UTOPIA

                  Review by Michael Raven

An old, low-spec strategy game, similar to Sim City. Building up
your village into a town, and then a city, seems fairly simple.
However, there is an alien settlement that is attempting to do the
same thing! Spy on the aliens to find out just where they are
coming from, so you can move your defences to defeat them,
research better weaponry, tanks and planes to help destroy their
city, while keeping money flowing into civilian research, power
stations and living quarters to make sure your colonists don't
start stealing and killing each other!

Very difficult to keep everything together. Unfortunately the
handling of your defences is rather poor, as all you can do is
drop laser turrets around the base, and point them at enemies, you
have to manually launch missiles from missile bases, and the only
way you can control tanks is to tell them to move to a certain
marker, (you can place up to about 8-10 markers around your city)
so all you can do is hope that your tanks will come across the
enemy while they are moving towards another marker.

I like the trade option, however, which allows you to do some
nifty buying and selling (grab a few hundred gems at 10 units
each, then sell them at 300 in a few months).

Altogether, a good game, although the way that it is made means
that by the time you've got your city going well, you have to
start a new one!

PLAYABILITY   80% Simple once you have learned the controls.
LASTABILITY   82% A pile of tough aliens to defeat.
GRAPHICS      75% Good for the time it was made.
SOUND         50% Minimal.
OVERALL       78% A very good strategy game that you'll keep
                  coming back to.


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