[{"TitleName":"Guerrilla War","Publisher":"Imagine Software Ltd","Author":"Andrew Postlewhite, Clive Paul, Jonathan Dunn","YearOfRelease":"1988","ZxDbId":"0002171","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 60, Jan 1989","Price":"£1.5","ReleaseDate":"1988-12-15","Editor":"Dominic Handy","TotalPages":116,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nEditor: Dominic Handy\r\nAssistant Editor: Stuart Wynne\r\nStaff Writers: Mark Caswell, Philip King, Lloyd Mangram, Nick Roberts\r\nPhotography: Cameron Pound, Michael Parkinson\r\nContributors: Jon Bates, Robin Candy, Raffaele Cecco, Ian Cull, Paul Evans, Ian Lacey, Barnaby Page, Paul Sumner\r\nEditorial Assistants: Caroline Blake, Vivienne Vickress\r\n\r\nPRODUCTION\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nProduction Manager: Jonathan Rignall\r\nReprographics Supervisor: Matthew Uffindell\r\nArt Director: Mark Kendrick\r\nAssistant Art Director: Wayne Allen\r\nProduction Team: Ian Chubb, Melvin Fisher, Robert Hamilton, Robert Millichamp, Tim Morris, Yvonne Priest\r\n\r\nEditorial Director: Roger Kean\r\nPublisher: Geoff Grimes\r\nAdvertisement Director: Roger Bennett\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Neil Dyson\r\nSales Executives: Sarah Chapman, Andrew Smales\r\nAssistants: Jackie Morris, Lee Watkins [redacted]\r\n\r\nMail Order: Carol Kinsey\r\nSubscriptions: Denise Roberts\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nTypeset by The Tortoise Shell Press, Ludlow. Colour origination by Scan Studios [redacted]. Printed in England by Carlisle Web Offset, [redacted] - member of the BPCC Group. Distribution by COMAG, [redacted]\r\n\r\nCOMPETITION RULES\r\nThe Editor's decision is final in all matters relating to adjudication and while we offer prizes in good faith, believing them to be available, if something untoward happens (like a game that has been offered as a prize being scrapped) we reserve the right to substitute prizes of comparable value. We'll do our very best to despatch prizes as soon as possible after the published closing date. Winners names will appear in a later issue of CRASH. No correspondence can be entered into regarding the competitions (unless we've written to you stating that you have won a prize and it doesn't turn up, in which case drop the Sticky Solutions Department a line at the [redacted] address). No person who has any relationship, no matter how remote, to anyone who works for either Newsfield or any of the companies offering prizes, may enter one of our competitions. No material may be reproduced whole or in part without the written consent of the copyright holders. We cannot undertake to return anything sent into CRASH including written and photographic material, software and hardware - unless it is accompanied by a suitably stamped addressed envelope. Unsolicited written or photo material is welcome, and if used in the magazine is paid for at our current rates.\r\n\r\nHAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CRASH READERS\r\n\r\nTotal: 96,590\r\nUK/EIRE: 90,822\r\n\r\n©CRASH Ltd, 1988\r\n\r\nISSN 0954-8661\r\n\r\nCover Design & Illustration by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"King kong returns with machine gun!\r\n\r\nProducer: Imagine\r\nOut of Pocket: £7.95 cass, £14.95 disk\r\nAuthor: Sentient\r\n\r\nLicensed from the Shin Nihon Kikaku Corp for SNK for short) (and I can see why - Ed) this is the third in the than Warriors trilogy. After the futuristic combat of the still unconverted Victory Road (also to be produced by Imagine) this game takes place in the present day. The location is a tropical island where the people are oppressed by an evil tyrant (and no, it isn't the UK). Aiming to liberate the country is a battle-hardened mercenary (plus friend in two player mode).\r\n\r\nOf course, no sooner than you land on the island's beaches than a horde of government troops open fire. Moving surprisingly spritely for someone with 50 grenades in their back pocket, plus an infinite supply of bullets, you return fire. Be careful not to hit hostages though, that loses you 500 points, while walking over them earns 1000 points. Also to be watched out for are the various glowing special weapons, which can be collected, and tanks. Carelessly left with the key still in the ignition these can be commandeered for a while, but watch out for mines!