Battle Valley

STORY / GAMEPLAY
A terrorists group stole two nuclear weapons! And this is very bad! Your mission is to infiltrate and capture all terrorists' bases. Then, the two nuclear missiles have to be destroyed inside their silos located somewhere in the two farthest bases. This challenging mission must be completed before the clock countdowns to zero, otherwise the missiles will be launched, destroying the world forever. Between the bases there are many different weapons, which steadily increase in speed and complexity as more ground is covered. Most of the enemy countermeasures can be eliminated by using the helicopter while the rest must be destroyed using the tank (the terrorist bases and missile silos can be destroyed only with the tank actually!) Apart from shooting and destroying everything, the helicopter has a winch that can be used to collect broken bridges or to collect extra ammunition from rooftops, whilst the tank collects ammunition when it stops on the grid at an ammo dump. Getting far in this side-scrolling shooter is quite difficult but the game is cool!

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The game has good, though dark, graphics, smooth sprite animation and fast action (if you press the F1 key you will increase the speed while the F2 decreases it). The game looks pretty good on the 8bit home-computers but hey, we were expecting much better results from the Amiga's version. The best part of the game's package is the sound. The overall game's sound is good, though you can select either its great sound effects or its awesome music during gameplay.