arena-shooter posts

Music games, specifically ones that generate their gameplay based on dynamic music interpretation, have been growing vastly in popularity. Games like Audiosurf or Raycatcher, which act as visualizers as well as games with virtually infinite replayability. After all, with new levels for every track, your entire music collection becomes the game. Beat Hazard is the latest entry into this expanding sub-genre, and like other games of its ilk, it's an arcade game. However, this is not a bad thing, and Beat Hazard brings a refreshing new look to the music genre while building upon the work of earlier games such as Geometry Wars.

You could write a blog just covering cactus' releases alone, it seems. Alone with Life Is A Race, cactus also released a simple arena shooter called Retro 4. The controls are simple, comprised of just WASD for movement and the mouse for attacks. Enemies are simple geometric shapes that are different colors. You can hold down the left mouse button to fire, tap it to rapid-fire, and press right mouse button to unleash a special. Simple. There's an online leaderboard for those who want to compete with others as well. In other words, it's another simple, addictive, quick game from the mind of everyone's favorite freeware developer.

[Via IndieGames]

Despite sporting a name that you would not show to your mother, Retromaster 5's new arena shooter is quite excellent and doesn't actually contain any inappropriate content. Much like Geometry Wars clone Vector Infector, it (we shall only refer to this game by a pronoun) is a simple, pixelated retro arena shooter with epilepsy-inducing graphics and a delightfully easy scoring scheme. Mixed with the retro feel about it all, it's very fun for freeware fans or shooter fans in general, and worth playing at least once. The name just happens to by NSFW. You have been warned.

[Via IndieGames]