[{"TitleName":"Quattro Firepower","Publisher":"Code Masters Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1991","ZxDbId":"0011338","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 89, Jun 1991","Price":"£2.99","ReleaseDate":"1991-05-23","Editor":"Richard Eddy","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nEditor: Richard Eddy\r\nSub Editor: Warren Lapworth\r\nStaff Writers: Mark Caswell, Nick Roberts, Lloyd Mangram\r\nArt Editor: Mark Kendrick\r\nPhotography: Michael Parkinson\r\nProduction and Circulation Director: Jonathan Rignall\r\nSystems Operator: Paul (Charlie) Chubb\r\nReprographics: Matthew Uffindell (Supervisor), Robert Millichamp, Robb Hamilton, Tim Morris, Jenny Reddard\r\nGroup Advertisement Manager: Judith Bamford\r\nAdvertisement Sales Executive: Christine Moore\r\nAdvertisement Production: Jackie Morris (Supervisor), Joanne Lewis\r\nMail Order: Carol Kinsey\r\nSubscriptions: Caroline Edwards [redacted]\r\n\r\nTypesetting Apple Macintosh Computers using Quark Express and Bitstream Fonts.\r\n\r\nSystems Manager: Ian Chubb\r\n\r\nColour origination Scan Studios [redacted]. 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Cover design and illustration by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Quattro Firepower has 3D Star Fighter a space blaster, MiG 29, a flying-into-the-screen blaster, Operation Gunship a great, if a little tricky, fly and bomb affair, and the Terra Cognita scrolly shoot-'em-up.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"35","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Nick Roberts","Score":"72","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"72%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 68, Aug 1991","Price":"£1.95","ReleaseDate":"1991-07-08","Editor":"Andy Ide","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Andy Ide\r\nMore Pregnant Art Editor: Sal Meddings\r\nNew Art Editor: Andy Ounsted\r\nGames Editor: James Leach\r\nStaff Writer: Linda Barker\r\nAdvertising Manager: Simon Moss\r\nDeputy Advertising Manager: Philip Davenport\r\nProduction Coordinator: Melissa Parkinson\r\nPublisher: Jane Richardson\r\nPromotions Manager: Michele Harris\r\nPublishing Assistant: Tamara Ward\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg Ingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue Hartley\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair, Future Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: Computer Posting [redacted]\r\nDistribution: MMC [redacted]\r\n\r\nCover Illustration: Paul Kidby\r\nISSN 0269 6983\r\nABC July-Dec 1990 60,368\r\n\r\nYS comes to you from the same thrusting company that publishes Commodore Format, ST Format, New Computer Express, Amstrad Action, Classic CD, PC Plus, 8000 Plus, Sega Power, Amiga Format/Power/Shopper, PC Answers & Needlecraft."},"MainText":"QUATTRO FIREPOWER\r\nCodeMasters\r\n£2.99\r\nReviewer: Jon Pillar\r\n\r\nQuattro Firepower, eh? Sounds rather loud and action-packed, doesn't it? Or beepy and blurry, depending on how high your expectations of CodeMasters games are. Let's find out...\r\n\r\nOPERATION GUNSHIP\r\n\r\nJump into your helicopter and snatch back eight POW chums in this mono, overhead-scrolling shoot-'em-up. Hardly the most thrill-packed scenario, I'm sure you'll agree, but Op Gunship's got a few surprises up its sleeve, not the least of which is its real arcade-game style.\r\n\r\nThe circular-scrolling islands you fly over always have something extra and unexpected round the corner, and the enemy are so ridiculously prevalent that if you want to get out safely it's best to wreck most of the landscape. The graphics get a bit hard on the eyes after a while, but it's still a terribly addictive game that's been well-designed in all departments. In fact, it's so sharp you could give it a suit and call it Mister Sharpy. Ouch.\r\n\r\nTERRA COGNITA\r\n\r\nAn inoffensive shoot-'em-up in which you're travelling around at ground level and bumping into lots of things. The playing area's a huge vertically-scrolling maze affair, with a liberal sprinkling of bonus tiles. Unfortunately one set of tiles 'time shifts' you all the way back to the start, which might have been a good idea when they thought it up, but ends up being just plain crap. Still, once you get into it, TCog is quite addictive. Basically, you wonder what's going to happen next. And the graphics are less cluttered than they they usually are. I like it!\r\n\r\nMIG 29 FIGHTER\r\n\r\nMig 29 is basically an Afterburner clone which tries to go one further than its 'inspiration'. This means that you get limited ammo and add-on weapons as well as ground and air opponents. Alas, it doesn't succeed. Its more fun to watch someone else zooming about than having a go yourself. Dodge! Fire! Dodge again! Then go and do something more interesting instead.