Reviews

I always found Amaurote to be a very enjoyable game. Tough to get around at times but its gripping and compelling gameplay always left me coming back for more.

A tricky but enjoyable game.

1987 Mastertronic Added Dimension (UK)
by John Pickford, Ste Pickford and David Whittaker

As the story goes, the city of Amaurote as been invaded by giant insects and it's the player's job to clear each district from this dreadful colonies of bugs.
So you are alone with an Arachnus 4 armored car and radar equipment.
To help you on your mission, you have bombs, which will jump out of the top of the Arachnus head and bounce until they hit something, this requires good aiming skills. There are also special bombs which have a more devastating effect, those have to be found in the each district in order to be used. The bugs, which look like giant flies, by the way, are ruled by a queen which must be sought of and destroyed.

Amaurote is one heck of a great game and one of the best Isometric games ever written on a Speccy. The 128k version also features some of the best animated fx's and animated sequences I've ever seen on a Speccy and together with Glider Rider, the best trail in-game music I've ever heard, creating a great atmosphere while you play.
The game is highly addictive despite being so hard to complete.

Incredible that this wonder was cheaply priced

This is an incredible creation packed with details from superior computers. Literally because in the preliminaries of the game you can even see multicolored effects.
Cool atmosphere and fun.
Let's scare those damn flies away!

This is absolutely charming! The arachno-bot or whatever fits so good with those insects. The backgrounds and in general the rest of the graphics...
Everything is more than OK

It's tricky to get used to the bomb's trajectories but That's just an important part of the fun.

Add success graphics, level of the mapping and effects and you've got a winner.

this is an absolutely excellent game and definitely one of my favorites. And it is also one of the favorites of many more people; The only thing that happened is that it was not given as much hype as others who enjoyed more commercial advantages, more fame and more recognition, but it certainly deserves to be at the top. In fact, killing those horrible insects in such an original way is still popular today.
A wonder that does not age!