One arena level, an island, surrounded by deadly water, where you running in circles, shooting and dodging waves of similar, endless, and damn fast big jumping and exploding balls. Then, one ball is spawning right after you and you're -95 health (out of 100). And then next ball is just jumping that high that you just don't see it until it hits your head. Right in top of it. Death from above.
There are three modes. First, "Survival": you just running from one crate (with one of 3 guns, or health boost, or ammo), which is stading right on the island sand, to the next one. Second, "Economical" mode, is about 100$ per kill, and insta-buys. Just click the button - and voila - the prize is yours! The catch is... that you need to actually catch that prize that you've just bought, and the blasting balls even on the 1st wave are much faster than you. Third, and the last so far game mode, is about standing at one place and shooting with the machinegun in all directions. Simultaneously. There's no "flying" mode so far, you can't shoot those balls on the fly-by, as the last video from the store page is showing.
Honestly? It's a garbage "Arena" game, made with Unity engine, and there are, sadly, maybe hundreds games like this on the Steam store these days. However, I must admit, "Boom island" is trying. Trying really hard to be not like the others. There is a peculiar soundtrack, somewhat "original" visuals, fitting the supposed setting of the early 1900's and black-and-white cinema. The "options" screens, especially "visuals", are really touching, with all those anti-aliasing and such. However, the game is unplayable at moment. It lacks the very, very basic option to tune - the mouse sensitivity. You see, not only those exploding balls are running faster than you, and spawning right after your back or above you. The main problem is that it's the game where you need to constantly spinning around. And by the standard, you're turning right as fast as the weather vane... when there's no wind around.
So - No. It's not just "rough on the edges", as someone said about it earlier. It's a garbage that some creative man is trying to present as the art object. Mark 4/10. I'd refunded it... but I was gifted with this "game". Guess it will stuck in my inventory now.
Update 23.04.18: I gave this piece of crud 4/10? Maybe I was too kind thanks to the winter holidays? Well, NO! No-No! It's only 2.5/10 even now, with the mouse sensitivity added!
Yes, it is a 1$ game with easy achievement... but I can buy plenty of good games for 1$, like Witcher 1&2 on GOG, or some more indie with Humble Bundle or some other storeplace... Not to mention I have other things to pay for other than stuff made worse than in the '90s. Because even then enemies respawning right after your shoulder were the bad case, and there it is the primo motion of the whole gameplay!
But since the developer keep writing there, here are my latest bites:
- screen resolutions under 2K are almost out of the game instantly. Yeah, I know, everyone with at least a bit of money have 2K monitors now, or even 4K... But not the prime audience of 1$ crud games - schoolboys with quite dated PC's
- mouse sensitivity slider added, sure, and now it's finally at least Somewhat Playable. But you have to update this slider every single game. Gosh, that's soo lame and lazy codework patch!
- MP-18 is the broken piece. Reloads are too long (while they are unnaturally fast with the shotgun, on another end), and when you try to use iron sights, you see... invisible weapon! it shoots, but you can't see it!
- 3 game modes still way too boring, monotonous and unbalanced. In "Economical" [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1368534505]I can go on forever[/url], with just the pistol and health and ammo buys when needed. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1368534494]"Survival"[/url] needs at least more "speeding up" perks and the rule for balls not to spawn closer than 10 meters. They can be faster, too... The last one, [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1368534522]"Protection"[/url] game mode, with the machine gun, is the most boring. And that gun is surely broken as well, as I need to aim higher than the balls to shoot them! When it's the common knowledge that your aim should always be lower than the target to hit it, especially with the automatic weapons.
Have a nice day!
