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29: 274:, once home to America's most undesirable criminals, lies empty and abandoned. Since its closure, it was used as a tourist destination. Now, it is used by the notorious criminal Miguel Tardiez to use as the centre of his distribution network for his drug and gun running and money laundering operations. 297:
The game takes place over 6 levels, which changes its perspective to adjust to the corresponding mission. Side-scrolling perspective is available in the outdoor levels were the player has to reach the inside of the building. Controlled commando soldier may hide in shadows from the enemies, change his
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After level 5 the player can proceed directly to the extraction point to end the game or visit the cell house. In order to do so, the player has to climb up the building avoiding the search lights. After exploring the cell house, the player has to slide down the rope of the building and continue to
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mode. The player has to explore a one floor area in order to find rooms that contain drugs, money, documents and weapon caches. Some of them has to be collected and some of them has to be destroyed using equipped time bombs. There are enemy soldiers on the corridors as well as in the rooms. In each
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Landing on the beach, they fight their way through Tardiez's highly trained henchmen, using the shadows and hiding behind walls until they can silently breach the various buildings of the prison to look for the various caches, which they burn or blow up with
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or just by shooting them. Eventually, they reach Tardiez's office as he is just making his escape by helicopter and manage to kill Tardiez before he can evade capture.
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dispatch their best operatives: Bird and Fist. Their mission: to covertly breach the disused prison, destroy the drug and weapons caches and apprehend Tardiez.
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level the screen is always split in half (horizontally or vertically) so action can be seen independently by any of the player that takes part in the game.
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weapons which were picked up from the enemies that were dispatched. Inside buildings the perspective changes to
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created by 221B Software Developments and published by
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Infogrames
Platform(s)
Amiga
MS-DOS
Atari ST
Genre(s)
Shooter
stealth
Single-player
shooter game
Infogrames
MS-DOS
Atari ST
Amiga
spiritual sequel

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