Previous Next

Naval warfare during World War Two forms the backdrop for this two-player game.

Each player - British or German - takes his turn to enter his orders into the computer, after which all the ships move and their positions are plotted on the map.

Any ship-to-ship contact is advised to the players.

If appropriate, orders can then be given to aircraft which go on scouting missions, again, any contact with enemy ships being advised accordingly.

Engagements between ships are then displayed graphically, although in a fairly rudimentary fashion. When any aircraft have spotted enemy ships, the player has the chance to decide at what point to drop his bomb as the aircraft "files" over the ship in question. Again, the graphics here are somewhat rudimentary.

While there are some quite nice illustrations in this game, particularly of some of the ships, they do not, unfortunately, make up for what a basically a good idea very poorly implemented and about twelve months out of date.

The fact that the game is mainly written in basic does not help, certain parts being extremely slow, tedious and boring. On several occasions I waited over two minutes for the positions of the ships to be plotted.

Orders for each ship (speed, direction) have to be laboriously entered via the keyboard and, before each player enters his orders, we have yet another wait while the positions of his ships are plotted.

Navigation is very difficult.

In summing up, I can do little more than say that this is a real bummer. Nice idea, pity about the product. But then what can you expect for £2.50? Best save your pennies for a worthwhile game.