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| ACTION - Spaceshooter (3 games) |
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CloudPhobia  
Before I start the review, I'd like to note that this is Gamehippo's 2000th review! Nice work, Gamehippo!
CloudPhobia is a great shooter. While it offers no new gameplay elements, it's still cool-looking and plays like a charm. And gameplay is what matters most, right? In CloudPhobia, you control a mech, soaring through the sky above the clouds, destroying any ships and mechs foolish enough to come your way. You are equipped with a laser gun with an unlimited supply of ammo and a small amount of missiles to take down the toughest of your foes. You've seen this type of side-scrolling shooter before, but CloudPhobia handles the concept very well. My only quip about the gameplay is that if an enemy passes through the left side of the screen, you lose health. This is annoying, but is easy to ignore.The graphics are excellent, some of the best I've seen in a freeware game. If CloudPhobia was a commercial PC game, the graphics would still be impressive. So, as you might think, you'll need a fast PC to run the game. I have a two-year-old PC, and I still experienced a little bit of slowdown here and there. Don't download CloudPhobia if you don't think your PC is equipped to run it. CloudPhobia's sound is nearly as good as its graphics. The game's sound effects are clear and crisp, and the music playing in the background fits the game perfectly. The graphics and sound combine to immerse you in the beautiful world of CloudPhobia. So, is CloudPhobia worth the download? If you're looking for some interesting new gameplay concepts, look elsewhere, but if you just want to have fun with a good shooter, CloudPhobia is for you. Also, you may want to download it just to scope the pretty graphics. Or, you may want to avoid it because of the pretty graphics, because they will push the power of your CPU to its fullest extent, and people running the game on an older machine will undoubtedly experience slowdown. The bottom line: CloudPhobia is a beautiful, enjoyable shooter with some recycled gameplay, even if it is very fun.
| PC REQUIREMENTS: A very good PC. I even experienced slowdown on my 2-year-old PC. |
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GAME AUTHOR Fyu-Kosay
REVIEWED BY Mechalord
STAFF RATING 8/10
USER RATING 8.1/10
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FILE SIZE 8.5 MB
FILE DATE May 16, 2004
UPLOADED Jun 18, 2004
DEV TOOL Delphi
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Rapid Fire DX 
Rapid Fire DX comes packaged with the original version and a modern version enhanched by DirectX visual effects. The graphics in the game are are both crisp and clear and with a classic arcadian feeling - both the parallax starry background as well as the sprites. Firstly, I played the classic version which was extremely easy in the beginning and you would have to enter level 7 before you reach any restistance. With only 1 life allotted, if you get killed by a space mine or an enemy ship, you would have to progress all lower actionless levels to reach the higher levels of more fun - a tedious progress. On the flipside, the original adaptation is faithful if that's what you want. Naturally, the spiced-up DX version provides the same action but with cool quasi-3D effects. I say "quasi" because we are still in a side-scolling universe.
| PC REQUIREMENTS: 366 MHz CPU, Windows 98+, 64MB, DirectX compatible 3D accelerated video card, DirectX 8.1+, Visual Basic runtime files |
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GAME AUTHOR S+F Software
REVIEWED BY Boson
STAFF RATING 6/10
USER RATING ---
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FILE SIZE 8.2 MB
FILE DATE Sep 04, 2004
UPLOADED Sep 09, 2004
DEV TOOL Visual Basic
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Space Corps. Armageddon
SC: Armageddon is a suprisingly fun space shooter of epic proportions.
In SC:A, you are on the blue team, battling the red. Thing is, total chaos ensues as ships fight in large battlegroups, with great AI that makes ships retreat from a hopeless battle! Every time a member of a team dies, they are reborn, using 1 life from the team pool. If the player dies, they get a ship downgrade. If they kill an enemy or take 1/3 of it's health, and then dies, they get an upgrade!
The control on SC:A is simple, using only the arrow keys, spacebar, and ctrl. It works surprisingly well, and the ships have variable speed, turn radius, and other factors.
This game is also very customizable, if you know what to do. No, there are no ingame options. But you can open and easily edit every sound and image in the game. A bit of warning: there are 91 ship classes in the game. That's alot of drawing! And I have no clue why there are space stations. They don't appear in the game. This, and random forces every play, make for a very long-lived game.
This game is capable of 40 vs. 40 ship battles all at once, with more ships on the way! Unfortunately, there are no options, but this somehow makes the game better.
The graphics on SC:A are simple, 2d sprites, which are very well drawn, considering each sprite is only 64x64 pixels, and the background is exquisite.
The sounds are all very good, except for the lasers. This, however, does not really change the score.
All in all, Space Corps.: Armageddon is a one-of-a-kind shooter that is absolutely fantastic. There are other Space Corps. games, but none of them (or any game) is like this.
| PC REQUIREMENTS: Microsoft Windows 95 or higher, DirectX 7,200Mhz+, 16mb RAM processor, GeForce 2MX or Higher graphics card |
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GAME AUTHOR Andy Igoe
REVIEWED BY Captain Ventris
STAFF RATING 10/10
USER RATING ---
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FILE SIZE 3.3 MB
FILE DATE May 23, 2004
UPLOADED Jul 16, 2005
DEV TOOL unknown
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