Starstrike is based on the arcade smash Star Wars. There are four main stages to the game. The first is set in deep space as you fight for your life in your fighter craft against the various types of enemy space ships intent on your destruction The second stage has you skimming a planet's surface dotted with towers and once again you must avoid enemy firebolts while destroying the tower tops and gun emplacements. The third stage. and graphically the most exciting, has you flying down the trench towards the point where you must destroy the planetoid. In this stage you are presented with a 30 view of the trench and as you fly down it you must dodge the catwalks, upright barriers and firebolts while destroying the gun emplacements on the walls. In the last stage you must shoot two revolving cubes in a bid to destroy the planetoid and get a hefty bonus With each stage the difficulty level increases. Starstrike is probably the best vector graphics game for the Amstrad The graphics are both fast and smooth and present a realistic impression of 3D The speed and the well crafted difficulty factors all add up to a very playable and addictive game that should appeal to most people.     
Overall AMTIX! rating: 87%
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