\r\n\r\nAt the end of each of the five levels there's a special baddie, requiring appropriate tactics, to dispose of. Simply getting to the first of these is no easy task. Enemy troops are both numerous and heavily armed. Given this difficulty of play, unexciting presentation and unoriginal gameplay this is a distinctly average release.\r\n\r\nMARK 58%\r\n\r\nTHE ESSENTIALS\r\nJoysticks: Cheetah 125 Special, Cursor, Kempston, Sinclair\r\nGraphics: wobbly sprites waddle around a distinctly blocky, play area\r\nSound: two decent 128K title tunes and adequate in-game explosive effects\r\nOptions: one or two players. Rotate or normal controls","ReviewerComments":["Ikari Warriors wasn't too bad a game concept, so an improved sequel had to be good news, hadn't it? Well, sound's good, with nice explosions and some tuneful 128K music, but the graphics are poor, with a dull, monochromatic playing area. The real problem, though, is the dubious collision detection and the way you can get trapped behind a fence - forcing you to restart game. This is still a fairly playable game, but could have been much better.\r\nPhil King\r\n63%","The only baddies this game tempts me to lob a grenade at are the programmers. The green blocks that break up the monochrome play area look silly, the sound is only adequate and the toughness is infuriating. Avoid.\r\nNick Roberts\r\n42%"],"OverallSummary":"General Rating: An unoriginal shoot-'em-up which has been let down by sloppy programming.","Page":"30,31","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Phil King","Score":"63","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Mark Caswell","Score":"58","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Nick Roberts","Score":"42","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Don't get caught on those fences or you'll be there until Phil's sheep come home."}],"BlurbText":[{"Text":"JUNGLE JAUNTS\r\n\r\nMemorise the patterns of enemy soldiers.\r\n\r\nBe careful not too shoot hostages if you want a high score.\r\n\r\n'Duck under' enemy grenades by getting too close to the throwers for them to hit you.\r\n\r\nUse the tank to get through really tough sections."}],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Presentation","Score":"55%","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"53%","Text":""},{"Header":"Sound","Score":"62%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"54%","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictive Qualities","Score":"52%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"54%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 37, Jan 1989","Price":"£1.6","ReleaseDate":"1988-12-09","Editor":"Teresa Maughan","TotalPages":156,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Teresa Maughan\r\nArt Editor: Catherine Higgs\r\nProduction Editor: Jackie Ryan\r\nStaff Writer: Duncan MacDonald\r\nDesigner: Thor Goodall\r\nTechnical Consultant: David McCandless\r\nContributors: Marcus Berkmann, Guy Bennignton, Ciaran Brennan, Jason Daley, Mike Gerrard, Sean Kelly, Catherine Peters, Peter Shaw, Rachael Smith, Phil South\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Simon Stansfield\r\nAdvertisement Executive: Stephen Bloy\r\nAdvertisement Director: Alistair Ramsay\r\nProduction Manager: Judith Middleton\r\nMarketing Manager: Bryan Denyer\r\nPublisher: Terry Grimwood\r\nFinance Director: Colin Crawford\r\nManaging Director: Stephen England\r\nChairman: Felix Dennis\r\n\r\nPublished by Dennis Publishing Ltd, [redacted] Company registered in England.\r\nTypesetters: Carlinpoint [redacted]\r\nReproduction: Graphic Ideas, London\r\nPrinters: Chase Web Offset [redacted]\r\nDistribution: Seymour Press [redacted]\r\n\r\nAll material in Your Sinclair ©1989 Felden Productions, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Sinclair is a monthly publication."},"MainText":"Imagine\r\n£8.95 cass/£14.95 disk\r\nReviewer: Sean Kelly\r\n\r\nIn the jungles of a tropical island, the people groan beneath the iron rule of a cruel opressor, (groon, groan). The A team have had to shy off because of a flat tyre, but help's at hand 'cos there's two crack marines waiting on the beach to liberate the natives. You are of course, one of these marines, so, go get 'em boy!\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, you're going to have to battle your way through five different sections before you can liberate the island, and progress is tough, hindered as you are, by loads 'n loads of obstacles. Firstly you've got to fight your way past the regular soldiers, who charge at you in groups of twos and threes, making killing them extremely difficult. You'll find soldiers dug in behind sand bags too. Watch out for them 'cos they'll pass the time by shooting at you, or chucking hand-grenades in your direction, rapidly turning you into diced marine. Lovely.