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From: MARCUS@STOAT.PCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re: RE: Anyone at Psygnosis...
Message-ID: <8907061002.AA03713@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 89 18:00:37 GMT
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>>Gregory Simmons writes a rather scathing message about Psygnosis.  I too
>>just wanted to say that I won't buy another Psygnosis game.  With the
>>exception of "Ballistix" (and even that only in two player mode), every
>>Psygnosis game I either bought or demoed has had great sound, great graphics
>>.... and little or no playability.  If these guys ever got their act to-
>>gather and acutally wrote a game that played as well as they looked, they'd
>>make a fourtune.

>I strongly disagree!  Although the first Psygnosis games (Barbarian comes to
>mind) were terribly slow and jerky, their new titles are much improved in both
>gameplay *and* performance.  In fact, Blood Money is just about the best pure
>arcade shoot-em-up I've seen on the Amiga to date.  No playability?  Geez, get
>a new joystick or something..... this game has kept me interested for hours on
>end.  I also think Baal and the aforementioned Ballistix are superior efforts.

Me too! Menace (on their Psyclapse lable) was a damn good shoot-em-up too
AND you can start again at the level you just got zapped on (someone made
the complaint that you *couldn't* do this in an earlier posting - bizzare!).
This feature meant that I finished it in two days however although that
may be better than Xenon which I've had since last year and still can't
get past sector 1 part 2!! (damn stupid control system!).

If you want to know just *how* good Blood Money is I submitted a playable
demo to the amiga-s archives some time ago. You get to play the first level,
nothing added, nothing taken away! Two player mode, yo yo get FUNKY!!!!
See if you don't have hysterics when you playing partner gets confused at
the joystick reversal pylon!

If I can complete this demo I will be down the shops toute suite for the
full thing - a marketing departments dream ;-)

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