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Your Daily Stupid: XenoSpace

By Alec Meer on September 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm.

If the hyper-death Shank trailer and attendant mention of the Zombie/Alien Shooter series has whetted your appetite for absurd violence, perhaps this small, browser-based chunk of cheerful monster-shredding idiocy will do the trick. It’s called XenoSpace Survivor, it’s a lot like Alien Shooter, and there’s very, very little to it. But there is a beyond-wanton level of alien-death, plenty of guns and OTT power-ups, and even some scientist-shepherding action to pretend you’re doing something worthwhile amidst all that cartoon gore. It is Quite Fun, and it may be played here. It would be Extra Fun if it had mouse support – cursors and spacebar only, alas.

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  1. CMaster says:

    Have to say I had more fun with Daytraders of the Dead in a similar fashion
    http://armorgames.com/play/4272/daytraders-of-the-dead
    (also available at Kongregate and presumably your favourite flash games site)

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  2. Ffrank says:

    Rocket launcher rules all.

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  3. phil says:

    Quite Fun, bar the whole thing seems to be an escort mission.

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  4. Jacques says:

    Yeah, but you can just ignore the escort thing and go on a rampage.

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  5. Jon says:

    Chainsaw rampage is the best rampage?
    I think so at least.

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  6. Jacques says:

    Not when you’re completely surrounded it’s not.

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  7. Cooper says:

    Cursors and space bar only = win for a netbook and only a pad available.

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  8. Bret says:

    Wow.

    The not-rocket-launcher guns are disappointments.

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  9. Jacques says:

    Na, the gatling gun’s ok, as is the mine launcher, the rest are pointless though.

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  10. Joseph says:

    Wow. I just played up to level 7 with 8000 kills (mostly rocket launcher of course) then went on a killing spree and finally let myself die. Extreme carnage.

    The powerup system works well. You think there’s no way you could make it through all those crazy bugs and then you explode everything on the whole screen JUST enough to make it with your man on 0hp into his little hole.

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