HUDSON SOFT

11 DECEMBER 1992

Following on from the success of the first game, '93 makes some changes that helped to shape the future of the series. While the basic gameplay is thankfully untampered with, Hudson have added a few extras - most noticeably a whole selection of multi-player levels to choose from. These are partly taken from the single player levels and include conveyor belts, teleports and no-bomb blocks. This helps to bring more variety, as well as more panic to the multi-player action and gives this a good edge above the original.

Graphics and presentation have also been refined and now look a little more polished than the first game, with a nice little intro sequence and some better looking boss monsters. Sound is decent - the tunes are quite suitable, though I miss not having the original tune on the early levels. This does suffer the same criticisms as all Bomber Man games - that being that once you complete the single player mode you are unlikely to replay it again, but for a party game it does the job and does it very well indeed.