Life is simple on Terra Cognita, the latest planet generated
in the Code Masters game solar system. The pseuds and
sophisticates of the arcade world might suggest that you've got to
have a few kangeroos loose in the top paddock to enjoy this most
simple of games. Well, I'm willing as ever to stand up with the
drongos of the world - for totally mindless mega-kill and mutual
assured zappability,
Terra Cognita is pretty darn good.
Your mission nigh-on impossible is to blast your craft across
one hundred screens-worth of alien hate to avoid your total
annihilation. Ignore the box scenario - just supple up your wrist
action. You can adjust the speed of your craft marginally with the
joystick, but you'll get a more sensational effect by passing over
the + and - signs on the narrow draft board-type screens that
scroll relentlessly toward you. Other squares to watch out for are
Fuel (F) and Bonus but beware the Time Shift squares - they'll
whizz you back to screen one, a real pain if you've already
wanged across half the cosmos.
It's wise to pick up as much fuel as possible 'cos you'll never
know where the next dump is, and with only two lives it's real life
and death stuff out there. And, if you get the chance, swipe the
field generator 'cos it dollops death to the squillionth degree on
the droids. Otherwise it's mix your manic manoeuvring skills
with that of the deadly digit - the old trigger finger.
Simplicity itself! But then so
were all those other great ideas
- the wheel, dental floss, the
Ed's brain....
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