Acquista Intrusion 2

Premessa:
Questa recensione è passata da negativa a positiva per la grossa differenza di prestazioni che c'è con il nuovo PC che da poco ho montato.

Questo gioco è divertente, elaborato e piacevolmente imprevedibile.
L'implementazione della fisica in un gioco alla Metal Slug rende tutto molto interessante, soprattutto se, come in questo caso, viene sfruttata fino ai massimi livelli.
Il gameplay è eccezionale, non tanto per i comandi che non risultano troppo fluidi, né per le armi poco originali, ma per i nemici: i migliori nemici che io abbia mai trovato in un videogioco, e con questo intendo che un nemico, per quanto forte possa essere, è divertente da combattere, sia perché tutti usano la fisica per muoversi (non faccio spoiler, ma c'è un boss in particolare che sfrutta tantissimo l'engine fisico ed è uno dei boss più incredibili che abbia mai fronteggiato), sia perché c'è un estremo tocco di fair-play.

L'unica pecca, che per me conta davvero tanto, è l'utilizzo del flash engine che, a mio parere, ha limitato e oppresso il potenziale enorme che avrebbe potuto avere questo gioiello.
Oltre alle possibilità di sviluppo, il formato flash risulta davvero molto pesante quasi su tutte le schede madri, essendo una tecnologia ormai obsoleta e prossima alla morte.
Se non avessi giocato con il mio PC di ultima generazione recentemente montato, avrei dovuto giocare questo capolavoro con un framerate che andava generosamente al di sotto dei 15 FPS.

Lo consiglio a chi non ha rallentamenti con i giochi in flash, altrimenti è ingiocabile

This game... changes you. I was never the same after shooting lasers at ninjas and robo-snakes while snowboarding down a mountain after defeating a fist-pumping helicopter. It's as if your 6 year old brain mashed together every idea of robots, guns, and explosions it ever had.

One of the greatest platforming shooters, with wonderfully difficult bosses and constant enemies which require different strategies to defeat, as well as one of the best final bosses in any game EVER.

This game is the most fun I've had in a long time playing a game.

As a side-scrolling 2D shooter with wacky-but-fun physics it's incredibly fun. Soundtrack is great, controls are tight and intuitive, gameplay is awesome. The plot requires a bit of thinking because it's not inherently evident, but if you want to know it beforehand I've written what I think it is below. WARNING SPOILERS

You are an unnamed agent (we'll call him Lance) sent to a planet crontrolled by a hostile military force to...do something, I assume destroy the expiremental weapon they've developed. You job is to control Lance and get him to their center of operations and destroy that weapon.

QUICK TIP: If you're having trouble downloading this game, try rebooting your computer in "safe mode with network capabilities" and then downloading it. It worked for me, and you can very easily Google how to do that. Once fully downloaded and installed you can just do a regular reboot again and it'll work fine.

This is without a doubt my favorite side-scrolling shooter ever, and it should come highly recommended to anybody who likes games that can deliver both incredible spectacle and intense difficulty. And when I say spectacle, I do mean it: if anybody ever tells you indie games just cannot deliver the same kind of epic setpieces as AAA-titles, point them towards this game and then smile as they go, "What?! WHAT?!! WHAAAAAATT??!!!1!" Hell, stick a facecam on 'em & upload it to YouTube, and you'll probably get a couple thousand views.

The more difficult the level, the more awesomely ridiculous the setpieces: from fist-pumping gunships, to wielding grenade-launchers off the backs of giant wolves, to a gun that is also a Tron-bike. And that's not even getting into the final boss, who I won't spoil here. So yeah, the presentation: awesome. The graphics are pixelly but more than detailed enough to convey the awesome action-scenes, and the soundtrack does an excellent job backing it all up. It's exactly the kind of fist-pumping hard rock you want out of a title like this, and it gets absolutely zero complaints from me.

But I also mentioned difficulty, didn't I? Oh boy, the difficulty in this game... Okay, for the record: *yes* there is an Easy option, and it should at least let you get as far as the first boss fight. But this is not the kind of game where people who're just interested in the story can just coast along on Easy without having to worry about dying. This is a game where you pay attention, or you die. Literally, since the boss fights are all about memorizing their attack patterns and figuring out how to dodge them. And you won't do that on your first go. Or your second. Or third.

Or tenth.

But for as challenging as they are, these fights are not hard because it's unclear what to do. All the attacks make it pretty clear how to go about dodging them; it's just that the bosses have so much health that it's hard to perfectly remember and dodge those attacks so many times over the course of a fight. You *will* take damage: the trick is just doing more damage to them first.

