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Nice box. "Graphical space battle", it screams at you. And it's right, it's graphical and it's a space battle... just.

As commander of Earth's last orbitting space station - yet again - your mission (Yawn!) is to destroy as many of the invading Cylon fleet as possible (ho-hum) before their lethal lithium missiles (Zzzzzzz...) reach Earth.

What you get is a pretty screen display which does no more than act as a stationary backdrop, a set of bog-standard crosshair sights which you move about the screen and the Cylon fleet. Each ship from this fleet makes its entrance screen right, squirts a missile at Earth, screen left, and makes its way to screen centre. You have to reduce it to a molten glob before the missile hits Earth. Fleets come in waves of fifty, after which comes another fleet, followed by another, followed by...