AMIGA POWER ISSUE 41 SEPTEMBER 1994

PUTTY SQUAD (A1200)
Putty Squad is, quite simply, the best platform game we've played for months, and utterly refutes any suggestion that there's no life left in the genre, and anyone who writes one should be instantly buried alive under 100,000 unsold copies of their own game. Buy why not find out for yourself with our brilliant 8-level demo?
Six complete levels plus two secret levels adds up to an awfully large demo, but there again, the complete game's hoofingly huge anyway. All hail AMIGA POWER!!! All thanks to System 3!!! Now, there are two ways you can go about this -- you can either flick to page 38 and read Cam's glowing review of the game, or you can play it right now and then read the review, well-prepared to agree with Cam's conclusions.

MINE RUNNER
It's exactly what it sounds like! There are some mines, and you run in them. And, in fact, it's just like Lode Runner.
Graphics vs Playability -- that old political hot potato. Give this one a blast though, and everything becomes clear -- a great game's a great game, and if it's got good graphics then all the better.

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EMPIRE SOCCER
See for yourself why we gave Empire Soccer 90% last month with our exclusive demo. And then stop buying rubbish football games by mistake. 
We got a pit panicked in the AP office when we found out that the disk demo of Empire Soccer had been promised to 'another party'. We cried, we wailed and we gnashed our teeth because we thought that you, our respected readers, were missing out on such a great game -- a game that we rated an astonishingly high 90 percent in the last issue. Fiercely we swooped on Empire and made unpleasant noises in the backs of our throat. But our righteous anger was assuaged when the terrified publishers whimpered that the 'other party' had been given a rushed-out early pre-prod version of the game, and that we could actually have a 'tweaked' version of the complete, fully implemented and totally finished version game. Conclusive proof that everything comes to he who waits. Hee hee. And, indeed, ha ha and ho ho.

SCORCHED TANKS
It's exactly what it sounds like! A version of that old 'tanks' game, scorched a bit.
Oddly, despite the game stating boldly that it caters for 512K owners, you may have a bit of trouble getting it to work on such a humble machine. Still, eh? Scorched Tanks is top ballistic fun for anything up to four players -- and that's got to be good news for the modern fan of explosive projectiles. We've seen many of these 'shoot the tank at the other side of the hill' type games over the years, but this one's got more fiddly bits, add-ons and features than all of them put together.