Daedalus - No Escape

It's a 2D top down adaptation of quake team arena basically and it's great. But like most of these indy multiplayer based games it needs more players. Failing that the single player isn't half bad and there are high score challenges that pit you vs ai bots and the better you perform the higher you score to compete in the global rankings.

bought this game some time ago, installed but never got around to playing it yet. other day i turned it on decideing to begin my crusade into this game, and i must say it was well worth the wait <3 if your a fan of arena shooters like unreal tournament, quake and the various other games of its style this game highly reminds me of them, it may be a top down arena shooter but it still brings back the feelings of playing those all the time <3 to put it simple if you like arena shooters, there is a few game modes. deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, last man standing. wanna see more modes? suggest them to the developer. guns wise you have all sorts of guns to pick from, from simple minigun to a rocket launcher or even a laser sniper rifle. oh and lets not froget the flamethrower. the bots wise have been tuned to were you will die ALOT if your not careful. reccomend you try using a controler well playing this, twinstick shooter of course. or you can try toughening it out via ...

This game looks good and feels good, but has one really big issue that I didnt like, and as such I can not recommended it to anybody. It does not have single player mode (unless you want to arena fight bots), but really, there is no story, no anything, they could have at least make some effort and make 5 hours go-trough single player sotry mod. Without it, for me it is waste of time and money....

Imagine Quake Live and Unreal Tournament having a baby, then imagine it being top-down 2D, that's when you get Daedalus - No Escape. This game is, like the announcer often says in-game, wicked sick. It's an arena shooter played from top-down view, with great AI for single-player and also with multiplayer although I haven't really played with people yet so I can't say much about that. I was really enjoying myself playing the single-player challenges which pretty much consisted of beating high scores on maps with a fixed timer, made it to the first place on quite a few of them today! Totally hooked, very addicting, so I'll just talk about some aspects of the game that I've explored so far and give feedback which will both be positive and negative. I will often refer to Unreal Tournament and Quake Live because I have quite some experience in those games, they will be abbreviated with respectively UT and Quake. [b]Gameplay:[/b] You spawn, run around picking up guns, and blast your op...

Not even worth its current price. There is no player base anymore. Servers are empty (ok there are some bots).

Just like the description: Alien breed top down experience mixed with an Unreal Tournament FPS arena gameplay. Also good for those 5 minute break instant skirmeshes with bots. Double kill! Triple Kill! Rampage!

the game is awesome, but no one playing it!

This is a top-down multiplayer shooter with play style reminiscent of Unreal or Quake (but in 2d, obviously). There's a decent variety of weapons from plasma guns to flame throwers to rocket launchers and the line of sight mechanic is pretty well executed. Overall, technical execution is good. On the flip side, the game play doesn't hook me. I like shooters like 1942 and enjoy a ton of bullet hell shooters and such, but I don't really enjoy playing this one. Aside from weapon effects, the colors are pretty dark and the visuals are somewhat drab. I tend to get stuck on walls quite a bit -- not really the fault of the designers, just a quirk of the gameplay style or map design I guess. Some of the pathways are pretty narrow. With the tight corridors and limited field of view, a lot of battles end up as whack-a-mole as you strafe in / out of a hallway, circle strafing or spinning your mouse around to fight in a larger room. It's kinda disorienting and anyone trying to watch you play is ...

[h1]Go get this now. There's no escape![/h1] This game impresses me greatly. It manages to capture the pace and feel of an arena shooter better than I would have thought possible in the top-down perspective. I was quite sceptical about the perspective turning with the mouse at first, as from videos it seemed both distracting and counter-intuitive - I was pretty sure I'd get motion sickness from it after playing a while. However I was mistaken, the way the camera turns with the mouse not only feels great and emulates the feel of a firstperson arena shooter, it is also practical in that it allows you to see further in the direction that you most care about, the one you are facing. The traditional, fixated, perspective is still in there - however it could be thrown out by now for all I care. It just works [u]that[/u] great. Coming from Quake mostly and noy much of an UT player, I did find the game in general most influenced by the latter, UT that is, in terms of gameplay, weapons arsena...

Very Fun Top down shooter. Reminds me of the good ol days of Glory shooters like UT and Quake with gloriously violent weapons and twitch play. Nice innovative style with music that feels appropriate. Bought the 4pack and shared it out.