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In Ocean's latest licensed epic 'V', the world is yet again under threat from alien beings who want to rule Earth (yawn). Mike Donovan has different ideas and decides to put an end to the visitors' evil doings, so he sets out to infiltrate and destroy the scaly reptilians' mothership.

Once on board, he has an immediate problem. That is, how to open the hangar doors, so that he can explore the rest of the ship. Luckily, he bought a Communiputer in the duty free shop in the craft that took him to the aliens' mothership and it can be used to crack the codes which lock the doors. Once he has cracked the code, he has to rush out of the hangar as the doors only stay open for a few seconds.

He is now out of the hangar but then remembers that he had to plant an explosive in there, and so has to repeat the procedure of opening the doors, and then rushes in to plant an explosive, and rushes out again, before the doors close.

Once out the hangar, Mike searches the ship for important locations to place his remaining four bombs. He finds a laboratory. "That's interesting," he thinks, but the doors are coded. The Communputer comes in handy again as he decodes the door. Once inside, he starts nosing around and notices a computer and stumbles across part of the formula for the Red Dust (which is poisonous to the aliens). "That's interesting," he thinks and copies it onto the Communpiter then leaves.

Donovan is quietly walking along, when a small alien robot comes flying through the air, so he hides in what he things is a cupboard. He soon finds out that the cupboard is a transporter and he has been taken to another plane (section) of the ship. In this section he notices green squares on the floor, and decides to stand on one. Suddenly the molecules of his body are moved around a bit and he appears in different surroundings. "That's interesting," thinks Mike, and wants another go (What about your mission, Mike?) he rushes off gleefully and plants some more explosives (psycho!!!).

Towards the end of the game, when Donovan has planted his explosives in the five key points specified in the instructions, and completed the Red Dust formula, he has to return to the hangar, board his ship and return to earth, where he is greeted by his friends and they all live happily every after.

V is a very complicated game, there are hardly any instructions and you are not even told what the icons mean! The graphics are of a very high quality and animation is superb, especially the somersaults. It demands a reasonable level of common sense to play this game but should join your collection if you enjoy a good arcade adventure with plenty of action and problems to solve.