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Hooray! Defender for the 90s! Well, that's the idea. The shame is it doesn't quite work.

Amnios is a plan-viewed multiway scrolling shoot-'em-up. The player zips around the surfaces of ten living planets in his ship, zapping the bad guys and rescuing the trapped humans. By shooting certain pods, the player can upgrade his ship with better weaponry.

And that's it. It's that simple. Of course, with this sort of game you're not looking for depth - you're looking for action. And in this respect Amnios does pretty well. The scrolling is smooth, sound suitably raucous, and the graphics have an attractive organic/mutated look to them.

Trouble is, I didn't really feel much compulsion to work my way through the first world, let along the tenth. Control over the ship isn't quite as 'reflexive' as it should be, and this detracts from the fun badly. Not my cup of tea, but it may well be yours. Give it a look.