\r\n\r\nIt's a bit more than just a shoot 'em up though, 'cos sometimes the soldiers will be leading a hostage. Taking out all the soldiers, but leaving the hostage, will result in a large bonus. Have too itchy a trigger finger though, and you'll lose five hundred points. So watch out for those hostages.\r\n\r\nThe soldiers you kill will sometimes leave a weapon behind. Collect it and it'll dramatically increase your fire power, until you get killed, that is. And should more ammo be needed, just pick up an energy bottle or more magazines from the hidden ammo supply.\r\n\r\nGetting past that lot'll be tough, and you'll still need to tackle the standard end-of-section meanie. This'll need a massive 32 hits before it'll die, and on each level, you'll need differing tactics to score those hits, so getting through any level is not going to be easy.\r\n\r\nGuerilla War is as good a conversion as could be expected on the Spectrum. The graphics are smaller than the arcade version obviously, but are still a fair size, and are well animated. It's also extremely addictive, and will keep most players coming back for more.\r\n\r\nBut there's one gripe, Guerilla War misses the megamark because of the awkward control method. You need both hands to play, one for the joystick, and another for the keyboard to launch grenades. It's awkward and annoying. Niggles aside, however, this is an addictive little game, and with five levels to work through, will fill many a cold winter evening.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"A good 'ol romping blasterama through tropical forests, let down slightly by awkward control.","Page":"117","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Sean Kelly","Score":"8","ScoreSuffix":"/10"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"A crack marines life is not an easy one. Keep firing!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"8/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"9/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Value For Money","Score":"9/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictiveness","Score":"7/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"8/10","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 81, Dec 1988","Price":"£1.6","ReleaseDate":"1988-11-18","Editor":"Graham Taylor","TotalPages":123,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Graham 'Oh Yeah' Taylor\r\nDeputy Editor: Jim 'Any colour will do for me' Douglas\r\nProduction Editor: Alison 'Demarkation' Skeat\r\nArt Editor: Tim 'Lager Lout' Noonan\r\nAdventure: The Sorceress\r\nZapchat: Jon Riglar\r\nTechnical: Andrew Hewson, Rupert Goodwins\r\nContributors: Tony 'I haven't done it' Dillon, Chris 'I'm keeping it' Jenkins\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Katherine Lee\r\nSenior Sales: Shane Hussien\r\nAd Production: Emma Ward\r\nPublisher's Assistant: Debbie Pearson\r\nPublisher: Terry 'I'm not your boss as such' Pratt\r\nMarketing: Clive 'Zxxx' Pembridge\r\n\r\nPhone: [redacted]\r\nFax: [redacted]\r\nEditorial and Advertisement Offices: [redacted]\r\n\r\nThis Month's Cover: Jerry 'Ninja' Parks\r\n\r\nPrinted by Nene River Press, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by EMAP Publications Ltd.\r\n\r\n©Copyright 1988 Sinclair User ISSN No 0262-5458\r\n\r\nSubscription Enquiries: [redacted]\r\n24 Hour Order Line: [redacted]\r\nBack Issues: Back Issues Department (SU), [redacted]"},"MainText":"Label: Imagine\r\nAuthor: Sentient\r\nPrice: £8.95\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nJoystick: various\r\nReviewer: Graham Taylor\r\n\r\nGuerilla War is a Yee Haa blam blam blam sort of game. Loads of blasting, loads of bullets hurtling all over the place, bazookas to pick up, tanks to do damage with, no social message whatsoever basically. This is probably good but I'm not sure that Guerilla War actually gives you anything that, say, Commando doesn't. It certainly isn't rubbish but original nooooooooo.\r\n\r\nThe plot - vertically scroll your way up a tropical island, avoid booby traps and zillions of enemy troops and get your two brave marines to blast your way to victory. There are five levels, and the specific objective is to destroy the stronghold at the end of the final level. Each level features a different enemy pattern and a different end of level obstacle.