Reviews

A little known title from Icon Design published by Quicksilva, Sector 90 is a maze/shoot-em-up game which pits you as an elite soldier against an army of aliens and robots. You have broken your way into the alien base complex and must destroy what the game documentations refers to as a "sector intelligence unit" by placing a bomb which will give you only 90 seconds to escape safely.

When translated into an actual game, all of this is limited to a black-and-white window representing a side view of the base corridor, with sketchy sprites running along endlessly shooting each other over poorly drawn backgrounds. Every now and then you pick up a key and enter a door just to find yourself in a corridor looking exactly as the one you left, against the same enemies - which, it must be specified, seem all to be cookie-cutter humanoid robots.

Icon Design has a varied record. This is definitely not one of their best efforts. It's not awful, but shallow, repetitive, boring and not worth your time.

The universe needs you again, because the aliens are at it again, whatever it is, and so you must roam among and along all these black and white corridors and place a bomb at the center of this extra-terrestrial structure, shooting at those nasty creatures, which look just like robots, and shoot back, but you'll never be able to succeed in your task, because you'll get bored much sooner, or just your wrist's going to start to ache for all the fire key pushing, or you'll lose all your lives, or you'll lose all your patience. The tune in the option screen is ok.
2,5/5

genre: maze/shooter.
graphics: black & white and clumsy.
sound: nice tune.
playability: ok.
longevity: short.
original price: full.

This game is a disaster. I lost my first life the second I started playing and that's the theme of this game, bullets frantically coming from all directions and constantly hitting you and you haven't a hope in hell of getting anywhere. That was when I dismissed this game as a budget shooter and getting exactly what you paid for, then I read WhenIWasCruel's review which he states the following - “original price: full”. Full? Full!? He wasn't wrong, this was £8.95, which absolutely astounds me.