Confuzion

Copyright : Incentive Software | Reviewed by : Malc Jennings

A huge 64 storey automated industrial plant used for the production and storage of deadly Confuzion Bombs versus a highly inteligent and quick thinking mind (yours!). Your mission is to destroy the complete complex by eliminating the entire explosive stock pile.

Graphics

Puzzle games as a general rule do not demand the most complex of graphics and are best suited when we stick to the basics, gladly Incentive Software have done just that with this game.

On first glance it looks like Pipe Mania for the Amiga but with obvious colour and graphical differences. We are presented with a graphical "map" of the current storey, this map shows the clear paths to the exit points, one of which has a bomb waiting for you. A graphical explosive flair moves around the map and follows the path you set.

Each level has a different colour scheme and gets more complex as we move on to the next storey but other than that there isn?t much to talk about.

Sound

Sound is fairly basic, we are not greeted with any kind of music at the front of the game nor do we have much to listen to while in the game itself. However we do get a little explosion when you get the flair to the bomb at the other end or once the timer has hit zero. Nothing great in this one, sadly.

Gameplay

Anyone that has played Pipe Mania, POD or anything similar to these two games will instantly feel at home with the idea of the game.

You simply move the path so that the flair can reach the bomb before your timer runs out, to do this you move your pointer around the current map and point in the direction you wish to rotate the current sector of the floor. Trust me it sounds more complicated than it is and I?m certain most puzzle fans will get the idea of it within the first few minutes.

While not as simple nor as enjoyable as the Tetris clones and various other styles of puzzle it is still a fairly addictive piece of Amstrad history and we feel it should be at least tried once before passing your final judgement.