Hill Billy’s developers must have noticed our eager fascination with their upcoming first person shooter for the iPhone. They sent us a note yesterday that their game has finally been submitted to the App Store and that they are now simply awaiting Apple’s approval.
Readers may remember the impressive but strange gameplay video (embedded below) that they posted back in December.
The game premise is as follows:
You are Hill Billy: the world’s largest carrot grower. You have a problem: a strange invasion of biomechanical creatures hungry of vegetables. You have a solution: your shotgun…
So get ready and try to rescue all the carrots by stopping those strange creatures; Explore and defend Hill Billy’s properties, find his homemade weapons and hidden odd items… Where those footprints will lead you?
Features listed by the developer include:
- Smooth Accelerometer-based control.
- Next-gen shading, using up to four maps on a single mesh.
- Dynamic normal mapping to enhance realism on all 3d models.
- Self illumination (glow), even on a carrot!
- Particles-style effects.
- Complex hardware-accelerated skeletal animations.
The developer tells us the controls for the game rely on the accelerometer for movement with the exception of two on-screen strafe buttons. There are 6 weapons from the Poisoned Carrot to the Shitgun (not a typo) in 5 game scenarios. Oh, and, of course, a lot of rabbits!
The game will be priced at $5.99 (US). Bring it on!
Sure what the hell. It looks good and only a dollar.
Thanks for posting. Definitely a must have if you're into this genre. It is a polished game and reminds me of 1942 in a way. It flows nice and is well done - not a rushed out the door before it was finished game. Recommended.
was my fav game in the past (n95)
Looks good.
But don't see much power ups, other than the barely noticeably growing projectiles.
For those who know this game, do we have to get to different levels just to see double shooting, bombs/missiles, etc?
My fav would be a Raiden port T.T
Great game for all arcade lovers. A bargain price!
It's look like Hybris on the Amiga. Very cool Game!
Great game. Reminds me a bit of the Amiga classics Hybris / Battle Squadron from Discovery.
Had this on my old Sony Ericsson Symbian (UIQ3) P1i...it was already amazing then. Now i hope Infinite Dreams also ports K-Rally to the iphone...you will be amazed
Call me ADD, but I don't like shoot-em-ups where you can miss ships because they fly in between your bullets.
Overall though I'd say it looks like one of the better iPhone shooters. Controls look really nicely done.
This was a great game on Windows Mobile, and it's super cool they ported it to iPhone! I think this will probably be one of the best vertical shooters on the AppStore. I love the hybrid 2D/3D engine.
I don't agree that touch controls are no replacement for a joystick. You're not gonna get any more responsive than touch controls.
one of the best in the market
and i kinda like the BGM ;)
i prefer spacex
I love the Amiga feel with the C64 sid chip music ... sweet!
the video and reviews were enough for me to buy this.
Now it only we could have official(and un-modernized) Truxton(Tatsujin), and Twin Cobra on the iPhone!