![]() ![]() It treads the fine line between plagiarism and parody wonderfully. It almost copies the scene verbatim, even going so far as to include the feline fake-out. This sees our hapless wizard attempt to defuse a bomb on a donkey cart instead of a car. The game begins with a drunk Rincewind and the orangutang Librarian in a hilarious lampoon of Lethal Weapon 3. It's a style rarely adopted but works magnificently, oftentimes feeling like you are playing a Saturday morning cartoon. In fact, the rival of this era from a graphical standpoint would be LucasArts' Curse of Monkey Island. The graphics have gone from an ageing pixellated VGA style to a spanking new cell animated SVGA explosion of colour. Released a year later in 1996, the second game in the Discworld series ups the ante on almost every technical level. ![]() Well, Rincewind's troubles are not over yet for there was a sequel Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed.? (or Mortality Bytes to some of you). If you've managed to figure out your fireworks and your custard pies, you may have successfully reached the end of the first Discworld game.
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