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Tony Crowther's first game for Quicksilva is fast, furious and lots of fun!

You control a futuristic car - armed with rockets, and trapped on a massive freeway system in a lost city somewhere on a mysterious planet.

The car is being chased by numerous android vehicles out to destroy! There are UFOs, helicopters and tanks to deal with too - plus torpedoes and guided missiles. So you'll get the general idea that there's a lot going on.

The screen display is split into two. The top half shows your car, Black Thunder, and its immediate surroundings. Below is a display which shows your current status - lives, ammo left, etc. Below this is the crucial plan view of the freeway system. This shows your position plus the oncoming android vehicles and helicopters, etc. The action is fast and furious. I found this a bit annoying because I didn't get enough time to admire the great background graphics at the top of the screen without getting blasted!

There's some nice built-in sound synthesis too - a voice reads out your score at the end of each game and tells you to "Get Ready" as you launch into the next game.

As Tony Crowther has said elsewhere, the game is really a revamped version of Suicide Express - but even so it is a good game in its own right.

Graphics are excellent and game action is, well, frantic! Superb fun for shoot out fanatics with quick reactions. The game has fourteen levels and 32 screens.