Commodore User Issue 4 Reviews

Attack of the Mutant Camels - C64
Llamasoft is famed for fast arcade action which pushed the Vic to the limits of its capabilities. Attack of the Mutant Camels is one of its first CBM 64 offerings: and it continues the tradition of a skillfully-designed machine-code game requiring fast reflexes and precision joystick control.

You are the pilot of a highly manoeuvrable spacecraft and your mission is to shoot at a row of six huge camels slowly trundling across a mountainous terrain. The camels are however, protected by a force field and it takes many hits at relatively close range to destroy them. As hits accumulate the camels change colour before finally disappearing in a flash of iridescence. The camels must be destroyed before they reach the end of your patrol sector, otherwise it's curtains for you! The progress of camels can be monitored on a small radar scanner.

To make life difficult - and who really wants an easy life, anyway? - the camels fire two types of bomb at you, the first of which is not too lethal (it takes four hits to kill). But the Type Two bomb homes in accurately and the first hit is deadly. Violent manoeuvres are required to avoid these hazards. If you do succeed in clearing the camels your reward is - yes, you guessed it - a trip through hyperspace to meet yet another six camels etc. etc.

The graphics and sound are good and many extra features are present such as selectable skill level, one/two player options and an even more difficult version where collision with a camel is fatal. Excellent for camel/llama freaks and arcade action enthusiasts. J D Collins

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