Space Invaders Revolution - No version of Space Invaders would be complete without a faithful reproduction of the original arcade machine and Space Invaders Revolution is no exception.
- With a choice of Control pad or Touch Screen and stylus controls, players can steep themselves in the nostalgic wonder of the shooting game that started it all.
- For those wanting a more modern challenge, there's the New Era mode.
- Here, the simple rules of Space Invaders are expanded and twisted into a truly modern game, bringing in puzzle elements as well as other improvements to the tried and tested formula.
- Taking the form of a world tour, players must battle waves of invaders in locations around the globe, eventually taking in a climactic showdown with the UFO mother ship on the moon.
- With unique rules for each geographical stage, the player must battle though three rounds to successfully defend that particular location before moving on to the next.
- In London, for example, players must shoot the invaders in a colour-coded order to defend Big Ben.
- At the Acropolis, Athens, the challenge comes in the form of a heavily armoured but lone invader, which takes several well-timed direct hits to kill.
- Other novel forms of videogaming's archetypal aggressors, such as shadow invaders that blink in and out of invulnerability and giant invaders that must be killed piece-by-piece, bring the total of unique invader types in Space Invaders Revolution's New Era Mode to 13.
- Comprising of 20 different challenge locations, there's 60 levels to fight through, so it's understandable that the player should have a helping hand from an array of extremely useful power-ups, including protective shields, additional support craft, rapid-fire shots and column-clearing laser beams essential aides as the action becomes progressively more intense.
- Even better news is that these power-ups can be used in combination: using the support craft with the laser power-up results in three laser beams, decimating multiple
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