Solar Struggle

Well acctualy this is a space shooter. So you shoot things.. in space but.... I did a fews mission, and unpleasant things bumped into my head... you are some guy that fly around the solar system planet.. and all of thems have an asteroid belt around it.... - Graphics. They are nice, because space is awesome.. that's the strong point of the game, and acctualy graphics doesn't do everything - Gameplay Its just correct.. and by correct i really mean "only correct" You won't have anytroubles with the control in the game, they will come instantely - music / sound Well... the music let's say.. i only did fews mission and.. i droped because of this, this soundtrack is.... i'm not going to say. bad that's wrong... no wait... its bad.. The same song for like 3-4 mission.... and the song is reptitive as hell.. Hope this game have more than 1 mission music.. More than that it doesn't fit at all with this type of game.. Voice well, turn it off... seriously.. turn the voice off ! As for the sound effect. pew pew pew. - Overall I'm not going to thumbs up this game because its just a game that everyone will forgot in 2 days. I'm not going to thumbs down either because its not that bad .. there's no horizontal tumbs..... and the price is very decent. But this game have something wrong ... generaly shooters (ex gradius , thunderforce ect) are repetitive.. but in a good way. this game seem repetitive in the bad way..

Horrible game, no mouse controls, virtually no story, same music track the entire game, bad graphics and sound effects. Avoid this like the plague, there are 100 better space shooters than this game.

interesting concept but unfortunately it is not pleasure gameplay, more frustration and lack of fun is why I am going for a 'NOT Recommend' there is a mission where you have to protect a ship that is repairing itself (mission 6) and amongst the chaos it is difficult to do it, after couple dozens of trying, almost completed the mission... but the game decided to crash into deskpot without any error message. Pure garbage to me buy at a very cheap price if you cannot resist your curiosity

Космический шутер с 3д графикой, но перемещением в 2д плоскости и с видом от 3-го лица. Довольно странное решение. Из-за этого прицел который торчит по центру экрана, на самом деле таковым не является. Графика тоже не впечатляет, она просто нормальная. Сюжет не цепляет. Терять время на эту игру не стоит.

Das Spiel ist ursprünglich auf der Xbox erschienen, auch auf dem PC lässt sich das Schiff gut mit dem Xbox Controller steuern. Schon die die ersten Missionen der Campagne bieten viel Action und sind eine Herausforderung. Für Leute, die Arcade-Action im Weltraum mögen genau das richtige Spiel.

Gave it a shot. Played Skirmish through wave 11. There's no variety whatsoever. The same 2 ships come at you by the dozen forever. Fly in, shoot, turn away, circle back. Hundreds of them forever, no change. There is exactly 1 boss type who does the same tactic, but with more health. And sometimes a destroyer that sits motionless and fires at you. New enemies spawn randomly with no discernable entrance, fly faster than you, and peck at you forever. Which... ok. But meanwhile you have 3 weapons. 3 total, ever. Except that you don't, because you only have 1 weapon that just comes in three colors. Upgrades increase the numeric damage, but make absolutely zero difference to tactics, feel of the guns, or appearance. Even equipping more than 2 of the guns doesn't affect the effects. You never look like you're shooting more than 2. Never faster, never bigger, never spreading, never splashing. Just pewpewpew at level 1 or level 15. Hey, there are multiple ships though, right? Wrong. You can start in a 2-gun ship. You can unlock the 4-gun and 1-turrent ship. Then you can unlock the 6-gun and 2-turret ship. But since the guns cap at looking like 2 guns, the only difference is damage numbers, never the feel of power. And of course turning slower so your only option is sitting there, pointing at ships that are flying toward you, and shooting back as they come to you because there are a dozen at a time and they are all faster than you are. But wait! There are three factions of ships to choose from! Military, Outlaw, and Consortium! At least there's some choice there, right? Wrong again. They are reskinned, but statistically identical. So... just like the weapons are color choice but substantially the same, likewise the ships look unique but aren't. So turn, wait, shoot, turn, wait, shoot, upgrade, turn, wait, shoot. Half an hour later, you'll realize you haven't had any fun and uninstall. It looks nice. But awful controls, terrible lack of variety, monotonous AI tactics, and god just so boring.

