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Demo Impressions: Assault Heroes

Posted by Kieron Gillen on January 22nd, 2008.

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A Salted Peanut?

A less-than-four-Peggles demo for Ex-XBox Live shooter Assault Heroes has gone up over at Gamers’ Hell. From the splendidly named Wanako Games, it allows you to play for half an hour of unlimited play before having to cough up twenty dollars to continue. What are you continuing? Shooting. Lots of shooting, in the manner of Total Carnage – that is move and shoot separated in the manner of Robotron or Smash TV, scrolling upwards with infinite enemies to annihilate. Also, fundamentally, two player.

Which got the retrohead part of Jim and I enormously excited, so we ran around trying to get it working. Which is where things started to go awry.

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