Exolon
Hewson, 1987
Written by Chris Owen, HTML'd by Arnt Gulbrandsen.
Controls
Keyboard, Kempston
Aim of the game
As a heavily armed humanoid, you blast, battle, bound, and
blunder your way through a world infested with alien attackers
released from birth pods, homing missiles, accelerating space lice,
exploding mines and dangerous hydraulic plungers.
Game play
You carry a blaster to destroy the aliens and rocket-
propelled grenades to blow up static objects such as machinery, guns
and boulders. For additional safety, you can gain an exoskeleton by
entering a suiting unit and pressing up. This is invulnerable to
many aliens and has a dual-shot blaster but using the suit means that
at the end of a level, you'll have a much smaller bravery bonus.
Comments
"A well-presented traditional shoot-em-up with plenty to do
and look at with plenty to do and look at".
Rating
90% (CRASH #43, August 1987)
Now
A nicely done and quite tough shoot-em-up that is still an
enjoyable game to play.
Keys
Redefinable
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