Before you get excited about that mega hyper destructo-thingy, make sure your ship has been leveled up or you may not get to mount your new pop-gun for a while. They will drop plenty of low level hardware, and occasionally something you can put to use, but mostly it is good to sell to the merchant so you can buy the really good stuff. The easy way to earn credits to buy the upgrades is to salvage the usable debris from the shattered remains of enemy ships. The ship upgrades work as expected go from a simple looking triangle(ish) thing to a big “kill-em-all” battle wagon.Īs in real life, nothing is free you are going to have to pay the merchants in their flying store for any really good upgrades. The upgrades encompass everything from your drive engine to shield generator to armor plating to weapons, etc. On the plus side, this means you can get an extraordinary amount of play time. Don’t get too excited leveling up your current ship to unlock the next upgrade will take a while. After that there are almost 100 other ships to which you can upgrade. As usual, you start with a basic model ship. Next up are the improvements and upgrades, of which there are a lot. It doesn’t get you from A to B as fast as you may like, but it is fun. As such, we know that once you start off, changing direction is like drifting all the time. Even if you are not familiar with Newton’s laws of motion, most of us have played a space adventure. The other challenging bit with close combat in space is maneuvering. The downside of this tactic is that you are now in range for them to hit you. The fire points regenerate over time, but your energy weapons only travel so far so you have to get close to the enemies to hit them. To keep things challenging, you have limited structure points and limited fire points. Actually targeting your real opponents is a bit trickier because the Space Invaders test enemies are several times larger than what you will face when the tutorial is over but this will be the least of your concerns. The mash-up was fun, but it only gets you used to the mechanics of game play. ![]() ![]() If you are into some vintage arcade games, you may recognize the baddies from Space Invaders while your ship looks a lot like the little triangular Asteroids ship. To get started with this mission, the game will run you through a tutorial. Yes, not only do you have to survive wave after wave of enemy ships, you have to protect your space station. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do all the hard work the space station gets some shooty bits, too. In Event Horizon – Space Defense you get a little ship to fly around and a space station to defend. You might think from the title that this is some sort of space-based game where you get to fly around and shoot things. Space Invaders Meets Asteroids Meets Babylon 5
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