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- Star Fighter 3000
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- This is quite simply the best game I've played for a very long while. The object of
- the game is simple - complete the set mission - which usually means pumping
- all the enemy fighters full of laser fire.
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- The not-so-good intro!
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- While the idea is simple the actual game is fast,
- smooth and extremely playable. You can forget
- birds of war, this wins hands down. Like all good
- shoot-um-up's and flight-sim's this game has a shop
- area where up can buy missiles (ATG & ATA) you
- can upgrade you ship with better lasers, ship
- control, speed what ever you want! If youv'e played
- Stunt racer 2000 (By the same poeple) you'll know
- how good the vector graphics they use are, well,
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- for Star fighter, the've made them even better so you can look forward to a
- graphical delight!!
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- Sounds OK to me!
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- To be fair there's not much scope for sound in this sort of game but even so if
- you turn the sound on you can really get a sense of being in the combat plane
- especially when you get going. But apart from this the sound isn't that good
- only the usual bangs, thumps and explosions!
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- A natural progession
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- There are 3 difficulty settings (Easy, medium and hard !!) each has 36 missions
- of which you must complete 8 to reach the end of the 'level'.
- If you play the games so that when you reach the end of one level you go onto
- the next you'll find the progression of difficulty is very gradual and smooth.
- Unfortunately some of the levels don't 'work' properly which means you can't
- complete them. This bug renders the whole 'hard' section void!
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- Rating:
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- Game play: 90%.
- Graphics: 88%.
- Sound: 74%.
- Overall: 86%.
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- >POSITION 1300,1900
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- Cannon Fodder
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- 'Never been so much fun!'
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- Either you love it or you hate it, it by the way, is the sensible software proverb
- make all the sprites small. Speaking as one who likes it, this game is the best
- game of it's type. Most 'War' games or shoot-um-up's are either vertically or
- horizontally scrolling but on this game, you take your position high up in the
- skies and veiw everything from above where you can control your brave and
- usually damn silly men. Like lemmings, this game has got an incredible
- 'Just one more go' appeal so, Once you start, you can't stop! unless that is you
- get onto a level that is completely beyond you and you just have to use the
- cheat!
- The object of the game is simply to kill everythig that moves except the weedy
- little civilians. To do this you have an unlimited supply of bullets and the chance
- to pick up bazookas or granades.
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- 'Lying in the sun'
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- The screen scrolls well but the enemy soldiers are... well thick, E.g. if you
- happen to be innocently swimming across a patch of icy water, they won't pick
- you off from the edge, instead they'll jump in and swim about only to get shot by
- you! Another niggle is that the explosions are pathetic they look more like a
- splash in muddy water! A good thing about the game is the way that as the
- men become more experienced, they can shoot better so you do't have to be
- so accurate yourself - which helps.
- Moans aside this is a good game which has been well thought out and the end
- result shows this. The sound FX are the worst part of the game and don't do
- much for it.
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- Rating
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- Gameplay 82%.
- Graphics 76%.
- Sound 72%.
- Overall 80%.
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