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Shadow Grounds
This is a
neat game that despite having had a number of similarities with other
games and movies, still manages to prove to be entertaining in its own
right. Travelling through the galaxy to hotspots, it's your job to stop
the impending invasion of alien bad guys before it is too late for the
lovely planet Earth.
Shadowgrounds
delivers a pretty immersive experience with a combination of good
graphics and very solid sound work through out the title. Everything
from character speech through to ingame environmental sound effects
works very well to give you the impression that you are in a thriving
world arena and that your actions in the game actually do matter.
Providing a
satisfying play experience, Shadowgrounds has you squaring off against a
good number of beasties that have been well realised. Your weaponry is
varied and a lot of fun to use, though like most games of this nature,
you'll find one or two that you prefer and pretty much stick to them
during the game and that will work just fine.
In an
interesting move, you are given 5 lives per level and if you happen to
snuff it during the game, you will simply respawn near a point that you
died. When creatures die around you, they will often drop bits and
pieces that help you through the game and upgrade weapons etc. Good of
them to help out I say! All weapons are pretty robust and have great alt
fire mechanisms built in. These all combine to keep the gameplay varied
by as mentioned you will find favourites.
There are a
number of nice touches to the gameplay that should see you completing
this one in your bid to keep the earth safe. The respawn factor does get
a bit tiresome, especially if you die 5 times in the level and have to
start it over. I think that might be enough for some gamers to walk away
whilst there is still time.
This is a
game that I enjoyed, however it could be that you might want to rent it
first before committing the cash. See what you think and let us know!
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