Three Reasons to buy Alien Dominion

#1: Good shoot-em-up Fun
#2: Good Value for a few dollars
# 3: Lots of great graphics and explosions.

Three Reasons to avoid buying Alien Dominion

#1: Annoying sound track and Voice acting
# 2: Repetitive game play
# 3: Mindless shooting

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“Alien Domination” is much like the old arcade game “Tail Gunner”. In “Alien Domination” the player is a turret gunner aboard a deep space exploration ship. While looking for minerals the ship runs into an alien invasion fleet planning to attack the earth. The player’s job is to wipe out the attacking enemy ships so they can make it back to Earth.

The action is fast and furious as the player must destroy hundreds of enemy fighters, attack drones and even a couple of vast enemy space carriers launching attack craft like a shaken beehive spitting a swarm. Using two laser turrets, the player defends his ship in a 3d and 360 degree battle. Each level takes about ten minutes to complete. Between each level the player collects resources used to upgrade his weapons, targeting, shields, repair robots, etc. The player must survive six worlds of nihilistic action to complete the mission.

The graphics are just great; sharp and vivid with very pretty explosions. The enemy ships look menacing and move smoothly and quickly. The lasers beams are bright, clean and “accurate”.

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The rock-pop-heavy metal soundtrack is of mixed quality at best and is terribly annoying at worst. But at least the player can mute that if they choose. The story, such as it is, is advanced through the conversation between the pilot and the ships AI. It is here the game really breaks down, as the voice acting is just terrible, sounding like a low grade 1980’s voice synthesizer from a techno-band poetry reading.

The creativity and innovation in “Alien Domination” is very low. “Tail Gunner” did this same thing in 1979 in an old styled video arcade game, as did “Space Harrier” in 1985 and “Sin and Punishment” did again in 2000. The developer has clearly spent most of its time and energy on the excellent graphics. So even within the narrow range of a 3d space “rail” shooter, “Alien Domination” doesn’t show the player anything new in either storyline or game play.

If you want a simple, mindless yet pretty space shooter that lets you dispatch alien hordes for hours and for a reasonable price of around 10 to 12 dollars American, then “Alien Domination” is certainly for you. If you want something more from your gaming experience, then look elsewhere.

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Here’s a link to the trailer:

Zombie Cow Studios plans to release a free PC version on the UK’s Channel 4 and E4 websites later this summer as well as an X-Box version with a price to be determined.

The Good:- Easy to learn controls – Exploding barrels and jumps provide some interesting obstacles- Cheap price at $14.90

The Bad: – Terrible graphics- Boring Soundtrack- Unoriginal gameplay
The Score: 2/5

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Crazy Boat is a sub par arcade style boat racing game which seems to make little to no effort to distinguish itself from the hundreds of similar games released before it. It is not so much that Crazy Boat has any particularly noticeable flaws, it is simply that the game has absolutely nothing to recommend it.

Beginning with the tutorial, one immediately realises that this is an extremely simplistic game, with no depth whatsoever. The arrow keys control acceleration, deceleration and turning, and shift puts the boat in “turbo” mode. That is the complete extent of the controls. The text which explains the controls to the user also reveals the game’s less than stellar production values, as there was clearly no effort to make an accurate English translation. This is perhaps not a flaw, though, as it probably serves as the most entertaining part of the game, with laughable quotes such as “You do it! You ready to win race now!”

Gameplay is similarly uninspired, with little challenge or entertainment value. The AI is poorly designed, as they simply go around the track with little effort to impede the player or strategize. The game is also exceptionally easy, one need only hold down turbo, which never runs out, and brake when going around corners, and the game is won. The only attempt made to spruce up gameplay is the addition of exploding barrels and jumps, both of which admittedly make things slightly more interesting.

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The three dimensional graphics are those of a ten year old game at best. The water, which deserves special attention in a game such as this, is particularly disappointing. It appears flat and lifeless, with splash effects that are childish and awkward. The boats themselves have been designed in the most generic manner possible, with no variance between them save for color. Backdrops, which appear blurry and vague, only serve to complete the game’s drab image.

A boring repetitive soundtrack continues the game’s mediocre aesthetic. The awful techno background music becomes annoying quickly and the sound effects, which consist of about three individual clips, worsen rather than enhance the experience.

Of course, simplicity, uninspiring graphics and abysmal sound effects does not necessarily mean a game is poor. Some of the greatest games have had extremely simple modes of play, yet been intensely addictive. This might have been true for Crazy Boat, save for the fact that the game has nothing unique or inventive about it. One can find many games that do the exact same thing as Crazy Boat, but do it better. True, the game is fairly cheap at $14.90, but this can not make up for its lack of entertainment value.

Three Reasons to buy Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life

1. Relatively Low Cost
2. Long play time
3. Fun characters

Three Reasons to avoid buying Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life

1. Slow Pace
2. Simple Graphics
3. Gets Boring Fast

“Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life” is fourth in the series of “Virtual Villagers” Games. In this one the chief of Isola sends out a band of five selected villagers to discover why life seems to be fading in and around the island. This tiny band of explorers soon find a huge dying tree, decide it is the “tree of life” and settle near it to build a village and try and heal the dying tree.

