Starglider II

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Description

More space combat and strategy in this sequel, which challenges you to collect the elements to form a bomb to destroy a resistance force, before delivering them through heavy fighting. Each planet has its own characteristics, with differing inhabitants and features.

As well as flying through space, you must dart through tunnels under the planets, which restricted your movement range but are where most of the weapons are. As you go along you'll have to obtain objects from people, and trade them so as to be able to complete your main objectives.

The biggest advance from the original Starglider was seen as the polygon graphics, which are filled on 16-bit systems, and contain considerable detail.

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Alternate Titles

• "Starglider 2" -- European title

Part of the Following Groups

• Games with included books (fiction)
• Games with manual lookup copy protection
• Genre: Simulation - Space trading and combat
• Starglider series

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Critic Reviews

The Games Machine (UK)	Atari ST	Oct, 1988	97 out of 100	97
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Sep, 1988	96 out of 100	96
ST Format	Atari ST	Sep, 1993	95 out of 100	95
Amiga User International	Amiga	Oct, 1988	92 out of 100	92
The One	Amiga	Oct, 1988	89 out of 100	89
Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Sep, 1989	87 out of 100	87
Commodore User	Amiga	Sep, 1988	7 out of 10	70
Antic's Amiga Plus	Amiga	Apr, 1989	Unscored	Unscored
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Amiga	Dec, 1988	Unscored	Unscored
Amiga World	Amiga	Apr, 1989	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Extras

As with Carrier Command, some versions of the game - definitely the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST version - came with a cassette tape containing Dave Lowe's full instrumental theme, performed in the studio. The Amiga and ST versions had short sampled extracts of Lowe's music, but only 1mb machines. The 128k ZX Spectrum version had a completely original AY theme song.

Manual

As with the original, the game's manual was well-written and filled with puns; your ship was equipped with a Forslook device, and to win the game you had to use the Forslook (groan). Also: space whales.

Paint with Rolf

The game includes a "Paint with Rolf" option (presumably a reference to Rolf Harris). This allowed the player to paint the screen with the game's polygonal objects, and was inspired by Jez San's love of the classic arcade game I, Robot.

Awards

• Computer and Video Games
  • Issue 06/1989 - Runner-up Golden Joystick Award 1989 for Best 16-Bit Game of the Year (reader's vote)
  • Issue 06/1989 - Runner-up Golden Joystick Award 1989 for Best 16-Bit Graphics (reader's vote)
  • Issue 06/1989 - Runner-up Golden Joystick Award 1989 for Best 16-Bit Soundtrack (reader's vote)
• ST Format
  • May 1990 (Issue #10) - Included in the list "ST Format's 30 Kick-Ass Classics"
• Zzap!
  • January 1990 (Issue 57) – 'The Best Games of the 80's Decade' (Stuart Wynne / Phil King)

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