Dominic Sheard: "There are waves upon waves of tower defence games on the market, but once in a while a game is released that changes up the dynamics of the genre and adds a bit of a refreshing spin on the formula. The game to do that this time is Space Run for the PC, a game that sprung up out of the blue by first-time independent developers Passtech Games from France. The team at Passtech Games class Space Run as a “real-time spaceship construction strategy game”, which is an intelligent way of saying that the game twists the tower defence mechanics and merges it with the gauntlet event from the 90s show Gladiator (replacing humans with ships, of course) to make for one energetic and reaction-based video game."
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.
