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Reviews for Barrel Jump (#18403)

Review by Digital Prawn on 24 Jun 2009 (Rating: 1)

Poor effort, even by the low standards of the Cassette 50 tape. Press any key to jump over one barrel, then two barrels, then three.. and so on as your UDG man runs along the bottom of each successive screen. I strongly recommend that you in fact use the 'G' key to jump for the simple reason that it also starts a new game and quite honestly a game could only last two seconds if you are unlucky.

As you struggle with this game and ponder to yourself "Just why did I totally cock up that jump, when the previous three were perfect?" Well, ponder no more as I reveal that (as any player may well suspect), the height and therefore the distance jumped is determined purely by the RND function. Yep, press "jump" and your man will either clear all barrels, or land pathetically on only the second barrel. Your skill as a player has no bearing on this whatsoever. That's why I award this game only one point. That and the fact that the UDG of the jumping man looks like he his frozen whilst sprinting since only ever one frame of this fast running character was desgined and made available as a UDG. But let's face it, not even an animated UDG would make this one an enjoyable playing experience. Verdict: You'll have more fun setting the time on a calculator watch than playing this!