Razor2: Hidden Skies kaufen

its alright, but not as good as bad rats.

Wow this is bad. Almost impressivly so. Sure, It was probably easy to make things like the art bland and the music painfully generic, but in other areas it seems like there was some real effort to make this properly terrible.

A camera angle which makes it difficult to place where your ship is relative to bullets, that's some effort right there. Ship movement which seems oddly disconnected from controller input, hit boxes that float some distance away from the actual target, sound effects that scrape against your will to live. This crap doesn't make itself y'know.

Quick review coming from a shmup lover.

The Good :
- the game does't look too bad. By today's standards, it doesn't look too good either, but I wouldn't mind if it played ok.
- Music sounds good, but...

The Bad :
- Controls are rigid. Don't even try to play with an XBOX360 controller...
- Patterns are repetitive.
- I have a big feeling problem with this game. Can't feel the power of the weapons. Can't feel when I'm hit. This is probably because the sound in the game is not very well balanced.
- ... the sounds FX are weak. Can't hear any explosion. Shot sounds are flat and weak.
- Music sounds totally inappropriate. It's good, but it feels like it's the music from another game...

Definitely not worse the full price.

Crashed when I tried to put it into 1080p mode. Overall the gameplay is a bit bland. The levels feel like they stretch on for a long period of time and the bullets are flying around so fast you will get hit no matter what. This game could learn a lot more from Ikaruga or Raiden, as those a both much more solid games than this. Overall I'd stay look to the other vert-scrolling shooters as this one is lacking polish.

I was hoping to use the fulling controller, but nope its partial controller.. Its too hard to use or play on keyboard and mouse moves like using arrows keyboards w/ mouse. Lame!!!

It's garbage. Stay away!

this game is just another bland shootemup. it also keeps crashing.

i mean sure it has upgrades, but the weapons are pretty basic, the same kind you would find in a free flash game. the graphics are also of free flash game level.

This is a Shoot 'm Up arcade style game.

Personally I have a big fan of these kind of games.
But this game I think obviously a lot less fun
Yes, there is possibility of upgrading body, arms, reactor core and many others.

Game does not give me the feel of an arcade game.
I can be much hit by bullets and not die.
Until I get to the final boss you suddenly sweeps away.
By the amount of bullets makes it confusing and dodge is almost impossible ..

Joypad support is there, but works really bad.
There is little depth in the game because you do mission to mission.
I've Played many games but I think this one of the more lesser games.

Music is pretty good but we do not buy the gamefor that.

Not a very bad game only very boring after small amount of time.
Fun for 80 cent not for 8,99 or 2,49 on sale sometimes.

Skip this and buy another game !!

I feel bad for the people that got this game directly from steam... xD 0/10

I really thought this was going to be awesome. blowing stuff up old skool style.... No.
This how NOT to do a SHMUP. Boring. BOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNG!
There are no interesting mechanics at all whatsoever.
Get Atebreed or Ether Vapor instead of this.

Cool Game! Kind of a clone of the known arcade one's from old times ;) However, I played it on easy-mode and it was still kind of really hard to win.. Cool Indie game I could recommend. I will certainly come back to it, although it won't be the game I will play for hours to gather all achievements though.

Das Spiel war in einem Bundlestar-Bundle und gab es auch bei Steam im Angebot für 90 Cent.
Weil ich mal wieder Lust auf nen Vertikal-Shooter hatte, habe ich es mal installiert. Nur 250 MB.
Zunächst fiel mir der "imposante" orchestrale Soundtrack auf. Der ist wirklich nicht schlecht, wobei ich ihn nicht unbedingt passend finde.

Dann gibt es erstmal "gewohnte Kost". Viele Gegnerwellen, die man abschießen muß und dessen Gegenwehr man ausweichen muß. Anfangs geht das auch noch recht gut. Im Späteren Spielverlauf sind einfach überall Kugeln, die einen dann unweigerlich den Gar ausmachen.
Man kann nach jedem Level sein Raumschiff aufrüsten, wenn man aber alle Schiffe verliert (bei mir beim ersten Anspielen das dritte Level), sind diese wohl wieder weg - hat dann jedenfalls keine 5 Sekunden gedauert und mein Schiff war wieder futsch.

Aber selbst wenn das nicht wäre: Beim Boss Gegner hören die "normalen" Gegnerwellen nicht auf. Also der Boss-Gegner mit 3-4 Geschützen ballert auf einen und 10 andere Flieger ebenfalls. Es gibt Missiles, die mehr Feuerkraft haben. Aber man bekommt diese selten beim Boss platziert, weil sie vorher geschickterweise die "Mini-Flieger" ausbomben, die man auch mit einem Schuss erledigen könnte. Da diese aber immer nachkommen, landen Missiles eher selten beim Boss.

