Laser Squad (DOS)

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Description

In Laser Squad you control a group of space marine-like soldiers (and the occasional cyborg). Before taking them into battle (viewed from above and progressing in turns), you must buy them weapons and armour with a predetermined amount of credits, taking into account the individual abilities of your squad. Unlike X-COM, the soldiers do not gain experience over time.
The game also features a two player hotseat multiplayer option.

Initial ZX Spectrum release (and C64 & Amstrad CPC cassette tape releases) had three missions:

• 1: The Assassins - where you must face down Sterner Regnix and his guards
• 2: Moonbase Assault - which challenges you to destroy the OmniCorp database
• 3: Rescue from the Mines - eschew violence in favour of a rescue mission

Two more scenarios were available via mail order, later releases by Blade Software and subsequent ports already included them:

• 4: The Cyber Hordes - defend a rebel station and its seven stabilizer cores from an advancing imperial droid invasion
• 5: Paradise Valley - following the destruction of the stabilizer cores, escape from the colony with the device containing blueprints for advanced rebel starfighter

Two additional missions were released with mail order expansion kit.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Squad management
• Laser Squad series

User Reviews

An amazingly addictive and fun game.

Tomer Gabel (4643)

Critic Reviews

Play Time	Oct, 1992	85 out of 100	85
PC Games (Germany)	Sep, 1992	80 out of 100	80
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Nov, 1992	9 out of 12	75
Joystick (French)	Mar, 1994	72 out of 100	72
PC Joker	Oct, 1992	52 out of 100	52

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Stellar Forces - A modern remake	5	Pseudo_Intellectual (62998) Jan 21, 2010
Unit advancement	2	Shoddyan (14312) Nov 16, 2007

Trivia

1001 Video Games

Laser Squad appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Cutscenes

Some of the graphics in the game's cut scenes (for instance, Sterner Regnix's communications officer) are literally lifted from the Star Wars films.

Awards

• Amiga Power
  • May 1991 (Issue #00) - #25 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"
• Retro Gamer
  • September 2004 (Issue #8) – #63 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)

Related Web Sites

• William Fraser's Home Page (Has a Java version of the game.)