Terrorists have taken an embassy hostage and you have to bring in a 3 men strike team to rescue the civilians inside.
ShooterSimulatorSportStrategyTacticalActionScience fictioncounter-terroristshostagessnipingterroristsAcorn Archimedes, BBC Microcomputer System, Apple IIGS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, Acorn Electron
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Character
Plot-driven, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the game
- Platforms
- Acorn Archimedes, BBC Microcomputer System, Apple IIGS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, Acorn Electron, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC
- Developer
- New Frontier
- Publisher
- Infogrames, Superior Software, Mindscape, Inc., Infogrames
- Released
- December 31, 1988
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Third person, Side view
- Time to beat
- 3.5 h completionist
IGDB rating 6.7/10 from 13 ratings.
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