[{"TitleName":"Tornado ECR","Publisher":"Code Masters Ltd","Author":"Arno van der Hulst","YearOfRelease":"1991","ZxDbId":"0009441","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 89, Jun 1991","Price":"£2.99","ReleaseDate":"1991-05-23","Editor":"Richard Eddy","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nEditor: Richard Eddy\r\nSub Editor: Warren Lapworth\r\nStaff Writers: Mark Caswell, Nick Roberts, Lloyd Mangram\r\nArt Editor: Mark Kendrick\r\nPhotography: Michael Parkinson\r\nProduction and Circulation Director: Jonathan Rignall\r\nSystems Operator: Paul (Charlie) Chubb\r\nReprographics: Matthew Uffindell (Supervisor), Robert Millichamp, Robb Hamilton, Tim Morris, Jenny Reddard\r\nGroup Advertisement Manager: Judith Bamford\r\nAdvertisement Sales Executive: Christine Moore\r\nAdvertisement Production: Jackie Morris (Supervisor), Joanne Lewis\r\nMail Order: Carol Kinsey\r\nSubscriptions: Caroline Edwards [redacted]\r\n\r\nTypesetting Apple Macintosh Computers using Quark Express and Bitstream Fonts.\r\n\r\nSystems Manager: Ian Chubb\r\n\r\nColour origination Scan Studios [redacted]. Printed in England by BPCC Business Magazines (Carlisle) Ltd, [redacted].\r\n\r\nDistributor COMAG, [redacted]\r\n\r\nYearly subscription rates: UK £17.20 Europe £24.00, Air Mail overseas £37. US/Canada subscriptions and back issues enquiries Barry Hatcher, British Magazine Distributors Ltd [redacted]. Yearly subscription rates US$47.00, Canada CAN$57.00 Back Issues US$5.20, Canada CAN$6.20 (inclusive of postage). \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 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 us a line). No person who is related, no matter how remotely, to anyone who works for either Newsfield or any of the companies offering prizes, may enter one of our competitions.\r\n\r\nNo 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 on 35mm transparencies is welcome, and if used in the magazine is paid for at our current rates. Copy published in CRASH will be edited as seen fit and payment will be calculated according to the current printed word rate. The views expressed in CRASH are not necessarily those of the publishers.\r\n\r\nCopyright CRASH Ltd 1991 A Newsfield Publication. ISSN 0954-8661. Cover design and illustration by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Code Masters\r\n£2.99\r\n\r\nThis is air-to-air combat with a difference. You're strapped into the most sophisticated of British fighters armed with laser sighted weapons. Your enemies, on the other hand, are a strange bunch of planes. They range from Heinkel He-111 (quite old planes) to the latest in aircraft technology.\r\n\r\nI haven't a clue what time zone I'm supposed to be in but there isn't the time to worry when the onslaught of bullets starts! Each plane is very well drawn and has a good splattering of colour.\r\n\r\nThis is a sort of Kamikaze with bigger and better graphics but there's not much to do. You fire continuously in an attempt to shoot down 20 enemy planes but usually get blown out of the sky in the first couple of seconds! The clouds that fly by don't help matters much. They're usually the size of two planes stuck together and you can't help but fly through them, blocking any view of the action you may have had.\r\n\r\nTornado ECRs presentation is great: animated balloons float up the screen to make up the menu and you can flick through all the enemy plane graphics at the touch of a button. In the end, though, it's an average shoot-'em-up: Fans of this type of game will find it great fun, and excellent value at £2.99.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"42","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Nick Roberts","Score":"60","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Dakka, dakka, boom! Fly your Tornado, the plane in the middle, and blast enemies out of the sky (that white blob's a cloud, if you were wondering)."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"60%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]