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Firepower is a new beginning for Amiga software, taking it into a field that only the Amiga can create.

It's a tank battle game where the main object is to find your enemy's flag and return it to your own base. Meanwhile you can be creating havoc by blowing up various types of buildings.

Finding the enemy's base area can be very difficult, as some of the scenarios are rather large. I even got lost in my own base for a while!

You start off with a choice of three different ways to play the game; against a friend on the same computer, against the computer or against a friend via a modem. After your selection has been made a choice of three tanks is given: Scorpion, Shadow 6 or a Marc XJ1; I prefer the Scorpion as it can take the most hits and is the all-purpose tank.

The game starts with you in your bunker; in the two player game the screen is split down the middle to show both areas; otherwise, your area takes up the whole screen.

Next to your area is some important information, including number of mines, number of men rescued, and the radar display. Now all you have to do is to search and destroy the enemy's flag. On your long journey you will encounter helicopters, gun emplacements, barracks, prison camps, fuel dumps and the flag house.

Blowing up a fuel dump will result in an increase of fuel while blowing up a prison camp will enable you to rescue some of your men. If you manage to rescue five men and return them safely back to base you are rewarded with an extra mine. Mines can be used to stop your opponent from getting into certain positions for a time.

Bloodthirsty Amiga owners will enjoy running over enemy soldiers, producing a jammy smear accompanied by a loud splat!

To find the flag, you have to look for a specific building which is very heavily guarded, and there can be up to two dummy buildings to destroy first.

The graphics are of a very high quality, especially the men running all over the screen. The sound effects are like real explosions, and that splat... well, it's just great!

If you own an Amiga and do not rush out and buy this, then you are missing one of the best games around. Firepower is setting standards for other software houses to follow.