A "James Bond" action/arcade game based on the movie with the same name. Your aim is to avenge the death of Felix Leiter, who was killed by the drug baron Sanchez.
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It's a pretty generic vertical shooter, but sadly the best James Bond game to have come out by 1989 so if you were a fan of 007, this was about as good as it got at the time.
Coming from developers Quixel, Licence to Kill is a vertical scrolling shooter depicting events from Licence to Kill. The game is comprised of 5 very short, but difficult, missions, with some fun gameplay. While the style of the game remained the same throughout, the gameplay itself varies through each level.
The first mission has you chasing a jeep in a helicopter. If you fly fast, the helicopter will get lower, allowing you to attack the jeep. The objective is to get to the end of the level, but destroying the jeep will help with the start of the second level.
Next up is an on foot section, which is the longest level of the game (around 3-4 minutes). If you hold the fire button, you can adjust your aim to shoot diagonal or sideways. There’s no automatic scrolling in this one, so you can kill enemies at your own pace.
Then you take to the skies as you dangle from a helicopter, there’s no enemies here, you just need to stay on top of the plane long enough for Bond to lock on to it.
In the water, Bond has no weapons, but can punch divers carrying harpoons to attack other enemies. You can also dive underwater to dodge enemy fire. You need to latch on to the water plane to get back in the sky.
In the final mission, you start off in a plane before jumping onto a truck. You then have to destroy all the other trucks to stop Sanchez and defeat the game.
The game is good fun, but once you figure out what to do in each level, it’s incredibly short – around 12 minutes if you don’t rush.
The first mission has you chasing a jeep in a helicopter. If you fly fast, the helicopter will get lower, allowing you to attack the jeep. The objective is to get to the end of the level, but destroying the jeep will help with the start of the second level.
Next up is an on foot section, which is the longest level of the game (around 3-4 minutes). If you hold the fire button, you can adjust your aim to shoot diagonal or sideways. There’s no automatic scrolling in this one, so you can kill enemies at your own pace.
Then you take to the skies as you dangle from a helicopter, there’s no enemies here, you just need to stay on top of the plane long enough for Bond to lock on to it.
In the water, Bond has no weapons, but can punch divers carrying harpoons to attack other enemies. You can also dive underwater to dodge enemy fire. You need to latch on to the water plane to get back in the sky.
In the final mission, you start off in a plane before jumping onto a truck. You then have to destroy all the other trucks to stop Sanchez and defeat the game.
The game is good fun, but once you figure out what to do in each level, it’s incredibly short – around 12 minutes if you don’t rush.
Man, this game is terrible, and on DOS the music is eye wateringly shrill.
This is for the CPC version.
An arcade-like James Bond game with a variety of levels that seem like watered down versions of other arcade games. You have mediocre vertical shmup (helicopter level), mediocre Ikari Warriors (walking James stage), mediocre Spy Hunter (driving a truck stage), etc. To this game's credit though, there's a decent amount of variety in the stages -- for instance the one where you lead Bond on a rope dangling from your helicopter to get him onto a fleeing plane, and another in which you swim after the same/different plane (?) to rope onto it and pull yourself aboard...
All in all nothing here is that well executed but hey, there's stuff. It's borderline fun, at least -- I was entertained for 10 minutes for a single run. So:
2.5 - Above Average: slightly fun or good in some ways
An arcade-like James Bond game with a variety of levels that seem like watered down versions of other arcade games. You have mediocre vertical shmup (helicopter level), mediocre Ikari Warriors (walking James stage), mediocre Spy Hunter (driving a truck stage), etc. To this game's credit though, there's a decent amount of variety in the stages -- for instance the one where you lead Bond on a rope dangling from your helicopter to get him onto a fleeing plane, and another in which you swim after the same/different plane (?) to rope onto it and pull yourself aboard...
All in all nothing here is that well executed but hey, there's stuff. It's borderline fun, at least -- I was entertained for 10 minutes for a single run. So:
2.5 - Above Average: slightly fun or good in some ways