By Quintin Smith on December 20th, 2010 at 3:27 pm.
Bat Country is a great little browser game that tells the touching story of a helicopter pilot doing whatever it takes to get his men back, even if “whatever it takes” means defeating a whole sky full of massive bats, and even if you never find out who those ‘men’ actually are. You fly your craft around with the mouse, there’s a really nice bomb-throwing mechanic and the music’s pretty great. Have a play. C’mon, it’s Christmas! Let’s kill some bats! Thanks to the Indiegames blog for the tipoff. More bats please, Indiegames blog. I like bats a lot.
20/12/2010 at 15:29 Lorc says:
Has it really been 30 days already?
20/12/2010 at 15:35 Dominic White says:
Goddamn! Beat me to it! So good to see that some people remember that
20/12/2010 at 15:36 BooleanBob says:
MINUTES late!
20/12/2010 at 16:50 Bobsy says:
*glows*
Happy memories.
Best. PCG. Page. Ever.
(except for p. 102 of the latest issue)
20/12/2010 at 18:34 Gassalasca says:
How ’bout an ellucidation for those of us with cheap seats? :)
20/12/2010 at 19:46 Mo says:
Ha, I just came around to declare much the same, and to see if anyone else remembered. :)
20/12/2010 at 21:32 Arathain says:
Sorry, Gassalasca, this might be one of those things you had to be there for.
It’s a UK PC Gamer magazine joke on a spoof page based on all the crappy French adventure games John Walker was having to review.
20/12/2010 at 15:37 Gremmi says:
I can’t play it due to the extraordinarily laggy BBC flash ad underneath it that literally destroys my pretty beefy desktop.
Ho hum. Guess I’d best hunt down adblock or something.
20/12/2010 at 17:00 Robin says:
Here ya go:
http://www.badhed.com/play-game/bat-country
20/12/2010 at 15:38 Zaboomafoozarg says:
Holy crap it’s a bat get in the car
20/12/2010 at 16:08 Jahkaivah says:
Wait!
We can’t stop here…
20/12/2010 at 21:15 nakke says:
How is this only the 4rd comment? I am dissapoint..
20/12/2010 at 23:02 Jahkaivah says:
I must admit, I was wondering if people were intentionally avoiding the obvious referance.
20/12/2010 at 16:14 subedii says:
Isn’t that music from Final Fantasy 6?
I think it’s the factory theme isn’t it?
20/12/2010 at 16:22 greyhill says:
Sounds like a (really cool) medley of FF6 music to me.
20/12/2010 at 16:28 noobnob says:
There’s also a remix of the Super Mario World castle theme on the 3rd stage.
20/12/2010 at 16:41 Napalm Sushi says:
Haven’t played either of the above, but I’m certain I could make out the final boss music from Sonic 3 in there.
20/12/2010 at 18:27 PleasingFungus says:
Also, I’m pretty sure a sound clip from Sinistar plays when you start up the game.
Bizarre musical plagarism aside, it’s a nifty little game. I need to play some more.
20/12/2010 at 23:26 Alexander Norris says:
First level was Castlevania, too.
21/12/2010 at 00:40 BrotherCabbage says:
It’s Dirt Devil by Zircon, from OCR. It’s a remix of the Devil’s Lab theme from FF6.
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01685/
20/12/2010 at 16:18 Bioptic says:
Not going to lie – before I read the body of the article, I though this was a flash game about a snobby whale.
20/12/2010 at 17:18 Tatagigi says:
And that’s the title of a good song by Avenged Sevenfold. (Not that that matters, after all)
20/12/2010 at 17:25 Chris C says:
Can’t get the hang of it at all. When the action gets frenetic, I keep clicking outside of the tiny flash area, causing a spacebar scrolldown whilst I (almost certainly) explode offscreen.
BAD.
20/12/2010 at 19:05 frenz0rz says:
Hey nice, this is pretty fu -OH GOD A GIANT SHARK FUCK FUCK FUCK
20/12/2010 at 19:10 TeeJay says:
This calls for Dragan Stevic!
20/12/2010 at 23:26 Alexander Norris says:
*elbow drops a shark*
20/12/2010 at 23:39 Saul says:
“I don’t want to cause any alarm…”
Made me chuckle. But then the shark got me.
20/12/2010 at 20:40 wiiandthekid says:
snarky comments aside. this is a nice shooter. i’ll definitely spend some quality time with it.
wiiandthekid.com
20/12/2010 at 20:50 Scandalon says:
Why the spoiler pic?!?
20/12/2010 at 22:29 Wilson says:
Great game, but I couldn’t finish the last level because I suck. So that was a shame.
21/12/2010 at 14:42 Munken says:
SEX VAMPIRE!