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"A Fast Action shoot 'Em-Up "The meanest, slickest blast 'em up since Turrican II" Zzap 64 "The seven fast action levels will leave you breathless" ST Action."

This is one of those games where all the work has gone into excellent presentation, great in game graphics with an excellent sound track yet there was no time left to add gameplay, something like Shadow of the Beast. The game has five very short levels. You can only move a few pixels before the next wave or mid boss battle. It would have been so much better if the levels were longer with the enemies better spaced out, maybe with a heath collectable mid way.

The games difficulty is not so bad in the early stages, although you do have to watch out for instant deaths from things moving on the floor or walking into a boss. One annoyance is explosions from any indirect projectiles can still cause damage. For the most part, you can just rapid fire in front of a boss to kill it quickly but later on the difficulty does ramp up so you don't finish it to quickly by adding additional enemies placing the hitbox in a way that causes you to have to time jumps between enemy fire.

There is really only one weapon in the game although you do get to pickup a jetpack in level 1 and ride a dragon with fireballs in level 2. To complete the game you need to pickup the four SW units (Keys) as you go through the levels which unlocks the weapons vault (end screen)

Disk version is being played with the only notable difference with the tape version being the loading anim and music between levels which the tape lacks. The initial loading image also lacks the 'Protected by' info.

The game was also made for the 16bit machines the following year which is almost a completely different game.

00:00:00 Loading Music
00:03:30 Title Music
00:08:15 Stage 1
00:10:28 Stage 2
00:12:07 Stage 3
00:14:42 Stage 4
00:16:35 Stage 5
00:19:12 Ending
00:21:40 Highscore Music