Aazhom Krypht    
Published by Logitron


œ35 from 16/32 Systems   Reviewed by Colin Monro

Requirements: Falcon with 4MB or more memory, any colour display, 
joypad recommended.

Rating: 70%

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Ever played Mortal Kombat? If you have then you're half-way to 
knowing all about this game. Featuring true-colour, digitised 
graphics, life-like and very painful-sounding sound effects with  
a range of techno backing tracks and superb, near-photographic 
backgrounds that scroll with the action, you take on  the computer 
or a chum at  French software house Logitron's version of street 
fighting. The game must be decompacted onto your hard disk; it 
needs about 13 MB of space, and while all the fighting moves--head 
butts, high kicks, jumps, etc., can be executed from the keyboard 
I'd recommend the Jaguar joypad instead as this is likely to take 
the punishment better and in my case I found that a bug crept in 
with keyboard use and my character would "lock up".
 You may select your challenger from a list of five; from a 
psychotic surfer to a kamikaze keep-fit female warrior. Your 
opponents are drawn from the same pool, and the difficulty can be 
selected, as can the backgrounds you fight against. Unfortunately, 
that's all they are--backgrounds. There's no three dimensionality 
about the game, so whether it's a desert or a temple you fight in, 
 they're nothing more than backdrops. Still, it is technically 
good, and uses the Falcon's hardware to the maximum to produce 
fast animations and quick responses.
 Easing gently into the game, using the computer's lowest 
difficulty level, allows you to get the hang of moves but frankly 
I spent more time thinking "Is this all there is to it?" as I 
trashed another unlucky warrior's ribcage. Answer? Up the 
difficulty level a couple of notches, and you won't be worrying 
about the scenery for a good long while. The game gets 
HOT...although the makers are a teency-weency naughty when they 
say that the moves  reflect genuine fighting--how many karate 
experts have you seen that can teleport around a gym just by 
putting their hands together in prayer? Not even Grasshopper could 
do that!
 A warning, though--Even if you think it's okay for your kids 
to play an ultra-violent computer game like this, you may not 
think it so wise to expose them to some of the language which is 
sampled into it. Let's put this down to over-exuberant translation 
on the part of the programmers and award the game a 15 
certificate. It is, after all, nose-breakingly good fun...