Posted By
MIK
on 2012-07-19
03:51:55
 |  Re: Site Improvements
When looking at the commercial games there are many more people that need to revise their judgement and some should be celebrated more.
Terra Cognita 7.7
Liberator 7.3
Terra Nova 7.2
Myriad 6.2
Pheenix 5.3
It's a hard call but the best two games in that list are Myraid and Liberator that should be celebrated more for what they offer.
One of the worst is in fact Terra Nova because people have voted for Speech & Music rather than game play. Sure if you did buy it you had to pay for all the graphics because it did cost a lot more than your average 1.99 game but technically when you look at just the game play Pheenix has more to offer!
Terra Cognita, people have voted for the background graphics. Although the ground tiles add a twist you are looking at enemies that are no better than Terra Nova.
Pheenix is highly rated on ZX Spectrum. Before you can even begin to enjoy it you have to speed it up, but over all an interesting game and now knowing it was once an arcade machine, the only time it ever released was on the Alternative label - there is something about it I can't put my finger on... However Myriad walks all over it.
Really when you look at the commercial games Liberator is one of, if not "the" best space shooter of them all from that era. Slick side scrolling fast and smooth arcade action and unlike many other shooters you can bang the fire button all day long and as fast as you like with no interruption. It really is one cool game that should be celebrated a lot more. 7.3... it's worth more than that as a 12k game. OK Battle Star gets 5.1 but what game play does it really offer...
Myriad is a no frills budget title, maybe borrowed from a Vic20 title but this offers a lot when you look at the enemies and discover how challenging the game play really is. Some times you never were going to get a lot for your money any way but as it goes Myriad is under rated for what you get. It is a classic for the C16 from the commercial days, just some people think Terra Nova is better... 
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