Desert Strike with aliens! Megacopter is the Strike sequel I did not know I wanted | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

If you had a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) or Super Nintendo again within the Nineties, then chances are high you performed one of many Strike video games from Electronic Arts. Desert Strike, Jungle Strike and Urban Strike weren’t your typical arcade shooters, they have been slower-paced, deliberate and way more strategic. Piloting quite a lot of fight helicopters, gamers have been tasked with destroying enemy buildings, amassing priceless assets, and saving army personnel and civilians. While the sequence continued into the polygon period with the discharge of Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the as soon as common retro gaming franchise pale into obscurity, by no means to be seen once more…. till now! Well, type of.

Developed by unbiased studio Pizza Bear Games, Megacopter is a brand new sport impressed by the very good Strike sequence.

As you may see from the action-packed trailer beneath, the sport options related gameplay to its 90s forebears, solely this time you are battling big alien monstrosities as a substitute of fictional human armies.

While the isometric battlegrounds return from the Strike sequence, the visuals are extra trendy and vibrant, the enemies are larger, and the know-how is extra fantastical.

It additionally seems to have a fairly sturdy improve system, letting gamers load up their helicopter with a combination of ordinary weaponry and historical know-how.

According to the event staff, the sport will characteristic a variety of totally different mission sorts, from Seek and Destroy to Rescue.

Seek and Destroy missions are stated to characteristic an “escalating threat level as you penetrate enemy lines”, whereas Choplifter impressed Rescue missions process gamers with getting into hazard zones and saving targets.

There are additionally wave-based defence missions that sound like a problem, plus traditional boss battles towards probably the most highly effective enemies.

If that sounds pretty much as good to you because it does to me, then you definitely’ll be even happier to find that Megacopter has simply been given a June 21 launch date on PC and Mac.

Better but, you will get a style of the old-school motion by visiting the sport’s Steam web page and downloading a free demo as a part of the latest Steam Next Fest occasion.

It’s additionally value trying out the gameplay trailer above, particularly for those who’re a fan of 80s/90s motion motion pictures, to not point out TV exhibits like Airwolf and Knight Rider.

Speaking of retro video games making a comeback, it was not too long ago revealed that Volgarr the Viking is getting a sequel after greater than a decade.

The hard-as-nails 2D platform sport is one other to put on its influences proudly, that includes related gameplay to retro classics like Rastan and Ghouls and Ghosts.

Volgarr the Viking 2 can be out there on consoles and PC in August.