Wasteland Angel

Mediocre top-down shooter that could be so much more, enjoyable for short bursts – 5.5/10 Wasteland Angel takes place in a dystopian future where WW3 turned everything into a radioactive wasteland. We play Angel a woman that travels in her weaponized car killing filthy wastelanders that try to kidnap and murder innocent survivors. The game has different sections, each one having 4 levels. Two levels where you have to defend cities and their residents at day and at night, a boss fight and a first-person bonus level. The gameplay is really simple, tons of wastelanders come at you in their cars and you have to kill them, collecting upgrades and special weapons to unleash more destruction onto them. Some enemy-types try to kidnap the survivors you are defending, and you have to stop those ones before they can get away. The boss fights and especially the first-person bonus sections are great and I really enjoyed those. The game also has some short story-segments which are told in great looking comics, but it’s just not enough to really engage you. The game does not seem very polished, enemies often get stuck outside of the map making you unable to kill them. If that happens you won’t be able to reload health at the cities between rounds. Another annoying thing is that in some levels the cities you have to defend are placed too much to the border of the map, resulting in strange camera movement and little sight when you drive there. For some achievements you have to gather a lot of points/combo that goes up over consecutive levels, this only works if you hit Continue in the main menu. I often wanted to perfect some levels right after playing them and went there over the level select story-mode where you don’t keep your points/combo and even weapons. I only realized this halfway through the campaign, really unnecessary. The play-time is also way too short and the gameplay feels a bit bland, the game needs more mechanics that make it stand out from other games like the first-person bonus levels, a nice addition would have been to be able to play all levels in first-person-mode. Sadly the story is unfinished, leaving you without a proper ending, what a bummer! Unfortunately the game comes too short in most aspects leaving you with a mediocre top-down shooter that could be really awesome if improved in some aspects. 100%-Achievement-Difficulty: Easy, takes around 4 hours to complete, completing the whole game takes a bit longer as there are no achievements for the new levels that were added after release. [code]Check out my curator if you liked this review: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42987949/ [/code]

prices on steam, everywhere, are all over the place. so many free to $5 games are perfect for how small they are and in what they give you and ask you to do. this at 9.99 looks like garbage. theres no trailer on the store page. theres nothing showing the unexpectedly good first person missions. opinions need to be a controlled substance so there go the reviews to tell you this is simply a dumb fun so glad it was on sale for .99 game the voice acting is charming and the art invokes all the madlands and maxborders. the controls are tight. like you need to hit a guy with one of your guns or youll miss if hes standing between them. laying mines and walls of fire is smooth. nice small moments knowing you didnt just spray and pray. it's polished and responsive a large city or open environment, like twisted metal or renegade ops, would be really fun. with missions or gangs to hunt down. again, prices are weird. the games got a $10 heart in a f2p bod. it's fun that never lets itself be. cruising tiny arenas fending off ufo trucks sucking up villagers is cool and your car gets stronger but the gameplays as good as all i can concentrate on is the price. it's ok to stowaway in my library. im happy ive seen it and that it was on sale. ive ignored thousands of games i would have otherwise given a shot but, with so much for basically nothing out there, it can feel like a wasteland, waiting on that angel to queue by

Do not buy this crap

Ain't as bad as some suggest, but stil

Repetitive top-down shooter with simple vehicular combat, bland missions and unremarkable visuals

Dead game, good potential, weak execution.