Bruce Lee

Copyright : US Gold | Reviewed by : Malc Jennings

You are Bruce Lee, martial arts legend. You must infiltrate the Emperors temple and ultimately fight the Emperor himself; but you must fight your way past his henchman Yamo and the ninja assassins sent to stop you first!

Graphics

Bruce Lee is a game that although released on multiple platforms in its time of release it has remained almost the same in terms of graphical presentation, give or take a few colours in the case of the ZX Spectrum version.

The graphics are perfect, ok they might not look like they are up to much to the average PlayStation generation but they are plenty enough to make the game what it is. Each stage is well designed with various different layouts and enemies to beat the crap out of on your journey, never will you enter one stage and think you?ve gone back on yourself. Each enemy has his/her own technique in attacking you and they move about the screen at sometimes an alarming speed, animation is on top form with just about every one of Bruces combat moves in tact and animated in 8-bit beauty, even if he does look like one of the Simpsons.

Sound

Sound is also well presented on this game, we are introduced with a nice oriental style piece of music and not the crappy kung fu music we all know and hate. In game sounds are again on great form in Bruce Lee as you get to hear every punch and kick make a bruise on your enemy and plenty of various other sounds to enrich the experience. Very well done indeed.

Gameplay

The idea is pretty simple, run around the various stages and collect the lanterns with are hung underneath each of the various platforms while kicking the crap out of anyone/thing that gets in your way. Be careful though as those enemies also pack a pretty mean punch and the end of level nasties are enough to make you start all over again.

Bruce Lee is a game that all my friends have talked about for years and said it was their favourite on the CPC and ZX Spectrum wereas I was one of those that stood by, nodded my head and pretended I knew what they were on about. After playing the game recently on the real thing and today via CPC emualtion on my PC I can honestly say that they were right, if I had purchased the game when my CPC was my main machine then I would have played it to death.

Bruce gets the treatment he deserves on your favourite machine and this is one beat-em-up worthy of adding to any collection.