 THE COVENANT

 PSS 1985



 CONTROLS : Keyboard, Kempston, Cursor

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 AIM : The eponymous Covenant refer to a long lost parchment which

 carries the entire cultural record of long dead people, who have now

 mutated and are scattered along with fragments of the Covenant among

 the 256 caverns of a subterranean world. Your task is to find the 64

 pieces of parchment and also to gather the mutant creatures, so that

 when you have the complete parchment the planet surface can be

 repopulated. 



 GAMEPLAY : You travel in a globe armed with a stun gun. The globe

 itself is rather difficult to control! Whenever you or it come into

 contact with a creature, energy will be lost, so your first task in

 any cavern is to stun the creatures within andtake them on board by

 manoeuvring your craft over them.



 The whole cave system is divided up into blocks of four rooms. Each

 area has a key, a piece of the Covenant and some anaesthetic. The

 latter refils the stun gun; you must stun all the creatures in a

 zone before you can move onto the next area.



 You only have one life, so be careful! However, lost energy can be

 regained by standing on a power point. At any stage of the game you

 can see your current status by pressing the space bar.



 COMMENTS : "An inspired but difficult game."

 RATING : 83% (CRASH #19, August 1985)



 NOW : A somewhat weird game with nice graphics, but just too hard (for

 me, at any rate).

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 KEYS : Redefinable