Sketch can't move rapidly around the panel, and button slamming yields unpredictable results.Ĭomics and video games are as natural a combo as deafness and roc'n'roll, they're just made to go together. Too bad the controls are imprecise and somewhat unresponsive. Sketch has a nice assortment of moves, including punches, kicks, jump kicks, blocks, and a shoulder ram. The combat in each panel is basically hand-to-hand, beat- em-up style. The challenge in each panel is to bust up enemy gangs, solve simple puzzles, or sometimes to accomplish both. To complete a page, Sketch must fight his way from panel to panel. To stay alive, you must maneuver through the comic strip's six pages.Įach Comix Zone page is laid out as a series of panels just like a real comic. When Mortus, a comic villain, warps from your strip into the real world, you're warped into the Comix Zone. You're Sketch Turner, a comic-strip artist.

Despite gorgeous graphics and a clever page-by-page layout, the game's erratic controls and repetitive gameplay hold it back. Comix Zone tries to do what no game has really done successfully to date: Capture the authentic look and feel of a comic book and make it come alive in a game.

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