\r\n\r\nIt isn't just blasting (quite), there is a certain element of strategy that arises from the fact that, to begin with your grenade count is severely limited so you'd better be careful where you use them.\r\n\r\nTotalling some enemy soldiers will reveal a bonus weapon, bazooka or flamethrower. If you actually succeed in rescuing a hostage then aside from a general feeling of well being and achievement you'll get all your bullets and firepower restored to maximum. Conversely killing a hostage is bad, and you'll get penalised 500 points which in my case means minus figures.\r\n\r\nNow none of this sounds particularly original -this is because it isn't but an overly familiar gameplay can sometimes be redeemed by totally wicked programming and graphics. Oh dear...\r\n\r\nGuerilla War is programmed by Sentient Software for whom I've had a lot of respect in the past but this is pretty dire. The scrolling gives new meaning to the word 'jerkyness' and the graphics are so badly animated, and so clumsily drawn that it is almost impossible to see what it going on to begin with - it was only on about the fifth play I even realised that I had picked up a bazooka.\r\n\r\nThe problems of attributes also create anothe big minus. Half the time you die for the simple reason that you can't see the enemy who have merged into the background - the generous might call this camouflage - me I'd call it colour clash.\r\n\r\nThere is inevitably, a tank you can get into which trundles you through large areas of jungle in a hurry but, again, it looks pretty lame. The two player version is better but that's only because two player versions of this sort of game are always better - all that buddy buddy stuff. I ended up shooting quite a few hostages merely because I couldn't tell which was which, actually some of the time it was difficult to tell which was hostage and which was landscape feature...\r\n\r\nSound is entirely average, graphics are poor, gameplay is utterly the same as at least four or five other games and the best that you can say is that it is sort of like the Coin Op but so what. There are better games which are very similar to this already out there, some of them are on budget. This should be too.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Dull vertical combat affair. Poor.","Page":"28","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Graham Taylor","Score":"40","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"34%","Text":""},{"Header":"Sound","Score":"65%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"34%","Text":""},{"Header":"Lastability","Score":"23%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"40%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) Issue 16, Jan 1989","Price":"£2.5","ReleaseDate":"1988-12-01","Editor":"Graeme Kidd","TotalPages":196,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Future Publishing [redacted]\r\nTelephone [redacted], Fax [redacted], Telecom Gold 84:TXT152, Prestel/Micronet: 0458 74011\r\n\r\nEditor: Graeme Kidd\r\nReviews Editor: Bob Wade\r\nFeatures Editor: Andy Wilton\r\nProduction Editor: Damien Noonan\r\nContributing Production Editor: Martyn Lester\r\nConsultant Editor: Brian Larkman (Graphics)\r\nAdventure Editor: Steve Cooke\r\nContributors: Robin Alway, Phil South, Andy Wilton\r\nArt Editor: Trevor Gilham\r\nAssistant Art Editor: Angela Neale\r\nProduction: Diane Tavener\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Jonathan Beales\r\nAdvertising Sales Executive: David Lilley\r\nPublisher: Kevin Cox\r\n\r\nCover by Sebastian Quigley\r\n\r\nSUBSCRIPTIONS\r\nAvon Direct Mail [redacted]\r\n\r\nSPECIAL OFFERS\r\n(Christine Stacey) [redacted]\r\n\r\nCOLOUR ORIGINATION\r\nWessex Reproduction [redacted]\r\n\r\nDISTRIBUTION\r\nSM Distribution [redacted]\r\n\r\nPRINTING\r\nChase Web Offset [redacted]\r\n\r\n© FUTURE PUBLISHING LTD 1989\r\n\r\nNo part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without our permission."},"MainText":"Imagine's armed resistance.\r\n\r\nLiberating an entire nation with just two marines is a pretty tall order. Even if they are equipped with all the guns, grenades, bazookas, flamethrowers and tanks available, it's still going to be a battle against the odds - the enemy forces are well-equipped and are often found well-dug-in.\r\n\r\nPlay is very much in the Ikari Warriors and Leathernecks death-dealing mould, with lots of vertical scrolling and hammering away at enemies coming on from the top and sides of the screen. The simultaneous two-player option (where you can't shoot one another) leads to faster progress in the mission, but the need for co-operation brings its own problems.