1st Impressions

I’m playing with a preview copy of Chillingo’s soon to be released game, Minigore.  It’s a pretty slick arcade shooter.  The blue and red dots on the screen act like thumb-pads.  The blue controls your movement direction, while the red controls direction of fire.  Both can be turned off once you get used to where to put your fingers.  The object is to both avoid and shoot the little black, boxy creatures that are out to get you.  Think of this as a cross between a cartoonish, boxy zombie killer game and attack of the killer tribbles.

The graphics, music, and sound effects were, as is usually the case with Chillingo releases, of the highest calibre.  I found the game to be very responsive.  But it is definitely geared to the Nintendo/Sega generation that is cooridinated enough to play with two hands.  That’s not me. I’m an old guy and don’t think fast enough or react fast enough to succed at anything but becoming a gore-snack for the boxy little guys out to get you. LOL  With that in mind, my one suggestion would be to have some difficulty levels so that it could be enjoyed by different levels of experience with this type of game.  I like zombie shooters as much as the next guy, but I also like to stand a fighting change against them!

While the title has “gore” in it, the violence depicted is cartoonish in nature and should be fine for any age.  I’ve seen worse on Saturday morning cartoons.  I’m not sure what the price point will be when the game is finally approved and released (hopefully this week or next), but if you are into acade shooters, this looks like another quality game and worthy of checking out.