Secret Agent

Game review

Do you like to play the super spies and secret agents? Then you'll love Agent 006 ½ aka Secret Agent, the game in which you play wait for it... secret agent and guess what: you must save the world. The terrorist organization known as DVS has gained plans for a new, powerful weapon known as the "Red Rock Rover". Your mission is to infiltrate the island occupied by DVS and get the first part of the blueprints. The game is made ​​by Apogee and you tell that at the first glance. It is very similar to other games of this company (Commander Keen, and Crystal Caves). The only difference is a new action hero, subtle changes in graphics and enemies, but otherwise they are almost all identical games (Agent 006 ½ doesn't have a pogo like Keen).

The protagonist of this platform game from Apogee Software is a secret agent 006 of a government organization that protects the interests of a democratic society and tries to maintain peace and suppress terrorism. However, despite all the efforts of the government organization, the aforementioned terrorists got hold of the secret weapon plans, which our hero must recover.

The game is a classic 2D platformer, similar to Duke Nukem for example. The secret agent is landed on an island that functions as a map or an overview of individual levels. Each house you enter is one level. After its fulfillment, further access to other levels is opened. Each round is full of enemies, from soldiers to various mechanical monsters. Along the way, you collect different colored keys to the respective doors, various objects, or the letters S, P and Y, which add more points to the scoreboard at once. At the beginning you only have five cartridges for the pistol, gradually you can find some cartridges, but there are just enough of them to complete the level. The goal of each round is to get a diskette to put into the computer (removes the obstacle), then destroy the radar, and finally find the dynamite to open the exit door.