The A-Team

"If you can find them..."

For those among you who don't know it, this game is based on a tv series which has quite famous in the 80 's, and they even feature a small appearance on WWE 's John Cena new music video. Hannibal, Mr. T and the others were a small secret group who helped people with their troubles, while trying to avoid their own justice problems, which were not real, since it had been some bad guys who tried to destroy their lives. You must know that this game is actually only playable in a prototype status, as it was cancelled some time before its release.

About the game itself, once you start it, you will be able to see all the level that compose this game, but you will notice that this game features no music at all (like most games for this console) and even the sound effects appear to be quite boring, as you will only hear them sometimes, and they are 3, as far as I recall: the effect from the rocket taking off, Mr. T 's weapon bullets and his very own lightning. All these features make this a terrible game when thinking about the sound, but that seems to be an usual event on games for this console.

In the first level you will be playing as Mr. T (the same character you will control on the second and third levels), who is depicted as a "walking head" with his famous gold pendants. Around here (strangely, this level is called "Save Hannibal") you will have to shoot in every possible direction while moving left and right (yeah, that's exactly all you can do, moving left and right while shooting at the enemies who will appear in the bars on top of or below you), and after a while you will reach your second level.

Second level is mainly composed with somebody walking around the screen while shooting a bouncing bullet at you, which you must try to avoid for a certain amount of time, and after performing such a task you will be granted entry to the third (and last) level. This is one of those tasks "easier said than done", since sometimes it becomes hard to predict where the bullet will go after bouncing on a wall, making this the harder level of the entire game.

About the third level, you'll just notice a strange thing (truly, I have no idea on what that actually is, and from the graphics seen here, there's no way to tell) on the middle of the screen shooting lasers in many directions, and a single of your shots will be enough to destroy it. Once you do it, you will be taken back to the first level (perhaps that was not supposed to happen, but since the game is unfinished we will never know), keeping your current score and finding an harder difficulty level. Once you reach the second level you will find 2 bouncing bullets (instead of just 1), and so on.

By now you should have already noticed the graphics in this game, which include not only some nice features (the fire coming out from the rockets end is quite nice) but they seem more detailed than most games for this console, as you can see all the enemies in a quite clear way, except for the enemy on the third level.

Don't get me wrong, the game seems great and all that, but being so much repetitive as it is, perhaps only fans will fully enjoy it. Also, for obvious reasons this game is almost completely impossible to find these days, so perhaps you won't ever play it!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 06/06/05