Yet another game-of-the-film hits the market with the
release of US Gold's Goonies. Not much is known
about the new Steven Spielberg film since it hasn't
yet been released over here, but the game gives a little
clue to its storyline (that's if the game does
follow its storyline) of a group of children on a treasure
trove adventure.
The
idea of the game is to get through the eight different
screens and collect the chest of gold from the pirate
ship on the final screen. Each screen has its own problems
which have to be negotiated before the player can progress
to the next one.
Playing
Goonies is a pretty novel experience, since two
characters have to be used in tandem to complete a screen.
It's not as complicated as it sounds and playing with
this control method isn't at all hard.
The
screens are all platform variants and the whole game
plays rather like Bruce Lee -- your character
can run and jump everywhere.
[This
screenshot was not in the original review]
When
you start you see your two characters somewhere on the
screen. Toggling the joystick results in one of the
characters moving. If you press the fire button, then
control is switched to the other character. To solve
a screen, both characters have to complete a task, for
example on the first screen one character has to start
a machine then the other has to knock over a tub of
water. Once that has happened, then both characters
can dodge round the meany which patrols the bottom of
the screen. Using two characters like this is really
fun and is a control method which should be expanded
upon.
All
the screens have to be completed in similar fashion,
and as you progress through the eight screens the puzzles
get trickier and require quite a bit working out. When
you finally get the treasure then you are transported
back to screen one and have to start again, with the
same objectives.
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