So, now that I have an S-Video Modulator and a colour monitor, I am finally able to see the CPC's colours in all its glory on the machine itself. *lol*
While I still prefer the green monitor for the nice resolution and sharp image (well, for the 80s at least), I am just beginning to understand how many things related to colour have remained unnoticed to me in games.
Take for example Starglider which changes colours in game so that the cockpit in the lower part of the screen shows a different palette than the outside view, something that's barely noticeable on a greenie even if you're aware of it.
I also noticed reminiscing about the past *sigh* that I preferred Mode 1 games over Mode 0, and can recall a lot more Mode 1 titles that left an impression on me than Mode 0 titles.
So to correct my historically narrow POV what are the best Mode 0 titles in your opinion and what makes them stand out from the crowd (gameplay, colours, etc.)?
On a personal level, my favourite MODE 0 games that I owned on cassette/disc when I still had my CPCs are;
Batman The Movie, Stormlord (except the phallic mushrooms), Zynaps, Exolon, Cybernoid 2, Equinox, Cauldron 2, Barbarian, Addam's Family, Alien Storm, Avenger, Turrican 2 (needed scrolling, though), Trantor, Roland On The Run (hahahahaha, sorry!), Renegade (once you've changed the blood back to red), Netherworld (if you ignore the flickering), License To Kill (those loading screens were lovely), Knight Force (game was rubbish, graphics were lovely), Golden Axe, Gryzor, Forgotten Worlds, Bubble Bobble, Beyond The Ice Palace... to name a few off the top of my head!
However, my all-time favourite MODE 0 game I think stands out from the others is STORMLORD. It's a very pretty and colourful game (with smooth horizontal scrolling), it's easy to play (ie doesn't suffer too much from slow-down), it's as tough as hell (if you don't know where to put the items) and the soundtrack is amazing.
I played it on a friend's green screen and it you could still see a large majority of the graphics.
I'd suggest some nice spanish games as Game Over, Phantis, Freddy Hardest, Army Moves, Navy Moves....
From the point of GFX? Then...
Orion Prime ;-) And CPC Adventure!
Quote from: TFM/FS on 17:01, 17 August 11
And CPC Adventure!
CPC Adventure is in MODE 1 :P
For me my best MODE 0 games are Renegade and Gryzor!
Guild of Thieves
The Pawn
Defender Of The Crown
:-)
I would say renegade or gryzor but recently I tried stormlord on my CPC and was baffled by the detail. It's like every pixel is at it's right position regardless the blocky resolution and little space. It absolutely shows that one can draw amazing graphics regardless the machine limitations.
A thing I find boring is:
When you search for a funny sexy game (you know what I mean),
you or find really crap graphics like taken from VIC-20 or you find a stupid gameplay...
Just "Teenage queen" is an acceptable conversion here...
I want more tits on CPC!!! 8)
@Devilmarkus
"Tensions" is a really great poker simulation with excellent animations (of players and dancers). Unfortunately the dancer has no shading, so the more she removes, the less you can identify...
But all Mode 1
http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/10243/ (http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/10243/)
http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=2211 (http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=2211)
Thanks for the input, guys!
@tastefulmrship: That's quite a list. :) I remember playing some of them on my green monitor (and later in an emulator, but that's not the same), Trantor and Exolon for example.
Update: I never knew that the intro sequence before the actual game begins has the spaceship landing on a platform and Trantor jumping into a hole. It seems, I always cut it off to play the game. :D
@robocfg: the Spanish had some good titles. I remember Game Over, and I wasn't so impressed by it on a green monitor, because it was too dark. This one will definitely play better in colour.
@Ythcal: Ah, Adventures. Strangely, I remember the Infocom titles being text adventures. I'll have a look at them as well.
Ok, so Renegade, Gryzor, and Stormlord are above average games in Mode 0. Anymore votes for these three? Any other contenders for good Mode 0 games?
Infocom adventure are text without pictures, at least those published on the CPC, but The Pawn and Guild Of Thieves are not by Infocom but Magnetic Scrolls ;) So they are graphic/text adventures
Quote from: Ythcal on 23:30, 17 August 11
Infocom adventure are text without pictures, at least those published on the CPC, but The Pawn and Guild Of Thieves are not by Infocom but Magnetic Scrolls ;) So they are graphic/text adventures
*facepalm* You're right. These are made by Magnetic Scrolls.
