After playing a couple of first person shooters lately on the DS, it sparked my interest to find one that was actually decent. I'd played "Touch The Dead" & "Demntium: The Ward" and they where decent enough, but too repetitive and got boring very quickly. This game is a bit of a step up over both of those games, but not quite as much fun as older games like Doom & Duke Nukem which would be nice to see a DS version of soon.
The story of this game is that you are on the moon as a research team or something, and suddenly aliens have arrived. I think the gist of it was the Earth team was exploring alien artifacts on the moon and the aliens came back. You start out by having to speak to your commander or someone, who briefs you along the way by radio (on screen text) and you grab a gun and head into the alien underground to seek things out, find out what happened, and kill the bad guys along the way. The control is pretty good, it's the same as "Dementium the ward" where you use your stylus to look around/aim, use up to move forward, and the shoulder L button to fire. Opening doors and things just requires you click on open on the screen when you see it highlight.
Along the way you will pick up a variation of weapons to choose from machine guns to lasers that have light power to big booming weapons. A varietal of much better weapons then in the other two games i mentioned. All up there is around 16 to 17 levels, and extra 18 to 24 if you find all the hidden artifacts in the game.
What I found unique about this first person shooter was the control of both character, and these remote control car things that you use to get into spaces your human character cannot (small areas) and it is a needed requirement to do, not just something on the side to figure out later. You may need to use your remote vehicle to gain access behind energy shields and disable them by shooting power sources so the shield is lowered for your character to be able to walk through.
What else was refreshing was the moon buggy. You actually get to drive it and cruise around on the moon from destination to destination while still shooting up aliens. The aliens themselves range from small flying droids to larger alien robot like things with alien heads controlling them... there isn't a great deal of different kind of enemy's, but it felt far less repetitive then the other two games i mentioned before that you are probably sick of me saying those other two games i mentioned before.
Overall, so far, this is the best FPS game I have played on the DS. But I haven't played a lot yet, so I am hoping there is something much better out there. But so far, if you are a shooter game fan, own a DS, then this one is worth checking out. It's not great, but it's not that bad either!Get more detail about
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