Apache

STORY
The game's story takes place somewhere in the future where you fly a fully armed military chopper (that actually looks more like the AH-1 Cobra than the AH-64 Apache) and your mission is to search and rescue M.I.A. troops and transport them back to their Base (actually a helipad from which you start each mission). Your task may sound easy but it's not. Not only there are several enemies flying around and shooting at you and each stage has its own defensive mechanisms such as mounted guns, fixed rocket launchers and turrets as well as some natural hazards like falling rocks, volcano fireballs, lava explosions and many more. Each stage has its own backgrounds and type of enemies and it's not easy to get used to their random patterns. At the end of each stage there is a bonus stage in which you can collect a certain number of hearts but this time trying not to collide and crash, otherwise you lose the stage.

GAMEPLAY
Apache is a tough game due to its awkward controls and high level of difficulty mixed with a tremendous, at times, scrolling speed. The control is rather sluggish and the camera pans quite fast to the left and right while you turn the chopper, which results in a really distracting effect.

GRAPHICS
Apache sports fantastic visuals with colorful landscapes that can easily up par with other commercial games. It has 12 layers of smooth parallax scrolling, great level design, more than 100 colors on screen and smooth animation. All enemy sprites move fast in all 8 directions of your screen and the falling rocks, volcano explosion effects are very impressive

SOUND
The game's sound includes a fantastic introductory tune, and a variety of sampled sound effects but unfortunately no in-game music.