It certainly looks like Op Wolf, and the frantic gameplay is there in all its adrenalin-pumping, trigger-finger-blistering glory! Generally though, these niggles don’t amount to much. Likewise, the armoured personnel carriers and helicopters look great, but are a bit on the titchy side. The huge guy who appears from the bottom of the screen isn't nearly as impressive as he should be. The background graphics are pretty much up to scratch, with the only disappointment being the smallish sprites and standard two-frames of animation. Now this is alright for the first couple of rounds, but after an extended session the constant flashing gets on your nerves - headache inducing or what? The only pain is that when you use the 'Phaser, the screen flashes white every time a shot is fired.
If anything, the 'Phaser is slightly more effective than 'stick alone, although your trigger finger gets tired and you have to scrabble for the joystick button to launch grenades (try putting the stick on the floor, and pressing the button with your foot).
Thankfully the assault is comfortable with both controls, and there's even an option to alter the speed of the floating crosshair in joystick mode! The one great thing about Op Wolf is that anyone can play, whether they have a Light Phaser or just a joystick (so why aren't all Light Phaser games like this?). Keep an eye on your damage meter if you don't believe it! If you don't, they fire on you - and they never miss. These poor saps are incarcerated in a secret hideout miles away, so you have to machine-gun your way into the enemy's communications set-up, through the jungle, across a village, into their ammo dump, through the prison camp (being careful not to hit the prisoners) and finally across the airport runway, giving covering fire as the POW's attempt to board a plane for home.Īs the different scenes scroll by, enemy soldiers, armoured vehicles, helicopters and ships come into view, all of which have to be blasted to bits by gunfire or grenade (you can use a Light Phaser in port 1 with a joystick in port 2 to fire grenades, or just joystick alone). Your mission begins as you get para-dropped into the war zone (somewhere in South America, although the exact location is a guarded secret) in a one-man gung-ho Ramboesque mission to rescue prisoners-of-war. However, there are few finer details and technicalities you should take note of if you want to survive longer than the first three seconds. taking the role of guerrilla commando hard-person, you are placed behind the stock of an Uzi 9mm semi automatic machine gun-cum-missile launcher jobby.
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