Super Grav

Great stuff. Gravitation back in business. Review writing with an element of nostalgia, so bear that in mind. I played the original Gravitation on the Net Yaroze demo disc way back, and a couple of us played the dog fighting mode a lot. The simplicity of the design made it easy to get into, but tricky to master. So when I heard a reworked version was available on Steam and Mobile, I thought I'd give it a go for £7; expecting to only play it for a little while I've been going back to it quite a lot, and certainly will continue to do so. The main draw for me is probably the leaderboard set up, more on that below. There are two main single player modes: Mission: Needing to clear the screen of enemy ships and delivering crates to set areas. It's a tricky mode so even though there are only 18 missions here, it takes multiple attempts to master them. Race: This is the main draw for me, there are 27 maps which have numbered gates to race through. The addition of a global leaderboard makes this mode more interesting as you can keep going on a map until you're moving up the leaderboard. Another interesting feature is that all replays for top times can be watched for any of the top times. Really handy to get pointers on how to improve your own times. Then there's up to 4 player local co-op,. which I'm yet to try, but will give it a Steam Link bash soon to update the review. The only slight issues I've had with the game so far are: - That it doesn't tend to recognise my main controller as 'player 1', even though it is the first linked in my OS settings. Although not too much of a hassle as unpluggging the second controller sorts it. - There are very occassional frame drops, (on my PC at least), which can make the race mode difficult if they hit you at a bad time. + I did have one more negative point above about controller support, but there has since been patched in support for this. Thanks very much! Great game, definitely deserves more of a following than it has... Perhaps a victim of not being seen much on release due to the amount of FPS asset flip dross that gets released on Steam these days.

Decent Gravity Power/Gravity Force clone.

Awesome. It's been almost a decade since I last played this game on a Playstation Magazine demo disk, and the game is still as good, if not better than I remember. The challenge is just as great, and the game is just so much fun to mindlessly play for hours. I absolutely recommend buying this game if you ever played the original Gravitation, and I still recommend it even if you didn't. Amazing work.

Fans of the original Amiga game Gravity Force by Stephan Wenzler will be pleased to know that this is a pretty faithful update (via the later Gravitron). A few tricks missed in the variety of scenery and enemies, and the movement is not as free-flowing as the original. Otherwise great fun with heaps of great play modes and upgrades. Particularly good in two player mode.

It's practically OIDS! I lost my youth to that game by FTL, who also made Dungeon Master. I had the Atari ST version, and you could design your own levels and swap them with your one nutty friend. Oh the fun we had! To be fair I have only played a few levels so far, but I can already tell this has the appropriate flavour. It isn't anywhere near as sophisticated as OIDS, where you had to rescue wee robots that ran around, and avoid gravity suckers and giant bases, but it will do until someone rediscovers how to create that classic. Super Grav is one I will be happy to pop in and out of between mammoth sessions of No Man's Sky.

Pshhhhhhhhhhh pchew pchew pchew BOOM. It's finally back baby! I fully intend to flesh this review out as soon as I have time, in the meantime suffice to say Super Grav is completely faithful to the original Gravitation with a host of new features I've loved trying out on the demo :) Grab it in the sale if you can!

Super Grav is a really fun game. I used to play Grav on the Atari St and this brought back some fond memories of that sort of game. I got the game for the single player experience. The ship feels really nice and with time it is possible to pull off some really cool manoeuvring, especially combining the reverse thrust. The only criticism that I have is that I could never get the air brake to work. This could be me though. I would pay for any mission packs in the future.

So nostalgic! I used to play this with my brothers way back when we were all kids.

I think I was initially too harsh on this game. As a fan of Gravitar, Oids and Astro Duel, this game is right up my alley. I really have no complaint other than the graphics. The game is simple, and while that is what they were going for, the color palette just makes it rough to look at. It could have used some more color and variety in the patterns. As for what's good? Everything else. The simple music is the right pace for the game. The control is tight. The gameplay and the mechanics are excellent. The addition of an air brake and reverse thrust make this game the right kind of challenging. Anyone can pick up and play but it takes practice to master. An excellent game, especially for the price.

Super Grav is a great retro gravity game. The multiplayer and leaderboards are a cool aspect to the game. There's something about gravity games that appeal to me going back to Thrust on the C64, which I played for hours. I think it's the challenge and the feeling of satisfaction when you master a level.