Moonfighter from Astraware reviewed

Mar 13 Moonfighter from Astraware reviewed
Found in:Games, Palm, Treo, Pocket PC, Reviews,

Moon Fighter is a challenging new title developed by Pazzazz Games and published by Astraware. This welcome release fills a void not only in the company’s catalog but in the Palm and Pocket PC games market in general. Harkening back to classics like Lunar Lander or Gravitar, Moonfighter takes classic gravity-oriented gameplay and adds Asteroids-style rotating shoot ‘em up action.

In addition to these exercises in booster rocket physics, you must contend with increasing numbers of enemies. The earliest levels feature only gun turrets but subsequent areas offer flying saucer gunships, mechanical spiders and forcefields. I noticed that some of the enemies are very aggressive in attacking your ship while others merely fire only when you are in immediate proximity. Your craft is limited to a single weapon that cannot be upgraded or fired rapidly. A tiny radar screen is thankfully provided in the upper left corner of the screen.

While the initial stages are nearly devoid of enemies, things begin getting nasty by the sixth or seventh level of each difficulty level. Simultaneously having your shields at 10%, four enemies onscreen and the cavern floor just a few pixels away makes for some sweaty palms indeed (pun intended)! Unfortunately, unless you are a die-hard shooter aficionado, most players will be like me and probably begin to tire of the game before they can plumb its upper difficulty levels. This simplistic charm that makes the game so accessible also proves to be its downfall. I found the sweet spot to be ~10 to 12 levels in on each difficulty level. Those stages proved challenging enough to give some serious gaming goodness during a lunch break but not difficult enough to make me want to smash my TX! I actually found myself playing the random “Infinite Moons” levels after playing through the training tutorial but prior to playing straight through the insanely difficult Veteran & Ace levels.

Moonfighter for Pocket PC

Moonfighter for Palm OS

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