Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Serrated Scalpel. SCI: Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. TsAGE: Ringworld - Revenge of the Patriarch. GOB: Once Upon A Time: Little Red Riding Hood. To comment on a column or suggest games for review, send letters to The Times, 20000 Prairie St., Chatsworth, Calif. Staff writer Aaron Curtiss reviews video games regularly. It’s fun for a while and visually quite a treat, but I quickly went back to playing the old version. Players actually feel as if they are in one of the missile bases. This time around, the twist is that the action takes place on more than just two dimensions. I love Missile Command, and this game should have been a slam dunk, but the action is slow and repetitive. With Missile Command 3-D, Atari digs into its glory days to exhume the classic game of nuclear annihilation. Off-Target: With rumors flying about Atari exiting the video game business, the beleaguered company has shown once again what it does best-put out games that are almost, but not quite, there. Although technically beautiful and a blast to play, Loaded lowers the bar yet again. I like a good video gunfight as much as the next guy, but sometimes it goes too far. Sure, some folks might dig it, but some people also want to watch executions on TV. Bad guys don’t just fall over and die, they splatter across the room and leave piles of goo as they cross ignobly into the next world. The truly disturbing element of the game, though, is the intensely graphic way it depicts death. Even on the “players are fairies” level, which is what I played, Loaded was out of control. The game engine runs smoothly, creating stunning and beautiful scenes. Imagine Doom viewed from above, and you get a pretty good picture of the environment. Play itself is extremely fast and unrelenting. An entirely new set of gags and one-liners was written for the game so true aficionados of the doltish duo may want to pick it up just to round out their repertoire. The animation is television-quality and voices are supplied by B & B creator Mike Judge and other actors featured in the series. Unlike the 16-bit versions of Beavis and Butthead, which sucked, this incarnation is cool in all respects. Virtual Stupidity is at least nominally a game, but the true fun here is found by just sitting back and listening. BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD VIRTUAL STUPIDITY ABANDONWARE WINDOWS
Parents reading this may wonder what I or their kids see in the two losers, but I have to admit I think they’re hilarious.Īnd Beavis and Butthead’s Virtual Stupidity for Windows 95 delivers the same kinds of belly laughs as the MTV series.
Maybe that’s why I like Viacom New Media’s latest CD-ROM, featuring Beavis and Butthead, so much. My opinion of the film version of “Sense and Sensibility” was that it could have used a few roundhouse kicks to liven things up. No one has ever accused me of being highbrow.
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