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Protect Your Space From Invaders in 'Bullethead'

by Ben Deitz on September 10, 2010 at 06:00 AM

Bullethead
In the never-ending battle between fantasy and sci-fi, we'll side with the latter every time. (And we'll take a sci-fi con over a renaissance faire any day of the week, thank you very much.) No virtual playground entertains like one inhabited by robots, astronauts, spaceships and ray-guns. With the recent release of 'StarCraft II,' we're jonesing for some free-to-play sci-fi excellence, so we've rounded up some of our recent faves. Fight baddies with helmet-mounted guns and laser ninjas, or help lonely astronauts and grappling hook-equipped robots traverse the galaxy.

'Bullethead' stars a little yellow globular alien, armed with a helmet-mounted gun, that must defend his planet from wave after wave of invading space baddies. With a user-definable control scheme, you move horizontally along the ravaged landscape of your planet as assorted nasties rain down from above. Littered with as many power-ups as enemies, the game loves temporarily boosting your speed and weapon power, helping your alien to blast his way through his war-torn homeland. It's an enjoyable riff on the 'Space Invaders' style of shmup, and it can also be played by two players simultaneously (although cramming four hands onto anything less than a full-size keyboard will likely result in disaster).

Bullethead


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