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Many attempts have been made to combine fast action with complex adventure type guests, but none more successfully than this one from CRL.

With a well set sci-fi scenario and a seemingly simple task, to shut down the Fusion reactor in the capital city of Centralis on Tau Ceti, you are set down in one of the cities at the controls of a skimmer. This machine literally bristles with equipment and armaments, a laser, eight heat-seeking missiles, anti-missile missiles, flares, scanners compass, shields, night stands and a computer (guaranteed debugged!).

The first plays are used simply getting to know how to use all this equipment and then you have the joy of using adventure style commands to communicate with your camcorder, recognising the various buildings, artifacts and enemy craft, and using the map (very impressive) and teleport system to get around.

The arcade sequences alone would have made a good game, but the additional strategy and thought required puts this game in the same league as Elite.

I know these games don't appeal to everyone, but for those who like a real challenge in the best of computing gaming, this is a must.

This is surely a first for ZXC, an actual six star program.