On the beach This conversion of what was a smash hit war-based arcade game on the Commodore and a similar great success on the Spectrum, has doubtless been long awaited by many Amstrad owners. However it must be pointed out that the retrospective opinion of many people who own those machines is that the game, although initially entertaining, soon palls and becomes rather boring - a feeling that I must go along with after just an evening of playing this version. Doubtless you are familiar with the various screens of the game - guiding your flotilla of battleships through torpedo laden waters, a simple stop-start, left right exercise; blasting away at the enemy aircraft and battleships -up, down, left, right, fire; guiding your tanks through the 3D view obstacle course -left, right etc. Really it has to be put into that pile of games that bewitched people by the original quality of the graphics and sound, never mind the plot, and considering the outrageous price it could be a case of ‘Yankee Go Home'.   .png)
Still, the Amstrad conversion is competent. It shows a promising ability to exploit the hardware but lacks many of the super little touches that characterised the earlier releases - the animated figures of the Spectrum version for example. Doubtless it will do well on the basis of its reputation, but I'm sure that there must be a lot of more worthwhile stuff to be seen from the US Gold stable. Tony Kendle , PCW
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