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If you have ever fancied yourself as the pilot of a fast-moving helicopter then this program offers you the chance. In this case the machine is a jetcopter, with which you must negotiate such hazards as missiles, electronic storms, and on the higher levels of difficulty, you face armoured barrage balloons, jet fighters, and a missile-firing submarine.

Your aim is to get to an unstable nuclear reactor and destroy it before rescuing your lost comrades - I'm not quite sure why you have to destroy the reactor, if it is unstable I would have thought it would do the job quite well itself.

The controls are pretty simple, being up, down, right, and turn through 90 or 180 degrees, you also have a hold game facility. I found the fire/turn controls a bit awkward though - they all use the same key and, until you become sufficiently gentle with its use (the "C" key; or the fire button if you are using a joystick), you will find yourself rotating when you mean to fire and vice versa.

Your game status display consists of graphic representations of your remaining fuel, your jetcopters, and which mission (ie. stage) you are on. The graphics are good and I find the game appealing - it is a bit like a Skramble type game, and certainly the destruction of the reactor is a challenging task. A game definitely worth having a look at.