Sentinel - Firebird RRP œ19.95
                   
                    Reviewed by Sandra Sharkey

I first played this game  on  my  Amstrad  CPC 6128 and became 
totally addicted to it. You can imagine  my  delight when I 
discovered that it was also available on the ST.

Even better was the price I paid  -  around  œ7, so shop around 
if you decide to buy it.

Sentinel doesn't fall neatly into any  category. It isn't an 
adventure and it certainly isn't an arcade game.  There is an 
amount of strategy involved with it, however, but in my opinion 
Sentinel has that rare quality of being unique. If I was  
forced to categorise it then I think it would come closest to 
being a RPG.

On the Amstrad version you have to play the game using the keys,
which isn't difficult once you get used to  them.  On the ST 
version you can opt to use the mouse  for  moving  around  and
the  keys to build and absorb trees, boulders etc.

The object of the game is to build up high enough to see the 
square on which your arch enemy the Sentinel is  standing so 
that you can absorb her (yes HER!!).

Your reward for defeating the Sentinel  is the code number for 
another screen and as there are a possible 10,000 screens to 
access you won't complete Sentinel in a day.

I've listed the codes for some  of  the  screens to give you a
bit of variety when you first start  to  play.  (H) signifies 
that I found a screen to be particularly hard so don't tackle 
these screens until you are familiar with the gameplay.

Beware, once started 'Sentinel' is  very  addictive and you'll
lose a lot of sleep having 'just one more go'!



            Landscape No.            Landscape Code

                0013                   71664005
                0016                   44545550
                0021 (H)               96179589
                0022                   59403787
                0046                   78387688
                0063                   48880589
                0083                   43977196
                0116                   88667257
                0141                   28959534
                0155                   88454809
                0165                   48944963
                0177                   59705841
                0198                   81781958
                0218 (H)               86447208
 



            Landscape No.            Landscape Code              
                0238                   20064636
                0248 (H)               01711254
                0255                   06864565
                0272                   89319746
                0283 (H)               86035280
                0298                   53476943