Well the most unexpected thing about this was the memories it gave me. Not of ‘Nam of course – the closest I have come to that is having a tear in my eye as William Defoe drops to his knees accompanied by Barber’s Adagio for Strings. No, the memories I get here are of my gaming youth. You see this is a release by Mastertronic, a name familiar to many gamers over the age of 25 as a company that released loads of pocket money games for the C64 and Spectrum.

After a few hours of play on C:V I went out in search of inspiration of what other people thought about it – and came across the great review >here<

No war of course, by definition is nice, but far too many games seem to glorify it – C:V is the closest yet to a game version of Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. At times it’s a harrowing experience and does get to you more than any other game of its type – yes they still are a collection of pixels that you are shooting at, but the way it is all put together really makes you think about the whole thing.