Awesome

STORY / GAMEPLAY
You fly with your spaceship through various star systems blasting alien forces meteors or other space debris. Once you eliminate every enemy on screen you are warped to a planet where you can buy better weapons, stronger shields and enhance your spaceship. The enemies attack in squadrons and you have to move back and forth or rotate your spaceship to shoot them. You can spot any surviving alien ships through your radar screen. The game needs some skill since it's quite difficult to cope with.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The ST version, though inferior to the Amiga, looks (and sounds) really great! Unfortunately the intro sequence has no sound at all (compared to the sampled sound on the Amiga). The camera perspective is from above and you can move towards all dimensions. The in-game graphics are good, with minor differences between the two versions (mainly due to the 16 and 32 colors of the ST and the Amiga respectively). The ST music is a mixed score of chip tunes with some ST Digi Synth sound. My only complaint is that you cannot have simultaneously music and sound FX during gameplay. The animation is good with no slowdown issues. Overall, Awesome is a good Reflections' game for the Atari ST that shows some 16bit potential.