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PSS is well known for its wargames. They include Battle For Midway, Battle Of Britain and Theatre Europe.

PSS's latest game, Battlefield Germany, has been written by Cybercom Enterprises and covers much of the same ground as Theatre Europe although with a slightly different angle.

Battlefield Germany can be played by one or two players. The length of the game and the difficulty factor, as well as which side you take, is chosen before the game loads. Once this has happened, you have to re-load the game to change them.

The game has the same plot as Theatre Europe in as much as the game involves the Warsaw Pact countries attacking Europe from the East German border. You have to stop them - assuming you are playing NATO, that is.

Where this game differs is in the detail it features. The maps are much more detailed and individual groups of troops/weapons are moved around the displayed terrain according to set rules and taking into account the abilities of the unit being moved. There is also a map of the whole of Germany showing all the various groups as dots.

There seems to be a nuclear option in the instructions, but as the instructions are for both the Amstrad and the Spectrum I can only assume that the Amstrad has one and the Speccy hasn't. I played the Spectrum version.