“88 Heroes is a chaotic 2D platformer where each level completed or untimely death brings a new hero into the action! With just 88 minutes to complete all 88 rooms you’ll need every one of the 88 Heroes to stop Dr. H8 destroying the Earth!”
“The “88 Heroes” – eighty-eight of the strangest and seemingly most pointless superheroes ever to grace the face of the earth.
‘They called the best, but the best were busy!'”
8 minutes past 8 on the 8th August 1988, the world teeters on the brink of total annihilation!
Dr. H8's demands are simple. Pay 88 octillion dollars within 88 hours or 88 thermo-nuclear warheads pointed directly at earth will be launched.
The 88th president of earth calls for urgent crisis talks! 88 leaders from 88 countries around the world are summoned to the Octo-office. With the planet bankrupt, paying the ransom is not an option. Only one possible course of action is left to take. Infiltrate Dr. H8's evil super lairs and retrieve the 8 digit coordinates to locate his space base and destroy it once and for all!
Only a team of superheroes so daring, so heroic, SO STUPID!?? could possibly pull this off!
BUT WHO?
“POWERBOTS”? - low on battery. “SOLAR NINJAS”? - no work visa's. “DINO-RANGERS”? - extinct!
Desperate times call for desperate measures! A reluctant call goes out.. DAMMIT! they're available!
THE “88 HEROES” - eighty-eight of the strangest and seemingly most pointless superheroes ever to grace the face of the earth.
"THEY CALLED THE BEST, BUT THE BEST WERE BUSY!"
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core i3 | INTEL Core i5 |
| VRAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| RAM | 1 GB RAM | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 7/8.x/10 | Windows 7/8/8.1/10 |
| Graphics Card | 512Mb VRAM | |
| Direct X | Version 9.0 | 9.0c |
| SOUND CARD | Any compatible soundcard | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 450 MB available space | 500 MB free |
| Game Analysis | You will need at least 450 MB of free disk space to install 88 Heroes. An Intel Core i3-530 CPU is required at a minimum to run 88 Heroes. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS graphics card you can play the game. 88 Heroes system requirements state that you will need at least 1 GB of RAM. 88 Heroes will run on PC system with Windows 7/8.x/10 and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions. | |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | Intel Core i3 | |
| RAM | 1 GB RAM | |
| OS | Mac OS X 10.8+ | |
| Graphics Card | DX9 (shader model 3.0) 512Mb VRAM | |
| SOUND CARD | Any compatible soundcard | |
| HDD Space | 450 MB available space |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | Intel Core i3 | |
| RAM | 1 GB RAM | |
| OS | Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+ | |
| Graphics Card | DX9 (shader model 3.0) 512Mb VRAM | |
| SOUND CARD | Any compatible soundcard | |
| HDD Space | 450 MB available space |
88 Heroes is a fantastic game. Everything about it works for me: the 16-bit style, the music, the character designs, setting, and especially the gameplay. The game has that old-school difficulty where it can seem downright impossible to get through 88 stages in 88 minutes, but after a few weeks of grinding away, learning the stages, and finding tricks/shortcuts, I can now breeze through the levels and the time limit is a nonfactor.
The characters are quirky, complete with their own mini-backstories, playstyles, etc. Of the 88, only a small handful are completely useless (Ian Error, maybe El Delayo, Doc Micro, etc.), while the rest have their uses. Or if you’d prefer, choose your own 8-man dream team and play with your favorites.
I have almost no complaints about this game. Since I played on Xbox One, I will say that I have a minor issue with the controls, mostly when using the joystick. Everything works great for the most part, but occassionally I would try to move Left/Right and the joystick would register me as moving Down and not move for a second (which can be hazardous in this game!). I assume it’s just me not moving the joystick directly along the X-axis, and when using the D-Pad it is much better. Very occasionally the D-Pad will feel slightly unresponsive, but likely the issue is my controllers. I have to stress that this is a very minor issue.
10/10.