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they discover that they're tak-

ing on a ninja!

Eventually, you'll learn

enough kung-fu moves or ﬁnd

sufﬁcient weapons to keep you

alive long enough to stay on the

trail of Kunitoki, eventually

leading to the ﬁnal confronta-

tion in his hidden opium den.

Before this, you will have had

many an hour of kung-fu

arcade adventuring, leaving

you hoping that this isn't the

Last Ninja and looking forward

to the prospect of Last Ninja

score, elapsed time, and bars

that represent your strength

and that of any opponent that

you face. Combat normally

involves blows being

exchanged using hands and

feet, but sometimes weapons

can be used, including some

that you can hurl from a dis-

tance. As battles rage, the

strength bars reduce and death

visits the combatant whose bar

vanishes ﬁrst.

The main attraction is, once

again, the stunning 3D graphics

that form the backdrop to the

adventure. In this game you'll

battle on roof tops that tower

above the streets, run the

gauntlet of the drugstores

downtown, face crooked cops

in Central Park and then meet

crowbar-wielding muggers just

around the next corner just

imagine their surprise when

the ancient gods to seek out and

defeat your arch enemy, the evil

Shogun Kunitoki.

Six different sections

packed full of muggers, thugs,

corrupt cops and even knife-

throwing jugglers will challenge

the arcade players, whereas

those who like to match their

reactions with skill will enjoy

the puzzles on the way to the

showdown with the evil Kuni-

toki. These aren't puzzles that

you will have to ponder over

for weeks and then type in

precisely as in some adventures,

these are puzzles that you solve

with a joystick using some logic

but mostly gut-feeling and pure

nerve.

Around the main screen are

the usual Last Ninja displays:

areas where you can scroll

through objects that you hold

and may need to use, your

Last Ninja II

When the Last Ninja appeared

and amazed everyone with it's

superb mix of graphics, adven-

ture and puzzles, conquered the

charts, swept the awards and

showed just what was possible

with eight-hit machines, eve-

ryone agreed that it was the last

word in kung-fu games. It was

also inevitable that there would

be a sequel.

Once again, you must don

the black suit and mask of the

ninja and take up your sword

for the inevitable combat that

is sure to follow. In this game

you will face foes even more

dangerous than the ﬁre brea-

thing dragons of the original,

in a land more treacherous than

the swamps; modern day New

York. As Arkamuni, the Last

Ninja, you have been sent by

Touchline:

Title: Last Ninja 2. Supplier:

System 3 (Activision), Activi-

sion House, 23 Pond Street,

Hampstead, London NW3

2PN. Tel: 01-431 1101. Price:

£12.99 (disk).

players the chance to search for

their own grail! A solid silver

goblet, gilded on the inside and

encrusted with semi-precious

jewels, has been hand - crafted

by one of this country's top

silversmiths. This incredible

prize is worth ﬁve thousand

pounds and details of how to

win it are included with every

copy of the game.

drive a wedge between him and

his greatest friend. It also

means that Lancelot is not pure

enough of heart to actually

complete the quest to ﬁnd the

Holy Grail, although he is

granted a vision of it.

The story is accompanied

by lashings of Level 9's atmos-

pheric text and there is no need

to worry about ﬁnding the

exact combination of words

necessary to solve a puzzle; the

Level 9 parser is still recognised

as being one of the best in the

industry. If you have the disk

version, you will also be able

to enjoy some stunning illustra-

tions which accompany the

text.

Mandarin is also offering

to the quest that ultimately split

the Round Table, the search for

the Holy Grail.

• The story sticks very closely

to Malory's medieval version,

of the legend, Le Morte

D'Arthur, so don't expect any

Hollywood-style romanticism.

Instead, the game follows

Lancelot's life, starting with his

battle to become the greatest

knight of the age. Then come

the two tragic love affairs, one

with Elaine, during which he

fathers Galahad, and the

second with Arthur's wife,

Queen Guenever, which stems

from his excessive sense of duty

towards her.

