P'radikus Conflict

"Boring."

This game is horribly stupid. There does not seem to be a story. You pilot a ship and shoot down millions of enemy ships in order to gain money with which you can buy better ships, weapons, shields, etc.

Gameplay/Control: 2/10
The control is not good in this game. The ship is very unresponsive and takes about 5 full seconds before it finally starts going in the direction you tell it to go.
The gameplay consists of your ship being centered in the center of the screen and you shoot at any ship that comes into your vicinity (much like Asteroids except this game really sucks). Some of the ships you shoot at actually fire back, but they shoot very very slowly and even with the horrible controls you can get out of the way in ample time to be safe...or you could just shoot the very slow moving bullets with your very fast-moving bullets...or you could just let the bullets hit you since it doesn't seem like you actually take damage in this crappy game. You can destroy any ship you encounter in 2 shots, but I let my game sit there for 4-5 minutes and let my ship be shot by opposing ships and let the opposing ships run into my ship without interfering. At the end of this my ship was still in perfect condition. If you actually play the game long enough to get enough money to buy better stuff, which takes a long time, you get to accept a new mission. The new mission is to shoot more enemies down. The enemies you must shoot down are the exact same enemies you were shooting down before. Needless to say, I discontinued playing the game after that.

Graphics/Sound: 2/10
The graphics are more like Atari graphics than NES graphics. The ship you control is just about the most generic design for anything I have ever seen. The design for the enemy ships are also rather generic and uninspired.
As far as I could tell there was no music in the game at all. The sound effects were rather crappy and only consisted of ''chuk chuk chuk'' over and over again whenever you shoot, the enemies shoot, or when you or the enemy are hit by bullets or missiles or whatever they are.

Replayability: HA!!! 0/10
I will never play this game again. I actually would suggest not even taking a few seconds to download the horrible game, because you will probably play the game less than the time it took you to download it.

Reviewer's Score: 2/10, Originally Posted: 08/31/02, Updated 08/31/02