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Whiterabbit01's Review - October 19, 2007 |
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$6.99
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| Classic blasting action shooter in a full metal jacket. |
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Wheyehy heeey, what a corker; or, This is the best Space Shooter since R-Type
This is probably the best arcade space shooter out there except its own upgrade, Jets'n'Guns Gold; and is one of my most favourite of games, although ‘virtually’ all the games of this genre are cool, this one is way cool. It has exceptional game play and great graphics despite having the most antiquated of screen resolutions, and stands so much more above others of this genre.
From the start you are pelted with missiles and projectiles from an awesome number of enemies; some quirky and others such as the space suited figures that jump ship just before your weaponry blasts it to smithereens, hilarious. This game has it all.
All the features of this game add something that most shooters of this genre can only aspire to. There are no endless streams of the same style of ship, but an impressive array of different ships, bases and gun emplacements
For a few dollars more you are able to upgrade to the Gold version, which adds more levels and lots more enemy ships as well as an upgrade in resolution to 800 x 600; which although still in the stone age of computing, kicks some serious butt none the less.
The usual shop upgrades are accessible right from the start, and the ability to collect awesome amounts of money throughout the game, either by blasting ships and men or by picking up the generous amount of gold that can be found floating in space; so that after surviving one of the many rounds you can upgrade easily with some fantastic weaponry and defensive shields in readiness for the later levels which are much harder; but not exceptionally so.
If you're not a big fan of space shooters, this is still one you should have in your library; if only to sate the appetites of visitors whom you may allow access to when they visit. I'm sure any gamer finding this on a friend’s computer would thing 'cool dude', lol. I do hope we seem more level packs in the future or even an editor, which would be a first in this genre I believe. |
This review has an average score of 4.5 - Based on 10 ratings
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Whiterabbit01's Review - October 16, 2007 |
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| Prepare to smash your way through a wild and crazy game! |
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An Arkanoid well worth buying
I have approaching 200 arkanoid games now. From my experience of playing arkanoids of both the 2D and 3D type, this definitely stands out as a worthwhile download and is one of those games I'll keep coming back for time and time again.
It may be a clone of that time revered classic arcade game by Taito circa 1974, but it's a well constructed game, with excellent graphics and enough originality about it to justify the casual gamer at least trying the demo to see what they think. It does have similarities with its counterpart Gem Ball, but is not the same. There are so many differences that it stands it's ground as an original. It's much better than Magic Ball 2 and most of the 3D clones that abound these days. In my opinion the only '3D' arkanoids that equal or better it are Magic Ball 3, (but only because of its amazing graphics and brick physics), Incrediball:The Seven Sapphires and Gem ball, with maybe a few others such as Boom Ball and Chaks Temple.
There is an abundance of originality in this game, such as the Crazy Ball (others have similar balls, but not like this one) Power Ball, Shooting Ball (yeah I know the Ricochet series has this ball, but I'm talking about 3D arkanoids) and also some unusual bricks like the cloning brick that gives you two ball for one (Adventure Ball has something similar, but this one looks better) and the ability to see some of the best power ups that are shown on top of some bricks.
I'd love to see another themed 3D arkanoid from this company as I think they have the right formula. Maybe something space aged or an underwater adventure. I do agree with some of the previous comments such as doing something with the static backgrounds. These could be animated to make it more alive, for example add some explosions etc.
For a 3D this has some fast game play that is lacking in most 3D arkanoids... |
This review has an average score of 4.3 - Based on 3 ratings
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Whiterabbit01's Review - August 17, 2007 |
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$9.99
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| Help the dwarves in their quest to restore peace to their land! |
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Apart from Elf (circa early 90's) this has to be the best side scrolling platform I've come across..
Personally I never enjoyed side scrollers, although I did play through most of 'Elf', a game from the early 90's. Other than this until the Dwarves series that is. I was impressed with this series, however after the nth expansion pack it did get a little stale. They upgraded the game to Brave Dwarves 2, with the same basic gameplay, but much improved graphics and some other extra's. Unfortunately they did the same thing with that series and released what seemed like a never ending line of expansion packs. I'd try the demo and see what you think. I've now only got one Brave Dwarves game called Brave Dwarves 2 Deluxe pack, which has about 20 story lines in it amounting to quite a lot of levels.
Edit 18th Nov 07:
Actually it's not the best side scroller I've come across, I totally forgot about the likes of Gumboy Crazy Adventures, Turtix and even Wik & The Fable of Souls. Still a small dose of the dwarves is okay :) |
This review has an average score of 3.8 - Based on 5 ratings
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Whiterabbit01's Review - August 15, 2007 |
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| Ricochet across the Galaxy, brick-busting an endless supply of awesome levels! |
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Infinity has to be the pinnacle
Wow, I've only just seen the release. Been on vacation; then returning to a massive pile of mail etc I've only just checked my newsleters from reflexive. The first thing I did when I saw Richochet - Infinity was download the demo.
I really didn't think you could improve on the last series; especially with all those fantastic fan made levels that I calculate must be around 5 to 6 thousand levels. I've not even played 10% of them, in fact i'm still to finish a couple of levels from the original. Being an Arkanoid freak I will buy any new ones. And to be honest this really does fit up there with my favorites. I won't beplaying any of the others for a while (my number 1 fovorite,even though its graphically out of date is Acky's Break out. I think this one is going to equal or surpass it. I've only been playing it for an hour. bought the full version and now will be up all night exploring all the changes.
Personally I don't actually like the rail ball, I think it takes the skill out of the game, but we shall see. I"ve tried some of the fan made levels and was surprised to find that you get all the new features when playing some of the older ones. I checked through the list and recognised several of the level sets such as Beckys.
The previous reviews detail all the new and returned features so I'm not going to bother repeating them.
All I can say now is AMAZING.......:) |
This review has an average score of 3.6 - Based on 13 ratings
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Whiterabbit01's Review - November 17, 2006 |
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| The myth comes alive again in this long awaited brick-busting sequel! |
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Bricks of......
I agree with what Carsberg said, that is, "the Bricks of Series of brick busters is getting much too repetitive". The first one I bought was Bricks of Atlantis, which I thought was well made and good looking, but not very challenging, still I throughly enjoyed it. The rest of the series though are much the same....all well made and good looking, but the game play become's much 'too' repetitive, with the same power ups and the same looking brick styles apart fron the different themes. The games would be much improved if you took a leaf out of games such as Ricochet: Lost Worlds, Ricochet: Recharged, Break Quest and Incrediball:The Seven Sapphires. That is have the ability to either pick and mix your powerups (Break Quest). Change the powerups or add new ones in later releases (Ricochet) or have some levels within levels (Incrediball:The Seven Sapphires), oh yeah and a level editor would be nice to. You could then set up a fan based site where all the fan made level's could be uploaded and shared with the community, and you could even pick the best of them and release them as an expansion pack, just like they did with Ricochet Lost Worlds: Revisited. There's a lot of potential with your games. They have a great look as I've already said, but you really need to spice them up, otherwise your gonna be another Hyperballoid. Which was once a brilliant release when it was released by Alawar, but has now turned into something of a behemoth, costing over $170 originally if you wanted to complete all the level sets they have released. (edit 19th nov 2007: you can get Hyperballoid Golden Pack here at Reflexive now, that contains the lot plus more for $20). Not one of them has any new power ups, and the same awful music drones on (though you can 'buy' another music pack with 5 new sounds, lol). It's a beautifully rendered game though, one of the best in fact.
I didn't mind BoE2, but it did bore me after a while. Please add some new power ups and a levels editor. |
This review has an average score of 3.4 - Based on 7 ratings
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