REPLAY

Ladies and gentlefolk, YS presents - returning to regale you with restorative re-releases - Replay!

Zeppelin
£3.99
091 3857755
Reviewer: Rich Pelley

I haven't really had a good day, so the last thing I wanted to review was a compilation featuring a dubious collection of management games, a Combat School rip off, a Supersprint clone and a little Wheelie jobby. Guess it's just Sod's Law (or is that Flemming's Left Hand Rule?) that I got to review this then.

Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager provides you with a chance to try your hand at that ever popular form of entertainment, the management game. It also allows you to think "Hmmm nice graphics", and "Hoo - there's Kenny" but you'll soon realise that, gameplay speaking, it's all too uninvolved, boring as hell and not a patch on Footy Manager 2 and, marks out of 100 speaking, only worth about 40.

Rally Simulator is nothing more than a scrolling Supersprint clone with suspiciously Trans-Am style graphics. The scrolling may be smooth, but the car handles annoyingly and takes some getting used to, and without Supersprints looming possibility of loads of track to play, there seems little point in continuing playing. A 36 out of 100 if ever I saw one.

And thirdly? A crappy side view bike race thingy. Usually these things are great fun, burning along, jumping over ramps, wheeleeing here, falling off there. But in this case, you have to spend all your time judging what speed to take everything or your bike tips over - you don't even heroically fly off the thing. Add some completely crap graphics and we'll give it about 27.

And finally Para Assault Course, the excellent joystick waggling antics of Combat School, minus the animation, minus all the events bar the first, minus all the fun (although it's still two player) minus about 50 of the points Combat School would have got. 37

And to conclude? Please see the intro of the Airborne Ranger review.

Label: Zeppelin 4x4
Memory: 48K/128K
Price: £3.99 Tape
Reviewer: Cyril Herelle

Everyone wants to be a soccer manager. Or a rally driver, or a mountain biker, or take on an assault course. But all at once, I really don't know! Well Cyril looked bored so we sent him off with a few bottles of Lucozade, a king sized Mars Bar and some new underwear to have a go at all of the above.

First off I tried out Kenny Dalglish's Soccer Manager where as the title seems to suggest you have to manage something. Well, I managed to choose a team from the 90 or so teams which were in the football league when the game first came out. Maybe it's because I just love football but this is definitely the best game on this pack, mainly because it's so user friendly, enabling you to really get into it. It's quite a bog standard management game with lots of figures and reports but it is a lot better presented than most games of this ilk. Graphics are quite large and detailed and are always clear and playability is the best.

Rally Simulator's a very odd game where you and four computer opponents zoom around some very odd looking tracks which I suspect are meant to look a bit futuristic. Control is very awkward and takes some getting used to. Add this together with some very simplistic graphics, uninspiring gameplay and a lack of good sound and all you get a poor game. Definitely the worst of this lot.

Mountain Bike Racer is a much more attractive proposition. Pedal through wild torn landscapes with plenty of jumps and climbs. Try not to fall of the bike and you should enjoy this game. If you remember Kickstart and all it's pro's and con's then you'll probably like this game, it's not really in the same league as Kickstart but it comes close. With nice clear graphics and a shop visit at the end of each level to improve your bike's spec, Mountain Bike Racer is quite an enjoyable game.

Finally we come to Para Assault Course, and it's just as well that it's the last thing I looked as I'm too tired to complain much about it. It's one of those 'waggle the joystick till your hands drop off' games where the timing and the speed of the 'waggle' is just all too important. Having a brain doesn't count for much with this game. The graphics are nice enough but I have this thing about sweating a lot from just playing a computer game and with the course feeling as though it takes for ever to go through you'll soon be left with the feeling of "why am I doing this?"

What ever I say about Kenny Dalglish, at the end of the day it's not really a classic. Good, but not a classic. Nevertheless combined with Mountain Bike Racer it gives this compilation the edge over most single game budget sports sims. The less said about the other two games the better though.

ALAN:
A new compilation from Zeppelin kicks off with a reasonably attractive package. However the inclusion of Para Assault Course and Rally Simulator detract from it.