Mutant Storm: Reloaded

Very good retro arcade style twin stick shooter. You won't get quite the same vibe in modern games.

Always loved this game on the Xbox, so i decided years later to get it again for the PC. loving slowly climbing the leaderboards again! This is one of the most perfect, pure twin shooters ever!!!

I played this back when the Xbox console was first released. It's a great lil' twin stick shooter that looks cool and has a very simple but solid setup.

You control a little space ship and shoot alien creatures in arenas that change in layout as you progress through the "campaign." Powerups are all the old school type...3 way shot, Lasers and the like...

Great to play alone (very relaxing in a way) or with a friend in co-op.

Highly recommended if you're looking for a simple yet challenging shooter... 8/10

Simple and clean twin-stick shooter with an elegant design that still satisfies.

If you don't own this game, you're doing something wrong

Simple. Easy then difficult. No bug. No story. Great twin-stick shooter.

Played this since i was a teenager. Fantastic game! Really great with a local-co-op player as well. I love how the camera works too!

Don't reference Nex Machina. Don't reference Nex Machina. Don't reference Nex Machina. People are tired of hearing you yap about that.

Mutant Storm: Reloaded feels like a prequal to my self-titled all-time best arcade twinstick schmup Nex Machina. What we have here is a bullet-hell game with a series of static single-screen levels. You start with three credits, and try to get as far as you can. The only powerups are a few different weapons and a score booster. The different weapons only last a few moments. The local co-op is cool, too.

At first bootup, this feels quite dated, but the fun is absolutely still there. What's cool about this one compared to Nex Machina is that 1) you can run it on a toaster, and 2) it's a fraction of the price. Sadly there are no leaderboards, which can go along way for an arcade shooter like this.

Pros:
+Regardless of how old this is, the fun is absolutely still there
+Simple to learn, difficult to master; very satisfying, too
+Any twin-stick fan should have this in their library
+Can run on a toaster

Cons:
-No leaderboards
-More modern versions of this have a bit more bells-and-whistles

For five bucks, any twin-stick fan will have a ton of fun.

Probably the most underrated, overlooked, and in my view unfairly put down twin stick game of all time.

The visuals, an acquired taste to begin with, have not aged well but the game play is as pristine as when I first played this on the 360 more than fifteen years ago. You won't realise how good it is unless you put in the time and test your skills against its harder difficulties and stages.

I really can't recommend this enough to any twin stick fan.

This game is really very bad. I should nearly complain for a refund. If you know anybody with this game please make sure they are not mentally or emotionally damaged.

I remember looking at Mutant Storm when it first came out and being absolutely blown away by how it looked, how things moved in it. It was a genuine and very real inspiration for me thinking "one day, I want to do something like that" and well, I do now.

It wasn't just the game, it was that there was this really small team making arcade games at a point where it's generally accepted that the arcade is dead. Well, that's fairly good right?

And sure, looks wise even despite a couple of makeovers it looks sort of less inspirational now than it did in the early 2000's and we're in a post Geometry Wars world where everything subscribes to a similar sort of neon-particle explosion sort of thing and I like that, I really really like that but Mutant Storm looks like Mutant Storm and nothing else. It's clearly got Minter-spirations but it's very very "looks like a Pompom game" and that's the kind of thing we can all aspire to. Not necessarily looking like Pompom but making a game that's ours and unmistakably ours too.

The gameplay seems, now, rather tame considering. It's not easy but there's a rigidity to the waves and patterns that compared to a lot of what we see now is very much more considered. And that's fine, absolutely fine because it still remains a very good little game of shooting things. And what's a game like this if not about shooting things, right? Right.

So yeah, Mutant Storm. A classic and an inspiration to me. Still, after all these years. An essential, no doubt.

A really great Robotron clone!

very fun game

--GAMEPLAY--
This is a top-down, twin-stick, shooter. You choose from 8 levels of difficulty in the form of different coloured belts then dive into as many 30-second levels as you wish. Adventure mode is a last-as-long-as-you-can romp. First off, the game throws you into a very tight arena-type room with little space for manoeuvre and challenges you to clear it in thirty seconds. You get an ominous siren after 20 seconds to signal that an indestructible nasty will soon arrive. The actual challenge from room to room rises well. One death ends the level (in Tally mode) making that 15 seconds delay to get back into the game seem VERY long.

--PRESENTATION & DESIGN--
Progress is displayed by showing which of the 89 rooms have been cleared and with which coloured belt. The game takes you to this screen every time you finish a room which is a great, at-a-glance progress system. The sound is ambient and tunnel-like. When entering a room you get that echoey industrial sound which adds a suitable edge to the game's atmosphere. Explosions and the deaths of enemies is satisfying especially those that require a number of hits to be dispatched. Rooms are lit with a Tron inspired neon-lighting theme.

--CONCLUSION--
Like most twin-stick shooters this is not a game you'd normally play for long stretches. However, for a fifteen or twenty minute blast it's a great pick-up-and-play game. There is a bit of back and forth screen hopping when changing difficulty but no biggie.

5/5


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Not as good as Geometry Wars, but much harder.

Trippy twin-stick shooter from the early XBLA days. Was pretty hot shit back then, but I guess it's kind of ordinary 7(!) years later. Has an addictive scoring and ranking system, I'm gonna keep this one perma-installed. 8/10

If you really like trippy, psychedelic twin-stick shooter action, then this game is for you! I personally gave it a heavy "meh". It was fun but just not my style of game. It tries to be Geometry Wars all hopped up on Red Bull.

Try to pass game!

Having spawned on the Xbox 360 some years ago gararge based indie developer POMPOM brings the colorful psychedelic and challenging twin stick shooter Mutant Storm Reloaded to the PC, Having difficulties mirroring martial arts belts from white to black this shooter is a terror at higher difficulty settings. Featuring 89 levels and two modes; Adventure and Tally. There's plenty of content and challenge that makes MSR a bargain for the introductory price and a must own for fans of a games like Robotron and Geometry Wars.

Mutant Storm Reloaded is an arcade actioner that shares quite a few simularities with another Steam title, Scoregasm. The graphics are adequate and the music is pretty unremarkable, but it does feature a power up system that keeps the gameplay somewhat interesting. The game does however seem to have a fairly mundane level design, and lacks the same sort of frenetic arena that Scoregasm offers. Although the game does have widescreen and Steam Overlay support, the co-op mode is unfortunately local only. In short, Mutant Storm Reloaded is an average entry into the genre, one that is worth grabbing if you catch it on sale, but otherwise there are better titles in the genre.