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Your views on...Highway Encounter

CUCHULAINNCUCHULAINN
edited May 2010 in Games
Highway Encounter

Hmmm! Surprised I hadn't done this one already as it's in my top 10.

I found this game super addictive. Played it loads, but never managed to finish it before the time was up. Three times I got to the 2nd to last screen, but failed miserably.

I'm sure it wont be long before I set aside time to have another crack at it.

;-)
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited May 2010
    It's a nice idea, but I'm not very good at it.

    Any game that lets you control a team of marauding Dale.....sorry Vortons is alright with me though :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited May 2010
    its one of those games i always wanted to play / be good at but never got into it / could play it
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited May 2010
    Brilliant game but the difficulty is just a tad too high for a casual 8 bit gamer like myself.
  • WhenIWasCruelWhenIWasCruel
    edited May 2010
    it's one of the easiest!

    anyway, costa panayi was a genius.
    1987 ZX reviews
  • milemile
    edited May 2010
    top game
  • Dwayne DibleyDwayne Dibley
    edited May 2010
    Great game but too hard. Preferred Alien Highway though

    Best of all that rarest of things on the Speccy - a decent end sequence!
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited May 2010
    It's an awesome game with a nice mix of shooting and puzzle solving. For an isometric game it plays at a blistering pace too; it's easily the best thing Costa Panayi ever made. If you've never managed to finish it, I'd suggest watching the RZX as the ending is something special.

    Alien Highway was good too. I was lucky enough to meet Mark Haigh-Hutchinson once when he was giving a demo of it in a Manchester computer shop.
  • sirclive1sirclive1
    edited May 2010
    Its a fab game , not played it in ages , but i love the way the pillars disintigrate and the general feel of the futuristic highway ! Brilliant .
  • urbanupstarturbanupstart
    edited May 2010
    One game I have never played, but I may give it a whirl at the weekend. I quite like the idea of diagonal scrollers/playing fields (if it does scroll-I always assumed it did with the screenshots)
  • fogfog
    edited May 2010
    Matt_B wrote: »
    Alien Highway was good too. I was lucky enough to meet Mark Haigh-Hutchinson once when he was giving a demo of it in a Manchester computer shop.

    someone on here said Mark had died, BUT they also got permission to release the never seen before Atari ST version

    Costa Panayi ... android 2 is prolly my fav game, or cyclone.. crap at all his games , but ah well.. highway encounter, and there was another part to it as well? but yer he work was consistent.
  • Dwayne DibleyDwayne Dibley
    edited May 2010
    For me Panayi made the greatest Speccy game ever - Cyclone
  • MinerWillyMinerWilly
    edited May 2010
    Spectrum classic! One of the best.
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited May 2010
    fog wrote: »
    someone on here said Mark had died, BUT they also got permission to release the never seen before Atari ST version

    Yes... I did... unfortunetly Mark died not so long ago, but he gave the Atari ST version of the Encounter to a friend who then gave it to me. I got a permission from Costa to release the game to the general public which I did. You can get the ST version here: http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/HighwayEncounterST.zip

    Top game too. :)
  • GrazGraz
    edited May 2010
    Very very boring, almost pointless. I load it up, I play it, I get bored. Sorry, it's naff.

    I like this one tho... http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002247
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited May 2010
    Graz wrote: »
    Very very boring, almost pointless. I load it up, I play it, I get bored. Sorry, it's naff.

    I like this one tho... http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002247

    Well, that one is more like "Zaxxon meets Encounter" ;-)

    But yep... for me HATE is the third Encounter... always was, always will be. Top game too.
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited May 2010
    Superb game. One of my Top-10 games. Along with Cyclone, the best game of Costa Panayi. Very original concept, graphically great as Panayi is the wizard of 3D!
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited May 2010
    An absolutely brilliant game; easily in my top five Speccy games, and dare I say it the best isometric game on the Speccy. It still has the added bonus of looking fantastic even today.

    It's not a difficult game, you just have to have a bit of patience blocking the following Vortons whilst you clear a path. The ending is one the Speccys best too.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • fogfog
    edited May 2010
    Dwayne Dibley wrote: »
    For me Panayi made the greatest Speccy game ever - Cyclone

    I'm surprised he didn't sue the desert strike makers ;) hehe
  • FizzaFizza
    edited May 2010
    I thought it was excellent, played it loads on my mates Spectrum and was chuffed that it got a release on the C64 by Gremlin Graphics, and as good as the Spectrum version at that, which I promptly bought. I managed to get somewhere like the second to last section but ran out of time as well. It was a great idea executed very well. It was a shame Alien Highway never made it to the C64 as that looked cool too but I never got to play that one at all, and only recently nabbed a copy of it from eBay for the collection, was quite an elusive one to find too.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited May 2010
    Fantastic game. Again, I can get close to the end, but never completed it. It's really hard to keep your cool and not try and rush the last few screens once you get that far.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • Bluce_ReeBluce_Ree
    edited May 2010
    I gave this game plenty of goes but it left me cold. As with so many games, it's a victim of the usual clunky gameplay you get from isometric games.

    Costa was amazing but this game wasn't for me.
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