Novagen
64K/48K Disk £9.95
64K/48K
Cassette £5.95
1
Player
1 Joystick/Keyboard
The initial release of MERCENARY brought with it the
promise of an immediate follow-up. Well, Novagen have been true to
their word and MERCENARY-THE 2ND CITY has arrived. It takes the form
of a data-set and can only be played by the owners of the original
MERCENARY package.
You must first boot the main program as normal and then load THE 2ND
CITY in much the same way as you would a 'Saved Game'. You will
gather from this that THE 2ND CITY is useless on it's own and
something to watch, the disk and cassette versions are not
compatible with one another. The first thing you will notice once
loaded is that the planet has changed colour from green to red with
a harsh crimson skyline to match. At first it's fairly difficult to
find anything else different about this game as everything jogs
along in exactly the same way as it did in MERCENARY I - same
locations, same airstrip, same job offer, same buildings, same ship,
same elevator, same hangar, same briefing-room, same message from
the Palyars - and then, at long last, things start to get
interesting! Pretty soon you will discover that the underground
complex is not the same underground complex of old. This one's full
of new and exciting surprises and is a whole lot tougher than it's
counterpart in MERCENARY I. I'd like to be able to elaborate on that
but I keep colliding with a mysterious alien which sends me
spinning, as if through a timewarp, out into space and back to the
start of the game again, minus a ship! Yes, something tells me that
escape from THE 2ND CITY won't be quite so easy as escape from Targ
(who says escape from Targ was easy? Hands up all those who managed
it without sending for the Help Sheet??).
MERCENARY
addicts will love this one, but it's more or less an extension of
the original and not a new game in itself. Those expecting something
completely different could be disappointed.
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