\r\n\r\n3D STARFIGHTER\r\n\r\nStarfighter's got lots of, erm, starfighting bits, with you blasting down a corridor in a similar style to, erm, Star Wars, actually. Apart from the vaguely strategic element of having to give different ships different cargoes (or something), and also the inclusion of a simultaneous two-player option, it all gets very tedious. A miss methinks.\r\n\r\nSo - worth buying for Op Gunship and Terra Cognita. The other two are duds, but for such a small payout you're hardly going to be breaking the bank, are you?","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"59","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jon Pillar","Score":"85","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"This is Terra Cognita and I'm the little chap at the bottom of the screen with no points. Aah!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"85%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 111, May 1991","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1991-04-18","Editor":"Garth Sumpter","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Garth 'Shaggy' Sumpter\r\nDesign Editor: Andrea 'Daphne' Walker\r\nDesign: Evette 'Wilma' Nichols\r\nStaff Writers: Steve 'Scooby' Keen\r\nSU Crew: Chris 'Hateful' Jenkins, Tony 'Scappy' Naqvi, John Cook, Pete Gerrard, Phillip 'Mein Gott' Fisch\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Jim 'Trivia' Owens\r\nAd Production: Jo 'Titters' Gleissner\r\nMarketing Dept: Sarah 'Blondie' Ewing, Sarah 'Helpful' Hillard\r\nPublisher: Graham 'Slasher' Taylor\r\nManaging Director: Terry 'Huggy' Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1991 EMAP IMAGES\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nDISTRIBUTION: BBC FRONTLINE\r\nSU SUBSCRIPTIONS: [redacted]\r\n\r\nTypesetting by Garthtype (no wonder it's so crap!). Colour work by Proprint, B&W filming by PRS.\r\n\r\nThis magazine must be in no way lent to anybody, not even yer best mate (although yer wouldn't want anybody else to 'ave it cause it's so fab an' groovy!) Don't by any means let the rabbit have a nibble at this mega mag or we'll get Glenys from upstairs to come round yer house and moan at you till you start crying (and believe me, she's good at it!)' So be warned! Take care of your sacred issues of S U., or else! This nice message comes by ORDER of da management (tremble, quake, tremble)."},"MainText":"Label: Codemasters\r\nPrice: £2.99\r\nReviewer: Chris Jenkins\r\n\r\nAnother decent four-title compilation from the Codies, Quattro Firepower doesn't feature any classics, but has enough action to keep you occupied for some time.\r\n\r\nTerra Cognita is the least wonderful of the titles; it looks like a decent vertically-scrolling alien shoot-'em-up, but has jerky movements and targets which are barely distinguishable against the mono background.\r\n\r\nMig 29 is an Afterburner-style aerial blast with decent animation, good use of colour and raving speed. Again, it's a bit too frantic to require more than a constant pressure on the fire button, but it's good fun.\r\n\r\nThe Oliver Twins' Operation Gunship reminds me of an old Broderbrund title, where you pilot a helicopter seen from above, destroying a series of enemy emplacement on a chain of islands. Plenty of detail makes this a good blast.\r\n\r\nLastly, 3D Starfighter, another Oliver effort, is a sort of Star Trek variant, featuring a 3-D flight through space followed by a difficult docking manoeuvre with your mothership as you refuel for the next fight against the evil Thargons.\r\n\r\nNot a bad selection, then, and at the price, not to be missed.","ReviewerComments":["It's just got to be the greatest value for money since the SU Ten Pack Tape. The Codies only release brilliant software every now and then, but Quattro Firepower shows the level of value they're prepared to give. Maybe that's why they're the most successful budget Spectrum label.\r\nGarth Sumpter"],"OverallSummary":"What are you waiting for? Get this saucy package NOW and be a real all-American cookin' full-tilt boogie for freedom and justice.","Page":"38","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Chris Jenkins","Score":"75","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Garth Sumpter","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Do you think F means that they're friendly."},{"Text":"Have you got this strange feeling that they don't like us very much!!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"75%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]