Laser Squad
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics war game where the player completes objectives such as rescue or retrieval operations, or simply eliminating all of the enemy by taking advantage of cover, squad level…
Laser Squad is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Mythos Games, released 31 December 1988 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Laser Squad is
Laser Squad is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Mythos Games and released in 1988. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics video game, originally released for the ZX Spectrum in 1988 and converted over to the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It was developed by Julian Gollop and his team at Target Games and published by Blade Software, expanding on the ideas applied in their earlier Rebelstar series. The initial 8-bit releases came with three mission scenarios, with expansion packs being released, containing further scenarios.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Laser Squad holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1988 averaged 71, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Laser Squad launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine and Emlyn Hughes International Soccer. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer.
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