QuoteSo, now that I have an S-Video Modulator and a colour monitor, I am finally able to see the CPC's colours in all its glory on the machine itself. *lol*
You means the brand new amstrad 6128PLUS of yours with colours monitor ? ;D
Anyway a new world of Raster wonders is being revealed to you.
Quote from: MacDeath on 16:53, 18 August 11
You means the brand new amstrad 6128PLUS of yours with colours monitor ? ;D
Anyway a new world of Raster wonders is being revealed to you.
Exactly, the S-Video modulator for the bigger LCD-TVs and the 6128+ and its monitor for the regular tasks. :)
Quote from: Devilmarkus on 17:55, 17 August 11
CPC Adventure is in MODE 1 :P
Haha, as you see, it's looking as well as a Mode 0 Game ;-)
Quote from: Devilmarkus on 20:12, 17 August 11
I want more tits on CPC!!! 8)
Well, so nobody (up to now) found the nude patch for FutureSofts Giana Sisters Clone?
Quote from: Optimus on 19:57, 17 August 11
I would say renegade or gryzor but recently I tried stormlord on my CPC and was baffled by the detail. It's like every pixel is at it's right position regardless the blocky resolution and little space. It absolutely shows that one can draw amazing graphics regardless the machine limitations.
Yes, but it totally lacks backgound. And f. e. Trantor is way more smooth.
QuoteI want more tits on CPC!!!
Which is such a shame actually...
I mean, Tits card games don't really need over the top sprite routines nor awesome scrollings...
But something actually harder to do : a decent Poker engine.
I remember the game Gal's Panic, which is actually a Qix game.
But I agree a decent Strip Poker could be so neat.
Also a Texas Holden multiplayer poker (online ? network ?) but that's a different story.
I tried to explore this area but found some problem : I couldn't manage to find a decent Picture set that would be suitable to port on CPC for a Strip poker...
A clever solution would be to ask a cute girl to model especially for me but i don't thinlk my sweetheart would aggree (both to model or to let me another girl model for me...)
:-[
Does some one of you know a bunch of girls who would be eager to supply ?
Quote from: TFM/FS on 17:01, 17 August 11
From the point of GFX? Then...
Orion Prime
Orion Prime isn't a game... oh, no... it's a work of pure art!
It should be worshipped in a temple, and regular human sacrifices should be made in it's honour! Hell, I don't mind being the first sacrifice... to get the ball rolling, as it were!
Finally, a meaningful use for C64 Fanboys :D Where should we bring them to be sacrificed?
Bryce.
Robocop, Operation Wulf and Chase HQ have nice Mode 0.
Quote from: Bryce on 20:55, 18 August 11
Finally, a meaningful use for C64 Fanboys :D Where should we bring them to be sacrificed?
Bryce.
Great idea ;-) Let's make a c64 burning contest. Just let's see how long they still work... after pouring some gas over them including a spark ;-)
QuoteLet's make a c64 burning contest.
A clever method to get them to produce bright colours at last... ;D
Anyway I think most cool Mode0 games were cited.
Ocean, dinamic and Spanish games, also french games... you can't go wrong.
Try Mystical perhaps, PickNPile looking is nice too.
Most Silmarils few games are also Awesome 16bit looking :
XyphoesFantasticFantasy of course, Windsurf Willy, Targhan...
Ubi soft managed a few decent looking ones but still a lot of well used Mode1 too.
Loriciel was really one of my favourite french company on CPC.
Bactron is great isometric, Sqweek is saucy, Disc looks great, Best of the Best too, Golden Eagle2...
Those late production really have great Atari ST graphics...
Many Titus games also managed to get awesome graphics despite not so OK gameplay.
Try :
Titus the fox/Moktar... Prehistorik series, Arachnophobia, most Car/*racing games too...
But to be fair, while being an awfull game, knightforce is truelly awesomly amazing good looking !
amongst the best Graphix ever produced in CPC games.
(http://www.cpc-power.com/images/ecran_jeu1/1256.png)
Lol this reminds me of Barbarian...
