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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Windows 3. EMBED for wordpress. While no-one is supposed to be around but you, there are several voices that pop up during play to repeat the text on buttons you click, and I personally find them hilarious in a retro camp way.
There's an airy female voice on the title screen whose function is to shout, "OKAY! When you lose all your lives, there's a guy who sounds like a stereotypical 80s gamer who hysterically shouts, "That's it. Game over, man! It's really all just dumb enough to be wonderful, with a sort of charm to it, as if it were made by a couple of surfers and their girlfriend in a California garage. Systems: Pretty standard fare. You have a few lives, unlimited lasers, power-ups, and enemies.
Quatra Command is very much a scrolling shooter in every sense of the word, which is fine, because it's familiar. A nifty little feature I didn't know about until after I started writing this review is the ability to change your game speed I used software to slow it at first.
You will definitely want to lower it, or else your game will only last a few seconds. Controls: Quatra Command offers three different control schemes keyboard, mouse, and joystick which can be used interchangeably. Neither of the three is vastly superior on a desktop PC, but laptop users may have trouble using a touchpad mouse, since only two buttons are supported, and one action requires clicking both at once. Overall, it's incredibly friendly. Gameplay: You start with three lives, infinite ammo, and a couple of tricks up your sleeve or at least the potential for them.
In addition to shooting normally, you can get a "photon" power-up which allows you to fire "photon shots" with your alternate-fire key. These are able to hit cloaked enemies. You also can generate a force field for a period of time - in fact, you begin with one briefly to keep you from being wiped out before you even have a chance to start.
The setup is pretty nice, if you manage to survive that long. Yes, this game is hard, at least at the default settings the number of objects can be adjusted and the default medium speed setting is a bit fast. Not only do you have to worry about enemies, but you also have to avoid crashing into planets and asteroids. You only have a few power-ups, which give you photon shots, force fields, and healing. The power-ups all have the annoying habit of falling up instead of down, and they can be negated by other objects if they collide.
Overall, it's simple but creative. A really nice feature of the game is that it automatically resizes itself to your resolution. The bigger your screen, the more play area you have, which is pretty neat. You may want to auto-hide your taskbar for the visual appeal, but it doesn't adversely impact anything to have it there. As accessible as the game is, it is difficult. Really though, it suffers from the old method of lengthening play time through repetition.
If you do manage to beat all the levels there are ten of them, which you can access at any time from the F2 config screen , there's no reason to go back and do it all over, short of wanting a time-waster.
Graphics: Quatra Command uses some pretty nice color graphics. There's a lot of attention to detail in the planets and objects floating around, and the ship animation is what you'd expect from similar titles in terms of frames and positions. Overall, it looks pretty good.
Sound: There's a surprising amount of voice in this, some of which I touched on before. On top of what I mentioned, there are also death screams, many of which are uttered by other pilots as you blow them to bits.
That's a bit confusing at first. The sounds are largely stock, but there's nothing wrong with them, and the music is pretty good.
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