Aviator Arcade II

"Take control of an ultra-powerful battle-copter and engage enemy forces over a variety of landscapes. Collect power-ups along the way, you will need them for some of the boss battles that await you! Good luck!"

Due to the great reception of the previous game, the sequel takes the same great gameplay and expands on it it. The first four levels play as you would expect being an updated versions of the original game(demo?) But then, the game takes a turn putting you in another craft with different level styles. The game also now has weapon power ups and weapon variety which adapt as you go through the different scenarios. Without spoiling to much, the game starts out battling rebels as before but soon turns into an alien attack which must be pushed back!

The original game had good presentation for what it was, but this game steps it up with more story and even an outro. I'm not a fan of the slower title music though. Of course due to huge expansion over the original it is now a commercial game available on disk and cartridge.

Overall a fantastic C64 game with great gameplay, good gfx, nice tunes and good sfx. The difficulty is fair with not to many instanced of death from behind. I played on Hard difficulty and the only notable difference is that you can only hold one smart bomb at a time.

00:00:00 Loader Music
00:01:18 Title Music
00:04:02 Game