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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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- AtariMania (Rainbird, FR, DE, UK, Atari ST) (For Atari ST: game entry database; downloadable release; game packaging; advertisement; manuals; magazine reviews; additional material.)
- DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS (Compatibility information page about the original game and its DOSBox versions. )
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- Spectrum Computing (For ZX Spectrum: games database, magazine references, magazine adverts, additional material.)
- The Tipshop (For ZX Spectrum: a central archive for all Spectrum and SAM games hints, tips, cheats, maps, hacks and pokes.)
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Encyclopaedic entry for the combined platforms of the game.)
- World of Spectrum (For ZX Spectrum: downloadable releases; additional material including – cassette inlay, advertisement, instructions; remakes links; player reviews; magazine references; magazine adverts.)
- ZX-Art - online archive of pixel art and 8-bit music (For ZX Spectrum: music, credits, pixel art. Artist's graphics artwork.)
Macintosh Credits (18 people)
12 developers, 6 thanks
Starglider 2 was written by:
Mac. version by:
Title screen by:
Moral support from:
Cover artwork by:
Jez San, Richard Clucas, Alister Perrott, Paul Gomm, Chris Humphries, Peter Warnes, Tim Watson, Adrian Friday
3D Shapes & Artwork by:Mac. version by:
Title screen by:
Moral support from:
Wedny, Becky, Kim, Hannah, Alison
Thanks to:Cover artwork by:
Steve Weston (uncredited)