\r\n\r\nFighting through the five levels you encounter riflemen, troops throwing grenades, tanks, men with flamethowers and bazookas and then a large enemy at the end of each stage that takes multiple hits to destroy.\r\n\r\nBazookas and flamethrowers dropped by dead soldiers, can be collected and used, and it is possible to clamber into abandoned tanks and drive around. Tanks have excellent firepower, and make blasting through walls, fences and sandbags much easier.\r\n\r\nThere's nothing here we haven't seen in previous Commando derivatives, but the elements are combined to make a tough game. Plenty of action for jungle-hungry combat veterans to fight their way through.\r\n\r\nReviewer: Bob Wade\r\n\r\nRELEASE BOX\r\nC64/128, £9.95cs, £14.95dk, Imminent\r\nSpectrum, £8.95cs, £9.95dk, Out Now\r\nAtari ST, £19.95dk, Imminent\r\nAmiga, £19.95dk, Imminent\r\nAmstrad, £9.95cs, £14.95dk, Imminent\r\nIBM PC, No Plans\r\n\r\nPredicted Interest Curve\r\n\r\n1 min: 78/100\r\n1 hour: 85/100\r\n1 day: 80/100\r\n1 week: 60/100\r\n1 month: 30/100\r\n1 year: 10/100","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Addictively frustrating, tailing off somewhat when you get through a level or two.","Page":"64","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Bob Wade","Score":"704","ScoreSuffix":"/1000"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Spectrum - close to a tank which can be commandeered. Watch out for soldiers throwing the grenades that are exploding on the right of the screen."}],"BlurbText":[{"Text":"ARCADE ACCURACY\r\n\r\nIt's about the best you can expect out of a Spectrum, but it doesn't convey everything the arcade does.\r\n\r\nCoin-op Score: 6"},{"Text":"SPECTRUM VERSION\r\n\r\nLots of detail to the graphics, although the bullets can be hard to spot in the thick of the action."}],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"7/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Audio","Score":"3/10","Text":""},{"Header":"IQ Factor","Score":"2/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Fun Factor","Score":"7/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Ace Rating","Score":"704/1000","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"The Games Machine Issue 14, Jan 1989","Price":"£1.5","ReleaseDate":"1988-12-15","Editor":"Jon Rose","TotalPages":148,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nEditor: Jon Rose\r\nReviews Editor: Nik Wild\r\nFeatures Editor: Barnaby Page\r\nStaff Writers: Robin Hogg, Warren Lapworth, Robin Candy\r\nEditorial Assistants: Vivien Vickress, Caroline Blake\r\nResearcher: David Peters\r\nPhotography: Cameron Pound, Michael Parkinson (Assistant)\r\nContributors: Jon Bates, Mel Croucher, Robin Evans, John Woods\r\n\r\nPRODUCTION DEPARTMENT\r\n[redacted]\r\nProduction Manager: Jonathan Rignall\r\nArt Director: Mark Kendrick\r\nAssistant: Wayne Allen\r\nReprographics Supervisor: Matthew Uffindell\r\nProduction Team: Ian Chubb, Yvonne Priest, Melvin Fisher, Robert Millichamp, Robert Hamilton, Tim Morris, Jenny Reddard\r\n\r\nADVERTISING AND ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENTS\r\nEditorial Director: Roger Kean\r\nPublisher: Geoff Grimes\r\nGroup Advertisement Director: Roger Bennett\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Neil Dyson\r\nAdvertisement Sales Executives: Andrew Smales, Sarah Chapman\r\nAssistant: Jackie Morris, Lee Watkins [redacted]\r\nGroup Promotions Executive: Richard Eddy\r\nMail Order: Carol Kinsey\r\nSubscriptions: Denise Roberts [redacted]\r\n\r\nTypeset by the Tortoise Shell Press, Ludlow and on our Apple Macintosh II running Quark Xpress 2.0. Colour origination by Scan Studios [redacted]. Printed in England by Carlisle Web Offset [redacted] - a member of the BPCC Group. Distribution effected by COMAG, [redacted].\r\n\r\nCOMPETITION RULES\r\nThe Editor's decision is final in all matters relating to adjudication and while we offer prizes in good faith, believing them to be available, if something untoward happens (like a game that has been offered as a prize being scrapped) we reserve the right to substitute prizes of comparable value. We'll do our very best to despatch prizes as soon as possible after the published closing date. Winners names will appear in a later issue of TGM. No correspondence can be entered into regarding the competitions (unless we've written to you stating that you have won a prize and it doesn't turn up, in which case drop Viv Vickress a line at the PO Box 10 address). No person who has any relationship, no matter how remote, to anyone who works for Newsfield or any of the companies offering prizes, may enter one of our competitions.