After the start of the program you will see intro titles. Press 'ESC' key to enter the main menu. Note that you can press 'ESC' or 'P' key anytime to pause the game and enter the menu. Main menu contains these options: NEW GAME Press NEW GAME to start new campaign. Type your hero's name, change his/her photo in the pilot's licence and select the desired game difficulty. Then press "GO!" button to start the campaign. LOAD GAME Here you can load your previously saved position. First position ("QUICKSAVE") is updated automatically anytime you enter a new level, so it is better not to use it manualy. CONTINUE LAST Loads the last saved position automatically. OPTIONS You can balance the volume of sound and music here and lower level of details to rise game's performance if necessary. You can also change control keys and turn gore on/off. ## THE QUEST The situation is critical. The most dreadful space villain - dictator Xoxx - showed up once again on the scene, and his plans are clear - he is preparing nothing less than total destruction of the universe! A pack of a pirates under command of Xoxx's slave Crtex kidnapped poor professor von Hamburger few days ago. The professor has been working on a quantum cannon of a new generation. He planned peaceful exploitation of the invention, but who could assume a misuse of gigantic, several kilometres long quantum cannon able to cause particle colapse of the universe? Now, his research is in hands of a schizofrenic paranoid lunatic. Professor must be liberated! You must track down Xoxx's secret base, destroy the weapon and stop Xoxx and his henchmen in realizing their furious plan. ## THE GAME The game is separated into a sequence of levels – missions, which leads you through the whole story. Each level is introduced by a short briefing text to help you keep the track of the quest and to give you a short description of your immediate task. Levels are interlaced by shopping breaks where you can save your current achievement in the quest and equip your ship with many different weapons and special devices. When you successfully finish a level you will get summary statistics about your performance (money gain, kills etc.). When you fail, you will see the game over screen and you will be asked to decide if you want to play again (restart level by pressing SPACE) or abort level (by pressing ESC). Aborting a level will bring you back to the last shopping break. If you fail too many times, you probably did not chose the optimum combination of weapons and you should go back to shop and reconsider your equipment. Anytime during the fight you can bring up the game menu by pressing ESC o P. This will pause the game and let you to do one of these actions: CONTINUE - hides the menu (shortcut: ESC, P) RESTART LEVEL – start the level again (shortcut: R) ABORT LEVEL – stop the fight and take you back to the last shopping break (shortcut: A) OPTIONS – gives access to the options (shortcut: O) END CAMPAIGN – quits the campaign to the intro titles.