River Attack
Phoenix Steel Games · 2020 · Shoot 'Em Up, Top-Down Shooter, Colorful, Difficult, Top-Down
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Positive92% · 13
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About River Attack
make Your Way to victory
River Attack is a shootting up style game 2D that combines harmoniously colored scenes with aerial shooting battles! Evolve your ship to defeat an alien invasion that has the technology to control human combat vehicles.
Control a jet in top down view, shoot and destroy enemy ships by deflecting as many enemy shots as you can.
In 2020 an alien invasion ravages the planet Earth and no weapon is effective against the space ships, as they have the technology to control human combat vehicles. Oliver, an aeronautical engineer, manages to adapt a ship so that it is not controlled by the aliens and is humanity's only hope. He seeks to rescue his girlfriend Marjorie, who is a pilot and was abducted in combat. Will you be able to help Oliver rescue his girl and save the planet?
featuring:
- levels with different colors representing different times of the day.
- Intense shooting battles using 2D physics (shock waves caused by explosions).
- Colorful and well-made graphics
- Epic old Rock soundtracks.
- Evolve your ship into 6 different atributes:
- Health Points -This Affects the size of the jet life bar
- Missile Fuel -This affects the missile duration time after launching
- Missile Perfomance – This affects missile speed and missile curvature
- Missile Cooldown – This affects the recharge time of each missile
- Machine Gun – This affects fire rate, shot impulse and amount of bullets
- Jet Fuel – This affects the capacity of the jet gasoline tank.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate this as a nostalgic tribute to the classic River Raid with modern additions like health bars and collectibles, and many enjoy the throwback to retro arcade gameplay. However, critics argue that the added features dilute what made the original special, transforming it into a generic bullet-hell game with mediocre execution rather than preserving the clever, minimalist design that defined the classic.
Good game that reminded the old River Raid of Atari, however with extra features.4 found this helpful
Good game. I liked it. I remembered when I was a kid and played that kind of game.4 found this helpful
This game appears to be a tribute to the classic Activision game, River Raid. Unfortunately, in trying to modernize the game with added features like a health bar, collectibles, bullet-hell, and side-scrolling, it loses everything that made Carol Shaw's classic clever and fun. The original game challenged you to survive a gauntlet of ships and planes timed to collide with your plane while you could only bank left-right, speed up, slow down, and shoot one missile at a time, and you could only refuel flying over a tank and lingering as long as possible. The original design was brilliant, unique, and never replicated. The new features make it the same as any other "modern" bullet-hell game with a mediocre implementation, and some backstory scenes that only made me cringe. Instead, I recommend the original Atari emulation, or better yet the Atari 8-bit port that has improved scenery.3 found this helpful
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