[{"TitleName":"iD","Publisher":"Nu Wave Software","Author":"Colin Jones, Mel Croucher, Mark A. Bromley","YearOfRelease":"1986","ZxDbId":"0002447","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 4, Apr 1986","Price":"£0.95","ReleaseDate":"1986-03-13","Editor":"Kevin Cox","TotalPages":98,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Kevin Cox\r\nArt Editor: Martin Dixon\r\nDeputy Editor: Teresa Maughan\r\nProduction Editor: Sara Biggs\r\nDesigner: Caroline Clayton\r\nTechnical Consultant: Peter Shaw\r\nEditorial Consultant: Andrew Pennell\r\nSoftware Consultant: Gavin Monk\r\nContributors: Stephen Adams, Luke C, Steve Colwill, Steve Cooke, Iolo Davidson, Tim Hartnell, Ian Hoare, Gwyn Hughes, Steve Malone, Max Phillips, Rick Robson, Rachael Smith, Phil South, Chris Wood\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Mark Salmon\r\nAdvertisement Executive: Neil Dyson\r\nProduction Manager: Sonia Hunt\r\nGroup Advertisement Manager: Chris Talbot\r\nManaging Editor: Roger Munford\r\nPublisher: Stephen England\r\n\r\nPublished by Sportscene Specialist Press Ltd, [redacted] Company registered in England.\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 Sinclair ©1986 Felden Productions, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Sinclair is a monthly publication."},"MainText":"CRL\n£7.95\nReviewer: Rick Robson\n\nFans of The Jung Ones should love this. Or will they? Who cares? as ID himself (but is he a \"he\"?) would say - and frequently does, it you're as good at this game as me! This is one for those people who like to engage in long surreal correspondence with the gas board as to why they plumbed your cooker into the bathroom. Hours of mirthless endeavour will come to no fruitful end - and you'll still end up making omelettes in your shower cap.\n\nIn its own immortal words the game plan is to piece together ID's shattered memory to discover \"who I am, who I was, who will I be\". The poor thing is an intelligence left on earth before time began and needs your help to remember his and our history. To do this you can use a line of text to ask pertinent questions. Warning: ID's idea of pertinent won't be yours.\n\nThe screen will go different colours according to ID's response - black for depressed, red for angry - and the amount of trust you win is shown as a percentage. Abuse a nonsensical questions lose trust. ID will want to know those closest to you for the weirdest or fiercest) and will \"think\" about your answers and bring them up at the most unexpected times. It's sophisticated 20 questions, though \"give us a clue\" might be your plea.\n\nThe blurb hints that ID's persona is more sinister than it first seems - and some pains (in the neck, most of them) are taken to endow him with human qualities. He gets scared, crazy confused - even dribbly and scrungy. And he often gets annoyed, nay incensed, and demands that you speak to him. Aeons of amnesia have done nothing for his manners. ID even dreams and babbles with arcane clues secreted therein. But forget the pseudo-psychology - it's nearer Fraud than Freud. It provides a veneer of sophistication and a lot of red herrings. ID is a straightforward lateral thinking game. And like so many it ultimately fails because it takes itself too seriously. It lacks wit, humour and fundamentally, charm. Charm? Yup. Spock is logical and lovable. ID is just a smartass!","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"67","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Rick Robson","Score":"6","ScoreSuffix":"/10"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"4/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"7/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Value For Money","Score":"5/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictiveness","Score":"7/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"6/10","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"ZX Computing Issue 24, Apr 1986","Price":"£1.5","ReleaseDate":"1986-03-20","Editor":"Bryan Ralph","TotalPages":100,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Bryan Ralph\r\nAssistant Editor: Cliff Joseph\r\nConsultant Editor: Ray Elder\r\nAdvertising Managers: Mike Segrue and John McGarry\r\nDesign: Argus Design\r\nA.S.P. Advertising and Editorial [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Argus Specialist Publications Ltd 1986"},"MainText":"Nu Wave\r\n£8.95\r\n\r\nIf you've always believed that there was someone living inside your computer this game will confirm all your hopes or fears.\r\n\r\niD, the new inhabitant has crept inside your Spectrum casing and taken up residence. He has a bad case of split personality, in fact he has seven of them which you must persuade him to reveal.\r\n\r\nWinning iD'S trust is a major battle and his impatience lurks just under the surface if you fail to keep his attention he will veer off into pages of rambling text. If you run out of questions to ask iD he will come back at you with some of his own - many of them quite personal but as we are told that iD has been around since the beginning of time he's probably heard all the answers.\r\n\r\nYour answers to iDs questions are stored and thrown back into the dialogue in surprising ways. A neat touch.\r\n\r\niD's moods are very changeable but he likes compliments and these are often rewarded by iD'S revelation that he is feeling scrungy or dribbly (at least I think that means he's pleased).\r\n\r\nIn order to get anywhere near one of iD's identities you have to build up the trust rating to near 70 per cent which can be a long process if iD's having a bad day. Any clues you may get may be red herrings. At different points in one game I was convinced he was Hitler then Einstein before plumping wrongly for Mussolini.\r\n\r\nThis game by Mel Croucher will either seem like a fascinating mystery or a complete waste of time. Either way be warned - iD knows how to swear back.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"21","Denied":false,"Award":"Globert","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]