Post by VectorX on Aug 9, 2012 23:05:11 GMT -5
As I had posted about this earlier and elsewhere, I had gotten this cd from a guy who used to run a sci-fi store out of his house, which he and his wife were selling. This is one of the many video games they had for sale, which is the PC version. It also came out for the PlayStation and Dreamcast.
This contains the remake of the arcade game, of course, being made in 3-D. The gameplay is the exact same except with it being in 3-D, as the screen is presented in kind of a trapezoid shape (think level 11 of Tempest). You can't move around quite as fast as on the original, which is nonsense when you can't catch up with a centipede segment to shoot, and the spider moves in a slightly different pattern, being hard to hit. The collision detection is a little suspect, as you get nailed when something's like half an inch away, which is a load of crap, plus it makes shooting the flea and such a little difficult to try to anticipate. The flea and scorpion blow up into psychedelic splinters when hit, but it's not much of an improvement over the original, of course.
Now, the other included version is the Adventure one, although all the elements of the original are in there, just presented in 30 worlds. In these areas, you move all over the place, and aren't just limited to the bottom of a screen. Usually you have little people to rescue and their homes to protect from critters. There is now a scanner to keep an eye on, since spiders can come up behind you and crap. Watch for the occasional glowing mushroom, as it has a power-up, like increasing your shooting capabilities. After you shoot like three centipedes or something you can go about saving any other people that might still be around, then look for an entrance or a lowered bridge to move onto the next area.
New enemies start being introduced, like this douche that's like a catapult, throwing bombs your way and aren't limited to a 2-D trajectory (i. e. if it starts flying, I'd move if I were you, as it could land on you!). Others look like splinters and attack in droves, while another is like the Cosmic Dragon on Web Wars, except it's a bit more of a pain to try to deal with.
At first it's confusing as to how to get to a new area once you finish up with one (no new centipedes coming out is a big hint though, at least), but you should get used to it pretty quick. There's some odd stuff going on that makes me wonder if they're in regards to secrets or just background stuff. There's some glitches in the game, and game saves are also screwy, as you hit escape during the arcade game, taking you to the main menu, which looks like you lost your game, but you go back to Arcade to pick up right where you left off. Trying to do this on the Adventure version (btw, why it's called "adventure" I don't really know when you'll still shooting sh*t) doesn't work the same though, which is stupid, asking you if you want to start over on the same level, yet hitting escape won't bring you back to it like it says it will. But then if you go back to the main menu and restart it there it works then (whatever).
There's also two player modes which I'll have to try out with the nephew, although it'd be cooler to play two players over the net, but you'd need a second copy of this game to try that.
The action's definitely fast and furious and I give it a 6.5 out of 10 so far (I don't know if it'll get better worse, or stay the same, as I'm currently on only the fourth out of 30 worlds). I'll definitely keep the game as a collector but it's not really a prized item.
This contains the remake of the arcade game, of course, being made in 3-D. The gameplay is the exact same except with it being in 3-D, as the screen is presented in kind of a trapezoid shape (think level 11 of Tempest). You can't move around quite as fast as on the original, which is nonsense when you can't catch up with a centipede segment to shoot, and the spider moves in a slightly different pattern, being hard to hit. The collision detection is a little suspect, as you get nailed when something's like half an inch away, which is a load of crap, plus it makes shooting the flea and such a little difficult to try to anticipate. The flea and scorpion blow up into psychedelic splinters when hit, but it's not much of an improvement over the original, of course.
Now, the other included version is the Adventure one, although all the elements of the original are in there, just presented in 30 worlds. In these areas, you move all over the place, and aren't just limited to the bottom of a screen. Usually you have little people to rescue and their homes to protect from critters. There is now a scanner to keep an eye on, since spiders can come up behind you and crap. Watch for the occasional glowing mushroom, as it has a power-up, like increasing your shooting capabilities. After you shoot like three centipedes or something you can go about saving any other people that might still be around, then look for an entrance or a lowered bridge to move onto the next area.
New enemies start being introduced, like this douche that's like a catapult, throwing bombs your way and aren't limited to a 2-D trajectory (i. e. if it starts flying, I'd move if I were you, as it could land on you!). Others look like splinters and attack in droves, while another is like the Cosmic Dragon on Web Wars, except it's a bit more of a pain to try to deal with.
At first it's confusing as to how to get to a new area once you finish up with one (no new centipedes coming out is a big hint though, at least), but you should get used to it pretty quick. There's some odd stuff going on that makes me wonder if they're in regards to secrets or just background stuff. There's some glitches in the game, and game saves are also screwy, as you hit escape during the arcade game, taking you to the main menu, which looks like you lost your game, but you go back to Arcade to pick up right where you left off. Trying to do this on the Adventure version (btw, why it's called "adventure" I don't really know when you'll still shooting sh*t) doesn't work the same though, which is stupid, asking you if you want to start over on the same level, yet hitting escape won't bring you back to it like it says it will. But then if you go back to the main menu and restart it there it works then (whatever).
There's also two player modes which I'll have to try out with the nephew, although it'd be cooler to play two players over the net, but you'd need a second copy of this game to try that.
The action's definitely fast and furious and I give it a 6.5 out of 10 so far (I don't know if it'll get better worse, or stay the same, as I'm currently on only the fourth out of 30 worlds). I'll definitely keep the game as a collector but it's not really a prized item.
There's probably some kind of program to download or something to get around this but I'm not much on dumping stuff on here (as the computer runs like total ass at times; I'm going to see about doing a few things to hopefully speed it up this weekend). Trying to do it with a digital camera doesn't really work either since you can't tell what's going on.