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As in the other three installments “The Tree of Life” is a role playing game. The player literally manages all aspects of the tiny villager’s lives, from what they learn to what food they gather and even who they have babies with. Set a villager to a task and they will continue it until it is done, you set them to a new task, or they decide they can’t get it done. Neat thing about this game it is the characters continue to grow and function even when the player is not interacting with them. It is a true “real-time” game. There are three paces to the game: slow, normal or fast.

To win the game the villagers must heal the tree. They also must survive. So they learn skills as they go along like how to weave fishing nets, make soap and so on. Of course they must gather or grow food, build huts and so on as well.

You must solve 16 puzzles in the game to allow the villagers to cure the tree. It is these puzzles that make up the main sequence of game play.

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The graphics are good without being exciting and to establish a good background and context for the game play. The sound is typical with lots of faux tiki music and special effect sounds as well. While the sound doesn’t detract from the game play, it doesn’t add much to it either.

If you are expecting a “Civilization IV” type of game for $19.95 American you are going to be disappointed. This game is more like the poor cousin of “The Sims” but not as good. If you enjoyed the other installments of the series you are likely to like this one as well, but to others, the game play is long and boring and ultimately unfulfilling.

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, If you love good action packed video games, Elemental Shooter is definitely one to check out. After looking at the preview and after actually checking this game out I will give it a rating of 4/5.

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The game is action packed, and intense. Elemental Shooter has good graphics, and the sound tracks have the tone of adventure.

You need more? Cool, not a problem.

Okay, this game, competition, encounter, war has begun. You’re on earth because that’s where you live right? The landscape is green grass beautiful flowers, beautiful blues skies and water. Bottom line the earth is absolutely beautiful with it’s vast greenery, and vegetation.

Then seemingly out of no where the enemies begin to approach you from all angles. You shoot, but you slow your role. Why? because one shot has blackened out and burned to a crisp the beautiful flowers, plants , and vegetation. So, you’re somewhat torn between shooting these enemies or keeping ( America) the earth green.

Okay silly, if you don’t shoot you won’t be alive to see the green. Okay so you shoot, and you shoot again and again. Trying to stay focused on your enemies you’ve lost your bearings, and fell into a huge lake. My advice is swim and shoot, just make sure you keep that gun shooting no matter what; afterall, it is a matter of life and death.

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The enemy just shot into the water. Gee that water sure is hot. Hey, don’t sweat it, ( pun intended). Just keep moving, dodging, and shooting. There are some barriers of protection for you.. some nice trees, metal walls, brick walls, and plenty of buildings. Hey, those tunnels are not bad either. Duck and hide my friend, duck and hide.

As you duck and hide this will give you the perfect opportunity to reload. Speaking of reloading, how do you do that? Hey, you don’t expect me to tell you everything do you?

You gotta leave something for the imagination. Plus when you buy the game those untold things will make the game all the more fun, and action packed.

Okay three reasons to buy Elemental Shooter are:

1. It’s action packed

2. It’s very intense

3. You are in total control of your destiny

Three reasons not to buy Elemental Shooter are:

1. If you’re not a good shooter and / or dodger you will get shot

2. All of this shooting burns and destoys your surrondings

3.It’s pretty gory when you shoot those enemy forces

The trail preview should convience you enough whether to buy or not to buy this game.

Elemental shooter gets a thumbs up… it’s good enough to preview, it’s good enough to buy, it’s good enough to enjoy for the long haul.

This is an adventurous goofy but charming video game of clever puzzles. An outstanding presentation in an adorable cartoon style setting. Fantastic voice acting with of course adorable mechanical companions. Human and robotic alike. More pro’s to purchasing then cons.

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There is Dr. Hugo’s Factory for making cute little mechanical companions of all sorts. Plus it is packed with plenty of humor. You will get to control five robots as they search the factory for clues as to how to open a mysterious metal box found. There are flamethrowers with deviously clever puzzles.Creativity with innovation exudes from this game. The sounds are so pleasing to your ears and nothing about them is annoying. Once or twice while I was playing the sound skipped. It is not very obvious and can be dismissed.

This video game will keep you on your toes and in amazement over the little mechanical companions. There is a goofy cast of characters, which are both robotic and human. Splashed in the game are hilarious nerd references with a silly dialog that actually makes it endearing.

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Each robot has something to bring to the table. Knowing which one to use and what is needed will make you a pro at moving ahead. The puzzles are not that difficult however, they are most challenging. Close attention must be paid to your surroundings in order to know what you have at your disposal and what you will need to proceed. Clues and hints are given to keep you heading in the proper direction. They are subtle and you need to be aware. Excellent game but you can have frantic moments.

Overall on visual, audio and plots the rating for this video game is a 4.5 out of 5 in all categories. When they say great things come in small packages Puzzle Bots is it. Massive charm is delivered in a cartoon style delightful. A few technical problems do occur but can easily be ignored. At times the music can skip and puzzles can be blurred but do clear up. They are not very obvious and easily can be dismissed as the game is extremely entertaining. You may not even notice it. When I played this game I paid close attention to every aspect.

