[{"TitleName":"Freex","Publisher":"Software Supersavers Ltd","Author":"B.M.R. Kitchen, Eugene B. Smith, Roger Tissyman","YearOfRelease":"1984","ZxDbId":"0001869","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Spectrum Issue 11, Feb 1985","Price":"£0.95","ReleaseDate":"1985-01-17","Editor":"Roger Munford","TotalPages":100,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Munford\r\nArt Editor: Hazel Bennington\r\nDeputy Editor: Tina Boylan\r\nTechnical Editor: Peter Shaw\r\nArt Assistant: Steve Broadhurst\r\nEditorial Consultant: Andrew Pennell\r\nSoftware Consultant: Gavin Monk\r\nContributors: Terry Bulfib, Dr David Threlfall, Tony Samuels, Tim Hartnell, John Torofex, Chris Somerville, John Durst, Clive Gifford, Dave Nicholls, Roger Willis, Ross Holman, Henry Budgett, Sue Denham, Maurice David Wood, Patrick Donnelly, M Loftus\r\nGroup Advertising Manager: Jill Harris\r\nAdvertising: Dave Baskerville\r\nGroup Art Director: Perry Neville\r\nPublisher: Stephen England\r\n\r\nPublished by Sportscene Specialist Press Ltd, [redacted] Company registered in England. Telephone (all departments): [redacted]\r\nTypesetters: Carlinpoint [redacted]\r\nReproduction: Graphic Ideas, London\r\nPrinters: Chase Web Offset [redacted]\r\nDistribution: Seymour Press [redacted]\r\n\r\nAll material in Your Spectrum ©1985 Felden productions, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Spectrum is a monthly publication."},"MainText":"FREEX\r\nSoftware Supersavers\r\n£2.99\r\n\r\nRoss: Freez is an Invaders/Galaxians clone with some 60 different stages. The display's split into two parts with a status panel (showing the score, lives left, and position in the game) on the left, and the playing area on the right. You control a gun ship which sits at the bottom of the screen with controls to move it left, right, up or down and, of course, fire. The ship will only go about half-way up the screen, but this is good enough to escape from most tricky situations.\r\n\r\nThe aliens usually descend in groups of three or four and exhibit some very bizarre behaviour; some are easy to kill and some are not. After ten waves of attack, you move on to the next phase and get a credit life; here you face a whole new batch of aliens ... and this lot shoot back!\r\n\r\nOn loading, you can choose to see a demonstration game; what you're not told, however, is that the demo takes about 50 minutes in all!\r\n\r\nIt's good to see a company like Software Supersavers supporting not brilliant, but reasonable, pieces of software. Hopefully, it'll encourage the authors to produce better games.","ReviewerComments":["Not another Space invaders clone!! Still, it's a cheap and cheerful variation on a theme - a Scrooge special, maybe?\r\nDave Nicholls\r\n1.5/5 MISS","A throw-back to the happily forgotten days of computing coconut shies.\r\nRoger Willis\r\n0/5 MISS"],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"59","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Dave Nicholls","Score":"1.5","ScoreSuffix":"/5 MISS"},{"Name":"Ross Holman","Score":"2","ScoreSuffix":"/5 MISS"},{"Name":"Roger Willis","Score":"0","ScoreSuffix":"/5 MISS"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]