ZZAP!64 - Issue 3 - July 1985

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will determine who has achieved
or claimed a victory.
There is a pause command to
give you time to think and a two
player option where both sides
plan moves at the start of the
day which are then enacted. The
computer is a tough opponent
but you may find a human one
less predictable.
A global map allows you to
view the whole battle area and
there is also a save option. At the
end of each battle you can examine
the situation and see just
where you might have improved
your strategy.
BW
/ Historical background in the
instructions options on
qv/ colours, 1 or 2
47%
players.
Good landscape and unit
63% q 68%
characters.
Fast and furious war
simulation, unlike the
normal slower-paced
ones. This is the sort
of war game you can 't
leave for more than
two seconds ,
and you
have to concentrate
non-stop. Nice , big
dear graphics and
uncluttered \
simple
instructions makes
this a good one for
novices.
ORIGINALITY
The battle of the Bulge has
been done before and
gamep/ay isn 't that new.
Quite absorbing as you
H familiarise yourself with the
u battle.
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Three opening drum beats
and an update noise.
65%
Once you've had a major
victory the attraction may
fade.
63%
Great sussing out the battle
plan but once cracked may
pall.
You then move to the final
the enemy's re-
screen. This is
actor and you have to destroy
this to accomplish your mission.
The reactor lies embedded in
rock, and there are three helicopters
guarding it. Two move
up and down tracking your
moves and the other one takes
off from the bottom and moves
up the screen firing at you. You
have to shoot three bombs into
three small inlets which lead directly
to the reactor. This is quite
tricky since a) the helicopters are
tracking your moves and therefore
blocking your bombs; b)
There's another helicopter rising
up the screen firing at you;
and c) the gaps to shoot the
bombs in are about 2 pixels
wide.
Even so it can be done. When
you do complete the mission,
you simply start again, moving
up a skill level (there are six). As
you progress through the levels
everything becomes faster and
you have to survive for a longer
time before finishing a screen.
JR
As it stood, I thought
was quite a good
game when it first
came out for the Oric.
Now that it's made a
delayedjump up to
ithe 64, 1 don 't think so
highly ofit The
graphics and sound
are okey dokey but the
repetition of the three
stages of action (well,
three and a half
including the
refuelling stage
meant my interest in
the game dwindled
quite rapidly. Still, not
too bad for £2. 50.
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on the 'orrib/e Oric
for improving the
levels I found it
entertaining and
pretty tough too.
Certainly a great
game on the Oric and
a reasonably cheap
one on the 64.
of action to enthrall
you this doesnf goal!
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v so the graphics are
challenging and it s
only £2,50,\ hut there
are othergames
around which are
cheaper and better.
score table and six skill
69% levels.
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In-game instructions, hi-
Great refuelling plane and
Sikorsky helicopter,
otherwise plain.
Simple blasting noise
good chopper sound.
39%
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Simple shmup with nothing
a very new except refuelling
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which can be difficult to
master.
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start to
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f— fy O/ ^ n,ce °liea P shmup but
530 /O pretty ordinary.
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