Squad 51 Vs The Flying Saucers Review (Steam)

Squad 51 Vs The Flying Saucers Review, UFOs! Aliens! Aircrafts! Resistance! SHOOT ‘EM UP! Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers is a spaceship shooter with 2D gameplay and 3D environment. Enjoy a smart combination of a fast-paced shooting experience and the 1950s sci-fi movie aesthetic, with live-action cutscenes.

Squad 51 Vs The Flying Saucers Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 12.15GB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Uses an awesome style where it’s all presented and played like an old black-and-white film.
• Graphics settings – resolution, v-sync, graphics preset, and lock frame rate.
• Accessibility settings – subtitles, SDH subtitles, and subtitles color.
• Assisted player options – infinite lives, and auto fire. You can set these for each individual player.
• Two-player local support.
• Can assign controllers and keyboards to any player.
• Supports keyboards.
• Shmup gameplay.
• Two game modes – normal and resistance mode.
• Resistance mode starts on level 1 with 0 points, then every level completed increases the difficulty.
• Normal mode is the standard mode where you can start from any unlocked level and the difficulty stays the same.
• Plane load-out enhancements – you have four types – special weapons, weapon upgrades, life, and damage resistance, and score and miscellaneous.
• Your loadout allows X amount of enhancements equipped, you can earn more slots through play.
• Awesome B movie-style FMV cutscenes and voice work.
• Fully animated backdrops with planes flying overhead, dogfighting, and cool explosions.
• You get a brief notification of where enemies are coming from as they can come in from any side.
• Big boss encounters.
• Does a cool thing of having a newscaster-style commentary as you are playing.
• You can set the game to auto-skip the opening cutscene each time and then any already-watched cutscene.
• Checkpoints litter the level.
• The game doesn’t just do shooting it also adds in little set pieces or has you avoiding Gunfire and/or ships.
• Armour bar that goes down with shots.
• Many enhancements to unlock to do things like decrease the size of your hitbox, get more lives, faster shooting, etc.
• When you die you get a different newspaper headline detailing how you died.
• Different weather effects and locations.
• You can restart or respawn from checkpoints.
• Your plane can be moved all over the screen as the level auto scrolls along.
• Such a fantastic presentation effort.
• You get to fly different planes.
• End of level breakdown and you get a 1 to 3 star rating for performance.

Squad 51 Vs The Flying Saucers Review Cons:

• Cannot remap controls.
• No actual tutorials.
• Slight hitches and slowdown.
• The play area is very small and claustrophobic.
• You can only shoot in one direction as standard.
• Very difficult, not for the faint-hearted.
• The handling does feel very slow and clunky.
• You can die far too easily.
• Bullet sponge bosses take a lot of fun out of the encounters.
• Environmental damage is almost to tap death even with upgrades.
• Some of the stages take ages to play through with a lot of it being stop-start.

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Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers:

Official website.

Developer: WhisperGames (replays.net)

Publisher: Assemble Entertainment

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Steam