Der Flug zum Boss ist ebenfalls eher langweilig. Es gibt immer die selben Gegner (OK, habe nur drei Level gespielt), der Weg ist recht lang und mässig spannend.. Der Untergrund scrollt so gemütlich vor sich hin und bietet im Grunde genommen auch nicht viel Abwechslung.
Ebenfalls blöd: In den Einstellungen kann man zwar eine Auflösung von 1920x1080 einstellen aber wenn man auf "Set Video" klickt, wird wieder zurück auf 1024x768 gestellt. 1280x1024 ist die höchste Auflösung, die ich (bei mir) einstellen konnte. Alles was drüber war wurde mir als "nicht möglich" angezeigt. Die Grafik ist aber auch so OK.
Pad wird zwar unterstützt, aber bei mir zog das Raumschiff manchmal nach links.. Keine Ahnung, warum das so ist, ist bei anderen Spielen auch nicht so..

Alles in allem für 10 Minuten OK, aber würde ich auf keinen Fall gezielt kaufen.

Background: Purchased as part of a Bundle Stars Bundle.

Impressions:
Wow.. it's a quick download and a quick deletion. I played up to the first boss and then quit out.

Basically it's a bullet-hell game like '1942' with futuristic 3D ships and a horribly restricted field of view.

It's something you've seen a million times before and does nothing to improve on the formula. The shooting just requires you hold down 2 fire buttons and let them auto fire as you try to dodge the incoming while nabbing the upgrades as they drop down.

The Good:
*Looks pretty decent.
*Controls work well.
*Sound is ok.

The Bad:
*Lack of impact and satisfying enemy destruction.
*Field of view is too close in a tight downward angle.
*Boring enemy attack patterns.
*Cheap enemy tactics, attack from behind, really suck.
*Weapon pickups have no discernible impact on your killing power.
*Just holding down the 2 fire buttons and moving is not fun.

Recommended for:
Fans looking for an updated '1942' type game.. but even then it's a hard sell.

Conclusion.
2/10. Really weak all round and lacking anything original to keep you interested.

This game is mediocre at best. The menu selection is just awful, especially for the upgrades, it's not clear what each upgrade of your guns, rockets, power, shields can do, no idea what each gun is, everything is trial and error. Even so, it starts with such a fury and speed, the bosses are almost unbeatable, and it feels like all of the time someone's attacking you from behind or just trying collide with you. This game feels like nightmare even if you selected easy.

My advice: This genre is best portrayed in the old "Raptor: Call of the Shadows" game. This game should have been influenced more from that.

Very short and poor gameplay for this price no way i will recomend buying it! Find something else.

I was expecting modern version of the classic shooter Raiden sadly this game does not deliver.
*Extremly dull and boring until you get to the boss
*very limited weapon. 3 weapons? 2 bombs? You can NOT power up during the missions.
*♥♥♥♥♥♥ weapons. still ♥♥♥♥ after upgraded

Only fun I had in this game is posting highscore using dirty word.

Don't remember how I got this game probably from a bundle
I hope no one paid $9.99 for this

The controls are awful. The gameplay is loose and deeply unsatisfying. Avoid.

This is the Bad Rats of shmups - that is to say it is a work of art. Wonderfully paced, and with stunning action and dazzling laser shot fighting, you can't go wrong with this game. Every bullet is exciting to dodge - will it hit you? With the hitboxes being mostly arbitrary, this will lead to endless excitement. The boss battles are pulse-poundingly exciting, and as the bosses have extreme amount of health, and no way to see how much health they have left, it makes a profound statement on the futility of war. I don't know what happened to Razor1, but Razor2 is a game that will change PC Gaming forever.

Another gaming gem from the makers of the epic Bad Rats

Razor2 has some fantastic visuals and a great soundtrack with the gameplay one would expect from a standard SHMUP (shoot ‘em up) but doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the genre. Expect cool upgrades, boringly repetitive enemies, and a complete lack of a defined hitbox! For SHMUP enthusiasts. Get it cheap in a bundle or something, otherwise it’s not worth it and certainly not worth $10. I personally found it to be enjoyable.

THE GOOD
- Lots of pretty action, massive bosses, and bright bullets all over the place.
- Upgrade your ship between the eight stages with new weapons, shields, and equipment.
- Easy achievements. You can earn all ten simply by playing through the whole game.
- Epic orchestrated soundtrack! Can’t complain about the musical selection.
- Decent replay value.

THE BAD
- Poorly defined hit box. This is a huge flaw for a SHMUP in my opinion.
- Undefined “edges” of the playing area make it difficult to gauge where to dodge.
- Repetitive enemy patterns make the 5-minute stages seem boring and long.
- Numerous typos and language errors make any attempt at a story meaningless.
- It’s just not noteworthy in any way. It’s very “run of the mill” in terms of gameplay.

THE MEH
- Limited controller support. It works in most places, but not in all menus.
- No tutorial or practice mode and the controls are not exactly intuitive.

Overall, I found it to be fun to play through a full run or two but repetition will leave you bored and unimpressed. There is some solid strategy available in the form of ship customization but in the end it’s still the same repetitive stage battles, and if you use up your single continue and all your lives then you’ll have to start over from the beginning again. It has some redeeming qualities in that the soundtrack is pretty awesome and that the achievements are all pretty easy to get (aside from maybe the “no continue” one). The visuals are not overly remarkable but they are well done. The typos and spelling errors are painful to read through though.

I highly recommend using a controller. I use a Logitech F310 and have no issues with the gameplay itself, although menu navigation is wonky at best.