Desert Strike

"A good strategy game"

Story: You are going on a campaign to stop the ruthless psycho madman and terrorist leader general Mubaba, who, if not stopped, will start a world war 3, or even worse...
Gameplay: 8/10
Loaded with bullets, hydras, and missiles, you control a helicopter fighting solo in the desert. There is a lot of freedom in this game. You can go anywhere on the map, which shows you where important things are. There is no time limit. You only destroy ground targets, like tanks, buildings, and so forth. There are people on the ground that fire at you with guns and missile launchers. Each time you get hit your armor goes down. You can run out of fuel and ammo. You get more by hovering over a fuel drum/ammo crate and a hook lowers and picks it up. You can get more armor this way too, by picking up a armor chest or whatever. You can pick up people too, whether friend or enemy. There are several objectives in each level. They are harder if you do them out of order. This game is one player. You start from where you left off by entering a password.
Difficulty: 8/10
There are some pretty powerful enemies and hard missions. A good strategy helps a lot on some missions. You can't just go into a heavy guarded area or you'll get wasted, so you'll have to try a lot of times on some missions and develop a strategy.
Controls: 8/10
The controls are really easy to learn, but sometimes it's a little tough to get the right angle and position so you can hit the thing you are firing at.
Sound/music: 7/10
The music that plays when you turn on the game is cool, but there is no music during gameplay. The sounds were done pretty good, like the sounds of the helicopter and weapons.
Graphics: 8.5/10
The graphics are pretty good for the SNES. The people on the ground don't have much detail because they're small, but everything else was done pretty good.
Replay value: 6/10
You probably won't come back right away after you beat it, but you probably will eventually.
Buy/Rent:
Probably buy. It is kind of short, and you should be able to beat it in a week,so you might want to just rent it. But it it a cool game and you'll probably want to replay it. At least give it a try if you can find it.

Pros:
good gameplay
good graphics
good sound
challenging
Cons:
short

Overall: 8/10

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 11/19/02, Updated 11/19/02