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AWESOMENAUTS
Vacuum cleaners
look pretty hi-tech these days
dtp 800MP on XBLA $9.99 on PSN What’s the story? Two teams of Awesomenauts have to destroy the opponents’ base. Sounds easy. It’s not.
How does it play? Awesomenauts sounds like a joke name for a fairly dumb game. The graphics look like a kid’s cartoon. And screenshots make it look like a basic platformer. Don’t be fooled. This is
a fun but tough tactical team game where running ahead with your guns on auto will do you more harm than good, and really annoy your team-mates.
The idea is to destroy your enemies’ defence towers. You can kill the players too, and that’s fun, but it doesn’t get you any closer to victory. To win, you have to get to their base. As each round
progresses you pick up solar energy to buy new attacks. Spotting what the enemy team is up to and creating a balanced team is how to get ahead. If both teams are good
healers and defenders, the towers can take a long time to go down. But the intensity will grab you and time becomes irrelevant. Any clever bits? It’s a great 2D comic translation of
a serious PC genre, but don’t come here looking for Mario action. These games are 15-minute wars of whittling each other down. Every character can
level up in different ways. Sherriff Lonestar can put solar into his grenades or his huge summoned bull, which charges into other teams and knocks them
back. The more you play, the more options open up. Flipside says: Great stuff to tide us over until DOTA2 ✪turns up.✪✪✪✪
‘I don’t really like what they’ve done with the place’
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