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This is a fan-made remake of the 1983 classic Commodore 64 game of the same name which had revolutionary graphics compared to most other games of the time. The sound effects were awesome and it introduced some new concepts in games, especially the 3D shooting effects. In order to finish and win the game you have to reach the final fortress and destroy it. But, before that you have to go though several other levels in order to reach it. Once you select the difficulty level at which you want to start, the game presents you a map or the different points where you can go. You move a marked with 4 point in it. The first level is an optional level. It's called the secret passage. It's located on the top of the screen indicated by a flashing black marker. Here you can either go through this level or take on the enemy directly by going down the screen and heading into the other marker with 5 white points. The benefit of using the secret passage is that when you do head into the rest of the level it is much easier, since supposedly you have taken the enemy by surprise. If you head into the enemy directly, you have to kill more enemies, etc. in order to pass the level. The first level is a secret passage in which you have to take each of your ships from the lower right corner of the screen to the upper left corner of the screen. There are mines and torpedoes as enemies and if touched will sink your ship. The mines are easy to navigate around, but the torpedoes seem to try to anticipate your moves and are fired toward you. In order to move you have to use your cursor keys. You have different speeds and if you press the up arrow key, you accelerate while pressing the down arrow key will deaccelerate until you stop. The left and right arrow keys will change the direction of your ship and move at the speed that you have selected with the up or down arrow key. The object is to reach as many ship safely across the screen. You will get 3000 point for each ship that you take across safely. Once you have safely moved you ship across the secret passage, you are taken back to the the navigation screen, where the only real possibility here is to encounter the enemy directly. If you took the secret passage you will be just above them and take them by surprise. In the next screen your ships will be attacked by the enemy air force, and the objective is to shoot them down before they shoot at you. Your ship are heavily armored, but not unsinkable. For example, in level 1 you can be shot at from the enemy airplanes up to 20 times before one of your ships sinks. Once your ship sinks, a new ship will take it's place for you to keep on shooting down planes. The ammunition is unlimited, but you can only shoot up to 10 shots in rapid succession, after that you need to wait a few seconds for the the supply to replenish. You play by moving the left and right cursor keys to move you machine gun left and right. By moving the cursor keys up and down you change the angle at which the machine gun shoots and can therefore shoot planes that are lower or higher in the screen. You shoot by pressing the shift key on you keyboard. Once in a while a Red surveillance ship goes by and if you shoot it down, you get 2000 points. Once you have shot enough airplanes, the next level will appear on screen. The next level is your ships attacking the enemies ships. Their ships will be shooting one a time trying to sink you ship. They will fire several times trying to find the right distance. You have time to try to sink theirs. You have to line up directly in from of the ship that you want to destroy and shoot. You shoot by pressing the shift key on the keyboard. You can only fire one shot at a time so you need calculate you shots accordingly. For every half degree that you move you heavy guns, you fire and extra 100 yards or less, depending on which way you move it. If you press the down key, the machine gun will be elevated and thus give you more distance. If you press the up key, the machine gun will be lowered, the give you less distance. In order to pass the level, you have destroy all the ships that are shooting at you. As a bonus there is one ship that is trying to get away. If you destroy it, you will be given a great bones score. If you took the secret passage, the enemies will take more shots at you in order to zero in on your ship. After you sink all the ships, you can now go into the beach. Each ship carried 2 tanks, so if you have at least 4 ships left, you will have the maximum of 8 tanks to enter into the level. Every object that is on screen is a possible enemy because if you touch anything, you tank will be burst into flames and loose one. There are static enemies and there are enemies that shoot at you. If they shoot at you, you can shoot at them. You control your tank by using the up and down arrow keys. The tank moves left at a constant speed, so the only thing you can really do is guide the tank around object in order to keep it from danger. Pressing the shift key on the keyboard will fire a shot which you can use to destroy other shooting enemies. Once you get across safely you will be taken to the main fortress which is the last level of the game. Each time you successfully reach a tank to the end you have an opportunity to destroy the fortress. The Final Level is a where you can either win or loose the game. Here you have to shoot the white markers that are situated on the fortress. These markers are weak point in the fortress and must shoot each one of them in order to destroy it. Only one weak point is active at any given point of the game, so you have to align you gun at it in order to destroy it. The alignment is easy - move you cursor keys left or right in order to move you machine gun left or right and move you cursor keys up or down in order to change the angle of you guns similar to the other shooting levels. The shot has to be very precise in the weak point, otherwise they will not be destroyed. The enemy has a big gun that shoots at you, the advantage is that it is very slow, but once it has seen and aims at you, you will loose a tank. The game will take you back to the beach in order to get a another tank trough it. Each time that you have to go get another tank, the level gets harder. A total of ten weak points need to be destroyed in order to win the game. Once you have had enough tanks through to take out all weak points, the fortress will be destroyed and you will win the game. |
