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Jewels
of Darkness
1986 Rainbird/Level
9 Computing
By
Mike Austin, Nick Austin & Pete Austin
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text of the present article comes from the review published
in the seventeenth issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64
(street date: July 21st, 1986). |
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JEWELS OF DARKNESS
Rainbird/Level
9, £14.95
cassette or disk |
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ell,
there's not a lot I can say about this one. Level
9's 'Middle Earth Trilogy', featuring Colossal
Adventure, Adventure Quest and Dungeon
Adventure, has provided adventurers with untold
hours of entertainment over the last few years.
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At £9.99 for each text-only game they were essential
purchases. Now, thanks to a new marketing deal with
Rainbird, you can get all three for only £14.95 PLUS
graphics PLUS the new Level 9 parser that gives you
a vastly enlarged vocabulary and allows you to enter
commands while the pictures are still drawing.
The
only point I would like to make here is that, having
already played these games, I did not think that the
new versions were sufficiently different to warrant
purchasing them if you have the originals. That is in
no way intended to be a criticism of this new release,
but simply a testimony to the excellence of the original
games. Of course, if graphics matter a lot to you then
those alone might lead you to disagree with me, but
the Wiz has never had much time for Level 9's pics --
they're colourful but they're not great works of art.
And the location descriptions and scenarios have always
struck me as being good enough on their own.
But all this is nit-picking. This is the best bargain
currently available for adventurers, and unless you
can't beat the thought of going underground, you just
have to get out into the shops and spend your £14.95.
Nuff said.
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| Atmosphere |
90% |
| Interaction |
89% |
| Lasting
Interest |
95% |
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Value
for Money
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95% |
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Overall
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92% |
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If
you want a walkthrough, visit
Jacob Gunness' Classic
Adventures Solution Archive or
Martin Brunner's
C64 Adventure Game Solutions Site
Htmlized
by Dimitris
Kiminas (28 Nov 2004)
The screenshots in the original review were not from
the C64 version.
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