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The game has five levels and four difficulty modes. The initial mission is to rescue hostages from an enemy camp, but the game then progresses to a waterfront battle, an underwater melee, a showdown in an underground mine, and then a final mountaintop battle. Adding to the challenge, the player must
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Despite being released late in the Atari 7800's life cycle, Atari Corporation made more efforts to market the game than it had with other Atari 7800 titles. The game had its own print advertisement and was referenced in Atari's 1990 shooter,
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and scrolls horizontally in two directions as various enemy creatures, possessed soldiers, human vehicles and alien vehicles attack the player character.
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Between levels, the player is briefed by the commanding officer, who advises of the situation and rates the player's performance in the level.
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reviewed the game on Atari 7800 Forever and gave it a 4 out of 5, and ranks it as the 10th best officially licensed game on the system.
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tells the story of a soldier battling with alien invaders that take over the bodies of fallen soldiers.
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is 144K in size, making it one of the largest commercially released Atari 7800 games.
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was reviewed in the September 1991 issue of Atari's own
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Developer(s)
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Atari Corporation
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Atari 7800
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Rail shooter
Single-player
rail shooter
Atari Corporation
Atari 7800
Operation Wolf
Planet Smashers
a first-person point of view
joystick
Wrestling With Ghosts
Evercade

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