Missile Intercept

October 22, 2010 in Games, Reviews by F-Droid | 2 comments

Missile Intercept is a game modelled on the classic Missile Command, complete with retro-style graphics. You’re defending three cities at the bottom of the screen from destruction by incoming enemy missiles.

The gameplay changes somewhat due to the touch screen interface, because you aim your counter-missiles by simply touching the appropriate point on the screen – no need to manoeuvre a crosshair around. In addition to this though, are two non-standard things – your counter-missiles explode immediately where you target them, which means you don’t need to account for the time they take to get there, and also you seem to have a virtually unlimited supply.

These differences all conspire to make it a bit to easy and thoughtless – until you get a long way in, you can almost get away with poking away madly at the screen. I definitely think the game would benefit from a limited supply, launched properly from launchers.

Despite those gameplay grumbles, I’d still recommend this for a bit of retro action fun. If nothing else, you get a trip back in time to the days when you knew governments and their war machines were the enemy of sane people. In a modern version, you’d be fighting off a horde of (mostly) imaginary terrorists, while somewhere off screen the real enemy (same as in the original) used the imaginary terrorists as an excuse for all kinds of nefarious activities. The retro version is definitely more fun.

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License:GPLv3
Web Site:http://www.kirit.com/Missile%20intercept
Issue Tracker: http://support.felspar.com/Project:/Missile%20intercept

Available in the Android Market (scan/click the QR code opposite) or, of course, via the FDroid repository.

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Fritzy on October 22, 2010 at 8:32 pm

Probably not a good idea to get political as a reviewer. Arbitrarily putting-off a portion of your audience isn’t how you build an audience.

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F-Droid on October 22, 2010 at 9:02 pm

I totally agree, I thought the same thing before I wrote it. But then I thought “what the hell” and did it anyway. It’s hard not to play that game without noticing how the world has changed, especially if you played the original back in the day.

If I wanted to write somewhere where I had to watch out for offending or putting people off in case it hit the bottom line, I’d do it elsewhere and get paid for it. Here, there’s no money being made, no advertisers to keep happy, and no hidden agenda. If people don’t like what they read, they can ignore it, argue about it, or walk away.

Having said that, I’d probably be annoyed if people conducted a completely off-topic political argument here, so it’s pretty stupid of me to do something that might start one. I’ll attempt to behave myself in future.

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