SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance

Doesn't feel like your upgrades are doing anything. Just a twin-stick shooter that appears to be a deeper Asteroids but kind of just flops. Graphics are alright, check videos if you want to know more about that. Controls for some of the ships are wonky. I was using WASD, moving forward and backward seem to do the same thing and it makes your ship move towards your mouse but it's a weird, uneasy wobbling that doesn't really make the user feel like they're in control. The missions all seem kind of monotonous and dying is not really a punishment in co-op (should it be?) because you can be revived easily. I bought the game on a whim, hoping it might spice up a boring Saturday night. If there's a demo or torrent, check it out before you support the devs. Thanks for reading this far, hopefully you can make a good decision about this game!

This is hands down one of the worst game's I have had the misfortune of purchasing. It is unimaginative, uninspired, the controls are unresponsive, the interface is convoluted and difficult to understand. There is no progression in the game at all, nothing ever changes, to gain an understanding of the game, simply play the first level, that is all the game has to offer, the 'upgrades' are meaningless, there is no change to the ship characteristics, I was gobsmacked when I upgraded my bullets twice and yet there is no discernable difference between my more powerful weapons and the weaker variant. It is amazing to think that I could walk into an arcade 30 years ago, and play asteroids which is one of the first if not the first space shooter ever made and have a much more fulfilling and enjoyable experience. This game has managed to be not only less enjoyable, but also less well thought out than a game made 30 years ago. Tell me again why I bothered to purchase this game? If I could ...

This game was a quick cheap buy, because well it looked fun and reminded me of the old games of Phoenix and Asteroid. The game is basically of the spaceship joystick/mouse fly around and shoot other spaceships game. The graphics are just ok and the music kind of a scifi-trip theme, but nothing really really to blow you away. You get to choose a spaceship based on what you like, speed, fire power, health with names like Rio, Volga, Potomac and Euphrates and protect the Blue Shield Alliance's power generators on colonized planets. Such and Mars, Pluto and the Moon. The character roster is short with Admiral Herman, engineer Dana, a robot named B-177e and a frigate pilot named Valgard. The bad guys are just easily named Cons and well that's about it. There is a single / co op story mode and you have a survival mode. Go back and beat top scores with free play mode also. The game is fun and you can kill a hour or so but, with-out a team or co op friends you get stuck/can't really progress ...

this game does not work! if you try to run it it fails (at least i have this problem). i re-downloaded this game 4 times and it still doesn't work. i tried everything! problem with a pc. you need administrator rights to run this game!

Solid, fun twin stick shooter with a nice ramp up in difficulty through the campaign. Not to mention, the inclusion of local co-op is a nice little bonus that works great for a game like this.

This game is awful. Poor controls, lousy interface.

ok

Two bucks for a couch co-op game to play with the kids? Pretty good value. Don't go into this expecting too much, and it is hard to be disappointed. Take the melee mode from the star control games, but instead of 1vs1 combat, you are working together to defend against waves of bots.