Backgrounds eh? Amazing. You could be watching Jim Davidson's physiologically harmful pantomime Boobs in the Wood and if the backgrounds were a sequence of striking, sublime vistas rather than crudely painted MDF it'd make it enjoyable, right? No, it'd still be just under two-hours of deeply unfunny, sub-Carry On lechery. It turns out, what's happening in the foreground matters.
While Choplifter HD has backgrounds that are varied and alive with incidental detail, in the foreground there's a simplistic and repetitive arcade game going on, which involves you ferrying people around from place to place. You know, like what the parents of teenagers complain about doing, only in a helicopter and while enduring a pebbledash of bullets and rocket propelled grenades.
Respawning enemies don't help matters as you shoot the same soldier four times on your relay back and forth. It'd be fine if the combat was more entertaining, but even the ability to swivel and shoot out towards the screen, ironically, doesn't add any depth to the bullet spraying.
And finally there's the price. 1200MP is just too much of a stretch for something that can only be enjoyed in extremely measured doses. We're all for dolled up remakes of arcade classics, and those are some lovely backgrounds, but this one needs to be rescued from the limitations of its own design.
7 comments so far...
bamozzy on 12 Jan '12 said:
To be honest I got bored playing the demo....
Nearly every demo I have downloaded, I have always reached the point where the demo ends but not this game. I was bored before the end - I don't know how much more there was available.
It looks ok but not great - Amy for 800 ms points looks so much better though. Personally I would feel ripped off if this game was 400 ms points due to the repetitive nature of the game play - it is very uninspiring and has little to make you want to keep playing. Each mission is identical to the last in essence and I think a score of 5 is being kind.
GHOSTY05 on 12 Jan '12 said:
Another arcade rip-off!
Windowlicker79 on 12 Jan '12 said:
How come crap like this gets remade but my screams for a HD reboot of Power Stone fall on deaf ears?
TomBee on 13 Jan '12 said:
How come this gets a HD re-release yet my favourite game, Nightfire, doesn't?! To be fair it is pretty much only me who wants a HD release but there is a steadily growing online petition for it as well: http://www.nightfire007.com/
Please Sign it!!!! You would make quite literally make my dreams come true...
msbhvn on 13 Jan '12 said:
Possibly a rights dispute between Capcom and SEGA? Heaven knows Capcom have re-released everything else they've ever made, twice!
Bezza89 on 14 Jan '12 said:
There's a good one, however I'd remake it altogether updating how the gadgets work, include some more, but keep that brilliant multiplayer with the bots. Best ever!
Windowlicker79 on 14 Jan '12 said:
I was thinking it might be something like that. I would have thought some Power Stone characters would have turned up in a Marvel VS Capcom game at some point.