It is a high score type of game. BUT, what makes it different are the global highscores and factions and all that great stuff. And I believe a review is pretty much what someone thought of a game. I believe this is one of the best of the best.
So, if it's a high-score game, then why does it receive 5/5 for length? I understand replayability since you can go back and try for a high score, but that doesn't make the content of the game any deeper.
Be patient, I think this will essentially be the problem with everyone who comes across this thread thinking "oh great, another arena shooter with dual stick controls!" *buys* and then comes here to tell us how hard the controls are. The controls are definitely hard, but you'll get used to it. Why am I vouching for this game so much? Probably because it's right up my alley. EDIT: Oops, didn't see the post above. VoodooVyper, I suggest you take the $1 plunge (which is light change for everyone) and decide for yourself. You'll probably enjoy it more than you think. With that said, I don't think it's a perfect 10 but its ruthless difficulty will make you want to play more and more until you get all the achievements.
Well theoretically, if you like the game, you will be playing it for a long time, hence the word length. And yes, I did sort of base my review on price as it is only 0.99. Sorry if my review didn't agree with you or it felt biased, but that review was an honest review of this game.
Didn't see your review before bud, awesome stuff. To be honest, I'd still buy the game if it was in the $3-5 range because of the time I've spent with it. I bought Peggle for $6 and I have yet to play that game for more than 2-3 times.
Wow, same here. Got Peggle, $5, and it never really struck me as awesome. I mean design was great, but gameplay wasn't really my type. This game just blew my socks off with the level of polish and stuff in the game. As of now, I have played it longer than Peggle.
I think it's clever and I'm glad I got it but, yeah, I'm not getting onboard the ultra super hype train for it. I do think, however, I get how "longevity" is a very subjective thing and even if this game is pretty straight forward and minimalistic if compared to something like Isotope, there is a purity to it's simplicity of design (which is not to say it's easy since I suck horribly at it) but it really is simply blow up the shield generators to then blow up the core, rinse repeat (with many roaming baddies thrown in to make this simple mission easier said than done). I mean some folk can play Asteroids or Space Invaders for years on end who is to say these games don't have sufficient longevity? Something as I discussed earlier that I find a very interesting aspect is this is the kind of game where you can go at it from two totally different perspectives. Fight a bunch of the roaming baddies to rack up as many points as possible before finishing the level OR try to avoid any but the most necessary opponents and rush to taking out the core as quick and efficiently as possible. The only top down shooter I know of where killing the many roaming baddies is completely optional (although the only way to get more bullet time fuel).
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid. I'm crawling up to that #1 spot. Latest score is 2,706,850. This is getting easier and easier.
Does the game give any sort of time bonuses for finishing a level quickly or can points really only be made by shooting as many baddies as you can in rapid succession BEFORE hitting any of the generators?
I don't think the faster you complete the level the more points you get(correct me if im wrong), but that would be pretty cool you should suggest that when Shay/se7en gets on. Not as high a score as everyone else, but blew my previous score out of the water. 65,000 > 450,000 You can get used to this game very fast, I can see the scores shooting up in this game once more people start getting it. Hopefully this game will have intense leaderboard action(back and fourth between more then one or two players).
Definitely loving the eye candy in this game. The bullets can be difficult to see, but it makes you aim carefully...don't spray and pray. Yes, the controls take a little time to get used to, but by no means are they that difficult. I'm on a non-jailbroken iphone 3g and I did not notice any graphical lag or sound problems at all...I did reboot my device before playing.
Yes, it is not the same play style as those games...think old school asteroids in movement style...you have to control direction and thrust separately.
