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GLASS
Quicksilva / £9.95
Ross: So, the Game Lords have burst back with an exciting and technically impressive program. And about time too!
GLASS stands for Ground Level Alien Strike Simulator - yep, it's a 3D shoot 'em up that has you peering out the front of a ground attack craft. At the bottom of the screen are your instrument and status gauges while the rest of it's taken up with your window onto the alien world. There are three stages to the gamesplay. First comes the ground attack where aliens either bounce (must be on space hoppers! Ed), trundle or slither up to you, to test your reflexes and your shields - you'll like the reflection the enemy makes on the glass surface of the planet. For the second stage you'll need to call up all your dodging skills to weave your way in 'n' out of the cylindrical towers at great speed. Fortunately, the third stage is more relaxing - you just have to knock out the weapons on the large ships as they scroll from the right.
Finished that? Good, now it's just a quick jaunt into the enemy base to blast off a nuke. This one's going into my collection. 4/5

Roger: Oh no! Not more space blasting! Haven't we got passed all that yet? Still, some of the prettiest aliens that I've terminated in many a moon. 3/5

Rick: The graphics are great but this game lacks true depth. 3/5

EXCLUSIVE

COME HERE glassy-eyed Earthling. Do you want a job working for the Game Lords?

There are good job prospects for anyone entering the Game Lords' Alien Strike Simulator - GLASS. All you have to do is zap your way through hundreds of screens of 3D aliens and steer through chasms where coloured pillars block your way. All that action is interspersed with the relatively easy job of shooting radar antennae from a variety of alien space ships.

You have only four power shields and energy for those is used up quickly. Not to worry, the simulator provides an option which allows re-entry when all your shields have collapsed. You will be at the same level but your score will be re-set to zero.

Once past the hundreds of many-legged or robotic aliens, the killer tanks which rise and retreat over the horizon lobbing fireballs, and the corridors of columns, you will get a glimpse of one of the alien cities. It is a non-participant scenario but you have the satisfaction of watching the city being very untastefully nuked. The effect is stunning as every pixel of the city explodes off the screen. Watch carefully as you will not see this again for another couple of hundred screens.

GLASS has stunning 3D effects and is value for money both in terms of quality and quantity of special effects and aliens. Add it to your library of games if you are an arcade fanatic. It takes a lot of beating.


Publisher Quicksilva Price £7.99
Memory 48K Joystick Kempston, Sinclair
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John Gilbert