22nd August 1984
Beach-Head
It's nice to know that the dam' Yankees can produce turkeys as easily as any Brit software house. Beach-Head is as well thought-out as the average White House press release.
The sleeve notes are promising. There are seven stages in play, each of which is a little game in itself. The trouble is that they're all totally boring. To take one example, the first, all you have to do to complete it is move a cursor across a map from point A to point B. This involves the superhuman ability to distinguish between the up, down, left and right keys. A half-trained rhesus monkey could do it.
US Gold's Commodore products impress me. When it comes to the Spectrum, I think they'd better sharpen up their act.
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