From Strategyinformer.com: "Space Run: Fast and Safe Delivery unashamedly wears its tongue-in-cheek 80s era science fiction inspiration on its intergalactic sleeve. In referential gaming terms, it is a game which also shares two well-worn similarities to the bullish neon and decadent decade now over 25 years gone: sidescrolling gameplay; and a grossly arrogant, and at times outrightly obnoxious, protagonist. Yes, like classics such as Missile Command and Space Invaders, Space Run lays forth simplistic and easy to grasp gaming conventions, and couples them with an ever-burgeoning enemy threat matched by a lead character - Buck Mann - who displays the brash conceit akin to his 80s forerunners Sly Spy, or Strider Hyru, or Double Dragon’s Billy Lee."
Space Run developed by PassTech Games and Focus Home Interactive is due to be released on the Mac App Store tomorrow.
SelectButton: "Adding a space twist to the most mundane jobs on the planet can make anything feel highly exciting. Space Run puts you in the space boots of Buck Mann, the ultimate space trucker, who is accompanied by his space android Adaam-12 (okay, I’ll stop with the space puns). Space Run plays out how I would imagine delivering goods would be handled in two of my favorite sci-fi fictions: Star Wars and Futurama. Space Run is an enjoyable blend of tower-defense, strategy, and a witty narrative."
Avoiderdragon: Reinventing the wheel may seem akin to making round holes more round for square pegs, but it happens all the time in game development. Whether the developers come up with some vague and abstract idea of what they want to do and just wing it in the studio or actually have an inspired concept that can be made tangible in various configurations, the results do pop up with mixed results. The simpler the thing they wish to reinvent, the more eyebrows are raised, but also the more potential hits do come up, just like this one.
