Mini-Review
Tiny Tank
PlayStation	From: SCEE

A cute 3D tank shooter with character and humour, most gamers will find Tiny Tank a little too cute, flawed and old-fashioned. In the game you play a cuddly (yes) tank with the chippy attitude of a New York taxi driver who has a long line in often quite funny one liners - all of which reveal he's not quite as brave as he thinks he is. Aimed half way, unfortunately, between children and adults, the 25 cramped and less than beautiful 3D levels have puzzles that serve only to annoy. Gore fans will tire of blasting things rather than people or creatures. Funny occasionally, but not an essential purchase.

FG verdict

51%

Mini-Review
Railroad Tycoon 2
PlayStation	From: Take 2

Railroad Tycoon 2 was great on the PC. Building tracks across 1800s America in a strategic fashion, while dealing with cash flow, stocks and shares and moving the right stock, it kept loads of splendidly sad people alone in their bedrooms for days on end. But, as everyone knows, smoke starts spouting from the little grey box's ears when so much as a group of soccer stats comes anywhere near it, and now the poor machine's been asked to cope with train timetables as well! The result? Not nearly as crap as most of us would have thought. While it doesn't look nearly as good as the PC version, and it runs at a very slow rate, it retains its depth of play, is still fiendish to master and has an interface that's okay. And that's a result, isn't it? Full steam ahead!

FG verdict

70%

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