Rock 'N Roll

I think my previous review was too dumb, so I deceide to rewrite it. I like asteroids and it's one of my favorite games. It's a game about carefully managing the ship's movements and shooting wisely to survive. I especially like Asteroid deluxe which made the original more challenging and fast phased, so I looked for something similar in steam store. This game looked quite promising on the store page as the game offered many colorful contents, but once I bought and played it I was disappointed by the controls. For someone who played Asteroids in Atari vault a lot, the rotating speed in this game was so slow that it was beyond the acceptable level. Fortunately The developer improved the controls, but there are still other bits I don't like : 1. I can't manually fire the bullets by tapping the button. one of the joys of asteroids was rapidly fireing bullets at big asteroids to destroy them faster and then carefully shooting bullets one by one to destroy small asteroids around me. that kinds of joy doesn't exist here as I can't shoot faster than it's automatic firing speed. 2. lack of frequent saucer encounters. In asteroids The saucers appeared in all levels. they fly from left to right or vise versa and shoot the bullets. what make saucers special is that they also can shoot and be destroyed by the asteroids. sometimes you can use asteroids to take cover from the saucer shots, and you can keep many asteroids floating around to make saucers harder to survive. Also the small saucers (or all saucers in deluxe) calculate the player's movement and location and fire the bullet based on it. so you must frequently move around to avoid their shots. In my opinion saucers are what made asteroids really fun and addictive and I really hate when asteroid clones don't have any saucers. while this game does have saucer style enemy, It doesn't make frequent encounters to make the game hot enough and there's no smaller varient that shoot the anticipated shot at the player. 3. Hard rocks mode. This mode plays quite different, The screen isn't wrapped around and the player controls differently. problem is that I can't understand the logic of the controls in this mode. At first glance I thought the controls work like cinematronics' Rip Off or Armor Attack, where movement direction is tied to the player's facing direction and can't move to side by thrusting and rotating the ship around. however, it seems when the player's movement is slower than the certain value suddenly the movement direction isn't tied to the facing direction anymore. also the thrust speed in this mode is way too fast that it's nearly uncontrollable, and rotating the ship while moving in light speed decreses its speed which i can't understand why. My assume is that the developer intentionally made the controls harder for more challenge, but in my opinion it just feels broken and doesn't make the gameplay more challenging but rather annoying. It's not a bad game by any means but definitely it's not my cup of tea. To the developer, I'm Sorry for writing the terrible, rude review before. I should have played it more to decide I actually like it or not but I was too impatient and kept complaining.

Fun nostalgic game if you played astriods. Definetly a time sink worth playing. Felt like i played 10 mins it was 40.

A surprisingly fun game that is much tougher than it looks. Recommend using a controller. Will definitely take some time to master. The leader board is great to see how you rank against others.

A fun to play asteroid type game with an upgrade!

I really enjoy this game! it is such a fun and relaxing game to me! i,m so close to being on the top 10!! Thank you for a great game!!

Rock 'N Roll is a 2D retro pixel unabashed ripoff of Asteroids (copyright Atari 1979). Differentiating from the game, Rock 'N Roll includes a number of various powerups and other bells and whistles that add little, if anything to the old, obsolete Asteroids format. There's also a "hardcore" game mode where you bounce around at frenetic speed to see how long you can stay alive. There's welcome features such as control customisation and customisable resolution, but unfortunately this just scales the low quality sprites. There's no 4K support despite that resolution becoming the bleeding edge standard 8 years ago. There's no way to improve the poor graphics quality that's far below standards for a contemporary PC game. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is often used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs, although in this case the game appears to have been made sincerely. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. If you really want to play Asteroids, you can play it for free in a web browser. If you want an updated experience, Atari have published a similarly priced, updated version of the original Asteroids on Steam with much smoother, slicker graphics here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700890/Asteroids_Recharged/ Rock 'N Roll has the eye watering price of $7 USD (for an Asteroids ripoff!), it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam, as well as official versions of the game being readily available. [quote]Online Stalking and Harrassment[/quote] The developer has started stalking me, delivering personal attacks and is attempting to publicly cyberbully and intimidate me by posting hitpiece videos and articles. Why? Because I wrote an honest and frank assessment about an objectively bad and failed product. It's an objective failure rejected by gamers, confirmed by SteamDB figures for the failed game, and for the other reasons I supplied in my accurate review. Certainly, the hitpieces the stalker/developer here has linked up are false and misleading (for example, I've given positive reviews to 2D indie games in the past, but the "developer" here chooses to lie about that), but cyberbullies don't care about facts, they just want to intimidate and attack those for providing the truths the developer can't emotionally accept. This unhinged, unstable and harmful behavior from the developer is utterly unacceptable, and is a chilling attempt to silence the truth. Now, you can look at the objective facts of my review, and then have a look at how this reviewer is attacking and intimidating reviewers, and suddenly the overwhelming rejection of these crappy GameMaker Studio ripoffs makes perfect sense. I will not be intimidated or silenced by stalkers and bullies.

This is like Asteroids should have been (if they had the technology). Really smooth/polished game. Love the feel of shootin dem rocks!!

挺无趣的游戏 就是不停打陨石，打碎一块还会分裂成好几块小的，反而更难躲避了 移动竟然只能加速或者转弯，如果想要减速只能先来个180°的转弯，使得和当前运动方向相反，然后再加速 但如果你面前有陨石的话根本就来不及做这套动作之能眼睁睁的看着自己撞死 完全不值这个价格，在我看来也就是一个6元钱游戏的水平，而且这开发者还很逗，别人给个差评就下面回复一大堆的东西 有着闲工夫给自己洗白还不如花点心把游戏做好

I love this game. It is super addicting in all the best ways, when I got this game I immediately got sucked in for the next few hours. All the different powerups and limited availability of some add a lot of depth and strategy to this WAY FREAKIN better version of Asteroids. Fight hard. Fight fast. Save the earth! What are you still reading this for?! Buy this game! Don't ask questions, just do it! The earth needs you!

DISCLOSURES: Not sure why it says 7 minutes unless time spent in offline mode wasn't counted. I played for over an hour total on 3 separate instances. Also, I know this developer from other games and his YouTube channel. One can look through my Steam friends and reviews and see at least 2 instances of not recommended titles, if not more. BRIEF REVIEW: The graphics, art design, and sound / music are what I'd call polished amateurism: it's clear that the bulk of the sound and graphic design was done by the author, but there's definitely marked improvement over time with his various games. Some will love it, some will hate it. Personally, I don't mind it at all. It adds a bit of personality to the title and it's clear what everything is supposed to be. The controls are responsive. The only issues I had with keyboard or gamepad was forgetting how to properly control an Asteroids-like game. The upgrades make sense. The boss fights offer a challenge but nothing too easy or unfair. While an hour is not enough time for one who is quite terrible at Asteroid-like games to judge the game's stat balancing in it's totality, everything early on seems to be well-balanced. Nothing OP, nothing worthless, and nothing too difficult / easy. It's a GameMaker 2D classic arcade Asteroids-like game that's well done within the limitations of that engine and style of game. Definitely the best of the ZaxtorGames catalog. Recommend!