Cave StoryOn to Grasstown | Submitted by Therum on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 19:46. |
There are plenty of amazing platform shooters out there. Metroid. Gunstar. Contra. None of these games can quite compare to Cave Story, though.
Released in late 2004, Cave Story harkens back to a simpler time. The graphics are 8-bit, and yet they manage to be beautiful. The music consists entirely of chiptunes, and yet it's some of the best composed video game music I've ever listened to. And the gameplay? Fantastic.
RobotopiaFast-Paced Arcade Shooter with Online Play | Submitted by costik on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 05:12. |
Robotopia is a cheerful sidescrolling shooter with a color palette remniscent of the arcade, in which you control a robot who can fly, zapping a huge variety of opponents and bosses. The single-player game has scads of challenging levels (ten in the demo); you level up over time and can purchase new weapons and equipment, for an RPG-like experience. And once you've gotten good at the controls (see below), you can go online* and battle others in deathmatch, "capture-the-flag" or "bounty-hunting" play.
GibbageTwo-Player Cartoon Deathmatch | Submitted by costik on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 23:36. |
That's Gibbage as in "gibs," from "giblets"--the body parts strewn across the screen in FPS games like Doom and Quake.
Gibbage is a truly odd and heart-warmingly gory game that combines the mechanics of retro platformers with the aesthetic of the modern first-person shooter. The graphics are cartoony, and would not look amiss on a NES or pre-CD-ROM PC; the gameplay is deathmatch shooting madness. Your avatar runs and leaps about, gathering powerups and dispatching your foe with massive firepower, a 3D game's gibs replaced with pixellated blood.
eXtinctionArrgh! Die! | Submitted by costik on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 19:48. |
Here's another genre they don't make any more--2D third-person platform shooters, like Duke Nuke'm back before the Duke went 3D. Developed pretty much by one guy (Dusan Stevanovic), it's a damn impressive effort for a one-man shop. If hopping about and blowing crap up sounds good to you, well, pally, that's what the download link is for, eh?
The day after 9-11 I mowed the lawn on the rider, burning gas to halve flora on non-food producing land, then I played a videogame using brown electricity. Had I been playing Stallions In America or I Was In The War then the circle of life would have been complete - unfortunately we didn't have the technology back then.
Cactus' game is an action shooter, using the ASWD and the mouse to run and gun. You play four superstuds with soy-processed American Cheese(tm) names like Cody and Mitch, and you go through every US State slaughtering everyone, birds, bees, pigeons, peacocks, men, women and children. The moral of the story is, I guess, that they hate us because we're free.
