Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation

The ST version is virtually identical to the Amiga, except that it's slightly slower, and more difficult. The music and sound effects are the same, if a little weak compared to the Amiga's booming tones, but such differences are rather trivial, and tend to balance out in the overall feel of the game.

Graphically far superior to the first game, Chase 2 offers more on-screen cars, more colours and is generally a lot more appealing to play. The music is nice and lightweight, and digitised speech offers some atmospheric snarling from the bad guys and the charming tones of Nancy. Pretty well polished.

I dunno - the reason there are so many bad sequels in the world is because the people who make them misunderstand the reason for the originals' success. Chase HQ didn't succeed so much because you put a siren on top of your car and chased after criminals - it succeeded because the idea of having a siren and chasing criminals was so brain-stonkingly original, and had never been done before, and was really, really well executed (if you see what I mean). Who wants a game that looks the same as the one they already own but hasn't got half the soul? If you never bought the original Chase HQ then I'm ordering you to do so right now. If you did then sorry to disappoint you with this paltry effort. Of course, not that it's that dire. Just that your money's better off with a different game. (One about kettles. Or woodlice. Or something.)

SCI's not really as bad as I'm painting it. If you've got strong hand muscles and unfazeable eyesight, this is quite a diverting and tricky racer. You won't finish it in a day, for sure, and you'll certainly get ten quid's worth of entertainment out of it.

Spelets grafik är snygg och polisbilen, som man ser bakifrån, är rätt välgjord så det är inte grafiken spelet faller på. Det är istället spelbarheten. Det mesta går lite för chansartat till, och det är svårt att se innan, om man ska träffa med sina skott mot kidnapparbilen. Detta gör att man nog rätt snart tröttnar på detta spel.