I feel dirty (Deimos Rising)

Poo Bear · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:53 am Post subject: I feel dirty (Deimos Rising)

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/dr/

Everyone else hates this game but I kind of like it, I know it is really simple and the controls are insane but I keep going back to it. It is a vertical shootemup that gives you a physical work out leaving your wrists aching Smile

Let me explain the controls:
1. repeatedly press fire1 - and I mean press fast.
2. hold down fire1 to charge up a big blast but be careful or the ship blows up - eh?
3. use fire2 to drop bombs, but again you are going to have to press repeatedly to get anywhere.

Instead of following fixed learnable/predictable paths, the flying enemies just come straight for you on a suicide run. On the ground are a number of turrets which you can take out with the bombs, only problem is they fire super fast bullets at you (without warning) that are almost impossible to dodge.

So am I crazy or is this actually good?

Here is a review:
http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=221

CidHighwindFF7 · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:43 am Post subject:

I'm downloading it now, tell you later Wink

CidHighwindFF7 · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject:

And... I didnt like it. I thought Raptor: Call of the Shadows was everything it was and more.

Poo Bear · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject:

If you liked Raptor then you should like "Demonstar: secret missions", see this thread: http://www.moonpod.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=459. Done by the same people who did Raptor.

Guest · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject:

Sweetness.

DaiShiva · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 22

I might have to try that out

Tyrian was a good one too

Gravitron · Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 125 Location: Isra(H)el

I like the genre, I like the graphics, the game itself makes me sick, "sorry - this won't do".

I preffer the old ones.
Tyrian, Raptor, OverKill, Galactica...much better done.

I would definately have to denote much of it to the complexity, oddly as the game is quite simple to operate, and difficulty level of it.
Perhaps the craft isn't moving fast enough, or you get hit way too often with way too little in way of defense or standing a chance to knock the opponents off the sky before they start to stream down on you with the rain of hellfire from the abyss of doom.

Eitherway, I vote with my feet.

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