I recently played the new Alien Breed Demo by Team 17. (Those guys that pretty much only made worms for 10 years).
This new game is actually a re make of a very old and popular game they made when they first started out. However, this isnt the first re make they have done. They also re made another game (Whos title escapes me now) for the iphone.
Using the unreal engine they made a 3rd person, top down, shooter. From what i could see on the demo it lacked a certain finished quality to it. I dont know if that was because it was the demo and the finished game wont look as choppy. But it didnt look right to me.
As for the controls, they where ok apart from where they placed the run function. You have the standard WASD controls and Left Shift is for running. This is a pretty petty point to bring up but it annoyed me greatly. Took me ages to be able to run and use all the movement keys at once.
Gameplay wise, meh to be honest. Nothing new or special. In the demo stuff wouldn’t stop exploding, which made it quite hard to figure out what exactly i was doing. On one part of the level, i was lead into a room and suddenly a count down timer appeared. I had missed the explination of why there was a timer in my screen because something near by had exploded in my face. So for 30 seconds i was running around like a headless chicken trying to figure out what to do! It turns out i didnt have to do anything. It was a timer for when the power would kick back on.
You know when you finish a game demo? A little screen will flash up and say “Oh you finished the demo. Did you like it? Do you want to buy it now?” Well Alien breed has these, every 2 seconds after a certain point. Which is about half way through the demo you get them non stop. LET ME PLAY THE BLOODY GAME FIRST! I got so annoyed at this since it broke up the gameplay too much that i left it.
So there you have it. Alien Breed and pretty MEH game. Pick up something like Torchlight or go back to Diablo.
Torchlight <3