Vektor Storm (Amiga) - A Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
38Vektor Storm is a conversion/port of the classic Tempest arcade game, released by Atari in 1980. The game features very good sound effects and fast arcadey action, so Tempest fans may love to try this?
Production Notes:
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Series 4
Game 44 of 44
Captured: Oct 21, 2016
Edited: 16-18th (inc.) April, 2018
Its April, so that means its the end of the run of games until after the summer, and then it all kicks off all over again. Hopefully absence makes the heart grow fonder, so thats why I like to take a long break. Thats not to say there wont me more stuff happening on the channel, and next week we have a special 400 Games Countdown + a Name That Game Quiz for you.
We played Vektor Storm in Sept/Oct 2015 in the Lemon VS EAB games competition, along with Volfied. I managed to capture lots of Volfied at the time, with the review appearing ages ago, while this was recorded a full year later. In this video I noticed the Deathblades seem to restock - not sure if you get one free Deathblade or a full re-supply per level, but its worth using them up. This is about as far as I ever got with it, and not sure if I got to the second boss.
You may notice the audio mix on this one is a little on the loud side, although the game and narration are similar in loudness, I had lots of problems with my system this week, as plugging in fans for a sudden shock of hot weather meant I cant hear it as loud, so everything was turned up to 11! This means less than half volume gives the best sound, and nobody can say they cant hear me speaking in this.
Bugs: The audio is (again) out of sync, but this is the game rather than the footage. The hits are mostly accurate, but the level complete sounds are sometimes early or late, especially using the 040.
Danscore:
Amiga Format gave this 60%, and they said the price was £25.99. In Amiga Power, they gave it the same 60% but a price tag of £29.99. The inside joke was that a real 1980 Tempest cabinet could be bought for around the same price in 1992. But today those same machines would be worth a fortune. As a public domain or shareware release, I would give it a 6.5, as a 'good plus' game, but not quite 'very good'. The vector graphics are rather plain looking on a powerful 16-bit machine, and even though the music, the sound effects and the playability are all Rock! this will only Roll for fans of this kind of arcade reflex test action. Its a fair port but games had moved on, and Jean-Luc Picard is the memorable thing which lifts this above the hum-drum. "Engage!"