Eye of Horus

For hardened arcade addicts looking for a puzzle element to add to mindless blasting, this game should prove an enjoyable challenge.

While Eye Of Horus may be nearly two decades old, it was one of the few platform games that really tried a new approach. While the platform genre on consoles was becoming stagnant, EOH was willing to teach them a new thing or two. While not perfect, it’s still a fun blast, and a game I loved for a long time and in the end completed after a lot of practice. A warning though: easy, it isn’t.

Horus is still at it. On the Amiga, Eye of Horus is virtually identical to the ST game, the graphics are as detailed and well drawn.

Graphically Eye Of Horus is very good, especially the backgrounds which are filled with very pretty hieroglyphics. Sound is also well represented by an atmospheric Egyptian composition by music maestro David Whittaker. At the end of the day we reckon that Eye Of Horus will appeal to puzzle fans more than we zappers.

Eye of Horus ist wieder einmal ein Beweis für Logotron's hochwertige Software. Ein ASM-Hit ist (leider) nicht daraus geworden, spielbar erweist sich das Game jedoch allemal. Besonders die hammerharten Gegner lassen nur Profis zum Zuge kommen. Aber ohne Strategie läuft auch wenig, denn nur mit Ballern durchforstet man kein Labyrinth. Alles in allem, durchaus lohnenswert.

On the C64 our hawk-headed hero is a splodgy little guy who wanders aimlessly around the place. If you are an arcade strategy fan take a look, blasters won't like it very much.

PC scrolling is jerky, but like the other versions is very hard to play. If you are an arcade strategy fan take a look, blasters won't like it very much.