Reviews

Welcome to the first entry in Mastertronic's MAD-X range which gives you two games for the price of one! And the last, and I can see why it was the only game from this range. Well first of all to summarise we have an isometric adventure game in Molecule Man while Energy Warrior is a shooter, so at least you got two completely different games bundled together. Molecule Man is ridiculous because you have to quickly find some coins and spend it on pills otherwise you die and you only have 36 seconds to do so, while Energy Warrior is much better but it's a bland shooter with no real replay value. So two uninteresting games then, that will be why Mastertronic never used MAD-X again.

Two titles in a single offer for Mastertronic's short-lived MAD-X label. Molecule Man is an arcade adventure, previously released on its own, in isometric 3D starring a cute character. Energy Warrior is a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up where you have to save a planet from alien invasion by destroying wave after wave of nasties.

Molecule Man is the most interesting title of the two, deeper and more varied than Energy Warrior, which is notable for its parallax scrolling but otherwise unoriginal and not very enticing. However the two games make a pretty good bundle for £2.99 (or the equivalent in your local currency in 1987).