Lots of things dying at once... BRILLIANT!
User Rating: 8 | Crimsonland PC
You know, there's just something undeniably (if not disturbingly) pleasurable about running around and blasting millions of out-gunned opponents at once. The frantic pace, the oceans of corpses, the cool weapons and unrealistic prowess of the protagonist; there's just so much to love. Crimsonland does one thing and does it well: top down shooter, arcade style, popcorn fun. There are times you want to test your wit against the toughest AI and human opponents at games that push your mental abilities to their limits, then there are times you just want to have fun. Crimsonland is perfect for the latter. The main source of this fun is the survival mode. You are dropped in the center of an empty map, and thousands of baddies flood in from all sides. Your goal? See how long you can last and how much you can kill. The kicker is, even though this is an action game, you still have to do a little bit of thinking. Enter the level up system. As your digital gunman kills enemies, he receives experience points similar to in roleplaying games. Once enough are obtained, he gains a level and may choose one new skill from a randomly selected list. The trick is, knowing which skills to pick when, what works best with which guns, and what to do when the stupid game won't offer the skill you want. If you want the best skills, however, you're going to need to earn them from the single player campaign. The campaign is more or less a series of small survival style levels with a limited number of enemies. By completing them, you will be forced to learn some useful strategies. Some levels are extremely easy, others are down right aggravating, but if you want to unlock all the nifty guns and skills, you're going to need to do them all. Half the fun of the game is seeing what wacky new weapon the next level will throw at you (two words: Rocket Minigun.) For the most part, each has its uses, and there are viable strategies for just about every weapon. Once you have a powerful enough arsenal, you can try to get the highscore on survival. The top scores of all time, as well as for that day are kept online are automatically uploaded, so if you think you have what it takes, show the whole world. It would have been nice if they had included a multiplayer function, but then again, this is not a high budget game. In summery, if you want a bloodier alternative to solitaire, this is the game for you. 
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