Sadly the gameplay is not as good...
Feel free to also try the rare PLUS production on disk...
Yes, for a short while, but it's worth. Else they never ever see it :laugh:
Really surprised noone mentioned Rainbow Islands. The palette use was really excellent and the overall aesthetics really great.
PS Gals Panic was actually a very good game...
Quote from: Gryzor on 17:37, 19 August 11
Really surprised noone mentioned Rainbow Islands. The palette use was really excellent and the overall aesthetics really great.
Yes, very true. And maybe Rodland a bit. Well, a lot of CPC games are damn great (if they are no speccy ports or cheap prods.).
Ikari Warriors btw...
Lets see what havnt been mentioned: .. Arkanoid 1 & 2, Extreme, Jim Power in mutant planet, Mission Elevator, Nexus, Operation Thunderbolt, Klax, Sai Combat, Bruce Lee, Bomb Jack, P-47, Silkworm, West Bank, Targhan, Werewolves of London ...
even pretty average or bad games can look amazingly colourfull, like Tapper, Rolling Thunder, 1943, Kung Fu Master ...
1943 is a great game!
QuoteRainbow island, Rodland...
those cartoonish manga games are really what CPC can do well...
no need to go Greyish... and rounbd designs (cartoonish) so mode0 can perform well.
No wonder CPC can perform just above C64 and Speccy, despite being slightly sluggier.
Yet I think good old MSX2 can be greater of course (but MSX2 and latter are quite 16bit graphix IMO)
The only condition was to have good CPC graphical ports and no shitty mode1 speccy ports...
Nor even straight C64 ports...
You can do so much better with more than 4 colours per sprite or 4x8 wide pixels attributes.
"Sid Meyer's Pirates!" on CPC could really have been on 16bit level if a real graphician handed this port instead of those C64 rippoffs...
Quote1943
I even think the CPC version looks even better than ST/Amiga ports...
Off the top of my head in no particular order:
Auf Wiedersehen Monty
Rainbow Islands
Edd The Duck
Flimbo's Quest
Titus The Fox
Turbo The Tortise
Scooby & Scrappy Doo.
Wizard Willy
The Hit Squad
Punch & Judy
The Sacred Armour of Antiried
Unsure if when the screen is reduced to Spectrum Resolution if the Pixels change from a rectangular shape (as normal Mode 0 games do) into a Square. Normal Mode 1 offers a square pixel as opposed to Normal Mode 0 as well.
Quote from: MacDeath on 01:50, 20 August 11
Nor even straight C64 ports...
You can do so much better with more than 4 colours per sprite or 4x8 wide pixels attributes.
"Sid Meyer's Pirates!" on CPC could really have been on 16bit level if a real graphician handed this port instead of those C64 rippoffs...
That's why I never cared much for Barbarian's graphics on CPC. Sure it still looks alright but it's still a C64 port whereas those large sprites could have had so much more shading and detail if redone specifically for the CPC. Same goes for other obvious C64 ports where the large sprites have only 3 colors.
Turrican II, I still far prefer on CPC rather than C64 and looks like the CPC version actually had some effort put into it rather than a cheap port. Still not sure why Turrican himself is green when blue would have been more appropiate though.
Also I have a lot of fondness for the colorful graphics of the first Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Game. Nice chunky sprites and tiles and even has parallax scrolling.
Concerning Barbarian's sprites, it is fun to notice that even the PC ("Death sword" CGA Dos version ) have those wide pixel sprites.
And ST/Amiga versions don't even have that much coloured sprites.
But on the background matter, the CPC version has especially designed ones, with some differences with C64 version, and to be fair they are the most impressive on CPC.
I don't know if the engine could support betterly designed sprites.
They may be encoded in 2bpp, I got to check this on WinApe.
Ok I cheked and yes those warrior sprites are coded in 2bpp (="mode1").
find graphics option has to be put in Linear mode.
I did a spritesheet rippoff but can't post it.
Best mode 0 graphics ?
What about Targhan from Silmarils ?
All we've got here is a list of names, how about a screenshot and/or video link as evidence?
Not exactly what you've asked for, but do try CPCGamesCD, the included CPCLoader software has screenshots for all of them and it's the easiest way to check things out fast...