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Wonderful charming challenges are what this game has to offer its players. Undeniable and unique charm and a must have in your collection. Great entertainment and it will keep you sharp and on your toes. What more can you ask for in a videogame. Complete enjoyment to daunt you for hours on end. Purchasing this video is a must as you would not want to miss the colorful and adorable pieces to this amazing puzzle.

If you are not sure go and download a free trial and see for yourself first hand before going to the store to purchase. You will agree with rating this in every category a 4.5 out of 5. Enjoy.

This is by no means one for the ages, but Dale Hardshovel and the Bloomstone Mystery is a passable puzzle game, likely to be enjoyed for a short period of time by fans of the genre.

THREE REASONS TO BUY

-$9.99 is about as low a price as one can expect to pay for any video game.
-The puzzles are most certainly challenging.
-The annoying parts of the game are easy to skip or ignore.

THREE REASONS NOT TO BUY

-Production quality is lacking.
-Those who are easily frustrated will not enjoy this game.
-The story is not enjoyable.

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There is a growing trend in downloadable video games of puzzle games trying to have a plot. Fans of puzzle games do not generally play these games because they like the story. They play because they like to be challenged. Dale Hardshovel and the Bloomstone Mystery provides plenty of challenge. Unfortunately it also provides plenty of story line.

GAME PLAY

In a completely forced, hackneyed, and quite frankly, lame attempt at being mysterious, players take on the role of Dale Hardshovel as he works his way through a mysterious pyramid, trying to find the Bloomstone. Thankfully, with a couple of quick clicks, players can blast through the still shot cut scenes, and get right to the meat and potatoes of the game, which are the puzzles that compose each stage.

Each room of the pyramid has artifacts scattered throughout it. It is up to Dale Hardshovel to move like items so they are grouped together, in order to make them disappear. Once two are next to each other or on top of each other, they will go away. When there are three of an item, players need to be careful not to let two of them combine before all three can be lined up. At first, the game is easy to the point of boredom. Very quickly, the puzzles get much harder, often requiring multiple attempts to get right. At that point, players who are not easily frustrated will likely enjoy playing this game, and exploring the new additions that accompany later stages.

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GRAPHICS

The menus and cut scenes of Dale Hardshovel and the Bloomstone Mystery look decent, but without any movement, there is little evidence of effort by the graphic designers. during game play, the graphics only look as good as they have to in order for players to be able to enjoy it.

AUDIO

The music is droning, and somewhat enjoyable, but repetitive comments made by Dale during the puzzles will force players to turn the volume off.

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Pairing objects in a puzzle game is nothing new. Including a story line has also been done. Still, there is just enough different about sliding these pieces around, that players will find this game to be not quite like any other played before.

Game Review Summary: Old School platformer with some nice graphics, but nothing new.

Three Reasons to buy Galaxia Chronicles

- Reason #1: Gorgeous graphics
- Reason # 2: Good story
- Reason # 3: Easy to learn

Three Reasons to avoid buying: Galaxia Chronicles.

- Reason #1: Nothing new in the game play
- Reason #2: Single story line
- Reason # 3: Not much re-playablity

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Galaxia Chronicles is a good, but old fashioned platformer with strong combat elements. In the game you play as Maxx, an orphan from Rio de Janeiro who after falling asleep on the beach near his orphanage has a wild dream and then is abducted by aliens and Maxx is off on a real adventure.

You won’t see much that is new in playing Galaxia Chronicles. The gameplay is remarkably simple. Nothing more than a basic platformer; you will maneuver Maxx through several side scrolling levels. You will make your way across the levels and collect crystals that will make Maxx stronger and unlock other levels of the game. In combat, Maxx punches and kicks with the best of them and as he levels up, he gains more life and some serious power improvements. In later levels Maxx gains the ability to heal himself, shoot fire, and even more impressive powers. There are no saving checkpoints on any of the levels, so if Maxx buys it anytime during a level, you are forced to start that level all over again. This can be very frustrating after spending some time on a level, then falling into some trap and having to do it all again.

The graphics are a real selling point in this game, beautifully detailed levels and gorgeous hand drawn cut scenes really bring the game to life. However, all this opulence comes at a cost as there can be some serious lag on slower machines. The sound is good with the music helping move the story along.

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The brainchild of a single developer, Galaxia Chronicles is obviously a labor of love. But the game does fall short when it comes to creativity and innovation. In short, you will quickly recognize most, if not all, the game elements, as something that you have seen before and you will be right. The game is a rather “been there, done that” experience.

In summary, if you are looking for a good-looking, old school, story driven, platforming experience then this is the game for you. However, if you looking for new, compelling game play and not so concerned with a story or graphics then there are better games for your $19.99 American.

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This downloadable game sells for $14.99 or $24.99 if you buy it on CD. They offer a demo as well as the option to but it directly. We will publish a review soon.

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Check out Positech’s site for more information and to buy the expansion pack which costs $5.99.