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Filename: R/+XLCR
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File size: 184D bytes
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Exec address: 4C582B2E
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File contents
                         Product:    X*L*C*R
                      Supplier:   Michael Grant
            Available on Tape, 3.5"/5.25" Disk (ADFS, DFS)
                  Reviewed by (the) Dave in EUG #52

"THEY" are not making commercial software for the BBC series any more
but, as web sites and articles on unreleased projects' show, the 
machines' lives ended quite suddenly and left a fair few bits and bobs
in production, too good for the shelf, that just didn't make it in time.
   As X*L*C*R is a game that was originally destined for inclusion on
Superior's nineteenth PLAY IT AGAIN SAM compilation (and DID actually
appear on the one new BBC disk released by ProAction), it had gained the
blessing of the leading software house of the day and, although it was 
ultimately not to see production with them, this gives you some idea 
that it was never going to contentedly camouflage itself in the 
frequently drab colours of Public Domain.
   As with some of the classic games of yesteryear, X*L*C*R is based 
around a very simple concept. You are Yu, a square spaceship viewed from
the birds eye elevation, in the centre of an area of black space. 
Running through the square are numerous tunnels in L-shapes (although 
there are Ls flipped horizontally, vertically or both) and the object of
the game is to position the square so that small beads, flying across 
the space either horizontally or vertically enter the square via them, 
are flipped through 90 degrees, disarmed and then exit it.
   As the beads and openings are only the size of a Mode 1 full stop and
everything is moving rather speedily, this is pretty challenging. Yet
this is by far not the end of the story. After the bead has passed 
through the square, it changes colour and continues to bounce from top
to bottom (or left to right) until it either collides with another bead
or you get one of the SHADED areas of the space-square in its path and
safely destroy it. These areas again are only the size of the bead so 
get ready for some real pixel-perfect manoeuvering.
   X*L*C*R is an arcade game for the hardened player and is very unfor-
giving with its arrest of your craft's energy level. You begin dead
centre of the playing area and before long, one or two beads will begin
to travel from one side to another, always either horizontally or verti-
cally. If you miss getting one of them into a tunnel, you lose energy as
it reaches the other side of the screen. If the bead crashes into the 
side of Yu, you lose energy. If, as the bead is travelling through the
square, you press a movement key, the bead blows up and, yes, you lose
energy.
   The bites off the energy meter for all three of these faults are
equally hefty. You can gain a bit of this back if any bead, whether 
disarmed by passing through the Yu or not, collides with another: where-
upon the spot where they hit turns into a small energy x. But to move 
over it means the risk of not catching the next bead and, for the small
amount of energy it contains, the risk of going for it is only really
justified when the energy is already at crisis level!
   To survive the level, you must accumulate a certain score. On level
one, this is 100 points, on two 200, on three 300, etc. The winning
strategy for doing this, based on X*L*C*R's tough rules, requires that
you simply do NOT miss many beads. On the first level, this is usually
simple enough (although you can get off to some unbelievably bad starts
here too IF you're not concentrating) but from the next one onwards, the
beads begin to come at you in twos, and then threes, then fours, 
fives ... suddenly you realise why X*L*C*R is sub-titled "Squiggly Snake
II"! If you get more than one string of four or five beads smashing into
the walls of the playing area, or anything else besides their friends,   
"You are dead" is printed across the screen and, um, you are dead.
   As a piece of PD software, X*L*C*R is one of the most superb you 
could hope to find and is highly recommended for those foolhardy enough
to entrust their attention and frustration toward it. On numerous 
occasions though, it does spoil for a fight. This is undoubtedly by
by design and often occurs when trying to position the Yu's disarming
tunnel in front of moving beads: Doing so towards the edge of the play-
ing area only finds the disarmed ones bouncing in such a formation that
it's impossible to get the destruction chamber in their path. Either 
that or these disarmed beads bounce and crash into the Yu before there's
time to get it out of the way. Naturally, all the while, numerous others
are doing their utmost to plot another course; one unhindered by your
efforts!
   As noted, the graphics are fairly simple but they are slick and work 
well. As this addictive anarchy is presented in Mode 1 too, they are 
multi-coloured and, through colour-switching, each level takes on a 
different look, with level six changing the background colour to a very 
challenging bright red! Sound is also impressive, with a jangly original
music piece as background to the title screens (and another on the BBC
Micro version accompanying the action) and a few bangs and bumps when
the machine code collision routines get going. Michael Grant, the 
author, points out in the instructions that there's also a fanfare after
level twenty - yet most players will need the luck of the devil to reach
it!
   Complete in itself in one machine code *RUNable file, X*L*C*R is 
right up there with Mirrorsoft's TETRIS and Blue Ribbon's TRAPPER for
lastability. Yet it achieves its addictiveness by sacrificing any com-
passion toward a player without a very clear screen to play it on or
unschooled in the art of arcade gaming. Its penalty for almost catching
a bead is identical damage-wise to a situation in which you hadn't 
tried at all, increasing both cries of "One last try!" plus the compul-
sory swear words and "Come on!"s. This niggle, with a title on the High
Score page reading The Late Great XLC8 (Eight!) and the irksomeness of
having the turn the tune off EACH time you play on the BBC aside, the
game is great, and well worth adding to your collection.
                                                   Dave Edwards, EUG #52

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