Awesome

Developer: Reflections	Graphics:
Publisher: Psygnosis	Sound:
Year: 1990	Difficulty:
Genre: Shoot'em up	Replay value:
Number of players: 1	My overall rating:	7/10

Awesome. In English, it means "awesome" (yeah!) and I would not be far from believing that it deserves its title, for the few that I have seen (and heard of).

It's a rather original "shoot'em up" whose gameplay changes every level. The beginning is reminiscent os Asteroids: top-down view, relative controls (the spaceship remains in the center of the screen but everything else is rotated around when you turn left or right).
At level 3, the camera is placed behind the ship and you face a boss in pseudo-3D. After that, if I remember well, you land on a planet, the handling becomes questionable and your time limited . . . but I have not yet managed to run the game this far on an emulator. It seems that there is a semblance of strategy game later on and the possibility of exchanging crystals for weapons. . . .

Places to download:
Amiga Island
Amiga World
Planet Emulation
The Game Archives
The Old Computer

Other sites of interest:
Psygnosis.org

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