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Once again US Gold come up with the goods for the poor underprivileged BBC owner. Raid Over Moscow is a conversion of the controversial "let's bash the Ruskies" game that had lots of people (that were nothing to do with computer games) whining about it. Because of this, the name was changed to simply Raid. Now the fuss has died down, it has revered to its original (and much more apt) name.

The basic plot is that Russian missiles get launched at American cities. You are in an orbiting SDI satellite and have a number of attack craft at your disposal. In the first stage you must pilot your craft through the door to the satellite and down to the surface of the planet. Then there is a Zaxxon-esque section where you fly towards the Russian missile base.

At this point you have to destroy five installations shooting missiles at you. After a number of these installations get zapped you are transported to the Kremlin where you must generally shoot it up with your mortar.

Then you go onto the section where you must shoot up the guard robots with your frisbees (well, they look like frisbees to me!). Then the game is won and the Commie hordes are repelled.

The game loses little of its presence of the BBC and is certainly better than the conversion onto some other machines that I have seen this on. The game is good though, showing its age slightly as the game came out on the Commodore some years ago.