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It's not all hard driving work in Super Off there are also some sights to be seen!
Super Off Road Leland
hree people can participate in Leland's Super Off Road... so it's fun for • all the family. After the preliminaries have been sorted out (giving your name, present
day. birth date) a visit to Ironman's Speedshop kits you out with a range of goodies like nitro (for extra speed), tyres, shock absorbers, rapid acceleration and a higher top speed.
All vary in price, so some can only be collected later on. As the four pick-up trucks (always a computer opponent) prepare for action, you must expect a track filled with all sorts of dangers: water-filled pits, huge mounds of earth, ramps and many tortuous bends. Dangerous driving combined with a few nitro boosts soon
canvas if your power is low). Win four bouts and you will be allowed to train and build up
AND A COUPLE OF Q U I C K I E S . . . The action seems to have gone missing in Konami's Missing in Action, whichis little more than a very average Green Beret clone. Shove in the ten pees and control a mercenary in green combat fatigues at an enemy airbase. slaughtering with a commando knife. Apart from the soldiers, other obstacles such as mines,
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your strength all over again. The Final Round is nothing out of the ordinary, with some attractive graphics, and didn't thrill me too much.
guard dogs and airplane propellers really ought to be avoided. And so ought the game.
gets you in the lead (although a quick jab in a friend's ribs also has the same effect). Moneybags as well as nitro can be found on the track, and these top up your flagging reserves. At the end of the day the race will be won by sheer lunatic driving. Super Of1 Road is one of the best multiplayer games I've seen in a while, keep an eye out for it
TUrbo Out Run
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The Final Round
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ven here, in the deepest recesses of Shropshire, the sequel has arrived. Turbo Out Run is a 16stage Trans-USA race passing through New York. Chicago and Miami, before finishing in Los Angeles. The old Testarossa has been bought by Arthur Daley so jump into your new. gleaming Ferrari F40. Thankfully. Tel didn't get his peepers on your blonde, so grab ahold of her and prepare
We c o v e r e d t h e new Williams m a c h i n e Narc in the ATEI r e p o r t , but m i s s e d t h e ic. Here it is: ust c h e c k o u t he a d m i r a b l y atmospheric New York s u b way station scene... a n d remember kids j u s t say n o ' to drugs.
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to race. As with Atari's Hard Drivin' both a manual and automatic gearbox mode are offered, novice drivers are advised to go for an autoshift. There's also the Turbo Booster of the title, but it's very prone to overheating. The scenery's different and the car is more of a handful, but basically there's not that much of an improvement over the original.