QuoteBest mode 0 graphics ?
What about Targhan from Silmarils ?
As I told, Silmarils (vive la France) made only few productions on CPC but graphics are top notch on all of them...
Targhan manage to have a strong atmosfear... and the colours are brilliantly well used...
One of the rare occurance where the only 1 grey mixed with dark cyan actually looks like a proper grey gradiant...
Hell even the EGA PC version was awesome with realsounds and good use of limited fullCGA palette.
Windsurf Wilklly's graphics are saucy as hell too.
Another not well know french game : les Dieux de la Mer (Patrice Martin Championship Waterskiing/Championship Water-Ski Challenge)
(http://www.cpc-power.com/images/ecran_jeu3/718.png)
Also a great game I played a lot... and quite good for summertime retro sessions... ;)
Mode 0 games is beautiful colours,but because the conversion games to mode 0 in amstrad lost the music?.
For example:
spectrum version:
Run The Gauntlet (Sports Game Based On 80's TV Series) - The Quiet Video Game Nerd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHpfrRewVmc#)
horrible graphics,but beautiful music.
Amstrad colours:
Beautiful graphics, but not music!.
Run the Gauntlet on an Amstrad CPC 6128.flv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cobYMcfXvCw#)
The amstrad conversion doesn't lost the music. You can make a try here: http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=jeuenligne&num=1853 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=jeuenligne&num=1853)
The music is on the title's screen and sounds are ingame.
And the scrolling speed is best when you play online than the video itself.
This game is fun to play and the graphics are very good an colorfull in my opinion.
QuoteAnd the scrolling speed is best when you play online than the video itself.
What scrolling ?
What online ? :o
Quote from: MacDeath on 18:10, 31 August 11
What scrolling ?
What online ? :o
The ingame scrolling.
He meant when you play the game in an emulator / with your real CPC instead of watching it on YT.
Quote from: Devilmarkus© on 18:20, 31 August 11
...
He meant ...
To me kyjena sounds like a "she". But I may be wrong. Not all CPC users are male ;-)
oK MY BAD...
the Car race part has no scrolling but the Boat race do have...
Excuze my stupidness... ;D
Quote from: MacDeath on 21:24, 01 September 11
Excuze my stupidness... ;D
If all people would be as stupid as you, then we would have a wonderful, humorous, smart and wise world. One world I really would like to live in :) :) :)
And... we wouldn't have damn Speccy ports :laugh:
Another classic.
Werewolves of London for Amstrad CPC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFYWYrkGh4M#)
This game has ending?
Quote from: dragon on 20:52, 21 September 11
Another classic.
Werewolves of London for Amstrad CPC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFYWYrkGh4M#)
This game has ending?
I have a longplay and review of this ready for Halloween next month! :D
QuoteI have a longplay and review of this ready for Halloween next month! (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/Smileys/SoLoSMiLeYS1/cheesy.gif)
Ohh good,I try pass the game with the map of cpc power.But the map no is 100% correct to the cpc versión,so i lost XD.
I also remember other game i see one day in a friend house.In a city place in a desert(arabic type).Type warewolves,you run over the city,but i not remember the name of the game.
Quote from: dragon on 13:54, 22 September 11
Ohh good,I try pass the game with the map of cpc power.But the map no is 100% correct to the cpc versión,so i lost XD.
I also remember other game i see one day in a friend house.In a city place in a desert(arabic type).Type warewolves,you run over the city,but i not remember the name of the game.
The map actually, I believe, was written specifically for the CPC version - but I also believe the Speccy has the same layout.
Anyway - the map is VERY confusing, and I too thought it was incorrect. But once you get your head round his schema, it is actually correct ... just a bit of a mess and by god, if you hadn't made a map you would have gotten lost in the sewers which in game make no logical sense how they connect with each other. How that person made that map deserves a medal as I would not have had the patience for it, which will be reflected in the score I give. There are 2 areas you have to get to and the only way is via the sewers you see.
The other game you mention very vaguely rings a bell, but I can't remember - maybe someone else here will know it
write for the cpc? Imposible.
For example.
Yo begin in the sector marked with the "file" in the map.
o.k If you go to the door of forest.(to the left) yo can walk across 4(door forest incluyed,begin not incluyed) localizations(map).But in the game you lost one localitation!.(this is not problem of confussing map).
