Hot time in the arena

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It is the year 3000 AD and the excitement hots up at the local arena. A poor little humanoid has been thrust into the arena to entertain crowds who have flocked from surrounding galaxies to see him fight to the death.

This is the scenario of Arena 3000, one of the new releases from Microdeal. What has this poor insignificant little soul done to deserve this? Perhaps he's just a "human-annoyed!" Sorry I shouldn't joke.

Surrounded by at least 20 ravenous robots there is no time to hang about.

"Not a hope" you might say - and you'll be right if you didn't keep moving about and firing your deathray at the enemies with great accuracy and care.

Can you imagine it? This dear little humanoid dodging and running for its life while trying to shoot in the right direction.

Once you have cleared the arena of all mutants you are yet again thrust into another selection of weird mechanical failures which you must destroy or be destroyed.

This process repeats itself, presenting you with a different selection of enemies every time the arena has been cleared.

The general idea of the game is quite good and becomes addictive, although the graphics were by no means the best I have seen.

Mark Freeman