjoyable and addictive.

This is a Spanish beat-em up with plain white graphics and brick hard difficulty, not helped any by his crap jumping and rubbish kicks. The +3 disk version, which I also used for this review because it was in English at least, has an added intro with title theme and 128K sound, but none of these improve the game any, in fact the tune isn't even worth discussing about, which says it all regarding this game. The only thing remotely interesting about this game is it appears to have a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson lookalike on the loading screen. Now how come this doesn't get a movie tie-in starring him like Rampage does?

After The War is a side-scrolling beat/shoot-em-up divided in two parts. In the first, you are armed only with your arms and feet and must make your way through a destroyed city taking on various kind of baddies and avoiding dynamite charges thrown at you from the remaining buildings' windows. In part 2, you are armed with a large machine gun and your opponents are robots and turrets.

The game is as difficult as your average Dinamic offer, which may put several users away. However I find the difficulty very progressive and not unfair. That said, I managed to reach the end of the second stage but did not complete it yet... Graphics are detailed although black and white only, with large, well-defined sprites. Sound is very sparse.

In a nutshell, a good release from Dinamic, especially if you like challenges! 7/10.