Once in a while there's some spark for some aliens sweeping action, and Alien Shooter series is a good pick. Snatched two new? games from previous sale and, to my surprise, one was the worst entry in the series, while another was pretty good... and probably best in the whole saga?
New Era - standard 10 maps to get through.
You can finish it in one sitting if you want. New engine means new effects and with that - clarity suffers significantly.
New engine brings major pain in the ass - collision issues. Had to restart missions quite a lot because character simply got stuck while fighting or looking for secrets, and those requires a lot of bush wandering or hugging walls. Imagine my surprise when my character got stuck because there was
some obstacle here, that you can't see from your perspective, while checking left/lower wall (those are the most common one to hide something, upper and right might require some explosives, and
you can see the cracks indicating that something is here). Whoever designed that level - you had one job...
AS2 Legend - the longest game in the "saga", can't be done in one sitting unless you replace coffee with some "flour". You get the world map, an option to replay every mission if you want to finish additional objectives.
Side tasks that requires some body/mechanical parts or teleports to destroy are the worst - RNG responsible for spawning them takes some sweet time between each drop. A mission that would easily be done in a 1-2 minute can take up to 5-8 minutes.
World map is cut into 4 sectors, each contains 5-7 Outposts, each with 3 such side tasks.
Yeah, quite a filler...
They added option in some patch to dismantle items for XP to boost both shoulder laser cannon and energy shield. Also stats.
Healing is either standard (portable medkits) or bit tricky if you go for secondary objectives like "no medkits during missions". You can either use red implant that might heal you when you get critical hit, or use weapons with "Vampirism" effect. While implant have 10-75% chance to be activated you get zero information regarding Vampirism. It does says something about "dealing damage", but you don't see this during gameplay.
There are two rarest types of items - golden and purple. Former have best stats (and bigger magnitude?) while latter gains special traits like Ricochet, mini explosions of fire/poison/ice, life leech (which works in a mysterious ways after extensive tests), slowdown, knockback etc. The only gold item worth equipping is shotgun - you can pick one with 1 buckshot, get blue implant that randomly throw grenade when you reload and you get some nice toy.
And even with shoulder laser rifle and your own grenades that's still not enough for the final push. So... many...aliens... oh and sometimes queens become immortal for some reasons? Bug?
so far - one troll subtracted for being too easy.
