Despite the critism, its a very good atmospheric top down shooter
As the story unfolds, your a mechanic quite happily working away on you hummer expecting the day to go out bush bashing. Unfortunately the army has decided that you should swap your wrench for a pistol and throw you into the meat grinder. You start off in a finally basic world of exploration and have really only the spiders to deal with at the beginning, but as time goes on, the pistol is practically useless against later monsters. Your given tasks on each little adventure, well the maps are quite big, but your sorta steered in the direction you need to go. Searching other areas will quite often give you bonus ammo, health, and maybe even a new weapon. Every so many of aliens that you spray over the wall, one will drop a green disc, gather these up and upgrade your weapons to deal with the ultra nasties. As the game progresses you'll get bigger and better weapons.
Each level differs somewhat from just searching a camp, to visiting a mine, a large starship and finally the alien mothership. Keep your shooting to the aliens as when you run out of ammo, your wasted, literally. These aliens don't care for harsh words, and they simply will tear your limbs for breakfast. Each level will give you 4 respawns from somewhere within the level, but if you lose all 4 lives, its back to the beginning. So that's it, go and get'em..
The graphics are well drawn, its basically a top down shooter with most things being able to be blasted. You'll feel the urge to just shoot monitors, boxes, panel, but I assure you, you'll need you bullets for Mr & Mrs super nasty. But it kind fun to see things explode into a flash of sparks as they did do a great job on particle explosions. One word on the carnage though, the graphic nature of the killing, means that there's alot of blood from the former occupants so just prepare for the gore. These poor souls didn't have a chance.
The music ranges from some very atmospheric music to quite pacey music when the aliens are about to attack in numbers so listen carefully when you need to get you mortal gun ready to detonate half the hallway..
Mostly using your arrows keys (well that's what I assigned anyway) and your mouse, you can do most things, but you need your handy enter key for opening the medical lockers and reading the computers to see where these damn scientists have left us.
A great blast, as always I played on 2nd hardest to give the game its credit and put up more of a challenge than the normal.. Play time was about 5 serious nights of carnage...
In space no-one can hear you scream....