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Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020: You have got a new job, but not an ordinary job. No – You have joined the Mercenary Guild. Your first mission is to raid an enemy base. The base is well hidden and to get there you have to go through a lot of forest and caves. You will meet a lot of enemies and as a mercenary there will be plenty of different ways to eliminate them. If you have ammo you can shoot them, or you can kick them, jump down on them from above, drop rocks on them, kick them of the edge etc.

The game has stealth elements, the enemies will shoot at you or attack you when they see you. You have to find the correct way through the screens, there are a specific route to go …and it is off course not the easiest way. When you have killed an enemy you can search him and pick up ammo.

A lot of the screens features puzzle elements, you have to move rocks into holes with water or spikes, so you can make your way across this. There are also computers that need to be hacked to open up doors.

At the bottom left of the screen you have your health and ammo status, you can pick up green shields and red bullets for refilling this.

In the middle of the screen you have your achievement status. There are 10 different you can get:

- First blood: Shoot your first enemy to get it.
- Kick him up: Kill an enemy with kick.
- Triple headshot: 3 x headshot without any miss.
- Burn baby: Kick an enemy into the lava.
- Strike from the sky: Jump down on enemy from above.
- Head hunter: Kill 25 enemies.
- Rock’n Roll: Complete level without getting injured.
- Let that sink in: Kick enemy into water.
- Stone head: Kill enemy with stone.
- Save Daisy: Find and save the bunny.

The game comes in two parts. The first one has 12 levels and takes place in forest and caves. In the second one you are inside the enemy base where there are 19 levels, where some has been reused. There are three different settings for the difficulty, so it should be possible to find a setting that fits you.

It is a fine looking game with a lot of detailed graphics on all of the screens. Some of the puzzle elements with the rocks are very clever made and takes some time to figure out, and it is a big and challenging game. Clearly a lot of effort has been put into this game, but it suffers a bit from being made in Boriel ZX Basic, it is not as fast and smooth as it could have been in assembly language, but still a great and very special game and mighty impressive to make something like this in Basic.

Available in English, German, Spanish and Italian versions.

The game was made by ZXBitles in 2020.

Rating = 89%

Download here: https://rgb.yandex.ru/2020?fbclid=IwAR1XPKnUK4ItmlAen0i-2n7ipvvT8gYlu9T-ye9_XR3yw1-LG0yPeudRJ8w