\r\n\r\nNo material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the written consent of the copyright holders. We cannot undertake to return anything sent into TGM - including written and photographic material, hardware or software - unless it's accompanied by a suitably stamped, addressed envelope. We regret that readers' postal enquiries cannot always be answered. Unsolicited written or photographic material is welcome, and if used in the magazine is paid for at our current rates. Occasional material from Electronic Game Player reproduced by kind permission of Sorjana Publications, California. Other Newsfield publications are CRASH (Spectrum), ZZAP! (Commodore 64/Amiga), FEAR (fantasy and horror) and MOVIE - THE VIDEO MAGAZINE. Now that's interesting, but why are you reading all this when there 143 pages to go?\r\n\r\n©TGM Magazines Ltd, 1988\r\nA Newsfield Publication ISSN 0954-8092\r\n\r\nCover Design by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Spectrum 48/128 Cassette: £8.95, Diskette: £14.95\r\nAmstrad CPC Cassette: £9.95, Diskette: £14.95\r\n\r\nAPE A GUERILLA\r\n\r\nCruel oppressors are ten-a-penny in South American settings common to most militarised vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups. In Guerilla War the dictator is one who just won't say no to total domination. A coup d'etat or peaceful settlement of the situation is out of the question. It's time to send in two men from the toughest group of fighters around - the Marines!\r\n\r\nFollowing a beach landing at the start of the first level, the marines fight their way up-screen, wasting all who dare to approach. Infantry and tanks pose military problems while barbed wire, fences and other obstacles physically hinder progress. Using grenades on the defences is most effective, and killing troops reveals bazookas or flame-throwers to pick up.\r\n\r\nPOLE POSITION\r\n\r\nJust for sheer sadistic pleasure and to make sure you don't fire indiscriminately, the enemy have tied hostages to poles and placed them in your line of fire. Freeing prisoners replenishes your ammunition supplies - shooting them loses you points, so keep your trigger-finger still whenever they're near.\r\n\r\nIn true Ikari Warriors style, tanks are carelessly left lying around for your Marines to board and use. Unfortunately they are susceptible to mines, grenades and running out of fuel - if you're inside when one goes up, you go up as well.\r\n\r\nAfter successfully negotiating bridges, villages and military defences, you reach the end of each of five levels where a mega-opponent awaits. Several well-placed grenades, bazooka or flame-thrower rounds should vanquish the enemy and reward you with the next level. On the last level the dictator is the threat standing between you and victory. But then no-one said life as a Guerilla was easy.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Guerilla War brings back the ideas and violence of Ikari Warriors. It is difficult to play, due mainly to the monochrome soldiers and tanks, they merge with backdrops. Multi-load on the 48K Spectrum and a rather chaotic two player mode don't help much. But if you really want another IW clone, GW is an acceptable offering.","Page":"46","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Ooh look, an armoured vehicle to steal! Tanks a bunch! - Amstrad screen."},{"Text":"The long-awaited but soon forgotten Ikari Warriors sequel - Spectrum screen."}],"BlurbText":[{"Text":"\"Well-placed grenades, bazooka or flame-thrower should vanquish the enemy\""},{"Text":"AMSTRAD CPC\r\n\r\nOverall: 64%\r\n\r\nMuch the same as the Spectrum version - although it doesn't feature the well-defined graphics it makes effective use of the Amstrad's colours. These additional hues improve playability. Above average one or two-player all-action fodder, but nothing special."},{"Text":"OTHER FORMATS\r\n\r\nGuerilla War should soon make its violent debut on the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64/128 (Cassette £9.95, Diskette £14.95), Atari ST (£19.95) and Amiga (£24.95)."}],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"63%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]