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If you own an Amstrad and don't immediately rush out and grab a copy of Ikari Warriors then you might as well go and bury your machine in the back garden, forget about computers and playing games and go back to basket-weaving.

The Amstrad version of this coin-op conversion is a gem. You won't see better this side of Christmas - and probably for quite a while afterwards.

The Amstrad graphics are as close as dammit to the arcade machine and the playability goes off the C+VG scale. If Elite thought they had a hit with Commando then they've got another thing coming...

If you haven't seen the arcade version then you're in for a nice surprise. Ikari takes the Commando/Rambo theme and puts it into overdrive. And you can play the same game with a friend.

It's a horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up like Commando. But here you can ambush enemy tanks, climb aboard, and do even more damage than you did when you were on foot armed with a machine gun and grenades.

The jungle country you blast your way through is infested with enemy troops who all want to stop you reaching the general they've captured and you want to set free.

You dash through forests, across bridges, through rivers, and even into enemy fortresses in search of the general's prison.

Blow up pillboxes or shoot enemy commanders - they are the green ones - and you'll find supplies of grenades, fuel for captured tanks, ammo and even little "smart-bombs" which wipe out all attackers in your immediate vicinity when you run over it.

The graphics are simply brilliant, the game play awesomely addictive. There's a nifty high-score chart, but you have to be good to get on it.

Ikari Warriors is a classy arcade conversion - the best Amstrad game we've seen for ages. Maybe even the best of the year. Get Ikari Warriors and take no prisoners!