Sunday, 9 June 2013

Video Game Review : Blockade Runner Alpha



To me this game is like the space version of Minecaft. This game is made by Zan MGT which is a studio started by six siblings called Zack, Aaron, Nathan, Micah, Gabriel and Terah. If you put the first letters of each of their names together you get Zan MGT. You build space ships with blocks and then put weapons and armour plating for protection.

There are six different types of building materials : Frame, Plating, Interior, Glass, Parts and Decor. There are also different tools that help you build your spaceship faster like symmetry. There are different types of weapons. My personal favourite is the cannon which is like a machine gun. There is a multiplayer that is quite like Minecraft in the case that they both use servers and a solo mode. There is not a lot I can write about as it is still under development.

The following picture shows debris from a asteroid. When you break ice or rock blocks, you get round debris but if you brake frame blocks the debris will be very sharp.


Debris from a asteriod
 I have built three supporting spaceships. But, I am still building the mothership. My spaceships are black with a red line down the middle and have my insignia which looks like two red squares running diagonally and two white squares running diagonally.
I built the following spaceship as a testbed for weapons and that is why I named it TB-5. You can place any weapon on this ship even the Tai Cannon which is the biggest weapon in the game.

TB-5
I built the following spaceship because I wanted a spaceship that was fast. It is named SLS-50 because it is a small, lightweight-ish ship. It only has one static gun. It is based on the BARC speeder from Star Wars.

SLS-50


I built this spaceship to attack other enemy space ship. This spaceship is the one that I like the most. It has nine static guns, ten X-blasters and two cannons. I named it as a Heavy Fighter because of the large number of weapons it has.


T-10P Heavy Fighter


T-10P Heavy Fighter firing


I did not create the following ship, I just thought it looked nice. It is called Sol. Sol is another word for Sun. It has 12 plasma cannons but when you fire them whilst turning, it shoots itself. It is very shiny when light is reflected on the yellow armour plating.
Sol



I am building the following spaceship to be the flagship of my space armada. It is not finished yet. When it is finished it is going to be the biggest ship I have ever created and the biggest ship of all the user-made spaceships I know of. It is going to have a lot of weapons. The shape of completed spaceship may be completely different from it's current shape.

CR-10 BL-class MOTHERSHIP

Summary: I like this game because you can build enormous spaceships with a million weapons and you can let your creativity run wild. Also the price is only $10. What I do not like about this game is that it sometimes crashes because it is still in development and it focuses too much on multiplayer. I give this game a 8/10.

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