Ares Omega

Fun top down roguelite twin stick shooter. Has quite a nice weapon arsenal and you keep unlocking new weapons as you progress in the game as well as unlocking upgrade points and getting more health/armor. There does seem to be random crashes every 2-4 levels in the game and turning off some of the graphic options *might* help with that. Apart from that I experienced no technical issues. All in all quite an enjoyable game that is cheap as dirt and something of a hidden gem.

BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE!!!! I will recommend this game to every significant person in my life. I love this game so much!! I have 5 hours on the game at the time of review and will most definetly have more by the time you read this. The top down style of the game is very appealing to me! But the crowning feature is the context sensitive A button. If you stand close to a ladder, the A button display at the top of the screen will change to climb or descend, if you run around freely, it will change to jump, stand next to a sign and it turns into read, and so on. Simply pressing the button will activate the function. Some of the available functions include open, pull, push, dive, check, talk and crawl. This A button feature is the devs way to keep things simple and to deal with the limited selection of buttons on a standard console controller. Once in a while, the automatic selection will cause you to do something you weren't trying to, but 99% of the time it works perfectly fine. The music in Ares Omega is equally impressive. While there is a hero’s theme there are dozens of songs for each environment and they all respond to the action occurring on screen. For instanc…

it would be an acceptable game for ~£1 really no more at all. accuracy is shocking, speed of your character is also shocking feels slow to respond and can feel like youre moving through treacle.

nice game

What kind of game is this? Not a gem, not by a long shot, but there are some good things here. The sparse tags may be a little misleading, but this is actually a rogue-lite game. Death is basically your save mechanism. You're expected to die and you'll do it a lot, and that's okay. When you die you keep your money and experience gained, so even repeated garbage runs in the first floor aren't really a waste; you can take the time you need to get the hang of it (Not that there's much of a learning curve, more like picking up on the game's little idiosyncracies over a few play sessions) The game employs a perk-tree system spread across three distinct playstyles, namely an assault marine with big guns, a nimbler "assassin" with higher mobility and lighter weapons, and a specialist that uses the game's more unusual weapons more effectively. In terms of the gameplay mechanics, it's not that adventurous but that's probably a good thing. There's at least some fundamental design principles at work here. Once you're in the main part of the game, that's where the issues start to arise. You move at a pace that's slow enough that I'm pretty sure the character's feet are sliding on the floor…

This is an ugly top-down shooter that artificially extends playtime by forcing you to grind. Instead of fun combat, solid level design and nice visuals you get grinding. Just awful.