The Micro User
1st August 1984
Who'd Be A Bank Manager?
As the manager of a multi storey bank, in Heist from Softspot you have to sort out the chaos at the end of the day.
Your incompetent staff has left money scattered about the bank in bags, and to add to your problems four burglars are out to stop you recovering them and returning them to the vault. Although outnumbered you have certain aids. There are hammers in the top left and bottom right corners of the screen.
Once you have one you can knock a burglar out and he will stay down for a random time. However you cannot carry a hammer up or down ladders and if you knock a robber down on a bag of money you cannot pick it up. But you do receive points for each bag of money deposited in the vault.
Cups of tea appear randomly on screen. Drinking them not only refreshes you but entitles you to extra points.
Occasionally a burglar plants a time bomb which you have about 10 seconds to reach and defuse before it blows up. If you have survived long enough to have collected all the money bags and deposited them in the vault the bank opens for a new day with the robbers even more determined to thwart you.
If however you are not so fortunate the Death March plays and you change into a rather comical angel which floats off up the screen.
Heist is for one player and includes a high score table. There are the usual options to freeze the game or switch off the sound.
A tune plays in the back ground all the time, and the sound off facility comes in very handy as the tune, although pleasant, gets a little tedious after a while.
The game is consistently appealing, making excellent use of graphics and sound.
It loaded first time, is attractively packaged and the instructions are clear and concise.
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