23rd July 2010, 5:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd July 2010, 6:53 PM by A Black Falcon.)
... You've never played twin-stick/tank-style games with mouse and keyboard, EM? Really? There have been plenty of them over the years though... it allows for much more freedom in aiming. This is true both for third-person games such as the classic late '90s PC action game Recoil, where you control your tanks' movement with the keyboard and your view and firing with the mouse and the two are completely separate, to Smash TV, Geometry Wars, etc.
Really, these controls are much more natural than "you must be facing in the direction you want to fire in" controls, and so much more versatile and easy to hit enemies in any direction with, too...
Of course, I did get pretty good at Llamatron, the great Robotron-style game, and have played other games like this before too, so yeah. I think it's a fantastic control scheme, so much better than ones where you just have a fire button and movement.
Another example, probably an even closer comparison -- Alien Syndrome for the Wii. It's topdown, you move with the Nunchuck's stick, and aim with the Wiimote. Very much like this. But really, it's all just versions of Robotron's control scheme at heart. You haven't even played Geometry Wars much or something?
As for this game, it seems fun, good graphics and great controls. However, that it's multiplayer-only makes me much less interested than if it was a full game...
Really, these controls are much more natural than "you must be facing in the direction you want to fire in" controls, and so much more versatile and easy to hit enemies in any direction with, too...
Of course, I did get pretty good at Llamatron, the great Robotron-style game, and have played other games like this before too, so yeah. I think it's a fantastic control scheme, so much better than ones where you just have a fire button and movement.
Another example, probably an even closer comparison -- Alien Syndrome for the Wii. It's topdown, you move with the Nunchuck's stick, and aim with the Wiimote. Very much like this. But really, it's all just versions of Robotron's control scheme at heart. You haven't even played Geometry Wars much or something?
As for this game, it seems fun, good graphics and great controls. However, that it's multiplayer-only makes me much less interested than if it was a full game...
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