If you're the kind of person who saw this game or saw a Let's Play and thought, "Man I wanna try that." then you'll probably make it to the final boss on Easy. But if you're thinking of recommending this to someone as a casual indie title, forget it. This is not something you play on the bus home from work: this is something you play til 1 in the morning, when you finally beat that boss after 2 hours of trying & failing and you unironically shout, "IN YOUR FACE!" at your monitor. That's a damn good feeling, but only if it's actually what you're looking for in a game.

That's the Easy setting. As for Medium, it is exclusively the domain of hardcore fans or shooter veterans. Nobody else need apply. The Hard setting is for masochists who think Metal Gear Solid 2 at European Extreme just isn't challenging enough (yes I'm serious). However it is worth noting that despite those insane challenges, the game *does* actually have an initial difficulty curve. You won't get blown away in the first 10 minutes, if that's what worries you.

If there are any downsides to the game, it's that (A) all that great challenging gameplay doesn't really have a narrative to go with it, and (B) the developer seems sadly reluctant to fix the downloading issue mentioned above (or tell people how to circumvent it: I spent a good hour finding out that tip I put at the start). The narrative is... barely there, to be honest. There's so little of it that you can't really call it bad or distracting: it certainly doesn't detract from the experience. It's just kind of a missed opportunity for the game to show that all your hard work actually has in-universe consequences.

The downloading issue is annoying yes, but to be fair: when the game was originally released it wasn't there. It appeared after a patch and was never fixed. So I'm counting that as a mark against the dev, not the game itself. And again, the tip up top should work.

Who would like this?
- People who like side-scrolling shooters.
- People who like spectacle in their action games.
- People who like seriously challenging/punishing difficulty.
- People who like cheap indie games that are nonetheless stuffed with content.

If you fall into any of those categories, the game is definitely worth its retail price and *ABSOLUTELY* worth picking up if it's on sale.

Who wouldn't like this?
- People who play games mainly for the story or characters.
- People who don't like great challenge that's based on pattern-recognition.
- People who don't like side-scrolling shooters.
- People who don't like fist-pumping gunships.

Those people should stay far away from this title. It will not float their boat, or any other flotation device for that matter.

Aside from the download issue, the game is actually a technical marvel. It runs entirely in Flash, believe it or not, and it runs smooooooooooooth. Like, we're talking Barry-White-pouring-a-Colt-45-over-buttery-velvet smooth here. It never lags or stutters, the install file is small and it doesn't eat up too much processing power. It's also surprisingly long (factoring in how often you'll die) so if you buy it then at least you'll get your money's worth.

This game is the perfectly distilled essence of Side-Scrolling Shooter. What that means for you is your call. But for me, it means a 9/10.

(Oh, and the final boss is Top 3 material. I'm not even kidding.)

Fans of 2D shooters like Metal Slug should enjoy this. It could use a bit more variety with enemies and music but Intrusion 2 is a lot of fun.

Final boss is a giant Pacific Rim-esqe robot that rattles you around in a building and shoots everything imaginable at you
10/10 the clench is real

Intrusion 2 is a sci-fi sidescrolling 2D shooter/platform with progressive difficulty and a surprisingly good mechanical (mecha) design for bosses and vehicles.
It shares a lot of elements from Gunstar Heroes or other games from Treasure soft.(with the exception of combining weapons) for the intense action and creativity with the environment and boss encounters which are few, but hellish.
Could be enjoyed with a gamepad, in that case it uses the 2nd lever to command the shooting direction.
Otherwise it's done with the mouse.

On the net there're a lot of quoting Metal Slug as similar to this game.
Mostly wrong, the game plays very differently from the almost carefree action of the Neo Geo serie, don't get this game right away thinking it's M.S., accept that's different or you'll get a wrong opinion and get disappointed.

This is a GREAT and original game not a clone of anything.

In I2 the use of vehicles like mechs is possible, but only for few occasions, the rest of the action relies on this man/cyborg and the arsenal of weapons found during the mission.
There're no power ups, only ammo available from crates or weapons dropped by enemies and health capsules of various refill capacity.
No lives, only a health bar and free re-trials from checkpoints.
It's not divided in stages, anyway it's possible to try several times portions of the game using checkpoints or/and loading from the pause menu.
It's possible on a few situations to ride/use the following:
A giant wolf
Gunner Mech
Sword Mech
Grapple Mech

Gameplay:
The controls are not so easy to master, especially it requires a lot of practice dodging while shooting. It's available the remapping option and regardless its limit, helps many different playstyles.
It's not a senseless action what this game gives: it's a challenge. In some parts of the game there's a slight difficult peak if no ammo has been saved previously. And the unique in-game physics it's a constant part of both trouble and an additional weapon for the player: while a bit strange or awkward used correctly you could use boulders, crates, even dropped weapons to kill enemies. And not only using the Grapple Mech, since each different weapon has has a different knockback power.

