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It also knew when to stop (the game lasted around ten minutes).īy comparison, Crimsonland, doesn’t do any of that. It disguised its simplistic gameplay well by varying up the enemies in quick fashion, throwing mad visuals all over the place and, of course, it had the best in-game music of any game ever.
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#Crimsonland classic Ps4
The viewpoint, and distance, are about the same ( Crimsonland is a little further out as PS4 devs seem to love tiny graphics for some reason), the allocation and type of powerups/weapons are similar and both games think they are a bit mental. The game that Crimsonland most resembles in terms of gameplay, visuals and attitude is the Xbox Indie darling I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1. The XBLA shooter Death By Cube tried the same trick, and arguably did it better (it had stark white backgrounds that contrasted with the blood a bit more), and that couldn’t elevate that game in any way. Crimsonland‘s thing is to throw in lots of blood and really this has no bearing on the gameplay at all and isn’t particularly effective visually either. Since Geometry Wars wowed Xbox 360 gamers, the twin-stick genre has been massively oversubscribed and it has been something of a mixed bag with stone cold classics and plenty of lesser imitations and so you really need something to make your game stand out. When the leaderboards get going, there might be some extra fun to be had here and picking the best selection of perks in between waves does add a little depth to proceedings but not much.
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Ploughing through the Quest Mode does however unlock various Survival game modes (well, five) as well as perks and weapons that you can use to prolong your mayfly-like life expectancies in those modes. Over the sixty levels, that makes the game more of a grind at times. Kill enough enemies and you’ll move onto the next stage with the tenth and final one of each world being a boss battle of sorts. So, consequently, your only tactic is to circle around chipping away at the large biomass that is following you, and chipping away at your health, in each stage while trying to get to the powerups and extra weapons. The occasional enemy will shoot at you but this is quite rare. Each level is a plain arena with no environmental obstacles to hinder you (or use as cover) and so really the only difference between them is the large, plain, static graphic that serves as the background.Įnemy tactics are to bum rush you. The meat of the game is in the Quest mode that takes you through six worlds, each broken into ten levels. The game is, as expected, a twin-stick shooter that sees you fending off hordes of enemies (various bug creatures and aliens) who make a beeline for you in increasing numbers. Sounds pretty good, eh? Well, yes it does but Crimsonland‘s bluster starts to look a little silly as soon as you fire it up.
#Crimsonland classic Pc
The Survival mode frequently sees the screen fill with hundreds and hundreds of monsters, only to be swept away by a torrent of powerups and projectiles.Crimsonland is a remake of an old PC game (apparently) or something and arrives on the PS4 with a lot of confidence, promising to be a “bone splintering classic top-down shooter mayhem remastered for 2014.”ĭevelopers, 10tons, certainly have a sense of humour when presenting the game and from the outset you’ll be expecting heaps of EDF-styled ultraviolence and gore along with the promise of some depth with RPG-lite, perk-based game mechanics. The real meat of the game is the Survival mode, where the player gets to combine everything in order to reach as high a score as possible. The game features sixty missions, which are used to unlock the dozens of weapons, perks, and game modes. Then it’s ON!” says Tero Alatalo, CEO of 10tons Ltd.Ĭrimsonland is a top-down twin stick arena shooter. Finding your favourite weapons and perks to get a couple of hundred thousand points is thrilling fun, at least until your friend with a score of 12 million says ‘Huh, cute’. ”The epicness of Crimsonland’s classic Survival mode can’t be overstated. If you’re sick of killing monsters in the first-person in DOOM, Crimsonland will let you do it from above. 10Tons’ Crimsonland is out today on the Nintendo Switch.