■ Demonstrating what an everyman its Rick Dangerous character is, Core chose to strip him look and dress him up like Flash Gordon. This simple switch gives the sequel scope to incorporate any number of Thirties sci-fi standards in its level designs – including ray guns, robots that look like people in robot suits, ice planets and mad scientists. Core wisely opted to leave the gameplay of the original largely intact, however the hazards in the follow-up are flagged-up in advance, so there’s more skill and less guesswork required this time around.