Old school action and tactics.

User Rating: 8.8 | Heavy Metal Paradroid C64
Paradroid has an addictive gameplay rarely found in todays games. I mixes action with tactics which are both needed to stay in the game let alone finish it.
The story is simple, a fleet of spaceships carrying battle robots has been hit by radiation making the robots hyperactive and killing the crews. The ships are now flying towards enemy space and may come into enemy hands. Its up to you to clear the ship of the robots either by shooting them or by transferring control to them. The shooting is quite simple but can only take you so far, transferring control to a higher droid with more powerfull guns is the way to get to end the game successfully. Transferring control is quite fun and a skilled player can take over robots much higher in rank. But the higher the droid you control the shorter the time you have before falling back to the lowest rank. I played this on the c64 in the mid '80's (which makes me old) but it doesnt have the signature blocky graphics of most old games, it could be mistaken for a Java based game. It might be ancient in the gametime but its still one of the best games ever. And its back on the internet these days so "google" it and play!