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Underwurlde is a video game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the second in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf. The format of the game is a 2D side view flip-screen platform game. The aim is to escape from the Underwurlde via one of the three exits, to go to either Knight Lore, Pentagram or Mire Mare.
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Underwurlde is a sort of vertical Atic Atac. Sabreman is now given the ability to leap about the screen, and has a variety of weapons used as missiles. The task, as ever, is to escape. Monsters, which include evil plants, eagles, gargoyles, flying jellyfish and harpies which may actually carry you off, do not kill you as such but bounce you around the screen, knocking you off your perches.
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Despite being released alongside Knight Lore at Christmas 1984, Underwurlde was certainly in no way inferior to its 3D-touting partner. It marked the return of Sabreman in a vast and attractive game that represented a superb development on Atic Atac and Sabrewulf. It is set in a maze of caverns, rooms and passageways and your task is to escape. The nasties that materialise around you don't actually cause any direct harm, but they hinder your movement and force you into costly errors. It was slightly overshadowed by Knight Lore at the time, but it is actually a more involving title.
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Although another fine technical achievement, Underwurlde, perhaps more than any other Sabreman title, is vulnerable to accusations of style over substance. The main action of the game falls victim to the overreaching creativity of the delicious back story, and despite the clear and colourful graphics, being sent spinning to yet another quick death by a randomly spawning creature soon becomes infuriating. Patience and fortitude are required in large amounts if any serious progress is to be made through the huge map, which makes this one for the devoted gamer only. Finish it... and you can truly consider yourself one of the gaming elite.
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