Peter says he's fed up of everyone saying "Oh. I suggest at this point that it's a bit like Populous. As you collect more of these Manna Balls, you are given access to more powerful spells." Everytime you kill something, it drops to the ground and becomes a Manna Ball. it is a shoot'em-up." he agrees, "But there's strategy involved as well." He kills a dragon and then continues. It's a shoot-'em-up, basically - I've gleaned that much from watching Peter blast nine trillion nasties into oblivion. Magic Carpet is a non-stop roller coaster ride of Byzantine proportions. And it's all happening at machine number 12. Every single flying thing in the game has a shadow, and if the flying things in question are over water, there are reflections. I make a sort of gagged, whining noise in reply. "That was an earthquake bomb," says Peter, proudly. And still everything is moving as smoothly and effortlessly as ever. The cliffs are reflected in the water, and the water itself is undulating. Peter flies the carpet into this ravine and the newly-formed cliffs to either side scroll past seamlessly. Before my very eyes, and with the magic carpet still flying at high speed, the landmass rips itself apart, forming a gigantic crevasse. "Watch this." says Peter, and he launches a spell/missile at a particularly rocky outcrop of land.
Not speechless, though, because instead I'm babbling slightly - "Blimey".
I realise it's actually a fairly good word to explain my current situation. I think about how I really hate the word "gobsmacked", and remind myself how I'd vowed years ago never to use it. He is about to show me this scenery moving.
Peter reaches for the keyboard and mouse. It makes Commanche Maximum Overkill's scenery look like a pile of old cack. We're in the middle of discussing possible slogans for the K-Plan diet ad campaign when suddenly the monitor is filled with a vast mountain-scape. He says he's thinking of patenting this weight-losing technique: calling it the K-Plan diet, and advertising his own diseased "chicken kebabs" on telly. He explains in gory detail how he was incapacitated for a week, losing a stone in the process.
MAGIC CARPET GAME PC
He fires up the Bullfrog "showing off' pc (a Pentium 90 affair), takes a seat, and tells me about his recent bout of toilet-fever, caused by eating a dodgy chicken kebab. I'm joined by Peter Molyneux, Bullfrog's numero uno. I have a pack of 20 Silk Cut primed, but I am told I'm not allowed to smoke. I'm ushered into a room and bribed with a cup of tea. I am half an hour late, but urprisingly no-one seems to care. get a bit lost, but then finally locate Bullfrog hq. I drive to the left-hand edge of the London A to Z map. Let's take a small trip back in time i.e. But are we going to get it? Yet again? Er, yes actually (yawn). In other words, we're expecting excellence. The reason why? Simply because we are looking at a Bullfrog game, which is like looking at a LucasArts game or a Geoff Cramm-ond game. Jeez, I sound like an accountant, don't I? Bottom line: is the game fun? Heck yeah it is. The coolest thing about Magic Carpet is its interface: instead of simply walking along, as in most games, you actually fly around islands and have great freedom of movement.The game also requires a lot of strategy and, as the levels progress, becomes quite difficult, thereby ensuring Magic Carpet's play value. This would be all fine and dandy, were it not for the fact that a cadre of unlike-minded wizards are using every spell in their arsenal to shut you down.
MAGIC CARPET GAME SERIES
In the Saturn version of Magic Carpet, you take on the role of a maverick wizard intent on restoring the balance of magic in a series of enchanted worlds. If you haven't been living under a rock for the last year, you'll recognize he name Magic Carpet from the incredible amount of well-deserved press that it and its sequel, Magic Carpet 2:The Netherworlds, have been receiving. So you say you're tired of all the run-of-the-mill 3D Doom clones currently clogging the shelves, and that you need something fresh to keep your attention span from imploding upon itself? If it's fast-paced action in a new mold you desire, then look no further than Magic Carpet.
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