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Dungeon Master style 3D adventuring<br />
takes off into space with Interceptor's<br />
Xenomorph.<br />
routine supply mission<br />
I to Cygnus 61 when suddently,<br />
t everything went very<br />
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all that surprising as the<br />
pbase<br />
is now overrun by<br />
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aliens.<br />
s The base in question is<br />
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represented on screen as a<br />
series of scrolling 3D rooms<br />
d and corridors which forms<br />
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main part of the screen<br />
o display. Around this are five<br />
bsmaller<br />
display's that include<br />
e movement icons, what you<br />
aare<br />
holding in each hand,<br />
your backpack and a personal<br />
display showing your<br />
current state of health and<br />
a picture of you that you can<br />
customise using the programs<br />
DNA machine so that<br />
your on screen persona can<br />
match yourself, a hero or<br />
favourite <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
reviewer. One particularly<br />
impressive feature of the<br />
game is that when you are<br />
getting something out of<br />
your backpack that screen<br />
fills the main screen area and<br />
the player status screen<br />
becomes a mini version of<br />
the 31) view that still scrolls<br />
and displays all monsters<br />
and objects so you can carry<br />
on with the action.<br />
Apart from the variety of<br />
background displays of<br />
which the enclosed air ducts<br />
are my favourite, the range<br />
of weapons featuring laser<br />
rifles, stun pistols, grenades<br />
and alien seeking robomines<br />
and the objects such as a<br />
proximity detector that you<br />
can find, the main appeal of<br />
the game is its range of aliens<br />
and the way they change and<br />
mutate. One example is best<br />
described in its adult form<br />
as an insectoid lobster but<br />
begins as a harmless egg<br />
which can be easily fried<br />
with a single blast of a laser<br />
gun. Once it hatches it turns<br />
into a worm like larvae that<br />
scurries away to hide from<br />
you, where it wraps itself<br />
into a cocoon and metamorphosises<br />
into the insectoid<br />
lobster that comes looking<br />
for you.<br />
Not all creatures are that<br />
complex as the game also<br />
features a rather unpleasant<br />
green blob that when blasted<br />
turns into two green blobs!<br />
In this game you have to<br />
learn which weapons to use<br />
against which creature and<br />
it isn't always easy to do this<br />
when you're fleeing from a<br />
horde of monsters.<br />
Tony Hetherington<br />
Pandora is part of the Interceptor<br />
group of companies<br />
that aslo includes the Players<br />
budget range.<br />
Right: ''Okay,<br />
who's sneezed<br />
on the ceiling?'<br />
Above: Give the guy a hand.<br />
Above: He must've gone to a second hand shop!<br />
YOUR COMMODORE T w e n t y Nine
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