Terrestrial (C64)

Game title: Terrestrial

Game description: Captain Havoc is returning to his planet from the outer reaches of the solar system when he suddenly receives a transmission informing him that his homeworld has been invaded by an alien force. The planet’s only hope is a hidden base on one of the nearby moons that happens to be home to an elite group of soldiers. Captain Havoc is ordered to head to the hidden base and make plans to win back his homeworld. The game starts off in the space hangar where you board your attack craft and attempt to launch it out into space successfully. To do this, apply the thrusters while aligning the rocketship towards the hatch at the top. As you get closer to the hatch, it will open up and off you go. In order to take down the enemy command base, you need to destroy 3 shield generators beforehand. As you start making our way to one of the shield generators - the enemy sends out an attacking fleet. This takes you to stage 2 of the game where you need to take out the enemy fighters by blasting them to smithereens. Having dealt with the initial enemy attack, our craft is able to go into the city with the shield generators which then kicks off stage 3 - the canyon level. Here you need to destroy enemy units hurtling in your direction while avoiding obstacles such as asteroids. Eventually you will come up against the Protector Ship. Blast it with everything you have while avoiding the missiles raining down on you. Stage 4 brings us to the Cabal style of game play where your aim is to clear all structures in order to secure a landing zone. Temporary weapon upgrades are available that will make the process of bringing down building structures a little easier. Once the area is cleared, you move onto stage 5 which sees your tank being dropped off and your job here is simple - blast everything in sight in order to get to the shield generator. Once you get to the end, get ready to take out the shield generator. Once you have done this, you need to repeat the same process again two more times before you can take on the enemy command base. So it's back to launching another spacecraft and then repeating stages 3 to 5 again albeit with a slightly increased difficulty level. Once all three generators are destroyed, it is time to take on the enemy command. Again, you launch off in a spacecraft and go through more difficult instances of stages 3 to 5 with the completion of the tank round, this time seeing you do battle against the heavily fortified alien command base. Getting past this takes you to stage 6 where you battle the enemy guardians in a laser disc battle. Here we need to time our disc throw so that it bounces off the wall and into the back of the guardian. Completing this stage will take you to the final stage involving the big alien brain There are three difficulty settings on offer with the difference being the number of lives you start off with.

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