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Zzap!64, issue 10 (February 1986)

Zzap!64 editors. 1986. “Zzap!64, issue 10 (February 1986).” Zzap!64, issue 10. Newsfield.

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Zzap!64 10
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Pinned in stubs batch 28 for its review of Elite's Commodore 64 Commando (p. 26, 77%).

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Zzap!64 reviewed Elite's Commodore 64 Commando, at £9.95 on cassette, joystick only, in February 1986. In this version the fortress is reached through two areas, each ending in a mini fortress, then a final run; the second mission covers the same ground again. A bonus comes from killing two guards who hold a colleague prisoner, who then disappears rather than fighting alongside. The value rating counted three of the arcade game's eight levels; one reviewer found levels one, two and four of the arcade machine faithfully reproduced.p. 26, Commandop. 26, Commandop. 26, Commandop. 26, Commandop. 26, Commandop. 26, Commandop. 26, Commando, value ratingp. 26, Commando, third commentMagazine
Zzap!64 gave the Commodore 64 version 77% overall, with 72% for presentation, 83% for graphics, 91% for sound, 80% for hookability, 61% for lastability, and 72% for value for money.p. 26, Commando, ratingsp. 26, Commando, ratingsp. 26, Commando, ratingsp. 26, Commando, ratingsp. 26, Commando, ratingsp. 26, Commando, ratingsp. 26, Commando, ratingsMagazine
Zzap!64's ratings box said it "doesn't quite live up to its potential", and praised Rob Hubbard's remixes of the arcade tunes. One reviewer found it a hurried conversion whose sprites flicker and sometimes vanish, its music the most impressive thing about it; another, whose complaint was the missing levels, found it competent but said it held no interest for them; a third was terribly disappointed, as the three levels are easy to complete.p. 26, Commando, overall ratingp. 26, Commando, sound ratingp. 26, Commando, first commentp. 26, Commando, first commentp. 26, Commando, first commentp. 26, Commando, second commentp. 26, Commando, second commentp. 26, Commando, third commentp. 26, Commando, third commentMagazine