Coliseum

Copyright : TopoSoft | Reviewed by : Malc Jennings

Another game that a lot of us know little about, if you have the original story line (in English please) do not hesitate to email us and we?ll post it. Until then you take on the role of a fearless gladiator in ancient Rome who takes part in fearless battles and races on horseback in the deadly arena, fight to win and stay alive in this arcade adventure from Kantxo Designs.

Graphics

Coliseum is a great looking arcade game that pretty much shows the power of the CPC hardware nicely. The arena is almost rendered in 3D as objects from roof tops fall towards you and corners look realistic at the end of each turn, colours are bright and used nicely to give the ancient effect of Rome and our hero is animated very nicely indeed.

On top of this there are no serious bugs in the game and no sign of slow-down even when the screen becomes full of other riders and glaidators. Though at times the it can be a little confusing with colours blending with object they shouldn?t and more often than not making our hero very difficult to see.

Other than that the game is very nice indeed.

Sound

We are presented with a very nice piece of music on the options screen that nicely sets the mood of the game. After this the game does fall down slightly as in-games effects are few and far between, with great background detail such as falling objects you can expect better but be thankful the game is not in complete silence. All in all pretty well done indeed.

Gameplay

The game plays quite nicely and there are no major graphical bugs in the game that will prevent you from enjoying it. The first level at the least has us riding around an arena trying to avoid the others gladiators and objects while winning the race on the way.

The only problem is that objects fall so quickly and items get in your way at the blink of an eye, this makes it very difficult and often frustrating to boot. Anyone remember the first level of Back To The Future 3? well this is in the same league.

Despite rich graphics and nice music the game will fail to impress some gamers and be very hard for others to even bother past the first 5 lives.