Comments on: Micro-Verdict: Dark Void Impressions

By: KindredPhantom

KindredPhantom — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:01:42 +0000

@Noc
I like that.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:47:01 +0000

Dom: The odd thing about all that is it totally feels like a Capcom game. A shit one, but still a Capcom thing. I suspect there’s guidelines from a producer or something.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:14:34 +0000

@jsutcliffe:

Not a PC game but Rocket Knight Adventures on my Mega-Drive has side-scrolling rocketpack sections, but that’s because the game is FREAKIN’ AWESOME! :D
(Did I hear they’re doing an updated version?)

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:54:18 +0000

I’ve had to reiterate this in every thread, but this isn’t a Capcom game. It was made by the studio behind the (remarkably great) Crimson Skies remake/sequel/whatever on the original Xbox.

And it was also shaping up so badly that even before its release, Capcom announced that they were going to be giving up working with western studios like this in favour of just doing everything in-house from now on. Can’t say I blame them.

Seriously, Capcom were washing their hands of this one (even though they’re the publisher) before it was even released.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:05:02 +0000

Wow i didn’t expect for this game to get such bad reviews. the first half hour is… well not bad but lets say it gets boring after 10 minutes. but then you get the upgraded jet pack and you have to take out some generators and gunships in a big canyon and that level actually pretty blew me away. the flying controls are a bit slow but you get used to it quickly and i thought they actually did a good job in the jet pack…

i would suggest to anyone to try the game and wait with judgment until you get the upgraded jet pack.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:51:09 +0000

That’s a big shame. I love anything Tesla related, and the jetpack and robomonsters just made it look fun. However, I had a fishy feeling about it from the start just because the levels looked so barren. Farewell, Darkest of Voids.

By: sasayan

sasayan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:03:37 +0000

The third level of The Rocketeer was a side-scrolling shooter with you in a jet pack, shooting down jet pack Nazis. Probably the best movie tie-in game I’ve ever played. It was on four (4!) 3.25″ floppies and came with code wheel based DRM. I still have the code wheel, and the disks are probably around somewhere too. Too bad I don’t have a floppy drive to install it from.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:59:57 +0000

Has anyone ever done a side-scrolling shooter where you’re a dude with a jetpack not a spaceship or bee? I would like that.

Cloudphobia is a jetpack mecha – close enough, maybe – and a pretty good shmup.

It’s not really a shooter, but obviously RPS has previously written about Exile.

By: Noc

Noc — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:52:45 +0000

Well, from the looks of things, shooting things leads to them blowing up.

Why would you punch the robots to death when you can blow them up?

By: Noc

Noc — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:49:14 +0000

He’s slowly and horrifically mutating into a dead horse.

By: Jezebeau

Jezebeau — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:11:03 +0000

Why would you use guns to shoot the robots when you can just punch them to death?

By: boredgamer

boredgamer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:28:55 +0000

That’s cool.