Before I return to reviewing Mass Effect – next week on EG, comrades – I cleared my head by annihilating a mass of pixels, as is my wont. Smiley’s Shooty Adventure is the excellently named Caffine Monster Software’s first game and is a Robotron-styled arena-shooter with mouse combat, co-op and assorted Minter-esque pixel-annihilation. I bloody hate pixels. If you hate pixels, you should get the demo and punch them in their guts. It also oddly reminds me in parts of a game I programmed in Easy Amos back in the day called Blimey!, but that’s probably the sort of irrelevancy which gets RPS a bad reputation. My take on it, beneath the cut.
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Get Shooty: Smiley’s Shooty Adventure
Posted by Kieron Gillen on May 23rd, 2008.
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