Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster

It looks like Manfred Trenz took the side-scrolling shoot'em up part of Turrican II and made an entire new game around it. It's fantastically presented and very playable. It is however, one player only, and the game is a touch easy. That doesn't stop it being an amazing technical achievement that will wow you.

It's like if Trenz took the three spaceship levels from Turrican 2 and built a whole new game around that concept, there are even many references to the Turrican series in the graphics and enemies/bosses. I'm terrible at these spaceship shoot 'em ups, though it doesn't get better than this! Fantastic music too. Trenz, Trenz, why have thou forsaken us?

Awesome graphics, music and fx. I had it on tape, but only 4 levels as a freeze

One of the few C64 shooters I got quite far in. It has the powerups and autofire similar to a good MD shmup and suffers not for it. It has perhaps become my favourite C64 shooter.

No one has done so much for the C64 action gamer like Manfred Trenz. Enforcer is his last game on the system, and it sadly never got a boxed release like it deserved.
The game plays very similar to the flying stages in Turrican II. It's fast, pretty and feels overall more like a console shooter than the typical 8bit home computer shmup. Decide for yourself if that's a good or a bad thing. But I think it's great Enforcer is not modeled after Armalyte like most later C64 shmups. The gameplay is well balanced, but until the final stage the game is a tiny bit too easy. The only real downside is that parts of the game feel a little like a rehash of Trenz' earlier work.
It's a technical masterpiece and a very good shooter.

Only ever heard of this never played it. Notice how the last boss looks 'a bit' like the one off stage 4. 3 of Turrican. That chap Trenz does like referencing the classics

Turns out the game crashes on level 2 in NTSC. Oh well.

Excellent R-Type style shooter. More fun than Armalyte in my opinion. Game plays very smoothly which I find important for these types of games. Game play seems fair too, and they aren't stingy on the power-ups, so dying doesn't mean you're a sitting duck for more than a few seconds.

While it seems to be NTSC-compatible (nice work!), it moves too quickly on such systems, making it unplayably difficult. My only other issue is the background graphics tend to be a bit too "busy", which can distract from the gameplay and make it hard to distinguish foes and bullets from background. Many later games were marred by attempts to overdo the graphics, which sacrificed a clean look and a more playable game.

9/10

Classifies as a game with one of the best graphics and one of the best shooters. 10/10.

Some of the BEST GRAPHICS on C64. Easily better then Armalyte!

Its a excellent game even tho its a rip off of turrican 2 and katakis... I played the enforcer hd on my ipad and I was jawdropped at the sound and graphics are so good for the old C64!!

Awesome game! Thanks, Manfred for this great shooter! Enforcer: Full Metal Megablaster is high on my list of all time favorite shoot 'em ups for the C=64. I also love the graphics, with dazzling parallax scrolling and different varation in the backdrops like that huge planet on level 1.

It's bloody great, really!

I voted 10. (also check out Crush, aka 'Katakis 2')

Not one of Manfred Trenz's better games. Even if you can get past the recycled graphics, the level designs tend to be pretty unfair, throwing loads of powerups at the player in an attempt to lessen the otherwise insurmountable difficulty - something that usually isn't the case for Trenz's games. The bosses are up to his usual standard, but that says more about his lame boss designs (Katakis, anyone?) than it does about Enforcer's quality.

So, yeah, Trenz displays his usual technical wizardry here, accompanied by some appropriately dark music by Markus Siebold, but fails to deliver on pretty much anything else. After going out with a bang with Turrican II, this lackluster comeback is just disappointing.

It's rather sad, really.

Utterly stunning late period side scroller. Only queef I have is that, as far as I can remember, you have to re-load after getting yr ass killed. Still very much worth a look for any shoot em up fan.

Plays well enough, but the bosses are often unfair.

Also, almost all of the graphics are recycled from Manfred Trenz's other games. They look nice, but Trenz really should have made new graphics.

Hello, there's a severe mistake here and at all games released by CP Verlag, as they are all COMMERCIAL games. This one for instance I bought at a shop back then. Please see also my forum-entry on the issue for details.

A great, definitive masterpiece with a lot of action, enemies to blast, weapons to choose, improvement. Great music and sounds, big sprites, the summa of Trenz's art.

I only really discovered this frenetic little shooter with the almightily overblown name, last summer and have really enjoyed taking the odd blast through it. I've only made it to the 4th stage a handful of times however! It has an addictive replayability and a nice high score save feature, adding to its charms. Whilst perhaps not quite as classic as R-Type or Katakis, it does bring forth and add to the memories of those games.

Technically this game belongs to the absulut best on the C64.
Unfortunately the game-play is very hectically and after you got all the weapons it's much too easy.
So 7/10 only.

It could not be fully original but for its concept, stunning technical realisation and playability this can be considered as one of the few C64's Arcade level game.
Simply the best H-shoot 'm up on the good old CMB. Period.

Amazing game! Graphics, sound, playability, everything just wonderful. 10/10

Yeah man! Real shooting festival! This game is full of playability! Shoot'em up classic.

Really a great game!
10/10 !

Even better than Katakis!
It is fair: you can play it without any cheats and trainers because you do not die by only one hit (you have some kind of internal shields).
I completed it many times...

As a spare time job this is great. Too many ripoffs from Trenz's previous games (Katakis, R-Type and the Turricans), both in the backgrounds and sprites dept. S, and some things are evidently rushed (sprite/backgrounds clash on some levels, especially 1 and 2) but there are also plain awesome touches. Very easy to complete, though. Katakis (and Armalyte) still rule.

Graphics - 10/10
Playability - 4/10
Programming excellence, poor game design. Short levels with insane number of enemies to deal with, impossible to play. Not a good swansong for Mr. Trenz on the C64..

Yes, it's a nice game.
This should be the sequel to
Katakis. Not the same class but a nice game.

Well, when I think about this game, I think about the end of the C64 era (Since this was the year when VGA screens got common, I guess this was the end the of Commodore also). ANyway a brilliant game, from the guy that brought us turrican, katakis...