[{"TitleName":"4 Most Action","Publisher":"Alternative Software Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1991","ZxDbId":"0011450","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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The views expressed in CRASH are not necessarily those of the publishers.\r\n\r\nCopyright CRASH Ltd 1991 A Newsfield Publication. ISSN 0954-8661. Cover design and illustration by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"4Most Packs\r\nAlternative Software\r\n£2.99\r\n\r\nFor those with a limited budget, there are more compilations on a smaller scale with Alternative Software's 4 Most packs. Each pack costs only £2.99 and has four action-packed games on it. Hire we've got 4 Most Action and 4 Most Sport.\r\n\r\nThe Action pack includes Strike Force Cobra, Control Zone, Gun Boat and Dead Or Alive. Each game doesn't have the same theme like most compilations, either. You get great value for money with a 3D game, wild west shooter, war ships and space shoot-'em-up.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"31","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Nick Roberts","Score":"65","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"65%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 63, Mar 1991","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1991-02-07","Editor":"Andy Ide","TotalPages":92,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Andy Ide\r\nArt Editor: Sal Meddings\r\nGames Editor: James Leach\r\nStaff Writer: Linda Barker\r\nDesign Assistant: Andy Ounsted\r\nContributors: Marcus Berkmann, Jonathan Davies, Cathy Fryett, Mike Gerrard, Jon North, Rich Pelley, John Pillar, David Wilson\r\nAdvertising Manager: Simon Moss\r\nPublisher: Jane Richardson\r\nPublishing Assistant: Michele Harris\r\nCirculation Director: Sue Hartley\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg Ingham\r\nManaging Director: Chris Anderson\r\nProduction Manager: Ian Seager\r\nProduction Coordinator: Melissa Parkinson\r\nSubscriptions: Computer Posting [redacted]\r\nMail Order: The Old Barn [redacted]\r\nPrinters: Riverside Press [redacted]\r\nDistributors: MMC [redacted]\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair is published by Future Publishing Ltd [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Future Publishing 1991. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission."},"MainText":"4-MOST ACTION\r\nAlternative\r\n£2.99\r\nReviewer: Jon Pillar\r\n\r\nFour (four! Four!) games for £2.99! Blimey, what is going on? Lets take a quick look at each of them, shall we?\r\n\r\nCOMBAT ZONE\r\n\r\nA vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up cunningly disguised as the other 47 billion you've got. Complete with hidden-bullet syndrome but with a new twist - blast at least 20 baddies each wave or else re-do the level again. What an idea! Novel, frustrating and crap. Rather like the game as a whole (except for the novel bit).\r\n\r\nDEAD OR ALIVE\r\n\r\nBandits run rife in Dodge City (which seems to consist of three buildings and a cave) so, er, shoot them. Dinky graphics means lots of room to manoeuvre. Highlights are pinching ammo from dead baddies and tricking the inept villains into shooting each other. Very simple and a lot of fun.\r\n\r\nGUN BOAT\r\n\r\nUse some really nasty Asteroids-type rotation controls to pilot a heavily-armed gunboat along enemy waterways. Get shot at by everything from gun emplacements to aircraft carriers, nab fuel and blow up the main base. Chubby graphics, trickier than Paul Daniels, but a good laff.\r\n\r\nSTRIKE FORCE COBRA\r\n\r\nA past master (\"a YS Megagame!\" trumpets the inlay) where you control a crack commando squad attempting to break into the HQ of a wannnabe Bond villain (\"nuclear blackmailer\", you know the type). You know it's big because there's a Save Game option. Kick down doors, dive through windows, outwit electronic defences and accidentally shoot each other, all in gloriously coloured isometric 3D. Two quibbles - if the team you've selected turns out to be useless you can't choose again, and it's a mite unfair the way you lose huge chunks of energy just by bumping into furniture. Other than that - a classic. Best played while wearing a balaclava.\r\n\r\nSo, worth it just for Strike Force - with 3 freebies bunged on as well - it's a reet good barg (as they say).","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"79","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jon Pillar","Score":"87","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"A perfect day for messing around in boats. (Make sure you bring your guns!)"},{"Text":"Oh dear. This looks serious. Time to go a-tootin' and a-shootin'!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"87%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]