http://www.pwnem.com/t-solar-struggle-survival-review 4 years ago I wrote a review for Solar Struggle: Survival, a $1 version of Solar Struggle for the Xbox Live Indie Games Service. I actually gave it a pretty high rating. Today I'm writing why this game isn't worth it. It's awfully strange, way back then I liked Solar Struggle, but now, I'm wondering if past me and current me played the same game. Hmm. I suppose it's like this: When I originally reviewed Solar Struggle: Survival, I was comparing it to other games on the XBLIG service. XBLIG is home to many of the worst games of all time. Back then, if I happened upon something even half-way competent on that service, I'd probably say it was the greatest game since Super Mario Bros. 3. Solar Struggle is on Steam now, and...well....Steam is practically the inverse of XBLIG when it comes to quality gaming. Or maybe I simply had no idea what I was thinking when I reviewed Solar Struggle: Survival. In any case, SS is a space-shooter. There is a campaign that runs the usual gamut of missions. Destroy this, escort that, protect these, and so on. The most exciting aspects are the lousy translation, and the crazy twist ending where the main character dies...of boredom. Okay I might be wrong about that last part, but can you blame me? The missions are bland, shooting enemy ships down is more annoying than entertaining, and there's absolutely no challenge. Normally I wouldn't kick free achievements out of bed, but even I have standards. The Survival portion aka "the part of SS I originally reviewed" doesn't hold up at all. On the outset, everything sounds alright. There are a variety of ships to unlock, upgradeable weapons, and standard wave-based action. However, there's no real challenge. Every time you sit down to play this mode you're going to do two things: 1) Hold the A button and Right Trigger down and 2) Aim at whatever happens to fly in your line of sight. My first Survival play lasted over an hour and a half. Staying awake is the real struggle here. The second time around I chose a better ship, and dropped my time by about 30 minutes. It isn't until around wave 20 that dying becomes a possibility. The enemies start drowning your ship in bullets, shield upgrades (which also act as repairs) become too costly, and your thrusters no longer function, because all your energy is spent on weapons. The problem is, this doesn't happen until an hour or so of straight play. I didn't get this far through some winning strategy and tons of practice. I held down a couple buttons and pointed my ship towards anything explosive. It's a wonder that I never caught this in my original review. Solar Struggle is shallow and dull, but it also expects players to drag more than 5 minutes of compelling entertainment out of it. The worst part? There STILL isn't an option to turn off rumble. Honestly, I'm disappointed in myself, disappointed in the fact that I recommended this game in the first place.

还算不错的太空飞行战斗游戏！ 不过这个游戏的太空是2D的！不是那种可以把自己绕晕的3D真太空！ 按键简单-> E加速、Q选择目标、WASD(或者上下左右)移动、Ctrl机炮、Alt导弹 有2种模式，任务模式+无尽模式~ 总感觉这游戏里自己的飞船是无敌的样子！其实是HP比较高！ ~总体感觉是个不错的无脑突突突游戏~

Solar Struggle is one of those indie-games that tries to inject some fresh ideas into the space shooter genre, but ended up as WTH were they thinking? Solar Struggle, or just SS from here on, is a 2D space shooter with a high-and-behind-chase view. Yes, you heard that right... It looks 3D, but the game's actually 2D only. There is no "up/down", only left and right. You can turn, and you can "side strafe" (i.e. fly forward and sideways). What's more, the enemies move way too much for the weapons that you do have. You're almost always outnumbered and will score 10-30 kills per mission, but the enemies are twitchy and you'll need to hit them dozens of times to kill them. So you basically end up in the spray-and-pray mode as the "weak" guns you have is unlimited ammo and needs no cooldown. The big guns you have have limited shots, so you save those on really slow targets. The controls barely make sense. Why have side strafe at all? The cutscenes are just static text blocks, usually quite short. Graphics are below average, sound is below average. All in all, this game feels like someone's garage project that barely makes sense and is worth maybe $1.00 USD.