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DAMBUSTERS
US
Gold, £9.95 cass, £14.95 disk
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This
is a really big seller thanks to its impressive graphics
and sound. There are several screens of action and you
take the role of every man that is needed to fly a Dambusting
Lancaster bomber.
Each
screen is accessed by using a number on the keyboard.
Using all these screens you have to fly over to Germany
in a simulation of the actual dambusting raid, blow
up the dam and return home safely.
There
are six screens inside the plane, pilot with a view
out of the front of the plane, front and tail gunners,
bomb aimer, navigator and engineer. If you switch to
the pilot screen then you can actually steer the plane,
allowing you to set a course or fly round enemy installations.
On the navigator screen you are shown a large four-screen
map of Europe which you have to use to guide yourself
to the dam. The two gunner screens are used when you're
being attacked; you take control of the guns automatically
as soon as you enter this screen and you can shoot down
enemy planes and barrage balloons. You can also take
out the searchlights. The bomb aimer screens is only
used when you are approaching the dam, using this screen
then allows you to switch on the aiming lights and set
the bomb spinning. The engineer's screen gives you control
of the engine; when you're on this screen you can boost
or lower the output of the engines and also switch them
off or put a fire extinguisher on them if they've been
hit.
The
program allows you to practice bomb runs, start over
the English Channel, or go for a full mission starting
on Stanstead Airdrome. The graphics are excellent and
well above the standards of a normal simulator, and
the sound is marvellous too. Overall, this is one of
the most gripping flight simulators to hit the market
and certainly rises above most in its class.
Graphics
80%
Interaction 86%
Authenticity 82%
Overall 81%
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