Rocket Wars

When you get spare 10 minutes for a game with your friends where you don't need to learn anything to play.

This one is arena shooter. Remember Asteroids arcade where you have a ship you turn around and shoot meteorites and asteroids? Or 4th level of Battle Toads&Double Dragon? That's the whole game. 

Pick a type of a match

There are several modes to ply and they all are local multiplayer. The main core of it and up to 3 other ships are orbiting around a star and try to reach your goal. Goal is different depend on a mode you picked.

round result

Here is the modes list: Deathmatch, Survive, Tsar Bomb, Space ball, free play.

In deathmatch first one to get 10 kills win. 

In survive you have 5 lives and must be last man standing. 

In Tsar bomb you need to kill one to become uber ship that carries a nuke. The longer you hold the nuke the better. If someone manages to kill you he'll become new uber ship. Uber ships are bigger, have more hp and bigger bullets. Also nuke has a timer and you need to be the one holding it when it reaches  to win. 

Space Ball: Get more score than the others but you also need to protect your goal.

Free play: this one self explained. 

gameplay

So how does the gameplay go? Same BT&DD only you affected by the gravitational field of the star. You have a button to shoot, button to put on a short time deflect shield, button to accelerate, button to use special bonus weapon and you use stick to turn round nose of your ship. hat are those bonus weapons? There are shotgun, rapid machine gun, beam, missile, mines and a nuke. Nuke works almost the same as in Tsar Nuke mode, only you can't shoot I think, I never got the bonus just saw enemies pick it up. 

Match exp

Every mode except for Free gives you exp by the end of a match. That exp will unlock new vessels and color skins. Well that's about it is cheap, so you don't feel bad about buying it. It's good for a quick sessions when you have a couple of free minutes as I said in the beginning.  

Score 5-orig out of 10

Simplistic

Forgettable

Fun but gets boring rather quickly.

PROS / CONS

  • Fast paced
  • easy to learn
  • good for a quick session
  • Don't have much content
  • Gets boring quickly