Amstrad Action


Android One

Publisher: Vortex
Machine: Amstrad CPC464

 
Published in Amstrad Action #1

You've got to take charge of an android and destroy a nuclear reactor before the reactor blows up and destroys the world. You've got 14 screens to get through packed with mutants and thick brick walls.

The 14 screens are connected horizontally and as you reach the edge of one, the picture flicks to the next. However the mutants can also travel between screens through the holes you have to make in brick walls to clear your own passage. The mutants come in four varieties, all with different movement characteristics and one of which you can't destroy.

A transporter gets you to the second half of the run and once you've destroyed the reactor you have to get back to the starting screen before the time limit runs out. A direction indicator shows you where you are going (not much use) and how many of your five lives are left.

Good News

1. Lots of tough and varied screens. 2. Addictive since you're always trying to see the next bit of the run.

Bad News

1. Firing is intermittent so it's very easy to miss things. 2. Android is too sensitive to control easily. 3. Sound effects will give you a migraine.