This second affair gives

Arthur's enemies the chance to

Considering their prominence

in British myths and legends,

it is something of a surprise to

ﬁnd that the Tales of King

Arthur and the Knights of the

Round Table do not feature

more frequently in adventure

games. Whilst the exploits of

Sirs Gawain, Tristram, Percival

and Galahad are reasonably

well known, it comes as no

great surprise to discover that

Level 9, in conjunction with

Mandarin Software, are basing

their story around the exploits

of Sir Lancelot, the greatest and

bravest knight of them all.

The games consists of three

linked adventures, following

the life of Lancelot from his

arrival at court, right through

Touchline:

Title: Lancelot. Supplier: Man-

darin Software, Europa House,

Adlington Park, Adlington,

Macclesﬁeld SK 10 4N P. Tel:

(0625) 878888. Price: £1495

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Each player's statistics des-

cribe their running and tackling

skills, ﬁtness rating and a

record is kept of the number

of games they've played and the

goals they scored. This infor-

mation should help you choose

your team for the coming

matches.

During the match you use

the joystick to control the man

nearest to the ball, depending

on who has possession, and try

and dribble down the ﬁeld to

score. That's where the similar-

ity ends. In EHIS the player's

abilities decide how well he

tackles or how fast he runs

which improves an already

tried and tested format.

In Commodore's Soccer,

ball control consists of drib-

bling and shooting the ball in

the direction you're running

but, in EHIS, you can either

kick the ball along the ground,

loft it into the air for crosses

or pass towards the right or left

as well. Add to that sliding

tackles, diving headers and

charging your opponent off the

ball and you've got a system in

which realistic moves can easily

be built up. For example, your

keeper could roll the ball out

to a defender who passes it to

a midﬁeld player, then a smart

chip out to the winger (a good

runner), who charges down to

the line and crosses it into the

box for a diving header at goal!

The preproduction copy of

EHIS that I was playing didn't

have all it's features in place

such as the eight team Super

League, where you can change

the name of any of the teams

and players to suit your taste

in football, Neither were the

Cup competition or champion-

ship (whatever that is), or the

free kicks or penalties for rough

play included. However, all 11

players on either side, a novelty

in computer football games,

were doing enough to convince

me that this is one to look out

for.

Emlyn Hughes, the man with

the squeaky voice. lucrative TV

contracts and the crunching

• tackle who wore the number six

shirt for Liverpool in the Bill

Shankley era, now stars in his

own football game.

The best way to think of it

is to look back at that all time

classic, Commodore Interna-

tional Soccer, that was released

in 1983 and think of EHIS as

the updated version. However,

that's only half the story

because, behind the Commo-

dore Soccer gameplay, there's

a strong strategy element

including player statistics and

League and Cup competitions.

Touchline:

Title: Emlyn Hughes Interna-

tional Soccer. Supplier: Audi-

ogenic, Winchester House,

Canning Road, Wealdstone,

Harrow, Middlesex HA3

Tel: 01-861 1166.

Serve and Volley

title Serve and Volley, distrib-

uted by Electronic Arts.

There have been many ten-

nis games before but all of them

have suffered from major ﬂaws

in their playability or else have

proved to be extremely limited

in scope. Serve and Volley

includes a host of features not

previously seen in simulations.

Even the sternest critic is likely

to be impressed.

To start with, you can

choose which surface you play

on, grass, clay or concrete, each

of which determines the tactics

to be employed. If you get too

good at the lowest skill level,

you still have two more levels

to choose from plus a practice

mode for beginners. You can

also decide whether to play a

one-off match or enter a tour-

nament playing against either

the computer or a human

opponent.

Emphasis during the play is

on stroke selection, timing and

ball placement. There are three

different serves to choose from:

top spin, ﬁ rst serve and slice

and the variety continues

according to which of ﬁ ve

different strokes you opt for. As

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Sports simulation programs

have always proved to be

extremely popular and Acco-

lade have enjoyed particular

success in this ﬁeld through

games such as Hardball, still

the best baseball game around.

Now, they have turned their

hand to tennis with their latest

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