Reviews

It's the final straw and the writing is well and truly on the wall for this series. Simply put, this isn't written as well and is much jerkier than the others, with this one you can tell it was written in BASIC, with the other two, especially the first one, if I told you it was in BASIC you would be surprised, or at least I was anyway. It's very difficult to control your helicopter here, unlike the previous two game you have full controls of your helicopter but I think the game suffers as a result, if it was kept simple like the first one then it might have been a better game, but it isn't. But I will give David Rushall credit, he put a lot of detail into these games given the BASIC language he was working with. The first one had a nice intro, Hunter II had a pretty impressive volcano eruption during its intro and while Hunter III doesn't contain much of an intro the explosion visual in the game is really good. Graphically the games are impressive especially for BASIC, but gameplay is a letdown, this being the worst of the bunch, well Hunter II was but that was broken anyway. And maybe that's why they were never released commercially in the end.

1986 David Rushall (UK)

An average playing BASIC written game.
Move your Heli thru a series of underground caves, without crashing.
Is competently written and graphically is appealing enough, I specially like the explosion rendition.