wAive - 2D side scrolling shooter 6.6Mb
This is a fine horizontal scrolling sea shooting game with boss fights. It’s a team effort with quite retro graphics and ‘chunky’ music. It runs natively in XP but it needs the converter for GM6 (see the link "problems running Game maker games" HERE) to run in Vista or Win 7. It is a ‘partly’ unfinished work, but it is wholly (and very enjoyably!) playable. The good features include the ability to lock onto targets, two weapons with easy selection and some good backgrounds. There’s a tutorial, arcade and campaign mode, though the ‘options’ isn’t implemented in the menu. ‘Arrow’ keys to move, ‘Z’ key to fire/change weapons, ‘C’ key to change the formation properties of your (orange) accompanying ships and ‘X’ key to lock/unlock on the nearest target. ‘Esc’ key to return to menu/quit. It doesn’t quite have the panache of some of the other shmups listed here, but it’s never-the-less a very good game for younger players!
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