Berzerk: Recharged

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4.5/10 decent little game dont think its worth 10$ if you put yourself right on walls your guns hitbox will damage things right on the other side of them cool!!! you can be damaged the same way.... oof wait did the enemy just fully shoot through that wall???? wtf!!!! looks like its a bug

Ok, I'm going to say outright. This is not a bad game, but it's also not a great one. Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS AT FULL PRICE. Don't buy it at a slight discount either, buy it as part of the bundle or wait until they finally do a good discount. If what you want is straight forward twin-stick shooting, this game delivers. The dash and the powerups don't really add much but the game plays just fine. However, it doesn't have enough content to justify it's 10 dollar price tag. You've got a very basic arcade mode and some missions. That's it. They really should have added a port of the original arcade or Atari 2600 game as a mode, it's a shame that they didn't because as far as I can tell Berzerk hasn't been ported to modern PCs or consoles yet. I think the only way you can play it is through emulation While I don't think the game looks ugly, the graphics are pretty bland and generic. Also, hearing "fight like a robot" every 2 seconds in an 80s arcade game is funny, for a game released in 2023 it's lazy and repetitive. It would not have taken much more effort to have the robots say a few more things. It's odd that of all things they decided should stay true to the original, that's the part they picked. I know the majority of this review has sounded negative but again, it's not BAD it's just not as good as it could have been. If you get it cheap or get it as a gift it's a cute, simple game to kill some time with. It's honestly refreshing to play an overhead shooter that doesn't have a ton of complex mechanics, a story mode, or meta progression. Sometimes you just wanna shoot stuff until you lose. And for that reason, I think i'll be picking this one back up from time to time. Lastly, here's a message to the devs: It's not too late, you can add a port of the original Berzerk in an update! Either that or you could add some kind of mode that's nearly 1 to 1 to the original. It'd be easy to do but would add a lot of value to this release. Please consider it!!!

this ain't berserk but if you can ever find this in a bundle or on sale it is an alright twin-stick arcade shooter. pure scoring gameplay and not much else.

É um jogo que remete ao clássico de 1982 da Atari. Legalzinho, mas eu apenas recomendo de você gosta de jogos clássicos como eu e se estiver em promoção. Não chega a ser um jogo ruim, mas poderia ser melhor. E não é muito desafiador, a meu ver.

Have liked the other recharged games. Not this one. Controls feel clumsy and what is going on with the walls. Why can some bots and shots move through some walls and not others? I feel this is some sort of aesthetic thing and not a clipping issue. Anyway - it is incredibly distracting when a shot or bot goes right through a wall to nail you. Hard pass unless they fix the walls and the clunk. Oh and the bots need to talk more with different voices ... like the original did ... 40 years ago. Evil Otto is pretty cute though.

Atari isn't really Atari they are a subsidiary of a subsidiary and doesn't really have a soul anymore. That being said this games fun. Its a very very simple twin stick game. The only gimmick I can think of is that if you don't clear the room in like 15 seconds an orb starts chasing you around. The arcade mode is fun just try and survive. The challenges are dumb all the ones I played were just kill X amount of enemies. I don't see the point id rather just play the arcade mode. I have never played the original so I have no nostalgia to it. But the game is ok feels like some early 2000s flash game. Overall its OK and if you already wanted this game you probably own it. I got the whole set for like 30$ I think that was too much. AGAIN I like the game its just you could get a similar experience from other free games.

Here are the pros & cons of Beserk: Recharge as I see it. Pros: 1. Beserk: Recharge is not the original Beserk arcade game, but that does not make it bad, just a revisioned twist that grow on you with time. Cons: 1. WHAT WAS ATARI THINKING!!! The original Beserk arcade game should come with this game, and not just available on Atari 50! I am not going to buy Atari 50 just for the original game, especially considering I already have most of the Atari 50 games on Atari Vault. Plus, new and veteran players of Beserk could enjoy seeing and playing both versions and see the evolution of the game.