Home Computing Weekly
9th October 1984
Published in Home Computing Weekly #83
According to the advertising blurb, this game is supposed to give me "hypermania". Well, not quite, but it does have the closest thing to Zaxxon style graphics I have seen on the Spectrum!
They may not be the finest yet, as also claimed in the advertising, but they are pretty good.
You fly the tornado place over 40 screens of landscape, including houses, trees, telegraph poles and seascape, and search for enemy bases.
To destroy these you must fly as low as possible over them: but do not crash into anything! Also, keep an eye on your fuel: you will have to land to fill the tanks.
The game is shown in perspective 3D, i.e. a bird's eye view, and you can see your plane, and its shadow, underneath. Colour is well used.
Sound, however, is sparse, and whatever the whirring sound is, it aggravates me intensely. The game also lacks any real point.
Flying over little crosses is not rivetingly exciting! Still, its pretty to look at, impressive and maybe worth the price.
