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	Title: (Adventure) Suspended
	Source: Zzap!64, #41
	Date: September 1988
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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**Infocom, £24.99 Disk only**

This is one of my all time favourites. You are in control of six
robots, each of which has a distinct perception of the world and offers specific
abilities within it. One specialises in sight, a second in hearing and a
third in accessing information from computer memory banks.
Through them you can hopefully solve an intertwined myriad of
realistic and original problems.

Following your success in the semi-millenia lottery, you have
the honour of serving as Contra's Central Mentality for the next 500
years. The title brings responsibilities, not the least of which is
ensuring the survival of life on the planet. To this end you are placed
in a state of limited cryogenic suspension, in which sleep-like mode
your mind monitors the filtering computers and maintains the delicate
balance of surface-side systems. Should an emergency occur
you are awakened to ascertain the problem and perform such remedial
actions as you deem necessary. Penalties for failure are permanent.

If every thing remained hunky dory there would be no adventure
would there? And so the life-support systems on the planet's surface
malfunction... the imbalance must be corrected before all
is lost.

The six robots you control -- Whiz, Auda, Poet, Waldo, Sensa
and Iris -- if used correctly can return the planet to relative calm.
Communicating with the robots could not be simpler; input the
name and the command -- for example 'Whiz, get the container'.
You may even get more than one of them to carry out instructions
jointly or in sequence. The problems are tough to solve and an element
of panic sets in as the planets life-support systems collapse
around your ears.

*Suspended* can probably still be picked up at Commodore shows
for around four pounds and is well worth every penny. The atmosphere,
excitement and pure addiction of the game will provide hours
of enchantment.

<table class="larger" style="font-weight: bold;"><tbody>
<tr><td>Atmosphere</td><td>91%</td></tr>
<tr><td>Interaction</td><td>88%</td></tr>
<tr><td>Challenge</td><td>93%</td></tr>
<tr><td>Overall</td><td>91%</td></tr>
</tbody></table>