Graphics:
Great mecha design, bosses are unforgettable (and unforgiving), wonderful backgrounds. Soldiers and wolfs are affected by the physics so animation seems strange and not quite natural.

Storyline:
If played without interruptions is quite clear that the "intrusion" in enemy territory is a wonder spawned from an action movie. Looking on some sequences is far from being without sense.
It's a shame that even if it's structured as a single mission no hints are given on who's and why the main protagonist have to battle his way to the final boss. There's an android in the game, maybe the main chara is a cyborg? Only pure personal speculation.


Music:
Maybe the worst part. A bit repetitive even for the techno-addicted, anyway works well with the hardboiled action of some parts of the game.

Overall:
For the low price this game offers a lot of challenge, and some replayability for that reason. It's worth for the ending boss encounter alone.
One of the worst for difficult and best for what it does/looks like/challenge.
Surely would love a Intrusion 3 for more mechs and crazy bosses.

This is probably the best game I've ever played. Everything feels like it's held together by paper clips, the destructable and interactable terrain along with the spot-in AI combined with the unique bad guys comes together to make you feel like a god when you kill something. Usually it seems like a boss is just "not bothering using all his power" or something, but everything feels like it is chucking everything it's got at you, and it is brilliant. Intrusion 2 is most certainly worth it, has one of the best final bosses ever, and it is most certainly a video game.

This is a good game to play when you're bored and want to play an arcade-y game. My only complaint is the shortness of the game, for the moderately high price tag. I dont mind 10 bucks, but this game kinda only costs like 7 to me. So if you're willing to spend a few extra dollars to play this, be my guest.

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I once played Intrusion years ago，impressed by its physics.
2 funny shooting games in my memory with interesting physics: INTRUSION and ZOMBOTRON.
Although sometimes it may get you stuck (for which someone think the physics wonky,and really annoying)
However,it is nothing but the new-type physics make it attractive,making the battle not dull all the way!

• High interactive environment and enemies.
  
• Piloting a harpoon mech is the most typical that shows the game's fantastic interactivity.
  
• Epic boss battles.
  
• Challenging enenmies:snake robots,tentacle robots,different type if mechs(which you can pilot)，Stalker.

Amazing but still a lot to better，
and it must be fun with a 2-player mode.


不记得什么时候玩过的flash游戏，不过对它的物理效果印象挺深的。
在我记忆中物理效果很有趣的两个射击小游戏：一个机器人猎杀僵尸题材的zombotron,另一个就是这个intrusion。
虽然有时候它的物理系统会让你很尴尬的卡住（所以有的人认为它非常糟糕）,
不过我认为intrusion 2独特的物理系统正是它的魅力所在，在战斗中增添了不少乐趣和变数。

• 与环境和敌人极高的交互性。
  
• harpoon（一个带勾爪，可被玩家操纵的机械）的勾爪最能体现这个游戏非凡的交互性。
  
• 史诗般的boss战。
  
• 富有挑战性的喽啰：机械蛇，触手机器人，不同类型的机甲（你之后都可以尝试驾驶它们），阔步者（还有它的威力加强版）。

直到现在看来这游戏也是很棒的，也可能是因为当时让我太惊艳了
但还有很多改进一下下可以变得更棒。
还有如果出双人模式一定会很有趣。

Never keep your finger off the trigger. Ride a wolf-horse-thing and eat baddies as you run by them. Grab a mech, throw rocks. Epic boss battles. Snowboard down a mountain with cyborg grenade-throwing ninjas after you. Uhh, yeah this game is great.

Micheal bay, guns, action, little bit of puzzles, very hard yet fair bosses after you learn their moves ALL INTO ONE FRACKING GAME....BEST...GAME....EVER

I usually like to write longer reviews but for this game all I have to say is:

I experienced destroying a flying tentacle robot while on wolf back and all of this was done in mid air.

Truly the most badass moment I've ever had the pleasure of playing.

Awesome game. Heavily recommended.

Cruel, but rewarding.

It's one of my favorite side scrolling games of all time.

The final boss is great if YOU HATE YOURSELF (I still haven't beaten it)


Update: I have beaten it, rendering that top sentence COMPLETELY USELESS

It's a fun little indie platformer/shooter, and is fun for a few hours. Intrusion 2 is a "ok" game, I guess.

76/100

una schifezza che mi hanno dato con un bundle della de cecco

There's a section of the game where you're snowboarding down an avalanche on part of a dropship which you just destroyed fighting cyborg ninjas with rocket launchers who also fire ballistic missiles with giant mecha-snakes inside of them at you.

10/10 game would recommend