Reviews

Silversoft’s version of the classic Missile Command. The basic idea is you are in control of the defences of a row of cities under nuclear attack. Missiles reign down in vapour trails and you have to destroy them before they hit home. This version you get 3 missiles bases that can get destroyed so it is very easy to end up with no weapons to fire. There is a plane flying across to hit for extra points and a couple of satellites that not only drop more warheads but will come down and destroy your missile bases and cities. You get another city at 10000 points. The graphics are basic and you don’t get the nice expanding circle explosions of the original. The crosshairs move round quite well but every now and then so many warheads will come down so fast there is a not a hope in hell of stopping them. Other times you think your city is a goner but you can fire off some many missiles you somehow wipe the warheads out which takes a bit of the skill out of the game – half the fun of the original is anticipating where to fire your missiles so the enemy warheads get caught in the explosion while in this version you’re sometimes better off just manically firing at everything rather than aiming. Difficulty 3 out of 5. Got an extra city. Overall just out of the top rank of this genre because the Anirog and Ocean versions are more authentic, or playable.

Armageddon (Ocean)4
Missile Defence (Anirog) 4
Armageddon (Silversoft) 3
Earth Defence (Artic) 3
Electro Storm (PSS)3
Repulsar (Softek) 2
Cruise Attack (Mikro-gen)2