Game:

SWIV (1991)

Category:

Review

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INTRODUCTION (From the manual):
SWIV - Choose between a Helicopter Gunship or an armoured jeep and prepare to enter enemy territory as part of the elite assault team of SPECIAL WEAPONS INTERDICTION VEHICLES. Battle against enemy copters, tanks, submarines, hovercraft, snowmobiles, mechanised flying fish, giant weapons installations and much more in this vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. But beware, the enemy are armed with the latest deadly weaponry including the lethal SILKWORM IV homing missile.

S.W.I.V. - SECRET WEAPONS INSTALLATION VERIFICATION
Primary objective: Verify existence of the enemy's secret weapons installations and destroy them.

S.W.I.V. - SPECIAL WEAPONS INTERDICTION VEHICLES
Secondary objective: Interdiction mission: The destruction by military force of all enemy units.

S. W. I. V. - SILKWORM IV
Mission warning: Use extreme caution. Enemy units are armed with deadly weaponry, including the enhanced SILKWORM IV homing missile.

REVIEW:
S.W.I.V. or SilkWorm In Vertical, as some people prefer to call it, is mostly done in monochrome in the Spectrum version, but there is places that uses more than two colors. Apart from the limited use of color this is definitely not a bad port, it is made exclusively for the 128k and it features highly detailed graphics and smooth scrolling, and it can easily compete with the other 8 bit versions.

As in Silkworm it is also possible to play 2-player co op mode with a helicopter in the air and a jeep on the ground, and you can collect power ups so you get double and triple firepower.

There is no problem in seeing the enemy bullets, and the game plays and controls well.

This is a special Kempston mouse version, and it suits this game very well. You can take good advantage of the extra speed and movement is quick and smooth and this is very playable!

The game was published by Storm Software in 1991.

Rating:
Original version: 87%
Unofficial Kempston Mouse version: 92%

If you do not have a Kempston Mouse for your Spectrum you can play the game in an emulator that supports Kempston Mouse and play it with your PC mouse.

Original version: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/s/SWIV.tap.zip
Unofficial Kempston Mouse version: https://velesoft.speccy.cz/kmouse/kmvelesoft/swiv-km.tap.zip