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Wing your way to adventure in Web Wars, the latest and best game - so far - for the Vectrex system.

You are the Hawk King flying through a gigantic web hanging in space. Strange alien creatures - protected by deadly drones - inhabit this web. Your mission is to capture them and take them back to your trophy room where the remain imprisoned as permanent reminders of your bravery in the face of cosmic danger!

You have to overcome the convoys of guardian Drones, get the better of the dreadful fire-breathing Cosmic Dragons and escape through a square portal which appears after each capture.

While flying around the outer areas of the web you, as the Hawk King, will spot an alien in the distance winging its way towards you from the web's centre.

As it closes in, you launch into attack - flying down the web, blasting away at the Drones you position the Hawk King until it is on a collision course with the winged alien. At the last minute you fire your Capture Rod and the alien is yours!

However, watch out for the Drones you don't kill as once they're reached the edge of the web, they'll turn round and chase you.

After the alien has been captured, a square portal appears in the distance and slowly travels up the web. Still avoiding the Drones, position the Hawk King and fly through the portal to reach your trophy room where your latest victim can be displayed.

If you fail to catch the creature on the second attempt the Cosmic Dragon appears, breathing fireballs at you with amazing accuracy. It is impervious to your blasters and the best chance of survival is to quickly capture a creature and escape through the portal before it reaches the outer rim of the web.

After each capture your speed of flight increases - the more creatures captured the faster the game becomes. Your speed also increases dramatically when you fly into the web, with the Hawk King hurtling towards the centre at near impossible speeds.

Head-on collisions are most likely to happen at this point and it is often safer to remain near the outer edges where the pace is slower.

Control is by the stubby Vectrex joystick and I found it quite difficult to manoeuvre the Hawk King accurately. However, this doesn't detract from Web Wars, which is a very fast and addictive game.

Web Wars is produced for the Vectrex by Milton Bradley and is available from all leading retail outlets at £22.50.

The best game yet for the ever improving Vectrex system.