Blast Works - first look
When a side-scrolling shౠooter meets Katamari Damacy, things get... wei✃rd
October 05, 2007
There's agrowing tendency of late for companies to buy up succesful PC homebrew or casual games and dump them onto every system they can. The results usually range from uninspired to disastrous, but sometimes they rock.flOwon PS3 is capt🗹ivating, Line Rider looks great, and Blast Works could be fantastic. Based upon a PC homebrew game called, it actually combines the gameplay of old fashioned, 2D shooters with the sticky world of ball-rolling sensation Katamari Damacy.
Y🉐ou begin the game with a simple plane that constantly flies to the right and does its best to blow everything in that direction into little lego-like blocks. That much is typical of roughly 20,000 arcade shoot📖ers dating back to the Early Eightieslithic Era.
. However, developer Budcat🌸 has completely upped the ante in this new version, sprucing up the graphics and adding a crazy-robust customization mode.You can design y🧸our own ships. Your own enemiesౠ. Your own items and scenery. You can, in fact, create entire levels all your own, first designing and then placing every piece and even choosing how enemy ships will behave.
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Then you can save them, play them, or email them to a friend to show them just how tragic it is that you work at a fast food restaurant instead of as a level designer for a video game developer. 'Cause you know, it really is a damn shame. You have a gift you should share wi💟th the world. In fact, there's every chance tha൩t Blast Works will be your ticket to stardom when it comes out in early 2008.Live the dream, future designer!