There's also a pleasing selection of different 'death animations' cued up, ready to unfold when you inevitably die - sometimes you'll lose an arm in the blast, sometimes your entire head. Trap yourself between two bombs, for instance, and your character is likely to start praying, panicking or digging his own grave. Veterans of SNES Bomberman might initially wrinkle their noses, but these Bombermen visibly react to the onscreen action. They're far less stumpy than the Japanese originals, and consequently far less cute. The anime player-characters have been given an 'American' makeover, modelled in 3D Studio (or equivalent), rendered, animated and turned into sprites. Aim away from faceįirst things first: the visuals. PC owners have had a crack at the game before in the guise of Dynablaster, but this latest incarnation boasts a few utterly unique features. Regular readers will have clocked last month's preview and playable demo of Atomic Bomberman, so we'll focus on what differentiates this version from the others instead. Instead they decided to retain all the basics and only fiddle about with the aspects that actually matter the least: namely the graphics and sound effects. And hey - let's take all the bombs out too." Thankfully, they didn't think anything of the sort. And make it so you can, like, cast spells and fly and shit. let's put 'em on horseback, yeah? And give 'em swords and stuff. They'd have to start thinking things like "Hmmm. In fact, the programming team would have to try really hard to totally cock it up. Atomic Bomberman is a gumby-fresh and altogether fly version of Hudsonsoft's classic multi-player grenade banquet - a brand new, bells and whistles translation of a game so inherently perfect, you could write a black-and-white, stop-motion, low-res Vic 20 version, then force each participant to play with their feet, and it would still be thumb-gnawingly addictive, cheek-clutchingly exciting, and glans-poppingly amusing.
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