Reviews

Around six months after releasing their initial bunch of lacklustre games, ICL decided to enter the fray once more with this release.

Despite an inlay and backstory that dresses this up as something of an action game, presumably in the wake of the Iranian embassy siege, it's basically a bog standard 3D maze game.

Oh, and it's a very slow one. Screens take several seconds to draw and you've got a lot of moves to make at the higher levels. Even compared to other 3D maze games written in BASIC, it's particularly slow.

ICL went on to do some more educational software for the Spectrum, but this was their final game release; they weren't missed much.

1982 Sinclair Research (UK)
by ICL

The authors tried to make a more complex 3D maze game, but ended up giving players a painful gaming experience. It's playable enough, and doesn't have any significant bugs, but it's painfully slow.
Most BASIC 3D games are kinda slow, but fluid enough to be playable and engaging.
Embassy Assault is TOO slow to be any fun.
You spent several seconds just waiting the screen to be drawn. I applaud any initiative in innovation, but for paid software I expect programmers to have more consideration towards buyers. OK, so this was 1982, people were used to slower games and this was just another one, probably didn't make much difference in the eyes of gamers back then. However by 1983 forward it was out of peoples memories for good.