Danger Mouse : Double Trouble

Copyright : Creative Sparks | Reviewed by : Ritchardo

News has just come in from Crocodilian intelligence that Baron Greenback and his gang of international villains have spent that last fortnight in the depths of the jungle. They have been building a 32K RAM DMOS ROM electrically erasable Mega micro-mouse hardware unit.

"Eh. What?s that?" asks Dangermouse in surprise.

"The letters stand for Robot Artificial Mechanism, Dangermouse Operating System, really ?Oribble Mouse!" K explains. "In other words, it?s an androide Dangermouse, and it can temporarily impersonate you and infiltrate our intelligence to help Greenback?s quest for power."

The electrically controlled DMOS loading sequence has been initiated and the release is due at tea time - unless Dangermouse can get there in time to stop it!

Graphics

A direct Spectrum port, DMDT doesn?t look too bad for an early licence game thanks to renderings of all the main protagonists in the Dangermouse cartoon series. Penfold, Baron Greenback and all the others make an appearance in the game.

With three distinctively different sections to the game, DMDT looks varied enough and although basic in its execution, the undoubted problems with the game cannot be attributed to the graphics.

Graphically the strongest section is probably the last one and the weakest is the platform section that makes up the second level.

Other than the inevitable dodgy colour scheme, the poorest element of the graphical side of the game is the break point between levels when the screen looks as if it has crashed? This, along with an overall amateurish presentation in the title screen and the like detracts greatly from the package.

Sound

Fans of the cartoon will be pleased to hear the introduction to the famous theme tune that plays on the menu screen and the beginning of each level. It?s clear, well written and plays quite well. The sound effects aren?t as good unfortunately but the iconic tune more than make up for them. Undoubtedly the best thing about this game.

Gameplay

This is where the whole enterprise falls down. Dangermouse has perhaps the shonkiest software back catalogue of any cartoon character and although not quite as bad as Count Duckula 2, DMDT suffers from the kind of poor excuse for gameplay that even a child would?ve been embarrassed to play for too long.

The first section in the aerocar offers the most fun and all you do is move up and down while your computer selects the right musical note to fire at the oncoming baddies? Oh dear. The jungle section involves trying to climb up a tree avoiding some monkeys that are intent on pushing you off. And the third surmounts to little more than some random button bashing that sometimes pays off and allows you the opportunity of claiming your prize? playing the whole game over again?

There is nothing in the way of gameplay as it doesn?t matter what you do it is nigh on impossible to fail.

Complete junk, Danger Mouse in Double Trouble is a direct port of a rubbish game and is little more than a cheap cash-in. Avoid at all costs.