Ever wish you could run up walls while firing giant exploding cannon balls from an old ship cannon? Well now you can...
Most people don’t give this game a second thought when they see it on the game shelves or in the “on-sale” bin. Why should they? Few people have ever heard of it and the cover of the game makes it look like it is totally lame. The truth is that it is not lame at all. In fact, this game was ahead of its time when it first came out in late 2002. It obviously looks a little dated since it’s a few years old now but you’ll notice some very nice touches to this game. Along with that you can find the game for only $5 at game stores. How can you beat that?!!! So what nice touches does this game have you ask…well let me break it down for you.
First thing you’ll notice when you play this game is that the levels are very large, vast, and cleverly designed. The buildings have some of the strangest and coolest rooms I’ve ever scene in any game. The developers love to play with gravity in this game. For example there is one room that has no walls or ceiling but the floor wraps all the way around like the inside of a humungous barrel or cylinder. Gravity in the room always pulls 90 degrees from the floor so you can literally run up and all the way around the “wall”.
Another thing you’ll notice when playing this game is that it gives you some powerful weapons and then throws hundreds of enemies at you. When I say hundreds of enemies I mean hundreds of enemies! Giant, small, powerful, weak…all types. This really makes the game intense and is one of my favorite things about it.
Like I said before the game does look a bit dated but one very nice graphical thing about this game is that is has very nice close-up textures. With a lot of games when you’re really close to an object or wall the textures look blotchy. With SS you can still see fine textures when you’re right up against something. It’s hard to describe but you’ll known what I’m talking about when you see it.
Lastly the best thing I love about this game is it’s coop feature. You can play with a ton of friends over a LAN or on the same PC because it supports split screen. Most people wouldn’t care about split screen because this is a PC game but I love it because I just plug in some controllers to my laptop (using it like a console) and then plug it into the TV and then I can play with my brothers or friends. I wish more PC shooters did that.
I feel it’s such a shame this game didn’t get more hype. The main reason that few people have heard of the game is because the developers are from Croatia (yes the country). Basically you can’t go wrong with this game because of it’s extremely low price tag and all the goodies it comes with. This is the best game no one’s heard of.
Oh did I mention that one of the weapons is a big, black ship cannon that shoots giant cannon balls? No one can stop me when I’ve got that thing. Oh yea!