Amiga CD32

Alfred Chicken

The graphics are big, bright and quirky and the soundtrack is a delight to the ears. The gameplay is just about right, appealing to kids and adults alike.

With its much enhanced graphics, superb bouncy soundtrack and immense playability Alfred proves to be a bit of a corke, and it's certainly one of the finest platform games you'll see on your CD32 at the mo'.

Like the A1200 version, the graphics are really excellent, with neat, colourful sprites and some very smart levels. But what really makes the game a winner is its overall quirkiness. Collect watering-cans to gain extra lives, open a can of worms to get a shield, and balance on pop cans to reach higher platforms. It is not all leaping and killing though, there are puzzles to be solved, bonus games to be played and secret rooms to be found. Altogether these elements make Alfred Chicken completely addictive and totally weird. One of the best platform games out on CD and, like Arabian Nights, it's an essential purchase.

This takes the prize for the month's most-improved-on-the-CD32 game, with the addition of some pleasant parallax-scrolling backdrops that weren't in the rather sparse-looking A500 version, as well as the usual CD soundtrack and 562 colour graphics.

The graphics are big, bright and bouncy although the sprite can be tricky to control and you don't get to do a great deal of interesting things. Rather dull platform fayre.

Argh. I hate games like this. What can you say about this platform game? It's not original, there's nothing particularly wonderful about the gameplay or the graphics or the sound - a reviewer's nightmare.