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Cosmic Spacehead is a decent arcade adventure drawn in the illustration
style of the 1950s (TV's The Jetsons comes to mind). Bright graphics, a simple
point-and-click interface for the adventure elements, interspursed with enjoyable
arcade romps will keep players' attention as they explore, with Cosmic, the alien
landscapes. The plot is wacky enough: to obtain a hero's welcome and much-needed
cash, alien Cosmic must return to Earth and photograph the previously unexplored
planet to document his visit. It's an intriguing mix of adventure and arcade
action gameplay. The majority of gameplay is an interactive arcade adventure which
takes Cosmic across the many bizarre locations of his three main stops on the way to
Earth: planet Linoleum, Detroitica a vehicle factory on a lone asteroid, and a space
station. Each destination is divided into many smaller play areas where Cosmic can
interact with other characters, manipulate and use objects to further his quest.
True to Codemasters' expertise as makers of fun action games, it includes many
action sequences: traveling between the adventure play areas involves the successful
completion of a wide variety of 32 arcade-orientated action games, ranging from
astro-car racing, robot attacks, to asteroid fields and many more. Unfortunately,
the adventure portion isn't as good: the solutions to most puzzles are all too
obvious, and often require items that you can only get by random luck - definitely
not a good game design. |