Vektor Wars

Vektor Wars is a first person shooter in cyber environment full of neon lights and primitive vector shapes. It's a second Steam game made by Super Icon Ltd (the first one is the platformer game Life of Pixel). Gameplay offers nothing more than a classic FPS action with fair weapon variety. All main gameplay objectives are built around surviving the attacking waves of enemies. You'll fight in nine campaign levels and if that won't be enough for you, there are additional score-based modes like arcade and survival. What makes Vektor Wars a unique indie game is the way developers worked with low budget. There are many developers who could do something similar and it would be terrible, but this game will make you forget it that you can't actually see your weapon (only a crosshair) and that enemies don't have a proper animation (they're just teleporting for a really short distances). You'll take it as fitting with the polished 80s vision of cyber space. To mention some flaws, the game shows weird achievement support. Some achievements unlocks next time you start the game, or just sometimes randomly while you'll play you get a message for an achievement you unlocked several minutes ago. The game uses a font with red color that has low readability, so you might sometimes miss condition messages. The biggest flaw is the fact that the whole graphics style can make you feel sick. That's not a hyperbole and it's not because of FOV (if you would think so, you can change it in options), but just looking at geometric shapes full of colorly-varied neons isn't something you want to do for hours. [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] Vektor Wars is a good FPS game, but it's targeted towards niche audience. It's not something you could recommend to everybody but if you like the game style and don't mind the downsides I mentioned, it's worth buying.

Great game, especially for the price. Reminiscent of the classic Battlezone, but with very pretty neon graphics & more advanced enemies.

I did a video for this game on my YouTube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4dNl6HhhU This is a fantastic, simple, arcade style FPS set in a gorgeous retro art style, reminiscent of Tron and old school arcade games like Battlezone. At its core, it's a wave-based survival title with a heavy emphasis on score. There are a few different game modes but they are all variants on that core theme. This is strictly single player only, there is no online. Some might find this odd but I think it makes perfect sense. Smaller shooters like these don't tend to have large multiplayer communities and I think it makes sense to focus on the single player experience instead. It also brings some unique twists to the typical FPS formula, especially with regards to ammo management and how scoring is handled. When you reload your gun, you lose everything in the current clip which encourages strategic reloads and while you don't ever fully game over when you die, you restart your current wave and your score resets which very much changes the incentives for skillful play. There are also large and varied maps and the level of challenge ramps up very fast and can get extremely tough. The developers didn't reinvent the wheel and didn't bite off more than they can chew. There are a couple of technical hiccups. The audio is overmixed and distorts at times and there are no audio sliders, only on and off toggles. During chaotic battles, the frame rate also drops fairly heavily and I'm on a Core i7 with a GTX 970 so a game like this really shouldn't ever drop below 60fps. These can be improved though and are more nitpicks than anything else. This is a focused experience that knew exactly what it was going for and has a small but tight package at a great price. If you like shooters with a twist and love the retro art style like me, get this!

除了画面，其他都好。 Other than pictures, everything else is good.

(Update: there was a new version pushed that makes the water invisible when playing on a linux system with radeon mesa graphic drivers. This makes the game unplayble.) Feels like the old Battlezone, where the vector drawn tank sneaks up behind you. Lots of different enemies, different goals that you have to figure out on your own, and seems like a lot to the gameplay. The game might support a gamepad controller, but it seems to want to use a mouse and keyboard. A little repeatitive, but for less than five dollars it is worth checking out. Works very well on ubuntu linux 16.04 with radeon mesa drivers. I was an arcade Battlezone fan, and this really scratches that itch.

I really like where they are going with this but the game looks and plays like an Early Access title despite being 'released'. I'll come back to it in 6 months maybe, but right now the level of jank is way too high for me to enjoy playing. Rally cool soundtrack though. Some notable issues: [list] [*] The crosshair has very little to do with where bullets actually hit. [*] Very little impact response from bullets which compounds the previous problem. [*] Increasing the FOV hides the HUD. [*] Huge pools of water that are easy to fall into but have no-way out except completely broken ladders. [*] Low-res textures and bad aliasing on the titular 'vectors' cause a lot of flickering and means that the game only looks like 80s vector graphics if you kinda squint from a distance; the visual style needs a lot of work in general. [/]

A fast FPS game in a world of robots, vehicles, turrets and spaceships, everything is against you. You crashed with your spaceship, now you have to kill all incoming waves, save the robo dudes and collect some messages to find your way back home. Awesome weapons and weapon-visions, epic old school sounds and a cool soundtrack in the back, nice achievements, 4 different game types (story mode included), all in all set in a really stylish neon world to praise the good old times (C64...). A must play for all retro neon old school fps freaks and everyone else i guess hehe have fun.

[h1]Описание:[/h1] Шутер от первого лица в векторном мире. Есть куча режимов игры, но т.к. игра одиночная то остановимся на самом главном - сюжетном. Мы попадаем в разные локации где бесконечно спавнятся монстры, генерируется оружие и после смерти просто появляемся с пистолетиком. Нашей задачей будет найти куб и установить его в устройство. Проблема в том, что местонахождение куба на карте не указано и нужно тупо бегать по каждому углу в городе чтобы его найти... В этом и есть вся проблема... Уровень минут на 5-10, а бегать приходится в разы больше и так раз за разом... К чему все было так усложнять? Почему бы не дать игрокам тупо проходить игру, тем более количество уровней приличное... Зачем? Почему? Столько вопросов, на которые не будет ответа. Не рекомендую. [h1]Оценка: 4/10[/h1] [h1]Послесловие:[/h1] Если вам понравился этот обзор добро пожаловать в группу http://steamcommunity.com/groups/uojer - тут вы сможете увидеть рекомендованные мною игры, другие обзоры, а также просто пообщаться в хорошей компании.