Gun Chain

Do you play shooter games and have a knack for handling colorful balls? With the game Gun Chain you get both! I’ve never played a game like this before. I’m typically not much for shooter games or matching games, but the devs asked for a review so I thought I’d give this one a try. The idea is to shoot the orbs and make combos of three or more to remove them from a long, preordained path that leads to an explosion and the end of the universe. Don’t lose, all of space and time is counting on you! For what? No idea. Mechanics are simple. Only a few commands for shooting and gun swapping and so forth. There are different levels of difficulty and boss stages. The boss fights aren’t really explained, but after a few tries one can figure that color-matching is basically to key to all of them as is the theme of the game. I’m not sure if they’re going for a practice shooter or a puzzle game. It’s as if they wanted both and tried to hybrid, but I’m not sure how successful it was. I ran into a lot of glitches. A particularly annoying one was where the sniper gun mode wouldn’t leave zoom even after I was no longer using zoom or the sniper gun and that really limited your vision for doing m…

Gun Chain is an unusual attempt at making a VR orientated 3D rendered ripoff of Puzzle Bobble (copyright Taito, 1994). The developers did not acknowledge Taito in the game credits. Gameplay consists of shooting coloured balls at other coloured balls. Match-3 and they disappear, helping you protect your mission goal as you jump around on platforms and play Puzzle Bobble in 3D. The game is made from a bunch of stock Unity assets (and a Unity FPS engine) and a large number of unattributed audio clips, and as usual where "developers" take the work of other, actual, real, competent developers and pretend that it's their own, this is plagiarism and is unethical and dishonest. The concept has some legs but the copyright infringing implementation, low poly graphics, and cash grab tactics from the developer make this utterly unrecommendable.

While rough around the edges, this game surprised me. I played for almost an hour and a half on 1 "sitting" i kept saying "ok one last level" and i ended up playing like 10 of them! The game mechanics are easy to understand. You have a pistol that shoots colored balls, a series of balls are slowly advancing, if you send a ball and it links with +2 balls of the same color, then those balls pop. Your end goal is to pop all the balls before they reach the Goal. So basically its like the ZUMA games. Except this in 1st person, you have to move around the levels to get a better view of the balls and have an easier time aiming. And you also get a rifle that can shoots balls and destroy them, this tool is great because you can easily destroy balls that are in your way and setup combos. I got this game with a hefty discount, and i was more than surprised. While the game could use some polish (specifically better map design, clearer tutorial, polishing menus and storyline, water reflections looked horrible, and some other small details) the price i (~$0.50 is an absolute steal. I didnt find game breaking bugs, but the game does feel clunky at times, fortunately not that much during …

The guns point up to the ceiling and then wanders aimlessly like it has a mind of its own. No matter what I tried I couldn't get it to play properly. (Not that I put in all that much time)

A novel idea, but it could use more polish. Having to move around can be annoying at times, but it allows you to change your vantage point, the lack of which has often annoyed me in games like the old Zuma. The enemies and powerups are also a welcome addition. The worlds are quite pretty but the gun shot sounds are pretty awful. The music also does not match some of the levels and is very generic. I did get the bug where you get stuck with the scope field, and the lobby gets very choppy, so be mindful of cranking up the settings. But I got what I expected and paid for, so I'm satisfied.

The main game is fun..... BUT - My gun points down for some reason, while teleport points forward. To shoot I aim to the skies, which is very awkward and tiring. - It has some special stages where you shoot little demons that fly at you slowly. These are not fun at all and you can just unload on them until the right color appears. - the menu works correctly every other full moon. One of the following will usually happen: no guns, no pointers, no pointers only when you need to point, gun frozen in front of me. - Loading screen is a black square that follows your face and covers things that are closer to it. Looks very untested. I put up with the jank in the easier levels, but there are good VR games out there now, so there's no reason to play this anymore.