<B>Authors<TR>: </B>Glen Cumming and Myles Jeffery
<B>From<TR2>: </B>PD Libraries
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When you first start playing this scrolling shoot 'em up, the thing you immediately notice is how similar it is to The Chaos Engine. And this certainly isn't a bad thing, considering that Chaos Engine was considered a classic.
The game involves you having landed on an alien planet, so in good old you - versus - the - rest - of - the - world theme, you must blast everything in sight, as well as rescuing prisoners on the way. When you shoot an alien, they leave their skulls behind which can be collected for money, to be spent at the end of each level, enabling you to enhance your weapons, as well as buying missiles and grenades.
After rescuing everybody, you have to find a key which unlocks the entrance to the level guardian! Keys are also found other places in the level, for unlocking various areas.
The game plays very well, with really smooth scrolling, and doesn't slow down at all. In fact, it's easily commercial status (even if only budget); when I received this on my Amiga Format coverdisk, I thought I was playing a demo of a commercial game...
But no, it is the full game, with eight levels in all. If I have any criticisms of this game, it's that there isn't much variety in the aliens you encounter at all; most are the same minotaur style alien, and the only others seem to be statues that shoot fireballs, and little bugs which explode. More aliens would have given it longer lasting appeal, in my opinion.
Anyway, if you're into games of this sort (and even if you're not?), it's still worth checking it out!
