Inept Reviews: Kane (ZX Spectrum)

Before finding fame in the World Wrestling Federation, WWE superstar Kane was a Zorro type swashbuckler and wild west horse riding supremo. This unofficial biographical adventure sees the large warrior fire arrows at a bunch of defenseless sparrows; fall off a horse 350 times, lay siege to a town inhabited solely by dwarves; and chase after a Intercity train which he has foolishly left his speech for the headmasters conference on. Will he get it back in time, or will he be late and cause all kinds of trouble along the way? It's all in Kane: The Game.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• zx
• spectrum
• sinclair
• inept
• reviews
• kane
• wild
• west

[leerees]

Having grown up in the speccy era I was frustrated at the sheer number of repetative and boring games that were around, all those point and shoot games were bollocks, the only good point and shoot was missile command, which wasn't even a spectrum game.

There was very few speccy games I actually played, chase hq, outrun, gauntlet, great escape. I'm not dissing the spectrum, i loved my speccy, but some of the games that got ratings didn't deserve them.

[collieuk]

I also loved my Spectrum but I too found most games to be disappointing and overrated. It was job of the magazines to promote the games to keep interest in the machine though. It was really only towards the end of the Speccy's life that some reviewers took it upon themselves to utterly anniliate some previously high rated games and give them awful (and more truthful) scores. There are a lot of enjoyable Speccy games, but only a few proper classics that have stood the test of time in my opinion.

[Haller1977]

didn't knew this game, thank god, how frustating can a game be, nice review hehe

[collieuk]

Apparently I've since discovered it's considered by many to be a mini-cult classic. Obviously some people enjoy frustrating games where you do nothing but fall off your horse all day long.

[Treyguard]

zx was brilliant in it's day

[JohnEpi1973]

I have finished this game and i can tell you :

IT'S GREAT! Whoever loads this in a cellphone today will bust his phone 4 sure. Ok its a bit annoying sometimes , but the gameplay rewards you Bigtime. It's really nice , take my word 4 it ! i rate it at least for 70%

[nephildevil]

wasnt kane sum kung fu chinese guy in the wild west?

a tv series

[mathowlett]

Strange game.. the train level was a pain in the arse. Nice reference to Clockwise in the description by the way ;)

[bullterrierSarajevo]

one of the newer games for spectrum, at the time .....

[uggla03]

i had this loved it

[alexandrum3]

zx sycks

[EvildeadCellar]

Never seen this game before. I did recognize the name. Sort of game you'd have paid £7.95 after saving your pocket money and try to kid yourself it's good knowing it's pants.