Starglider

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Your mission is to glide across the surface an imaginary planet called Novenia, destroying as many aliens and spacecrafts as possible. Each alien form has different value ranging from 50 points for a small drone, to 7.500 points for a Starglider. Each time you gain 10.000 points you are transferred to a new and more complicated level. You control AGAV (Airborne Ground Attack Vehicle) from a first person perspective. The panel allows monitoring critical particulars of your vehicle (such as the scanner, the energy level, the shield meter, the laser cells status, the altitude and the velocity indicator). The main difficulty encountered is refueling energy since this can be done by gliding between two energy towers, at a very low altitude. Repair Silos (represented by rotating wedge-like structures) are also available in order to restock your shields and guns. Your firepower is a set of laser guns and a limited number of missiles. Once you fire a missile your mouse controls this very missile(!), and you must therefore focus on pin-pointing the adversary. Targets vary from Stargliders to ground Walkers (taken from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi!) and Strompers.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics on DOS are good. Due to the game's age, DOS version supports CGA and EGA graphics hardware only, running in 4 and 16 colors respectively. The cockpit is nicely designed and shows several animated touches on the indicators. The enemy sprites and other objects are made of 3D vectors and they move fast on screen. The game runs fast, as fast as the Amiga version and faster than the ST version, even when too many polygons occupy the screen.
The sound on DOS is adequate with some, rather noisy, sound effects.