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Nexus, the company who produced a game of the same name, have just released Assault Machine. Your mission is to shut down a criminal planet called Targon, and stop it producing the Assault Machine, a massive weapons system.

All you have to help you in this daring quest are four droids. These droids, named after famous detectives (Bond, Holmes, etc) are used to search various islands on the planet, and relay information back to you.

Once your droids have told you where the enemy bases are, you set off on a bombing run, against incredible odds, to shut them down.

You have three atmosphere craft (space ships) and you pilot these between islands dropping off droids or picking them up, as the case may be. This part of the game is a shoot-'em-up and you control your ship like you do in Gyruss, blasting the enemy.

But before you can do this you must select the island you wish to search and then choose a droid to be sent. Each droid has its own strengths and weaknesses and you can define your own droids with a utility supplied on the tape/disk.

The more defence a droid carries the slower it will move, less defence and it will search quickly. It's up to you to decide.

If you destroy all ten islands, the assault machine will be finished, and you will have done better than me! Oh, by the way, all this must be done in a time limit. Just to make it a little harder.

The graphics are not spectacular but they're not that bad either. Average, I guess. The only really good part of the game graphically is the map - it looks like a real map!

The sound is average as well, and I didn't hear any tunes, which, as every C64 owner will tell you, is a crime in itself.

The verdict? Well, just a totally average game all round, really.