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About HELI-COMMANDO 2017
HELI-COMMANDO 2017
is a retro arcade helicopter game in C64 style like games in the 80s.The Game has now 60 !!!! Levels and a final sequence, the levels will increase slowly in difficulty.
You have 3 helicopters and start with your helicopter at your BASE platform in the left upper corner and have to go to a destination platform in the lower right corner on a landing platform where LAND is signed on it.
You have to watch your fuel to fly the helicopter if your fuel is empty the helicopter is going down slowly and will be destroyed if you are not fast enough to refill your helicopter.
TASK:
Your task ist to free and rescue different platformer things like men, cats, birds, snowman or treasure chest and watch out and avoid moving platforms.
There are several things to collect and other things to shoot at, every thing you collect or shoot will increase your score, perhaps leading to a new highscore.
BONUS:
Each level finished you will receive a score bonus for all the things you have collected.
IMPORTANT: CHECKPOINTS:
To finish a level and go to the next level you have to visit all the 3 checkpoints with the helicopter.
Any checkpoint visited will be added to the upper side on the screen with a symbol of the checkpoint and the checkpoint number 1,2 or 3.
If you dont have passed the 3 checkpoints yet, you are not able to land at the landing platform LAND and not able to go further to the next level up!
There will be a short info message, if checkpoints are still missing why you try to land and then you will have to fly on to visit the missing checkpoint stations.
ENVIRONMENT:
There are red brick walls which need multiple shoots at to destroy them completely.
There are fuel stations where you have to refill your fuel tank. if your fuel is empty then the helicopter will go down. if there is a fuel station nearby then you can perhaps refuel the helicopter in the last seconds., otherwise you will probably crash your helicopter and lose one helicopter life.
KEYBOARD/GAMEPAD:
You can play the game with the keyboard or gamepad
HIGHSCORE:
Perhaps leading you to enter your initials with a new highscore.
Lets have a look and fun.
What Steam players say
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Players praise this retro arcade helicopter game for its challenging, unforgiving difficulty and rewarding mastery curve that echoes classic 1980s shareware titles, with some appreciating its nostalgic C64-era aesthetic and rock-bottom price point. However, critics argue the game's visuals feel lazy and poorly executed despite its retro inspiration, the gameplay mechanics are dated and frustrating rather than charming, and the overall presentation falls short of capturing the genuine appeal of the era it's trying to emulate.
I'm really lovin' that retro gem! But be warned, this game is currently lacking the Tag "Difficult" ... it's really one heck of a example for "easy to learn, hard to master"! HELI COMMANDO and Dark Souls have more in common as you might think first place: - There's no tutorial, you have to learn by yourself - Unforgiving, there's no "health" or "shield" or such ♥♥♥♥♥ things. You hit something, you die. - You will die a lot ... - When you die, the entire level resets - You can't freely save, the game gives you jumpcodes every couple of levels - The feeling after mastering a level you played and failed like 10 times is incredibly rewarding!! Don't get me wrong here, I meant this absolutely in a positive way :-) The only enemy in this game is YOU. Sounds crazy? Here's why you crash your heli first place: - you are too greedy or - you are too cocky or maybe - you've been unconcentrated for just too long When you want to collect everything to let your highscore skyrocket, you really have to think ahead and try to stay calm and focused all the time. Ah, I forgot to mention: You're constantly running out of fuel and have to refuel at specific places that are placed all around the…10 found this helpful
Airwolf on Steam nice !!!6 found this helpful
Great game! Feels like Choplifter, Fort Apocalypse and Airwolf on C64.4 found this helpful
Sorry Pal, there's only room for cats and snowmen on the copter, no humans allowed! This game doesn't remind me any of the C64 games (yeah-yeah, Airwolf, Choplifter, H.E.R.O etc) BUT reminds me those mid-late 90's shareware shovelware titles which were bundled on CD's, before the Windows XP era. The game It's damn hard! Especially if you try to compete! It was 0.22€ on sale, had to grab it! Also: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29285743913 found this helpful
HELI-COMMANDO 2017 is a 2D retro "arcade" style action game intended to look like a C-64 game, something it comes close to but doesn't quite nail, leaving a somewhat lazy looking mess of a game (considering this came out in 2017 alongside games like Breath of the Wild, Dirt 4 and Prey to name a few). Gameplay is fairly standard stuff for home PC games of the 1980's that died back in the 1980's, as you "fly" a 2D helicopter over a side view selection of platforms, shooting baddies and rescuing people. Only badly, because this really is slapped together badly, and while some small portion of the blame goes to Microsoft's rather crappy XNA Studio, that's been shown to have made much better games, so there's really no excuse there either. Let's go over the defects. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the g…1 found this helpful
This reminds me of the 8-bit computer game disks you could find in the bargain bin back in 1989. Except back then bargain bin games cost $10 in 1989 dollars, while you can get this game on sale for 49 cents in 2022--which is practically like being paid to take it in 1989 dollars! It's simple, frustrating, and not very impressive, but it mimics the kind of charm that came with low-effort games back when low-effort still required assembly language and a memory map of the operating system.
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