1 - Commodore Is Awesome

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...Continued
over him and hit FIRE - you now have
direct control over that Skweek.
Remember, you can't change a
Skweek's direction or stop him while
he's walking. You have to wait until
he hits an object and stops himself.
SPECIAL THINGS
The first level is easy-peasy and
intended to get you into the swing
of things. But from then on, extra
features are added that make things
NEBULA
The first of our top-quality PD threepack
this month is a high-velocity
arcade blaster that should be familiar
to anyone who's ever played classics
like Battlezone or Encounter.
Taking control of a super-fast landspeeder,
your mission is to free the
once-peaceful moon of Uropa from
the clutches of the evil Kapones.
They've set up nine energy rigs
around the moon which are sapping
the satellite's natural resources. Only
you can foil their plans by planting
AERs (Anti-Energy Rig bombs) by the
offending structures, then detonating
them to blow them up.
Of course, the Kapones have a
whole army of land-based assault
vehicles to protect the energy rigs,
and you'll have to do battle with
these if you're to get anywhere. Blast
away at them with your lasers to
knock them out, being careful to
avoid their own fire, which saps your
ship's shields. If you wait around on
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trickier - or easier, depending on how
clever you are. The screens become
populated with blockers, pushers,
arrow-shaped direction-changers
and other secret thingies, all of
which have an effect over your
Skweeks when they pass over them
Remember that each level has a time
limit, and extra time is available by
running a Skweek over the alarm
clocks that appear on screen every
now and then.
the title screen for a bit, you'll get a
full rundown of all the enemies in
the game
PLAYING THE GAME
Your GBV (that's the thing you're flying
around in) is a nippy little beggar,
and comes equipped with radar,
shields, lasers and a cloaking device.
The radar in the centre of the display
shows all enemies in range - simply
speed towards them and pump them
full of laser fire. Don't worry if they
don't blow up straight away most
enemies need a lot of hits to kill.
Once an enemy has been destroyed,
pull away from it quickly, as the
debris from the explosion can be
damaging if it hits your own ship.
To destroy energy rigs, locate one
using your map and speed towards
it using the compass as your direction
finder. When you've got one.
get right up close to it and drop an
AER. Then pull away and detonate
the device - it doesn't have to be
close. So long as one piece of the farreaching
debris from the explosion
hits the rig, it will be destroyed.
DON'T waste any bombs, as you only
have the exact amount needed to
complete the mission.
As enemy hits and collisions sap
your shields, seek out and collect
Chromolite crystals (littered around
the landscape) to replenish them. If
things get really bad, you can always
engage your cloaking device, which
renders you invisible to enemy ships
and gives you a rest from incoming
fire - but there's only enough energy
to keep the cloak on for a short time.
KEY CONTROLS
M Toggles game map on and oft
B Drops an AER bomb.
D Detonates the AER bomb
C Toggles cloaking device on and
off.
P Pauses the game.
K Activates keyboard controls
J Activates joystick controls.
Q Quits back to The One menu_
F10
Resets game.
HELP
Displays game information.
PREMIERE
Hey, there's no business like show
business! And probably that's why
Core Design have produced a game
on it because it's definitely a platform
experience like no other. Core's
latest slice of arcade fun would normally
cost you E30.99 in the shops,
but with our preview disk you can
get a playable taster of its smartness
absolutely heel For more information
about the game, flip to the
awesome four-page review starting
on page 40 and don't forget there's
a smashing Core compo to win a
1900 Video Palmcorder on page 36!
This demo consists of a speciallyconstructed
section of the first
Western level, where the player's
objective is to work his way through
the landscape, battle the baddies,
collect as many pickups and possible
and reach the door at the far
end.
GAMEPLAY
Couldn't be simpler. really. All control
is via the joystick. Once you've
hit FIRE to start, Clutch (that's you)
is controlled thus - LEFT and RIGHT
makes him walk in those directions,
DOWN causes him to duck and UP
makes him jump. Hit FIRE to lob a
stick of dynamite.
In addition, Clutch can flip
between the background and fore-
disk
ground 'lanes' in certain parts of the
level - this allows him to avoid or
confront enemies and gain access to
stairs, lifts and doorways. To toggle
between lanes, pull DOWN and hit
FIRE simultaneously-
Pick up Oscars and other awards
to collect points, and always use the
switches that are set into the wall
when you find them - just stand in
front of them and hit FIRE.
BAD GUYS
Most of the enemies in this demo can
be killed with one hit of dynamite,
although some take more - be careful.
Each time you take a hit from a
baddy, one of your six energy points
is removed - lose all six and its adios
amigo. You've only got a limited supply
of dynamite, so use it wisely and
always collected extra bundles when
you find them around the game area.