Version Blazar for Pocket PC version for MS Smartphone Blazar Blazar version for Series 60 Platform version Blazar communicators SonyEricsson What? Is space shooter still live? Fantastic! Riddle of the survival of space shooters, do not leave "counters" for several decades, until now I did not solved. The secret of their popularity is beyond comprehension - the game lies in the simple and down-movements of the fingers, are unlikely to sow reasonable, good and eternal. Usually, these games suffer from a lack of sense of humor, repetition key elements of wandering out of the game in the game, endlessly zanudlivymi spaces and the complete lack of sense. Elements Interactive software company has decided to disrupt this dense pale walls of the same type of games and a considerable variety of recently released its own shooter. Rolled up their sleeves and came up with a smile, and neatly done here ... For all the originality of some elements, the developers could not resist ... and fell victim to the "space sickness", calling his creation "blazars". "Houston, we have a problem!" Soooo, where we've got the drawings ... Parse our space saga to a cog, tell and show.
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Story: 3 / 5
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At the core of any shooter is the struggle for liberation. Rarely clear who, whom and why. Blazar here, unfortunately, the exception was not. The absence of a plot - a phenomenon quite common among shooters - here a complete mix of goals, circumstances and styles. N / O or on the website of the game or the game itself does not describe all the circumstances of the battle waged. We just run headlong into a cartoon kosmoletik and rushing to the attack. Judging by the decor, we uphold the economic independence of the land: combat flight attendant is obviously the shops of a plant. Here we fly past the mesh fence, heroically protaranennyh our predecessors in the hot battle: "Hi Malchish!". Signs "Danger" on the walls, metal bolts and rivets, endless space, numerous enemies ... interesting to see how all this evil come here. And why it's so concentrated it is here, in the native plant named you-know-who ... try to analyze a civilization trying to enslave us and take away resources. Judging by their appearance, an alliance of aliens and peremetnuvshihsya them traitors - Engineers from the ground. As you will often run a familiar kind of rocket, you will have to attack the flying machine guns, and a strange-looking creatures with tentacles (Well, where do without them? ..) In a collision with you on the nose of your nashlepyvayutsya kosmoletika, clogging the nozzle and the barrel, not allowing the fire aggressive enemy side. "Velcro-octopuses" can shake if accelerate progress. A surprising number of ... Although the absolute grounded the story and its protagonists parties, the name of the game are absolutely astronomical and intended, perhaps, to remind us of the futility of all our militant liberation sentiment. The fact that the blazar - a black hole, emitting narrow streams of high-energy particles. But we know that we should fight ... And in a frenzy we press the keys, nervously scratching the display with stylus and fly farther.
Gameplay: 3.5 / 5
Shooting just continuous. And nowhere, nowhere, nowhere on it will go. Our poor kosmoletik constantly shelled, and that quite funny, is not always clear from where. The flow of bullets flying at him just under the standard.Just in case. Those "flying machine guns, about which I wrote above, shot without a break, so that to destroy the foe was left unscathed is almost impossible that it is insulting. But this is, I think the harsh space-factory life. Playing on a course more difficult, the bosses (without which the "tape" shooters can not do) at the end of levels are outrageously tenacious, so that once got into a fight, do not have to be bored. What's good level design, with each game is changing.
Interface: 4 / 5
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In the shooter is always quite simple. Break down than to build. Know yourself moving, still ship itself shoots. But for the fans something more complex provides the ability to disable automatic fire through the menu Assign Keys. You can also designate a key to start the game. Everything else - moving up and down and left and right - by dzhoypadom / Jogger or stylus. We have also radar - it shows the location and number of enemies and bonuses in front, and also very useful for detecting missile launches treacherous back (some subtle craftiness!). The menu can change the volume of music and sound effects, enable / disable automatic firing mode, as well as the enigmatic function «Erase Data». I guess it comes the score, which I found on the website of the game, you can even upload to the server. Also on the menu you can enter your license code to get a fully functional game (in the demo you are limited to an incomplete first level and the lack of opportunities to save points earned). Lack of menu - the menu button labels difficult to read - they are somewhat mixed with the cosmic background. Another slight drawback - it is difficult to understand what a bonus for what, and what happens if you "gobble up" one or another blue brick.
Graphics: 4 / 5
Corridors of the main site of action, which we defined as a factory and warehouse have some sad, peculiar, however, above the interior in real life. But the heroes, by contrast, are not devoid of originality, are designed well, with humor. Graphics resolution and contrast - you can immediately uglyadet all enemies, bonuses distinguish and recognize the danger, but would like more specific elements of those same details - little finishing touches that can make the game quite unusual.
Sound: 5 / 5
Thanks to a friend DJ PWB for our happy "blazirovanie! Music is good. In addition, the developers make it possible to control the level of its volume - agree, even such a simple element, not every developer account. Buhi, mutual funds and pafy also quite good, especially if you play with headphones. Just for the sound of explosion, I often neglected the enemy and chased flying through the endless "factory" cobblestone corridors - they are already very well burst.
Outcome: 4 / 5
Estimating the game, we took into account the specific scope and limitations of the genre of "shooter". Being a shooter, and having inherited all the flaws of the genre, Blazer, however, differs from the set of tape shooter that was done with humor. Fly and shoot.Forward to defend family economic resources!
See also: Li-Nuggz from the company Elements Interactive Li-Nuggz Version for Pocket PC, MS Smartphone and PDA platform Series 60. Review of the game in the "Playing the soft parade" The authors, translation:
