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| | Barbarian II | | Genre | Action Adventure | Developer | Palace Software | Publisher | Palace Software | Released | 1989 | Rating
| Graphics: | 8.0 | Sound: | 9.0 | Gameplay: | 9.0 | Overall: | 9.0 |
| Reviewed by | | Barbarian II: The Dungeon Of Drax is the successor of the famous Barbarian fighting game released in 1987 by Palace Software. Dungeon of Drax is an extension of its predecessor, although the gameplay is different, and was released in 1989 for the 16bit Amiga, Atari ST, PC (MS-DOS) and the 8bit BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, Spectrum ZX and Acorn Electron. |
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STORY / GAMEPLAY The game is a flip-screen action adventure game with hack and slash elements. You choose between a male Barbarian (featured on the first game) who uses a Battle-Axe or a female character who wields a Long Sword. You travel through four different places to find Drax and finish his plans once and for all. On each of the first three levels you must fight six different types of monsters who are willing to kill you faster than you think! Those monsters can be from little angry chickens to heavily powered giants using their...bat! During your quest you can also gain more lives (initially 5) by collecting any skulls you may find. A truly interesting arcade adventure game (rather than a fighting game as its predecessor) which will offer you plenty of gameplay time! You start from a volcanic land and you go through a cave complex, a dungeon and finally three levels in which you encounter 2 monsters guarding Drax, ending up in a final fight with him. GRAPHICS / SOUND The Commodore 64/128 version is an almost excellent game with great graphics, scrolling and gameplay. The visuals are colorful and the characters' animations are really good. I liked a bit more the colors on the CPC though, but both versions look and play equally great! Notice also the BBC Micro version, which offers most of the original details but with really nice color picks (in contrast to the MSX and ZX versions)! The C64 version also features a few awesome sound effects. | |
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| Commodore 64/128/Plus4CPU: C64 MOS Technology 6510 1.02MHz (NTSC version), 0.985MHz (PAL version) / C128-D MOS 8502 2MHz, Zilog Z80A 4MHz MEMORY: 64 KB or 128 KB RAM Expandable to 320-640 KB / 20KB ROM GRAPHICS: VIC II 16 colors, 320x200 (2 unique colors in each 8x8 pixel block), 160x200 (3 unique colors + 1 common color in each 4x8 block), 8 hardware sprites, Smooth scrolling SOUND: MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID, 3-channel synthesizer with programmable ADSR envelope, 8 octaves
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| VIC20: 16-colors YPbPr palette (16 on screen) | | C64/128: 16-colors YPbPr palette (16 on screen) | | C-16,Plus/4: 121-colors YPbPr palette (16 on screen) | |
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