''The Last Mission'' is a computer game released in

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by the Spanish company Opera Soft, for the Sinclair Spectrum,

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, and

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. It was also ported to the

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platform. It is a 2D flip-screen side-view game.

Plot

Following a robot rebellion, humans have fled the Earth for the planet Nova. They have sent the robot OR-CABE-3 back to Earth to obtain the secret defense plans of the enemy robot base. The player takes control of OR-CABE-3 as it attempts to escape the enemy base with the plans and board a spacecraft for Nova.

Gameplay

The player has the role of the robot OR-CABE-3 as it attempts to escape the enemy base and leave Earth. Starting at the deepest level of the base, where the robot has stolen the defense plans, it must evade hostile robots and travel to the surface, where an escape ship awaits. The robot OR-CABE-3 resembles a

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with a rotating gun mounted on a caterpillar-track base. The gun section is capable of flight and may be detached from the base to kill enemies or solve problems, though it loses energy while in this state. If it runs out of energy the game ends. A life is lost if the gun section is destroyed. If the base section is destroyed it is respawned at the starting location, but no lives are lost.

Reviews

* '' Jeux & Stratégie'' #47

References

1987 video games Shoot 'em ups ZX Spectrum games MSX games MSX2 games Amstrad CPC games Amstrad PCW games Video games developed in Spain Action-adventure games Video games about robots Single-player video games Opera Soft games {{videogame-stub