Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:55 pm
any top-down shooters? (ala raiden, blazing lazers, terra cresta etc...) I always liked them alot better than side scrollers.
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:11 pm
Air Strike 3D 2, which I linked above. Not 100% top down, but it's a great game.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:48 pm
Ever play Zanac for the original nintendo? Now THAT was a fun fucking top-down shooter. And next to impossible to beat. :icon32:Dr_Watson wrote:any top-down shooters? (ala raiden, blazing lazers, terra cresta etc...) I always liked them alot better than side scrollers.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:52 pm
grr... lvl7 is owning me...
throwing tanks, cruise missles and helicopters at you all at once is really rude :E
throwing tanks, cruise missles and helicopters at you all at once is really rude :E
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:46 pm
Wait till lvl 8 and the 4 blimps on the screen at the same time...
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:24 am
yeah. m8 is defiantely the level where if it were an arcade game, is designed explicitly to eat quarters. :icon26:Transient wrote:Wait till lvl 8 and the 4 blimps on the screen at the same time...
not so hard that its anoying, or frustrating... just lots of impossible carnage.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:10 pm
Once you learn the patterns and ways to survive the big waves, you can get through the whole mission without dieing once. That's what happened to me. I died 3 times in the first 25% over and over, then made it halfway, then figured out ways around the carnage and got through with all my lives. Granted, it takes an ungodly amount of continues, but it's doable. Level 9, on the other hand, is kicking my ass.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:34 pm
what power ups are you fan of?
i've been all about the lazer + both missles. seems to have the most raw killing power.
i've been all about the lazer + both missles. seems to have the most raw killing power.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:49 pm
I was just about to make a post about this. 
Up until level 9, I had been using Level 2-3 shields, Level 3 Homing Missiles, and Level 1-2 Lightning. I found that I spent more time watching my own ass than looking at the enemies firing. This way I don't necessarily have to AIM at the enemy to hit them, and it worked well until level 9.
Then I found an effective trick. Get the Flak Cannon to level 3, and fire your attacks close to your tank, right above it. It essentially gives you an additional shield that will destroy all the enemy fire coming at you (except for the purple shit, of course). Using this method I was able to beat the game, all the way up to level 20.
The biggest problem I came across were the tanks that shoot purple shit and bulldozers that attack from the ground.
Up until level 9, I had been using Level 2-3 shields, Level 3 Homing Missiles, and Level 1-2 Lightning. I found that I spent more time watching my own ass than looking at the enemies firing. This way I don't necessarily have to AIM at the enemy to hit them, and it worked well until level 9.
Then I found an effective trick. Get the Flak Cannon to level 3, and fire your attacks close to your tank, right above it. It essentially gives you an additional shield that will destroy all the enemy fire coming at you (except for the purple shit, of course). Using this method I was able to beat the game, all the way up to level 20.
The biggest problem I came across were the tanks that shoot purple shit and bulldozers that attack from the ground.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:13 am
yeah, the flak cannon is pretty nice... :icon14:
i had under-rated it when i first gave it a whirl... its pretty useless under lvl2.
but at lvl 2 or 3 its quite useful.
its exceptional for killing helicopters and satelites... and most importanly cruise missles and A-Bombs.
the little defensive balls i find quite useless though... the only thing that kills me are the energy balls, and thats all they don't block... so, like in most shooters, the best defense is killing everything in sight before it can shoot.
i thought lvl9 was actually easier than 8 or 7... once i figured out how to kill the dozers without driving head long into them. (god that game would be so much better if you could move left+right on the keyboard and fire with the mouse)
i think you underestimate the lazer though, its quite the killing machine... even at lower levels it tears up tanks quite nicely :icon14:
btw. here's my high score's ATM.
i had under-rated it when i first gave it a whirl... its pretty useless under lvl2.
but at lvl 2 or 3 its quite useful.
its exceptional for killing helicopters and satelites... and most importanly cruise missles and A-Bombs.
the little defensive balls i find quite useless though... the only thing that kills me are the energy balls, and thats all they don't block... so, like in most shooters, the best defense is killing everything in sight before it can shoot.
i thought lvl9 was actually easier than 8 or 7... once i figured out how to kill the dozers without driving head long into them. (god that game would be so much better if you could move left+right on the keyboard and fire with the mouse)
i think you underestimate the lazer though, its quite the killing machine... even at lower levels it tears up tanks quite nicely :icon14:
btw. here's my high score's ATM.
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:23 am
fun game...mission12 is the real bitch.
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:16 am
i was checking on some of the other games they have there...
the one "alien sky" is not bad... its a Galaga clone
Link => http://tinyurl.com/4o5su
the one "alien sky" is not bad... its a Galaga clone
Link => http://tinyurl.com/4o5su
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:00 pm
I tried that out, but I didn't really like it. The only 2 games I really enjoyed were Heavy Tank and Air Strike 3D 2.
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:16 pm
yeah, those are definately the best two games on there.
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:22 pm
The team that made it didn't just start charging for itrep wrote:Counter-Strike.Strangler wrote:theyd get better exposure if the games were free. I mean looks at mods, it takes forever to make a mod yet no modders charge for the mods.
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:44 pm
Looks pretty cool. :icon14: Check it out in a bit.
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:38 pm
oh, and if you wanted to know why your "make new shortcut" trick works... its because the default shortcuts that the installer makes link to "loader.exe" not the game exe.
pointing the shortcut directly to the exe... heh, easiest copy protection ever.
pointing the shortcut directly to the exe... heh, easiest copy protection ever.
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:31 am
anyone know how to save this game or hasmter ball so you dont have to start over when you exit and enter the game?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:49 am
It's a arcade game.
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:46 pm
Heavy Tank saves your progress automatically.Strangler wrote:anyone know how to save this game or hasmter ball so you dont have to start over when you exit and enter the game?