16th December 2008, 12:37 AM
Because blowing things up is FUN!
-Star Fighter (3DO/PC/Saturn/PSX) -- When I first played the demo of the PC version in 1996, I thought this game was hard, but completely awesome. Playing it again today, my opinion hasn't changed... it's just not quite as hard as it was for me 12 years ago. The controls are weird and tough to get used to, though, for sure (instead of your fighter turning when you press left or right, left or right rotate the plane, so you make a slow, banked curve, unless you press right and up or right and down for a quicker turn, that might also spin you in an unexpected direction... you'll regularly crash into the ground and blow up in this game until you get used to it. :))... but...
*holds down fire with lasers equipped*
*The ground starts deforming and turning grey, the hills get blown apart and ripped down to the base ground later and buildings blow up in nice flashy chunks*
:D This game is worth trying, if just to fly around shooting at and/or crashing into stuff! :) (Oh, the PC version has the best graphics... find the demo and try it in DOSBox, it's a DOS game.)
-Mercenaries -- haven't played it, but I've heard you can blow up anything. Sounds great. :)
-Battletanx and Battletanx: Global Assault -- You can destroy any building in the stage. Reduce entire cities to rubble!
Red Faction and Red Faction 2 -- Geo-Mod... blow your way around doors, blow through walls and dirt... true terrain deformation in the way most FPSes don't have. A great experience.
So here's my question... what more games do this? Particularly the terrain deformation; I'm sure Red Faction and Star Fighter aren't the only two games ever that let you do things like that, right?
-Star Fighter (3DO/PC/Saturn/PSX) -- When I first played the demo of the PC version in 1996, I thought this game was hard, but completely awesome. Playing it again today, my opinion hasn't changed... it's just not quite as hard as it was for me 12 years ago. The controls are weird and tough to get used to, though, for sure (instead of your fighter turning when you press left or right, left or right rotate the plane, so you make a slow, banked curve, unless you press right and up or right and down for a quicker turn, that might also spin you in an unexpected direction... you'll regularly crash into the ground and blow up in this game until you get used to it. :))... but...
*holds down fire with lasers equipped*
*The ground starts deforming and turning grey, the hills get blown apart and ripped down to the base ground later and buildings blow up in nice flashy chunks*
:D This game is worth trying, if just to fly around shooting at and/or crashing into stuff! :) (Oh, the PC version has the best graphics... find the demo and try it in DOSBox, it's a DOS game.)
-Mercenaries -- haven't played it, but I've heard you can blow up anything. Sounds great. :)
-Battletanx and Battletanx: Global Assault -- You can destroy any building in the stage. Reduce entire cities to rubble!
Red Faction and Red Faction 2 -- Geo-Mod... blow your way around doors, blow through walls and dirt... true terrain deformation in the way most FPSes don't have. A great experience.
So here's my question... what more games do this? Particularly the terrain deformation; I'm sure Red Faction and Star Fighter aren't the only two games ever that let you do things like that, right?