The core gameplay of Ion Assault HD will come as no surprise to those familiar with the genre. The left thumbstick thrusts your spaceship around the play area to avoid the myriad of asteroids, laser beams, enemy spaceships and space debris all threatening to turn your craft into Swiss cheese. The right sticks aims in the direction you wish to shoot, but here’s where Ion Assault’s distinction comes into play.
Rather than having infinite bullets or lasers at your disposal, you instead have to go around sucking up the abundance of ion particles littering the atmosphere and spitting them back out again as ammunition, like an intergalactic space Dyson.
A unique twist on the classic Asteroids gameplay where you’ll be collecting ‘ions’ that literally litter the maps. The more ions collected, the stronger your attacks will be and powerups further serve to assist your ship in laying waste to the field’s space rocks and gravel.
Neocrisis: Space shooters, space war shooters, space invaders, shmups - yep they're pretty much about mankind shooting the face off millions and squillions of invading aliens.
Bone-idle.ie writes "Ion Assault HD enters the packed world of twin stick shooters and relies on its novel approach to firepower to set it apart in this modern day take on the classic asteroids game. Each map is filling with thousands of little ION particles, your ship is able to suck them up and fire them back out. The almost black hole effect on the surrounding world while sucking in particles even affects the edge of the screen but give the game a wonderful fluid almost liquid motion"
