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Imagine you are Luke Skywalker sitting at the controls of your X-Win fighter, travelling down Darth Vader's Death Star. You have been sent on a do or die mission to try and destroy the Star but the only way to destroy it is to travel down a 90 miles trench.

Along the trench are gun emplacements firing at you from all directions. Enemy Tie fighters are also chasing you, trying to make you crash into the side of the trench or to make you leave the trench by flying too high.

As you get closer to the vent your on-board attack computer is turned on, once the vent is in sight, cooly line up your sights over the opening and fire.

Virgin Games have not made a bad job of reproducing the scenario and action made famous by the Star Wars film. Some areas of improvement might include the inclusion of a laser gun in your X-Wing and not just the all-important missiles. At present the only way to escape the enemy fighters is to try and dodge them. It's very hard even at skill level one (out of nine) and can become quite annoying but the graphics are good and colour well used, so in this case it is possible to translate annoyance into a challenge to your skills...