Review: XenoCrisis (Win10)
Xeno Crisis is an arena shooter in which up to two players take control of battle-hardened marines embarking on a deadly mission to confront an alien menace! Run and gun your way through thousands of adversaries, searching for survivors, and ultimately facing the origin of the outpost’s demise.
Pros:
- Modern retro pixel art graphics.
- 251.85mb Download size.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- Top-down shooter gameplay.
- Two difficulties-easy and hard.
- Graphics-fullscreen.
- Supports controller and mouse/keyboard.
- Inspired by Super Smash TV.
- Clear rooms out of enemies and pick an exit to the next room and find the boss.
- Each run randomizes.
- Two characters-male/female marine.
- 2 player local co-op play.
- Drop-in/out Co-op.
- Dogtags-randomly drops from enemies and is used as currency.
- One life but can pick up health packs and use the 3 initial continues. (you can buy more)
- Twin-stick shooter controls with dodge and grenade buttons.
- Ammo can run out and special weapon pickups are timed.
- Continues-you start right back where you died and if it’s a boss then the health of the boss stays at what it was when you died.
- Adrenaline soaked Chiptune style soundtrack.
- Ammo/grenades/weapons drop in the level.
- Boss fights that upon beating bring up the shop and the next world.
- Shop-spend dog tags on upgrades like more health/ammo, stronger attacks, more grenades or even buy continues.
- Cool pixel art images used for cutscenes.
- Retro gaming atmosphere.
- You get shown the seed number.
- Get a level score and rank based on performance.
Cons:
- No graphic options except fullscreen.
- No tutorial or explanation.
- No online co-op.
- The ammo mechanic is annoying more than clever.
- Levels are not that varied.
- No leaderboards.
- Can’t type in a seed number.
- No difference between the two characters.
- Inconsistent level lengths.
- Enemies get varied but also hella annoying especially anything that flies.