In the file localitation map,go up to the roof,an try go to station.i'ts imposible not exists!.
In the jail up,appears one level with upstaris to the roof.ok.If yo go to the roof and go to the other side to the roof down to street and go one screen to the let you found the screw!.In a localitation when you can go to norh and right.When in the map the screw is in localtation without north exit and with roof door!.
Quote from: dragon on 13:54, 22 September 11I also remember other game i see one day in a friend house.In a city place in a desert(arabic type).Type warewolves,you run over the city,but i not remember the name of the game.
This one could be Tuareg
(http://amstrad.es/juegosamstrad/decargajuegos/b02e26998fa11be2033.jpg)
http://amstrad.es/juegosamstrad/decargajuegos/tuareg.php (http://amstrad.es/juegosamstrad/decargajuegos/tuareg.php)
Strangely (or not), best Mode 0 games graphics are the work of the same people : Mark K. Jones
- Arkanoid
- Renegade
- Gryzor
QuoteThis one could be Tuareg
Yes!.
There are a lot of beautiful, advanced games from Spain like Game Over (I, II). That huge moster is amazing!!! Dynamic did a whole lot of good stuff.
And one of the best games also could be ..... can't remember its name, it playes in the stone time... was released 1992 I guess. Back to work now...
Quote from: TFM/FS on 17:10, 23 September 11
There are a lot of beautiful, advanced games from Spain like Game Over (I, II). That huge moster is amazing!!! Dynamic did a whole lot of good stuff.
And one of the best games also could be ..... can't remember its name, it playes in the stone time... was released 1992 I guess. Back to work now...
You mean Prehistorik II?
Also the Spanish games... yes many of them looked great and surprised that many of them went with proper scrolling, but the frame rate on the scroll was never that great.
Yes! Thanks!
Well, there is a lot of interesting spanish games, although i think that out of Spain are only known the games of Dinamic and Topo... and Opera in France, because Ubi published its games.
My favourite spanish games are from Opera (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=Opera%20Soft) (very difficult games, but very nice and a wonderful graphics in mode 0 and 1, too), Zigurat (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=Zigurat)/Made In Spain (all of its games until 1990 are really good, and i like specially the games that they published from GameSoft-Commando Cuatro- and Arcadia - Arkos, El Poder Oscuro, Curro Jimenez-), the interactive fictions of Aventuras AD (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=Aventuras%20AD) (i love this kind of games and they made a wonderful work always)... and after the five most important companies (Dinamic, Topo, Opera, Zigurat and Aventuras AD), there is a lot of small independent companies with a lot of little great games, how Gorbaf (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2593), El Enigma de Aceps (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=814) or the first games of Indescomp (the people of Plaga Galactica and founders of Opera) how Fumiga (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3311) or Super Tripper (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=33),...
I think I should add to your list some great games (in Mode 0) produced by French people
like Microids, Ere Informatique and Infogrames:
Grand Prix 500 2
Prince Of Persia
Karateka
Captain BLOOD
Purple Saturn Day
North & South
Of course, fgbrain, there is a lot of great mode 0 french games, i like La Formule, Pacific, Crafton Et Xunk, Stryfe, Billy La Banlieue I and II, Charly Diams, Bactron, ... i could not stop ;D
Was Budokan cited already ?
It simply looks so good !
(http://www.cpc-power.com/images/ecran_jeu1/486.png)
QuoteWas Budokan cited already ?
Is street fighter type?
Another(tron based game),
Rafael Gómez - Zona 0 - 1991 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aehhorvQQ80#)
(the movie es pc version,i not found a video in cpc version).
I don't see anybody mention Savage, isn't this a Mode 0 game too?
Donkey Kong and Arkanoid
I think Rick Dangerous 2 is beautiful in Mode 0.
But why the S-Video modulator when the machine throws perfect RGB? I had massive problems to find a screen to deal with the S-video of a C64, where RGB TV's are everywhere for close to nothing (assuming you are in CPC sales territory and no Yankee with a niche hobby).
