1984 Visions Software Factory (UK)
by Kevin J. Bezant
The movie 'Return of the Killer Tomatoes' was released in 1988 as the sequel to the B-movie 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' in 1978, but it seems that someone remembered to make a Spectrum game sequel four years before the film premiere and two years before the first Speccy film conversion.
Of course it has everything to do with the matter of licenses, changing the name of a game always helps, but it's still a funny coincidence (was it really? Just look at the inlay cover) . Who knows maybe the game inspired the film producers in doing the sequel...
About the game, I cant say it's bad, has some peculiarities, the way the cabbage sets changes while playing is interesting, the graphics are cute and welcoming, but again the objective of this type of games tends to repeat itself and eventually bore after some time, specialy in the beggining where the action isnt too complex like on higher levels.
Good presentation, professionally done, smooth movements, but all you have to do is picking up flowers while escaping from some killer tomatoes, and so on forever, in each level a new vegetable is added, but it's not enough for the game to become involving and to overcome its repetitiveness.
2/5
