Reviews

Highly addictive and fun game. Worth a play.

This game tries to be original but ... "all that glitters is not gold" .

2,5 out of 5 .

1991 Audiogenic Software Ltd (UK)
by David Leitch & David Whittaker

Not bad, but the ball is too hard to control, it seems to have a life of it's own, unlike other games including balls. I'm not sure if it's for my lack of skills (probably is!) or just bad programming.

It's impossible to control the ball in this game.
Where's the fun in that?

Helter Skelter is a bit of a funny game, in that it's pretty highly rated on World of Spectrum, yet reviews here have been far from kind, and I'd liked to follow up on that.

It looks on first sight like a fun little puzzle game, with the aim being to bounce a ball around and hit people, particularly those with an arrow. This sounds like it could be a lot of fun, which makes you see why it scores highly on World of Spectrum.

However, controlling the ball is very difficult, almost impossible at times. It moves too fast and bounces all over the place when you don't want it to, then when you do want it to bounce up to higher platforms it usually doesn't. There are power-ups to collect in the game, like give you more time and freeze the enemies on screen, but they don't help with how the ball controls.

Helter Skelter had the look and concept to be a superb and addicting game, but the unpredictable gameplay spoils it terribly.

On paper it would appear to be a nice game to enjoy, however I found this at large to be be unplayable and unenjoyable.