Kobo Deluxe is a very good 8-way shooter with addictive gameplay.
It’s a remake of the classic XKobo with fine graphics, smooth gameplay and fast paced frantic action…
Awesome!
The premise of the game is simple:
Destroy all the bases on the screen!
Best way to do so is by shooting the yellow orbs which will trigger a big chain reaction
(=many points and the field is cleared very fast).
But these are mostly protected by the blue orbs which will shoot at you…
So you have first make your way through them and then fight forward to the base…
Shoot that yellow thing and BOOM! see the whole thing blowing up.
Very nice!
From the homepage:
- Fast paced retro arcade style gameplay
- Smooth, high speed 8-way scrolling
- Very simple controls – the game is about speed and strategy
- 14 different enemies; fighter ships, kamikaze attackers, proxy bombs and more
- 50 maps, each with it’s own feel and strategies to figure out
- Maps are built as you enter them – each game is unique!
- Structured audio technology – hi-fi sound in a tiny download
- OpenGL support for extremely fast and smooth animation
- High resolution support up to 2560×1600 – five types of scaling
- Supports any display color depth – dithering for 15 and 16 bpp
- Supports control by keyboard, mouse or joystick
- Runs on pretty much any hardware and operating system
- All code and data is Free/Open Source! (GPLed game logic; LGPLed engine code.)
I think I love this
I wasn’t familiar with the game, and it’s good, it’s a nice twist to overhead shooters. I think this is the perfect game for the iPhone or any other portable plataform.
wow, i like the sound a lot..theese “pops”. That sounds really good.
It feels like some early Amiga game. The idea of the enemy structures with small and big cores is very original. I like this!