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| BIGGLES |
| Released in 1986, by Mirrorsoft, this game has three seperate game styles. Flying, stealth and action. These sections run in order and you dont need to complete a section to see the next, basically if you get shot down in your plane you will go into the stealthy rooftops area, this seems strange at first but you do get used to it. |
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| The flying sections are of the side scrolling variety, basically you can see your plane from the side, and you can move it up and down, whilst you are flying lots of enemy planes need to be shot down, this isnt helped by the slow guns that you have, but it can be done, there are also some gun turrets that will try to blow you out of the sky, these can be dispossed of by a nicely placeds bomb. You start with only three bombs, but if you blow up ammo crates along the way you will gain extras. The graphics for this section are fairly nice. The backgrounds are quite simple but they do give an impression of flying over countrysides and towns. |
| The stealth areas involve you jumping from rooftop, to rooftop, without being seen and caught. On this section you control 2 people. To switch person you need to first get the player to a fairly safe place then press the switch button. As you get further into this area the jumps start to get harder and there are more guards, there are also snipers taking potshots at you from windows. So it can and does get very difficult. The graphics for thios area are adequate but not great, you control an almost stickman like characture, the backgrounds are again quite nice, they are quite well drawn images of buildings etc. |
| The action sections see you with a gun and some grenades, running around a warzone, trying to take out enemy soldiers. This is a fairly simple area, although its not easy to get very far. Again the graphics are nothing to write home about, but they do what they are supposed to! |
This is a well thought out game, it has 3 styles of play, so you may find that your good at one but not at another, the challenge is to get good on all of them! A fairly entertaining little number! Score 6 / 10 |
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| 1986 |
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