This week your intrepid heroes hide in plain sight, fight some penguins, and rock out with our cock.
Scale:
Game: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Webzone: http://rocketbirds.com/
Devel: r a t l o o p
Engine: PhyreEngine
Price: $9.99 / €7.99
Wazzat: “Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns.”
Makes with the working
V-
-
Loses a chair because the monitors go Zzzzzz. Got killed to death a few times because that.
J-
-
Loses a chair due to 3rd party controller xbox issues
P-
Total-
Shiny / Sounds
V-
-
Generic as it is; live music is best soundtrack.
-
I really dig the art style and the animated cut scenes are actually worth watching for the story.
-
I almost want to ding it a chair for the ridiculous jumping animation, almost.
-
At first I thought it was a Unity joint but I walked by some headlights and noticed a shadow effect and was all “nope, Unity can’t do that”
J-
-
Music Is pretty decent rock
-
Art style…well its American chickens vs Commie penguins
P-
-
Animations are a bit janky
Total-
Control
V-
-
Alright, the controls worked from the menu so I started a game. Nooope! You need to assign the Xclone gamepad.
-
You don’t do anything fast. Really, moving a boxen requires a full stop ……………….. wait for action button……………… then use.
-
Same goes for elevators.
-
CCV help you if you’re stuck in crossfire.
-
and that motherfkr wants to roll.
J-
-
Turbo seizure controller and Hori Controller don’t work apparent, need to use real xbox controllers
-
Controls themselves are pretty janky
-
Multiplayer has an interesting dynamic involving some lost viking style gameplay
P-
-
Controls worked out of the box with the PS2 Dual Shock
-
Unfortunately there were some situations where it refused to let me use the right analog to aim and I had to use the mouse.
-
Movement is not an exact science in this game
Total-
FUN?
V-
-
Even with all the flaws this mental little side scroller kept me entertained.
-
I still loathe the rocket pack levels but wanting to learn more about the story made me sort the fkers.
-
And that’s the point. I kept coming back to this ridiculous thing during the week. Good game design is good game design.
J-
-
The sheer absurdity of the game makes it kind of fun
-
Ivan Drago bird
-
Multiplayer is fun, but fuck the dudes with the shields
P-
-
I guess Guacamelee has spoiled me when it comes to these type of games.
-
Multiplayer saves it from the score I had originally given.
-
If they had kept the original name, the score may have even been better.
Total-
Final –
-
As far as light/arcady metroid-vanias go, Guacamelee is a lot better.
