Indie Game Review

Clash N Slash:Worlds Away

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I looked at several indie games, but the one that appealed to me the most and that i found addictive is the game, Clash N Slash:Worlds Away. It is a shooting game, but is only played on one screen. You control a spaceship that is suppose to protect a planet, which is located in the centre of the screen. With the spaceship you can move around the planet and shoot in all directions at incoming enemies. The controls are just using the mouse to move the spaceship around the planet and using the left-click button on the mouse to fire the shot.

There are a variety of enemies, some stronger than others, meaning you have to fire more shots to destroy it. There are 'cans' of different explosives that suddenly appear on the screen that you can shoot at and they will cause a bigger impact to the surrounding enemies near by. This is useful when you are surrounded by too many enemies at once and can't shoot at all of them, due to they will make contact with the planet before you destroy them all.

One of the features is that after you complete a level you can do some upgrades to the spaceship, for example choosing a plasma weapon, to increase the weapon fire and also upgrade the shield, so you can increase the defense on the spaceship. After each level you get a few points to which you can allocate what certain points to upgrade, meaning you can kind of customise what you prefer.

You can look at the life bar of the planet, which is in red and then the life bar of you, the spaceship, which is yellow. They will decrease if you get hit by the enemy. It isn't too hard to die, so the game lasts longer and you don't get fustrated dieing, making it a satisfying game to play. The good points to this game is that you can just simply play for a while when you want to and get addicted instantly. The down sides is that it can get repetitive, since you see the same screen every level, but if you play a short while then it will be fun to play.

Gameplay-8

Graphics-8

Sound-n/a

Value-7

Tilt- 7

7.5