Mars: Chaos Menace

Soulless Unity attempt at a shmup with very poor gameplay. Although the production quality is acceptable and the coding is very correct, I really can't recomend this one, because no concern seems to have been given about the gameplay. The game sends a ton of bullets at you like it was a "bullet-hell" shmup except that the controls are too floaty to be able to play it like a bullet hell. Sometimes you think you avoided the threat only to get cheated by the 3D perspective. The game then takes forever to respawn you and when it does it's in a the middle of a field of enemy bullets so once you lost a life it's very difficult not to lose a couple more lives in the span of a few seconds. And when you respawn your shield doesn't work for some reason. The game will also randomly decide to speed up the scrolling without warning. The boss fights are actually easier than the levels and the game can probably be finished because the levels seem to remain unlocked once beaten, but you'd have to be very bored to try that. The graphics are nice but also very generic-looking and I wouldn't be surprised if they're from an asset store. The game doesn't run correctly with an integrated GFX card …

I cannot recommend this game to anyone... EXCEPT people who thrive on bullet-hell "impossible" games. If that's your thing, then have a go at this one and be proud of yourself if you get past the third level. If you just want a FUN space/flight combat game that you don't get frustrated and throw your controller out the window after ten minutes, this game is not for you. Me, personally, I don't want my gaming experience to cause frustration. I play after work, or on weekends, when I want to relax and forget about the facts that I am homeless and have an incurable disease that is slowly killing me. I want stress relief, not added frustrations. Music is crap, sound effects are terrible, there is no volume or mute option, there is no options menu at all. The combat is simple to learn, controls are fluid, but the difficulty is UNFORGIVING TO AN EXTREME. One hit will kill you, then you respawn right back in the middle of the mess that just killed you but now there are even more bullets flying around the screen so you instantly die again... and again... and one more time for the game over. You have a shield but it's only good for about two seconds and is manually activated. Then…

Very terrible game play, maneuverability, graphical fidelity is grainy, and feels like a dev's first attempt at a bullet hell. just ignore....