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The Eggs Of Death aren't those horrible pickled things you see in pubs but are found in the hatching chambers of Mortuus Ova, the second stage of this game.

The first stage is getting down to the planet - Natch - and the aliens don't intend to make it easy for you. If you shoot the first one, you're safe to proceed, but let it slip by and you face two of them. As each alien has a different attack plan, it makes for a lively zap 'em up.

The chambers are the main course, a variation on the classic Panic as you run around trying to hammer hatching eggs, but instead of ladders there are sliding floor sections which can be moved in any of four directions to link levels.

There are also power doors but you can only recharge when a monster is about to emerge, and if it escapes, you'll have to dodge it as it leaves.

For dessert there's a Defender-style flight to the next chamber through the Rainbow Caverns, a sort of Jeff Minter candy stripe fantasy.

At last an original Enterprise game that really cuts it.