HelmetCat 最近的评测

Good fun. Probably not worth the current asking price (£5.59) - get it when it's on sale when it's at least half price. If you do, you'll be happy with the purchase. A few hours of harmless 'missile command' styled enemy warfare. Not that taxing. A casual game to dip into now and then for some mindless shooting. Graphics and sound are fine for what it is. Controls are fluid and responsive.

It's chess! The engine, for a reasonable club player of an elo of 1500 or so, is easy to beat up to around level 60. The single player interface is very easy to use. Graphics clear. The only downside is that the multiplayer interface is a bit non-intuitive and it can be difficult to get a match.

Overall, recommended.

Well, I am nearly 12 hours in and am thoroughly enjoying it. For people in their late 40s, like wot I am, any game set in space that involves combat, missions and trading is always going to evoke memories of Elite and invite comparisons. This is a top down 2D version of Elite, in my book, and does the job admirably! Great stuff.

It's like a cross between Chuckie Egg and Metroid Prime.

FIRSTLY, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO POST A FIRST REVIEW FOR A GAME FIRST! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!


EDIT

4th october 2022 - It's still amazing!

Okay, as of writing this I have played less than an hour, but I am giving it a positive review. Why? Well I remember sinking a LOT of money into this game in 1986, when I was just fifteen years old, at Barry Island in South Wales. It had loads of arcades back then, and I would go with my mates Wayne, Marcus, Birdie, Gareth and many others, taking a train from our home town of Cwmbran and spending the day at Barry Island on Saturdays many times over the school holidays. Many of the games of that time took our eye (and emptied our wallets - though wallets weren't a priority for 15-year-old males back then. 'Pockets' is a better word) such as Dragon's Lair, Out Run, Space Harrier, Space Ace, Marble Madness, Paperboy and many many more. But there were few multi-player games. I guess Gauntlet was the main one and most popular, but Double Dragon was a close runner-up and I have such strong memories of myself and Wayne and Marcus playing 'Winner stays on' type tournements on this game at Barry Island, on sunny summer Saturdays while the beach and the sea stared at us through the open long entrances of the arcade.

As to this conversion? Well as I say, I have literally just played it and although some may say under an hour is not enough to give a thorough assesment of a game, for me, it plays and feels like the Double Dragon I remember. So a big thumbs up for this emulation of an arcade classic.

Okay, let's do the bullet point thing as everyone loves bullets (and points)

• I've never played any console version of this game.
  
• I remember buying the original Grand Theft Auto in 1997. I skipped GTA 2 but then bought GTA 3 for my PS1. I owned GTA IV for the PS3 which I loved. I have never played GTA 4.
  
• I am drunk.
  
• I think there should be different review categories, splitting 'single player' and 'multiplayer'. A lot of the negative reviews for this game focus on multiplayer aspects and the disgruntled feelings of players who have been banned for various and what appears to be spurious reasons.
  
• There are actually many gamers, such as myself, who do not rate the multiplayer aspects of a game highly. We're old and decrepit and prefer single-player experiences.
  
• I cannot fault the single player experience of GTA 5. I am lucky enough to have a modern PC, with a blisteringly fast CPU and graphics card, and I am running Windows 10. I have experienced no techincal or performance issues when running GTA 5.
  
• Buy this game.

Okay, so you know how you end up with a few hundred games in your Steam library and you have no memory of aquiring those games? It's usually from Humble Bundles or Fanatical bundles, right? So for me, this game falls into that category. It was my day off work (yeah, that thing a lot of us do in 'real life') and I was browsing through my game library and just booted up this game on a whim. I had read no reviews and did not know anything about it.
It's weird! But weird in a good way! It actually reminds me of the old Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone Fighting Fantasy books in a way, bizarre as that seems. You encounter multiple choice questions and your answer determines where you go next.
It seems to be a fun, interesting game, suitable for short ten or twenty minute spells. I am not sure I would pay full price for it (and am pretty sure I didn't!) but if you spot it on sale or as part of a bundle, then I think you'll be happy with it.

Well, at the time of writing I have been using this software for just under fifteen hours. The learning curve is steep and for someone like myself who is nearing 50 years old and who hasn't coded or designed anything in terms of a 'game' since being in school in the 1980s, it was daunting at first. However, I am thoroughly enjoying it! I tried following one of the guides available here - creating a quiz show - and that was tricky (only due to English not being the first language of the person who posted the guide) but very much enjoyable.

I very much appreciate the fact the developer continues to give this software a lot of attention and frequently updates it too. It is well worth the money and I look forward to spending many more hours using it. I am going to try and write a Christmas themed RPG with it, to publish on Steam November 2018! Though knowing the pace I work at, it's more likely to be November 2019! :-D

You don't need to play a game for two or three hours to write a considered, thoughtful and objective review. You can play it for ten minutes, as I have done, and experience all there is to experience.

This game is bad. I have no idea how I came to have it in my Steam library. It's probably been sitting there for a year or so when, on a whim, I came to boot it up today. Now my history regarding Breakout clones comprises of loving the original Breakout and also Arkanoid, both the arcade version and the 8-bit version that I owned for my Amstrad CPC6128 in the mid-80s. I was hopeful of something along the lines of this.

It was not. This is a dire, turgid, uninspired Breakout clone that has no redeeming features. Even the level editor is a dismal uninspiring affair that offers no creativity whatsoever.

I've just noticed there are no Steam trading cards or achievements either and therefore, my score for this game hovers around the -1000/100 mark.