I've a 1084 for the C64 now, but it still looks scheiße, where the 1084 delivers crystal clear CPC images in every mode. Only 80-character output from the C128 is clean on the 1084, which is quite weird for a Commodore branded display. Probably the VIC chip is the electronic design disaster, the 1084 is just a quality Philips display with a C128 input port attached.
For me, not all Mode 0 games are perfect (on the contrary) but here are my favorites:
Rick Dangerous 2 (The most beautiful gfx of all 8bits versions)
Operation Wolf
Renagade
Les Tuniques Bleues
Gryzor
Arkanoid
Revenge of Doh
Purple Saturn Day
Chase HQ
Turrican
Donkey Kong
Pinball Dreams
Prehistorik 2
Pyjamarama (I loved the big colorful sprites and items)
Renegade
Sorcery(+)
From the ones mentioned, the ones I had as a kid were Batman The Movie, Cauldron 2, Robocop, Ikari Warriors, Bruce Lee, Arkanoid 2, Gryzor, Pyjamarama and Sorcery.
Pyjamarama is an interesting game: made by Amsoft... with 6 colors in mode 0. Perhaps they should have took some notes on how the Saboteur ports were handled by removing some blues here and there to create a much crisp and faithful image. So yeah, I disagree with mentioning this one (even if it's a good game for many.. not for me, hate that inventory system).
Since I can't mention Pink Panther and Asterix and the Magic Carpet due to bad gameplay, I guess I will add... er...
Dragon Ninja, After Burner and Yie Ar Kung Fu. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Since I wrote this second message by mistake (trying to edit the previous one!), I will add:
- Imagine some classic mode 1 games, even the ones who look GREAT, remade in mode 0: Saboteur 1 and 2, Matchday 2, Head over Heels, all the GAC text adventures... what do you think?
Quote from: cwpab on 14:02, 15 June 24Since I wrote this second message by mistake (trying to edit the previous one!), I will add:
- Imagine some classic mode 1 games, even the ones who look GREAT, remade in mode 0: Saboteur 1 and 2, Matchday 2, Head over Heels, all the GAC text adventures... what do you think?
Saboteur on CPC doesn't need more colors. It needs more responsive, less laggy gameplay.
In general, I think filmation games look better in mode 1: Batman, Head Over Heels, La Abadia del Crimen, The Great Escape...
I don't think the extra color would improve them, because the loss of detail.
Quote from: dodogildo on 17:57, 15 June 24Quote from: cwpab on 14:02, 15 June 24Since I wrote this second message by mistake (trying to edit the previous one!), I will add:
- Imagine some classic mode 1 games, even the ones who look GREAT, remade in mode 0: Saboteur 1 and 2, Matchday 2, Head over Heels, all the GAC text adventures... what do you think?
Saboteur on CPC doesn't need more colors. It needs more responsive, less laggy gameplay.
Exactly that, Saboteur needs a more than doable speed up. The night setting makes it not really need more colors.
Antiriad
Cauldron
Fruity Frank
(Antiriad looks very atmospheric. Fruity Frank, on the other hand, has simple graphics, but it looks like fresh, crunchy fruit, fitting the title of the game well).
Quick concept of mode 0 Saboteur
Saboteur: The Barbie Years 8)
I'm a ninja
In a secret compound
There are dogs, there are guards
Things are nasty
You can punch
You can kick
If you say
I've got the disk
Uh oh uh
I'm a ninja boy, jumping off a boat
Life in mode 1, is for no one
You can make me crouch, when water is around
The helicopter is not exactly shorter
I'd be great if someone would come up with a black and white Saboteur. It would be very atmospheric.
Quote from: dodogildo on 19:30, 18 June 24I'd be great if someone would come up with a black and white Saboteur. It would be very atmospheric.
I don't know about a black and white Saboteur, but I can provide you with a full-black Saboteur (or full-white, your choice); I promise you something even more immersive!!!
KIDDING. ;D
I agree, MODE 2 games on Amstrad are too rare. I have great visual memories of Bollaware's Fres Attack (https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2342).
A green monitor only Saboteur, with 16 shades of green.
Crafton&Xunk 1 and 2 (Get Dexter saga), Raffles, Justin are lovely isometric mode 0.
Ninja Turtles 2, B.A.T show some excellent mode 0 works too.