AngerForce: Reloaded
AngerForce: Reloaded is an action-packed vertically scrolling shoot’em up game that pays homage to the classics of 90’s arcades. This high octane experience is set against the backdrop of a 19th century human world that has seen the outbreak of a robot rebellion.
The game uses an original cartoon/comic art style. Created using traditional 2D technology combined with a free-form deformation technique, character animation sequences are rich in detail, achieving a unique 3D-like effect.
Characters can be improved and enhanced through randomly generated abilities, with choices impacting your entire stage progression. Choose from dozens of upgrade choices to complement your characters’ special abilities, thereby creating a unique and personal play style.
Leaderboards allow you to compare high scores, while replays can be recorded and shared for maximum gloating! The game also features a Local CO-OP mode that will enable you to explore the story alongside your friend.
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features:
- A straight-up hardcore STG that takes you back to the fast-paced 90’s.
- Original robotech and unique comic art style that employs FFD techniques to achieve detailed and 3D-like effects in 2D animation.
- 7 elaborate stages and 10+ crazed bosses to defeat.
- 4 original characters, each with two special abilities and one powerful bomb.
- A roguelike randomized ability system. Create your own unique play style by mix and matching your character’s abilities.
- Explore the story behind each character and the secrets surrounding the enemy legion.
- More than 20 original tracks.
- A real-time leaderboard that will pit you against your friends…and players from all over the world.
- Show off your exciting gameplay to other players and interact with them through our online replays system.
Steam User 22
Really fun shmup. Love the campaign mode, has an upgrade system, you collect orbs and upgrade. There is a fair bit of gringing, but it really adds to the overall value. There is a fair amount of depth for a shmup. I really love shmups, but the last few I have bought really havent kept my attention. This ones a must have!
Steam User 10
I love shoot em ups and this looked really polished, similar to games like sky force reloaded. As it was in the sale i picked it up and wow im glad i did. The graphics are so clean! It has the perfect balance and depth in terms of difficulty curve and ranking up your characters. If you love shooters like sky force, jamestown etc you will love this. I will be putting in alot of hours into this game to try and get all the achievements.
Steam User 19
I full recommend this Game treasure!
I buy this game and 15 minutes later i was in love! OK OK i was in love after the trailer! ;-) It is unbelievable how many fun this game is. Please give it a try! Trust me! I bet you have fun with this little treasure. And for 9€ you dont make anything wrong with it!
WELL DONE DEV`s
One of the best shutèm ups i playd in the last time!
And please please maybe new Characters!?
Superb gameplay and scoresystem.
Steam User 3
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Steam User 5
This is a seriously underrated game. I find it incredibly difficult; some levels on the higher difficulties are just straight up unfair and abusive at times. But every time I play, I get a little better. I'm constantly beating my own scores, even after getting all the upgrades. Boss fights that were impossible started getting easy. Even still, I'll fail miserably more often than not. But I know the next time I'll get farther. The next time after that a little more, and then just one. More. Game.
The biggest flaw is that the speed is tied to your framerate, so if you're on anything higher than 60hz you'll have to set your framerate down in the Nvidia Control Panel or AMD equivalent. Playing on a 165hz monitor would reach ludicrous speed.
The art of the levels and enemies are amazing and are really what make this game shine. There is a story, but it's the most tacked on and cliché thing I've ever seen. There are seven levels in total. The easiest difficulty starts with three of them, the next with five, and the next with all seven. It wouldn't take more than 23 minutes to do a full run through all seven levels, but the replay value of them is insane. There's leaderboards where you can watch your own and others replays; they are great for getting tips on how to do better since you won't really find a guide for this game anywhere. There is a point system that you can either spend on in-game items like health, permanent upgrades that make you more powerful, or revives for when you die because you will. There are four characters you can play that have unique playstyles and abilities. Personally though, I don't think Echo has any redeeming features other than her boobs. Overall, it's an amazing game and highly addictive. Would recommend.
Steam User 2
Anger force is a bullet hell that spends all of its efforts on scraps of story, and grinding progression mechanics.
Both of these things help to extend the shelf life beyond what is being offered (several bullet hell stages with a handful of characters and difficulties), but it never feels like there is something of genuine interest beyond this.
The characters do genuinely feel and play differently. The range, patterns and abilities of each are quite different and this becomes more apparent as you unlock and upgrade more of their abilities. It’s a fine line to walk, but the upgrades often felt less like more character growing and more like my character’s potential was locked away and hindered behind an XP gate. A good example of progression is the growth you feel in something like the Arkham games where you are given adequate and fun mechanics and each addition seems to come with a corresponding rise in threat level or, at the very least, an opportunity for variety. These are vastly different games, but maybe this only serves to illustrate how the trappings of bullet hells don’t necessarily lend themselves to linear upgrades/power ups.
I can’t help but think of Jamestown, the bullet-hell retelling of the early US settlement. It managed to house a lot of content through its unlocks: none of these unlocks upgraded characters, but they did show progress by either helping players get familiar with mechanics (like combo chains) or giving new characters that offered new ways to play. There was also the added bonus of co-op. Its inventive story and stellar music and art helped to really set it apart and keep it engaging for someone who is admittedly a casual bullet-hell fan.
In Angerforce characters have more than just skills and stats to unlock. When you play as the characters in the campaign you unlock bits of story for each and you have to play harder difficulties in order to unlock more of the story. There is definitely ever put into the story, though it’s largely unnecessary. The difficulty is handled well between the different levels, but, given the genre, you’re eyes will be burned with the same patterns from playing over and over.
It has good production values and plays solid. The progression and unlocks might help increase the play time, but it doesn’t necessarily make the game that much more fun. If the loop of bullet hells is appealing, this is a decent option.
Steam User 2
It's good as hell. It even has a second loop, if you manage to clear stage 7 on arcade mode. As in, it goes to stage 14.