• Completed
& Reviewed by Neil Collins
Strike Force Cobra by Piranha is an action /
strategy game. It's a direct port from the Spectrum,
with minor graphical differences so it doesn't look
great or play very smoothly, but it's a quite a decent
game if you can put up with the poor visuals.
You
control a team of elite soldiers called Cobra and your
mission is to stop a madman from launching a nuclear
strike by getting the code to access his computer system
and then destroy it. Each digit of the code is held by a
captured scientist who needs to be rescued. You can
choose from a few different soldiers to form your four
man team, all of which bring different special
attributes to the mission. There's a time limit, so you
need to move your team quickly through the enemy base,
avoiding traps, lasers, enemy robots and machine gun
turrets. Doors are opened either by kicking them,
throwing the relevant switch or standing on pressure
pads. Some puzzles require more than one team member, so
you will need to link up your team members at certain
points within the game. You can fire a machine gun and
throw grenades to help combat the enemies or destroy
things.
I quite
enjoyed playing this game although the control method is
quite awkward and you seem to lose energy for touching
almost anything within the game. You need to jump around
a lot and at times you need to land pixel perfectly,
which is very difficult. It's one of those games that
would have been drastically improved if it was written
on the C64 instead of being a conversion from another
machine. Overall though it is a decent game with lots of
puzzles and rooms to explore. It's a game that I had
never played before and I'm glad I finally got around to
it.
The final level is complete!
The End.
HOW WAS IT COMPLETED?:
I played it following the Spectrum solution that I found
online. I saved my progress every few minutes.
SO WHAT HAPPENS?:
Not a great deal. Once you have collected all the digits
of the code from the scientists, you can gain access to
the main computer room. You then have to blow up three
computers and jump through the hole that is created. You
then find yourself inside the computer where you need to
blow up the collection of components. Once they have
been destroyed the game is beaten. A message appears on
the screen that reads 'Mission accomplished. Cobra
rating XX%. Press any key'. The game then restarts.
Strike Force
Cobra
