Impossible Mission 2

STORY / GAMEPLAY
You infiltrate a hi-tech building (a set of 8 towers) in order to take down Dr. Elvin Atombender (a psychotic genius, known from the previous game). Your main objective is to find six passwords (tunes), which form a music theme! Each tune must be recorded in your tape-recorder in an order that will give the final theme. Be noted to rewind the tape so that the next musical piece will not erase the previous! That's a brilliant idea that adds to the gameplay's difficulty! Each tower consists of several rooms connected by two vertical corridors with elevators and two horizontal corridors leading to other towers. The corridors leading between different towers are locked and can only be unlocked by figuring out a numerical puzzle. In each room, you have to uncover clues without being zapped by several guard robots that roam the place. Those bots are really aggressive, some will try to push you over the edge of a platform, some may lay deadly land mines on the floor etc. Apart from these bots, some others will just change your plan on getting to the evidences by riding around on the lifts, making it for you almost impossible (!) to go to the next platform! Evidences may give you access points to use in scattered computer terminals and disarm robots, activate moving platforms and lifts etc. The game does not give a set of lives, rather than a tight time limit (8 hours) which decreases steadily (every time you die, 5 minutes will be taken off of the timer!) Impossible Mission II is a true challenging platform with some great puzzle elements!

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics and sound effects on the IIGS are rather poor and remind us of the old, original Impossible Mission (1984). But what is really impressive is your little agent's moves which are superbly animated. The graphics are a treat with pretty hues of ...pink and purple (!) providing the backdrops plus the complex network of corridors and rooms to explore.