Strike Suit Infinity

it's like flying the old roboteck planes lol if you know you know

if you want the pure gameplay of strike suit (which is very good, to be fair) then this is the game you want. it also goes on sale for like a dollar regularly, and i think it's a killer deal at that price. not that it isn't a deal at the regular price.

nice game,W developers for programming that good this masterpiece

An arcade space ship shooter with a small mech-type component to it. Depending on which of the three platforms you choose from it can range in its level of difficulty. The controls are tight enough with the keyboard and mouse, but the gameplay can get repetitive as you continually progress through the levels with the latter levels really supplying bullet-sponge enemies at times.

The main objective, beyond beating each of the levels is to score the highest score in each level to earn increasing letter grades. Enemies come at you in waves, with the waves getting slightly more difficult with each new wave that comes through. Capital ships usually show up in the end waves, but as you progress through the levels they become more common earlier on. Destroying the capital ships nets you credits, so it can be helpful to destroy them as quickly as possible.

The capital ships are filled with turrets and weak points that can be targeted for destruction. Depending on which of the three ships you pick it can range from easy to difficult to destroy the turrets in a timely fashion. Weak points can also be a bit odd in their hit boxes at times, which can cause a bit of frustration as you work against the clock. There are bonus rounds, but the capital ships appearing during these sections are rare, but can net you some additional credits.

Using the credits you can purchase reinforcements to help you out on a level by level basis. If they survive the level you get your credits back so you can hire the same ships again the next level. While they can be useful in the earlier levels, they begin to lose their effectiveness once you get to the "Elite" enemies. You can always upgrade their effectiveness, but even at the highest levels they're still mostly just cannon fodder, that can be used to distract from you being the sole target.

Each ship can transform into it's "mech" version as you fill the "Flux" bar. Each shot of your weapons (gun or missles) will drain this bar slightly, once it's empty you auto-switch back to your standard space ship mode. There's two perspectives you can fly in as well, cockpit view or a 3rd person camera directly behind the ship. So you can enjoy it either mode, without any real changes to the gameplay.

I enjoyed the game, as you can tell by the 100% achievement mark I've gotten in it. The arcade-y ness of it can help you get a bit of extra enjoyment from it if you like trying for additional points to beat your previous runs. For me, once I beat the game, I've only really come back to it a few times but I remember those times being fun regardless. For around $7 (US) it's a decent enough game if you like space ship shooters.

hilariously terrible

Fun arcade game.

It's a arcade version of SSZero. One of my favorite offline time wastes.

Strike Suit Infinity is an older game from 2013. It's a venerable 11 years old at the time of this review.

It's a spinoff of Strike Suit Zero with exactly the same gameplay but with all the content removed. It's just a wave survival third person vechicle shooter/space-combat-sim-lite. Which is fine, this is an underserved genre, but the idea of just ripping all the content out of the game and trying to sell it is just pants on head stupid if you ask me. Obviously Strike Suit Zero is a better choice if you wanted to play this kind of game. I have no idea what they were thinking, but whatever it was, they were wrong.

On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Strike Suit Infinity didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for killing a shuttle, trivial to get, but less than 27 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game.

The game never really caught on with the millions of gamers on Steam, with a very low peak player count close to launch, and then just a handful of players launching this game every couple of days. This is undoubtedly caused by factors such as those raised in this review. It's always helpful with buying decisions to consider how popular and successful the product is, and unfortunately while this did accumulate a few participation trophy reviews, overall, people just aren't using it.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

Strike Suit Infinity has the completely unhinged cash grab price of $40 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

For comparison, the $40 asking price for this game could get you games like "Wolfenstein - The New Order", "Prey" or "Deep Rock Galactic". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. This is almost an order of magnitude more expensive than EA's Star Wars: Squadron, for crying out loud.

Seriously... FOURTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS for an eleven year old game with no content. This is not okay.