[{"TitleName":"3D Stock Cars II","Publisher":"Challenge Software","Author":"Alan P. Cresswell","YearOfRelease":"1992","ZxDbId":"0012129","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 74, Feb 1992","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1992-01-02","Editor":"Andy Hutchinson","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"BACK TO OUR ROOTS\r\n\r\nWe're not talking about the roots in the land, we're talking 'bout the roots in the man!\r\n\r\nEditor: Andy (Manchester) Hutchinson\r\nNew Art Editor: Andy (Bristol) Ounsted\r\nGames Editor: James (Hamelin) Leach\r\nStaff Writer: Linda (Hackney) Barker\r\nArt Assistant: Maryanne (Portsmouth) Booth\r\nAdvertising Manager: Cheryl (Tunbridge Wells) Beesley\r\nProduction Coordinator: Lisa (Bath) Read\r\nPublisher: Jane (Chelmsford) Richardson\r\nPublishing Assistant: Michele (Amersham) Harris\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg (New Forest) Ingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue (Guildford) Hartley\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair (London), Future (Somerton) Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: The Old Barn [redacted]\r\nDistribution: MMC [redacted]\r\n\r\nCover Illustration: Max (Wokingham) Ellis\r\nISSN 0269 6983\r\nABC Jan-June 1991 65,444\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair canters briskly into the paddock with a whinny and a neigh from the same stable as these fillies: Commodore Format (Bath), Amstrad Action (Somerton), Amiga Format (Bath), PCW Plus (Somerton), Sega Power (Bath), Amiga Power (Bath), Amiga Shopper (Bath), Classic CD (Bath), Needlecraft (Bath), Mountain Biking UK (Faversham), PC Format (Bath), Public Domain (Bath) and ST Format (Bath).\r\n\r\nBut what we really want to know is... who invented liquid soap, and why?"},"MainText":"Challenge Software\r\n£3.99 cass\r\nReviewer: Andy Hutchinson\r\n\r\nWhat a particularly stupid sport stock car racing is. I mean, you spend about six months getting a car ready to be raced and then five minutes smashing it into other cars, walls, bystanders and areas of outstanding natural beauty. In fact, I think that it should be banned forthwith. If not sooner!\r\n\r\nAnyway, who's played the SuperSprint game on the covertape? Right, well you lot should have a pretty good idea what this budgie is all about. You see, 3D Stock Cars 2 is about racing around a series of circuits against three other cars. The only major differences between this game and SS are: a) you have to qualify before each race, b) the cars look like egg-boxes, c) you can design your own 'championship' and d) this game's crap.\r\n\r\nThe blurb on the tape inlay suggests that you can create your own championship. What this entails is choosing the order of the tracks and the number of laps you complete in each race. Not exactly gripping stuff! Nope I'm sorry 3D Stokc Cars 2 is awful; the control method's dodgy, the cars look more like space invaders, the game's extremely evocative of SS and it gets terribly boring after ten minutes. Hurumph!","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"I'm off down the shops, does anyone want anything?","Page":"16","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Andy Hutchinson","Score":"30","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Life Expectancy","Score":"29%","Text":""},{"Header":"Instant Appeal","Score":"10%","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"27%","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictiveness","Score":"30%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"30%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 120, Feb 1992","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1992-01-18","Editor":"Garth Sumpter","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Commander Coloninabadway\r\nDesign: Captain Ooneneeky Cheeky\r\nSoftware Editor: Star Commander Angus Headrush\r\nAdditional Design: Earthling Jane Davies\r\nSU Crew: Garth 'Space Cowboy' Sumpter, John 'B'tardy' Cook, Alan Dykes, Pete 'Astro' Gerrard, Phillip 'Black Hole' Fisch\r\nAd Manager: Jerry 'Astonomical' Hall\r\nAd Production: Jo 'Goodbye Girl' Gleissner\r\nMarketing Man.: Mark 'Hard to..' Swallow\r\nMarketing Women: Sarah Ewing, Sarah Hillard\r\nPublisher: Graham Taylor\r\nManaging Director: Terry Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1992 EMAP IMAGES\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nColour by Proprint\r\nPrinted by Kingfisher Web\r\n\r\nNo part of this magazine may be reproduced without the consent of the publishers. So there. Incidentally, I hope you all got what you wanted for Christmas. I, Fnot the Irreverent, have got what I wanted - I'm rid of the pesky SU Crew and have got my hands on their magazine - in a short while now, my plans for Earth domination will be complete - and the SU Crew are stuck are the other side of the galaxy. No-one can save the Earth now!"},"MainText":"Label: E&J\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £3.99 Tape\r\nReviewer: Garth Sumpter\r\n\r\nFaced with the prospect of selling the Garthmobile the other day, it was through misty, moistened eyes that I peered at 3D Stock Cars II.\r\n\r\nKnown as a conscientious driver, especially by my local police force and meals on wheels lady, the idea of smashing up a few cars without loosing my no claims bonus or being as stupid as the Meadowell Estate boys, is quite appealing.\r\n\r\nThe game itself has a very dated format: viewed from above, the game is most definitely not 3D and sound consists purely of a monotone engine notes for each of the four racing cars. However, where Stock Cars II really scores is in the options menu. Here you can choose which combination of the four tracks you want to race over and even the skill levels of the computer cars that you must race against.\r\n\r\nFor each track that you have chosen for your Grand Prix, you must first race around the track to get your grid position. Then it's onto the race which, once again, can be as many laps as you want as you push your pedal to the metal, (actually you press the fire button!) and go for it!","ReviewerComments":["It's a 'formula' track car racer, though the alleged 3D is false, but makes up by having over 30 different tracks and a four player option.\r\nAlan Dykes"],"OverallSummary":"Nostalgic, bird's eye view racer nicely spruced up by the use of extensive options. Not the best budget racer by far, but the four player option and the degree of choice of tracks should persuade the racers out there.","Page":"37","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Garth Sumpter","Score":"74","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Alan Dykes","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Choice of tracks is excellent. It's a pity I couldn't find one that I could win on though!"},{"Text":"Four stock cars racing. But not the slightest bit of 3D in sight."},{"Text":"Plenty of parking space here. Cars line up, with pole position going to the fastest practice lap."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"62%","Text":""},{"Header":"Sound","Score":"54%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"83%","Text":""},{"Header":"Lastability","Score":"74%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"74%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]