Dan Dare was always a bit of a hero of mine growing up. A character from Eagle comics, Dan was a sort of Flash Gordon, James Bond character in space. A sort of Buck Rogers hero maybe. Although futuristic, the style was that of British films from the fifties. His arch enemy was a green evil alien genius called The Mekon. He was always coming up with clever devilish plans to enslave the Earth and only Dare could possibly save us. I absolutely loved it.
Although I wasn't a great fan of the second game in the trilogy, the games were great fun as you battled the Mekon and his evil Treen hordes. Their style was a mixture of Platform gaming and Shooting. Dan Dare III : The Escape was my favourite of the trilogy. Fun to play, colourful and a good ending to the series.
Then Virgin decided to release the third game on the Commodore Amiga... 8 bit to 16 bit. The Amiga was a much more powerful computer than the Spectrum so the game should have been awesome right? Well... below is my gameplay review. See what you think.
I would definitely choose the Spectrum version first over the Amiga one. The Amiga version appeared to lose a lot of the fun. It works like that sometimes. A game on an earlier system just seems to play better.
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Have a great day folks!
Nick :o)
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