Reviews

By Thomas Busse (Germany)


This shoot em up starts of promising, with a nice stellar sky, featuring some well known planets of our solar system (I think). The meteor shower is well made and with nice effects. But everything starts come tumbling down when you meet face to face (or ship to ship) with the alien enemies. Their ships are hard to destroy and once you hit one, it divides itself into 2 smaller ones, which are even harder to hit. Mind you, not because they move fast, simply because the collision detection is badly written. Sadly that spoils what could have been a very interesting shmup game.

Color clash , rotten detection , no sound , pretty rough movement ... still quite enjoyable if you forget about that and profit OTWOC´s unique perspective !!!

Different worlds , different enemies , different challenges ... from asteroids to self-dividing ships to bouncing ships , etc. ,,, OTWOC presents you with many rewarding features if you forget all its faults .

By the way ... what does OTWOC stands for ? ? ? Anyone knows ?

This certainly looks alright but the gameplay doesn't do it for me. The first level is too fast and it's hard to shoot the rocks as a result, then level 2 comes and it's too slow and jerky which again make it hard to shoot anything. Not overly terrible, the background is very pretty and all but this is probably a case of a programmer trying to produce more of what the Spectrum is capable of.