Hill Project Gaming Side studio is another space shooter of the kind of “alone against all”. With the emphasis on the huge number of these “all”. The whole thing takes place in a 3D environment, and the biggest surprise is the ability to switch the view from the one in which we see our vehicle as if “behind the back”, to the classic, scrolled, when we are still flying to the right side of the screen. This can be done at any time during the game. The authors themselves like to call their work Silpheed in the 3D world.
The thing is happening in a very distant future, and the action takes place mainly in cosmic space between the Earth and the Moon. Several hundred years earlier, a new virus had forced humanity to leave the Earth and live on the Moon. The mother planet remained in quarantine. Finally, the scientists found a way to make the workers immune so that they could return to Earth and work on the extraction of raw materials impossible to obtain on the satellite. The lack of these materials is so acute that nobody pays attention to the side effects of using serums – the workers who use them still live for only a few weeks. With the emergence of scarce goods, more and more people want to earn money from them. Also those with not quite a good reputation.
Players take on the role of Wolfgang, a space smuggler who, together with his companion named Ileen, travels through our solar system in search of an easy way to earn money. The game consists in the performance of successive missions, which, although they have different goals, in principle boil down to one thing: to destroy as many enemies as possible. During the game we will visit such locations as the asteroid field, the star city or the spacecraft cemetery. The main enemy is drones – small unmanned spaceships. The main strength of the drones is their size, but they can also behave intelligently on the battlefield and adapt their behavior to the tactics we adopt. We deal with them most often, but once in a while, we also stand eye to eye with a powerful boss.
The authors of the game, wishing to expand the genre’s frame a bit, added the residual elements specific to RPGs. It is about gaining experience and developing heroes, ships and weapons. For the correct execution of tasks we collect experience points, which we exchange for improvements of weapons (thirteen types in total), or ship. Investing in such and not other elements (e.g. armor thickness, frequency or firepower, etc.) allows you to complete the game more than once, using different tactics with each approach. In order to increase the number of experience points, we can take care of side missions. As a rule, the goals are simple, for example, “Complete a stage with more than ten thousand points”, or “Destroy only blue drones”, and in this way we can also unlock hidden boards.
For fans of multi-player gameplay, there is a possibility to have fun, both in cooperative and versus mode.
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