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Hot out of the Elite hanger comes Airwolf - another super-copter in the Blue Thunder mould. If you've been watching telly on Friday nights recently you'll know all about the billion dollar helicopter and its pilot, Vietnam veteran, Stringfellow Hawke, who zooms around saving the world and damsels in distress.

Even if you haven't caught up with the series you'll enjoy this game from Elite - who continue their policy of bringing out games based on hit TV shows.

In Airwolf, you take on the role of Hawke who has been given a dangerous mission by his employers, the mysterious organisation known as the FIRM. Hawke has to rescue five US scientists who are being held hostage in a subterranean base beneath the Arizona desert.

You have to fly Airwolf on a series of night missions rescuing each scientist in turn. Only the destruction of strategically placed control boxes within the cavern will allow Airwolf to descend to the heart of the base where the scientists are imprisoned. You have to find them to complete your mission.

You start the game at Airwolf's base and take off into the enemy lair - where force fields suddenly appear before your 'copter. You must blast holes in the force shields big enough to allow Airwolf to squeeze through and continue the rescue mission.

Background graphics are great - but I felt the representation of the Airwolf chopper could be improved. Gameplay is addictive - and you must move fast to get through those force fields once you've blasted a way through otherwise they close up on you!

I reckon it's Elite's best yet. Airwolf is also available on the C64.