Missile Command

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The year is now and earth is under fire from alien missiles. Your mission...defend earth's cities from wave upon wave of alien attack. Required...an ability to master new weapons and strategies to mount a counter offensive and save mankind.Amazon.com Ever since the TV movie The Day After struck fear into the American television-watching public, hearts of nuclear bomb-fearing folk skip a beat when a heavy truck drives by. Feeding into that frenzy is this remake of the classic arcade game that graced the finest bowling alleys and arcades of the cold war-era early '80s.Missile Command, the original arcade game, had a unique set of controls, including a trackball for lightning-fast positioning. Here, the PlayStation's analog stick serves as a poor replacement, never quite getting the right balance between hypersensitivity and sluggishness. The game challenges players to protect a set of cities along the bottom of the screen from an onslaught of branching enemy missiles from the sky. The original game is intact despite prettier graphics and the option of a two-player cooperative mode. In addition there is a new game that borrows heavily from the concept of the original Missile Command, but features slightly more mobility and screens that scroll up and down. In addition, players can purchase upgrades and special weapons with points they've earned after defeating each group of levels. For those who never played the original, this game is a solid shooter, but veteran missile commanders may be disappointed by this remake. --Jeff YoungPros:Includes the original arcade game in its entirety2-player cooperative mode offers new twist to old gameCons:Difficult to controlThis remake doesn't offer much more than the original Product description The year is now and earth is under fire from alien missiles.Your mission...defend earth's cities from wave upon wave of alien attack. Required...an ability to master new weapons and strategies to mount a counter offensive and save mankind. Review It's getting increasingly difficult to think of a classic game that hasn't been remade and rereleased on a current-day console. Unfortunately, Missile Command is no exception. Regardless of whether you had fun with the trackball-equipped original, you'll be hard pressed to squeeze any enjoyment out of this version. As with almost every other classic-video-game update, you can either choose the new-and-improved gameplay or a fairly inaccurate version of the original game. Neither version of Missile Command found on this disc is all that impressive. If you choose the classic mode, you'll play a new version of Missile Command that shares only the basic gameplay concept with that of the original arcade game. With updated sound and graphics, the classic mode isn't classic at all. The other mode in the game is the ultimate mode, which follows more of a storyline and gives the game a level, structure, and bosses. In this mode, you're treated to a firing area that is actually larger than your screen. It makes you focus on your radar to determine exactly where the threats are coming from. Once you protect a few cities, you'll move on to a boss level, in which your squad floats in front of a large spinning craft and shoots special targets on it to attempt to destroy it. Although the ultimate mode presents a few new gameplay concepts, Missile Command is still a mindless, repetitive shooter that loses its appeal all too quickly. The biggest problem that plagues Missile Command is the horrible control. If you're using a Dual Shock controller you can use either the analog stick or the digital pad to target the various incoming missiles, but each control scheme has its own problems. The digital pad is too slow and sluggish to do much good against a barrage of enemies, and the analog control is too jumpy, and it seems to float to various hot spots across the screen. Indeed, this new version of Missile Command will make you miss the trackball the most, and without it, the game just doesn't seem as good. The graphics in both modes have been completely updated for this new version. The classic mode's graphics leave a lot to be desired, and they almost seem as if they were designed to look b

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