Review: Rick Dangerous
Back in 1989 while Indiana Jones was searching for the Holy Grail, Rick Dangerous was in the Amazon on adventures of his own. Heavily inspired by Indy’s exploits, Rick Dangerous dresses in a similar fashion, and is not afraid to get into many death defying scrapes in his search for treasure. Rick begins in the Amazon and encounters the Goolu tribe, he then heads for Egypt, then Schwarzendumpf castle to rescue Allied soldiers from the Nazis, and finally he rounds off his adventures by breaking into a Nazi missile base and preventing an attack on London.
This simple platformer sees Rick having to solve numerous puzzles to progress, climb ladders to reach higher points and even crawl through tunnels. You are armed with both a pistol and dynamite. You have six bullets and six sticks of dynamite at the outset but don’t worry because you can replenish your stock, though it will make you resourceful to prevent running out of supplies. Each level has a series of traps to catch you out such as unpleasant falls into spike filled pits and statues firing darts at you. A plethora enemies can be found on each level as well. If they make contact with you Rick will die by screaming and hurling himself off the platform and off the screen entirely. This amusing death knell is also the fodder of your enemies whether you take them out with bullets, dynamite or trick them into succumbing to the nasty traps. It never fails to amuse.
Rick Dangerous is heavily indebted to Indiana Jones with Rick doing nothing to try and disguise the fact he wants to look like Indy. There are four levels in the game which will initially take some time to work through as you spring traps and time jumps but if you can survive this tiptoeing around the environment then the game does become easier. That is the big problem with Rick Dangerous though. It’s not for gamers lacking in patience who are easily frustrated.
Verdict: 3/5
About the Author:
I was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England and have always been a bookworm and enjoyed creative writing at school.
In 1999 I created the Elencheran Chronicles and have been writing ever since. My first novel, Fezariu’s Epiphany, was published in May 2011. When not writing I’m a lover of films, games, books and blogging.
I now live in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, with my wife, Donna, and our six cats – Kain, Razz, Buggles, Charlie, Bilbo and Frodo.
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