It praised the graphics and concluded, "It is a remarkable programming achievement".
In order to complete the game multiple tanks must make it through to the final level.īeach-Head was Access' best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. The gun emplacement requires multiple hits to be destroyed, but traverses faster than tanks can aim and fire, so it cannot be destroyed in a single attempt. Gameplay consists of several varying stages in which the player must control various vehicles including warships and tanks in order to defeat an enemy fleet, break through enemy beach defences and destroy an enormous gun-emplacement to win the game. The game's setting is the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.