Home Computing Weekly


Warship

Author: S.S.
Publisher: Jlp
Machine: Oric 1/Oric 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #73

Here's an extract from the title page. "You are the commander of a nuclear-elastic powered warship. Your mission is to find your way through the mine field for your ship and the troop ship you are escorting. The troopship must be safely docked at the landing stage. To do this you have to destroy the shore batteries which are protected by helicopters armed with anti-ship missiles. A hostile submarine has been contacted and is closing in. You will be under constant fire as you negotiate the mine field..."

In fact, in this 100 per cent Basic, supposedly strategy game, all you do is guide the little ship with the cursor keys through blue dots, blast the occasional helicopter hoping you don't get blasted into a million pieces by one of the random missiles. The whole process, to put it mildly, is a drag.

The graphics are really poor and the sound is unimaginatively boring. The game itself is very repetitive and gets monotonous after the first game. The cheaply produced inlay card, sparse instructions and childish humour of the title page doesn't help either. In any case, what in the world is a "Helecopter"?

S.S.

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