C&VG


Task Force

Publisher: Players Premier
Machine: Spectrum 48K/128K

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #93

Task Force

The task forced upon the player in this flip-screen shooter is to guide his jet fighter through a veritable labyrinth of screens packed with blob-firing nasties. Megalomaniac Snide Gantree is at the bottom of this very bad scene, and it's up to you to stop him getting away with a load of cruise missiles.

One thing that has to be said about Task Force is that the whole game looks suspiciously Cybernoid-y. The ground emplacements and the extra weapons operate in almost exactly the same manner and even some of the graphics are nearly identical. However, weedy sound and ropey collision detection which results in impossible situations take the shine off what could have been an interesting game.

A promising, but ultimately disappointing, Cybernoid lookalike.