Highnoon Review
Bring us the wild west – it is time to give you a glimpse of the good old western past. This Highnoon review will contain surprises and insights you maybe did not come across to think about.
The scenery is in this small pioneer town – you are the sheriff and need with priority protect the bank and the employees of the saloon from the robbers coming to town.
Where do the old programmers come up with everything? The name of this saloon is really weird – Saucy Sue’s Saloon!
What did they think about? Do you have any clue? I for sure don’t have.
This would for sure win the creative naming convention.
The game is played in the same town evironment through the levels. We are faced with more vicious people and new characters like on a horseback.
The graphics are really good in this play and when you learn about the diagonal shooting you are just stuck into this game. I would say that this is a genious effect as the game would not be far as good if this option did not exist. Each level is ended with a bonus challenge, can you draw your weapon faster than your opponent?
This game bears the high quality logo of Ocean and as always also delivers to it. I will give it some more play after this review is written and I recomend you to do the same. You will love Highnoon.
In the Magazines
Latter day Garry Coopers will be in their element, yet others will find that the cassette case gathers dust after the novelty wears off. This is not a run of the mill shoot out: the graphics are 30, so you may move anywhere on Main Street slinging the lead about. As you mosey on out of the jail house the outlaws amble into town: shots are fired in any of the standard eight directions.
The outlaws are set on robbing the bank and abducting women but with your sharp shooting, the undertaker will be the one carting the goods. It is possible’ to hide in the bank or saloon. I’ve only-seen two Ocean programs and both were subject to lapses in the action under certain conditions. Probably this is just coincidence but I certainly should like to see more of their prod-ucts.
One excellent feature of High Noon is the music — an upbeat ‘High Noon’. The game is the work of Andy Spencer of International Soccer fame.
From Commodore User December 1984
On the Cover
Like always with all Ocean covers it is well worked out. The combination with the traditional Ocean framing and the so lively main picture. The colours picked are matching the story and the labeling perfectly.
The game is really by proportions meeting the cover and vice versa. I would say that the expectations given are well met in this Highnoon review.
From the Adverts – Highnoon Review
Cartoon quality animation brings back the days of the Wild West – with bandits, banks and burlesque girls.
Riga Mortis the undertaker will attend to the corpses and leave main street clear for further mayhem. As the tension builds up you need nerves of steel to match up to the opposition and prove you’re still the fastest gun in the West.
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Our Hignoon Review rating
As you probably understand by now – the game is a favourite – a shoot’em up in my taste – cool effects – nice steering and hell of a fun.
We give it four cowboys out of five. Enjoy the playing.
