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From Space - Kill aliens in co-op with your friends!

From Space - Kill aliens in co-op with your friends!

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Pink aliens have invaded our world, and you are the only one who can save it. You can play the game alone, but it is even more fun when you play it together with your friends. Friends only - there is no lobby to play with randoms.
You are a soldier, sent on a mission. Unfortunately, your chopper gets shot down and so you start injured and alone. You do what hero soldiers do - dash, melee, place barbed wire, energy shields, mines or automatic turrets, set up a temporary protective dome, throw grenades or molotov cocktails, collect ammo and various items, use bandages to heal yourself. Reload your weapons and collect new guns - but the ammo is very limited, and you cannot carry many weapons at the beginning. Additional inventory slots are unlocked when you level up - if you live long enough.
It plays like Left for Dead (or its dozen clones), but in an isometric view - you move around and shoot hordes of attacking aliens. Choose your character from six different professions - two defensive ones (with flame thrower or minigun), two offensive types (a sniper and a particle gun carrying lab assistant) and two support roles (electrician, engineer), all with different health, shield and stamina stats.
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Use the left stick to move your character, use the right stick to aim and shoot your gun. Twin-stick shooters were already invented (or at least made popular) in 1982 by Eugene Jarvis with his arcade game Robotron 2084. There was no way to make twin-stick shooters for consoles or home computers for a long time to follow, though, because the modern day game controller with two sticks was not invented yet. Only during the last decade with X-Box ad PlayStation controllers becoming popular, twin-stick shooters became common on consoles and the PC. And this game is a great twin-stick shooter (mostly).
Smash alien eggs (and hatching aliens) to reduce alien influence, destroy crystals to collect energy while you explore the levels and move to the mission objectives. You cannot really get lost with the head up display always showing you the right direction. Talk to human survivors and help them with their problems (like not enough booze or luxury items), and they might help you in your mission.
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If you have no real life friends, some computer-controlled humans may follow you (if you finish their mini missions) and fight with you. You can command them to wait or order them to run after you. They shoot competently, follow you everywhere (great path-finding), but they are still dumb as rubber boots and get hit too often or - even dumber - run into all traps they see. When they are dead, they are gone, or I am just too stupid to revive them. I found no way to heal or revive them, or order them to use special equipment.
You can always read your log to see the missions and other tasks you have to complete. Dead aliens leave energy orbs behind. Use them to upgrade your weapons and perks at workbenches found during the levels. If you don't like twin-stick shooters, you can play the game with keyboard and mouse as well. Actually works quite good that way. You save at radio posts, you invite your friends for multiplayer at telephone booths.
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Affordable little twin-stick-shooter that can be played alone, but is far better when played together with your friends in a squad of four players in online-multiplayer.
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mojojo i am the meta
mojojo i am the meta
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can play in mobile?

2023-08-27

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Agreed

2022-11-10

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