Codename MAT

The Good
A surprisingly deep mixture of strategy and arcade shooting action, Codename MAT is a kind of half way house between Star Raiders and Elite (without the trading obviously) where you need to carefully plan your next course of action and quickly take out the opposing forces.

The Bad
Graphics are serviceable but even at the time seemed a little on the flimsy side. The main detractor for this game though is the almost bewildering keyboard controls that sees you hop from map screen to rear and side views of your ship - a lot of which aren't really needed to be completely honest. The layout of the controls is such that you can sometimes accidentally find yourself warping into or out of trouble when you only wanted to slightly speed the ship up too.

The Bottom Line
Highly ambitious for the time and certainly surpassed by games with more depth and polish that came after it, Codename MAT is still an interesting curio of its time.