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Alawar Games- Star Defender 4 Review
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You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Decent Sound, SFX; Easy controls;
Environment is static, cannot thrust forwards; Too many levels per environment; Gets boring and repetitive after 4-5 levels;
Star Defender 4 by Alawar Games promises to take you through the galaxy smashing alien spaceships as you crusade to save the human race. It's pretty much of a space shooter game where you control a spaceship across more than 100 levels in 8 different maps with decent sound and SFX.
The gameplay is mainly mouse based and simple, move your spaceship left and right and click to fire. But that might be the baddest part as well, there's no way we can move forward/backward or turn. The spaceship does not advance and it feels pretty lame shooting alien spacecraft from a fixed, one dimensional motion(left or right). Each map has 10 levels with the environment remaining static, with enemy bots advancing and you moving left and right as if you were plainly moving your mouse over a science fiction jpeg image in picture viewer.
Though a new enemy is added after every 5 levels, the addition is worthless since most enemies are pretty predictable and it seems like the new enemies were only the graphically revamped version of the older ones, with the same kind of attacks and strategy. Getting ammo bonuses is tough and retaining the bonuses is tougher, since they come with an irritating time limit.
The game is available as a compact download from the Alawar Games website for $9.95 plus, there's an ongoing 30% discount. However, this does not pretty much seem like the game to spend any money on.
This is not pretty much the game where I could invest my hard earned money in. Could have been better with better game physics and more maps.