Urban strike

The US presidential candidate who loses the election creates a superweapon with which he is going to seize power over the world. It turns out that this is the drug lord Carlos Ortega who survived after a rocket hit the bus while trying to escape from Washington in the last part of Jungle Strike. In addition, he brings together many supporters from different states. The current situation threatens world security, and the government gives the pilots the task of several combat helicopters to prevent the villain from implementing his plan.

The gameplay is as follows. The game is divided into several large levels of maps (jungle, desert, city, etc.). The player’s task is to complete certain missions - for example, destroying ground targets or rescuing a hostage.

The levels in the game are made using axonometric projection and are closed locations. There are many objects guarded by soldiers.

Soldiers can be on observation towers, in machine-gun nests, in bunkers and use vehicles. Their weapons are machine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers. As a rule, soldiers who are not in fortified positions do not have a large health reserve; it’s much harder to destroy soldiers on towers or firing points.

Also on the levels there is military equipment - armored cars, patrol boats, submarines, etc., armed with machine guns and missiles. The technique also has a different level of strength (usually the larger the size of the object, the stronger it is).

The player can control in turn two combat helicopters. At the beginning of the level, one of the helicopters is issued; another can be found on the helipad in the area. Such sites can be located both on the ground and on aircraft carrier ships.

In some of the missions, you will have to leave your helicopter and go on to perform tasks alone. Sometimes you will be asked to transfer to ground equipment and fight on tanks.

The helicopter carries three types of weapons: a machine gun and short- and medium-range missiles. Their ammunition is finite, but can be replenished during the course of the level. To do this, you need to destroy some buildings in which the ammunition is located. Other useful items (such as barrels of fuel), as well as hostages and soldiers, may be in buildings. Helicopter margin of safety is limited; after its destruction, the player begins the game from the crash site.

The reviewer of the Russian edition of the Great Dragon found the game too light and therefore the weakest game in the Strike series ^[4] . GamePro considered the game to be excellent, separately noting innovations like the appearance of new air and ground missions and a soundtrack in the “ techno ” genre ^[5] .

The Next Generation browser, comparing the versions for Genesis and SNES, noted that the SNES version is brighter and more saturated with colors, but it has less convenient controls and worse animation, but in the end it matches the overall quality of the Genesis version. Giving the game a rating of 3 out of 5, he concluded that the game series is starting to stagnate, but all fans of the Urban Strike series should like it ^[6] . The Genesis version also received a 3 out of 5 rating from the publication. The reviewer noted that despite the fact that Urban Strike is the best of all Strike games, there are no innovations in terms of gameplay ^[7] .

• Urban Strike - versions for the Sega Game Gear and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis on the Segaretro website