Разработчик: That One Game Studio
Описание
Galaxy Defender
Listen here defender, it is your job to fight off incoming drones inside a narrow glass corridor floating through space. Destroy the waves of drones by hitting space balls at them using your futuristic space wands. Rack up enough kills using the same ball will create a power up for an instant smash. Gain points for destroying drones and enough points will spawn more balls for more destruction. Good luck defender the galaxy's or more like your glass corridor's fate awaits.Gameplay
The objective of the game is to achieve a high score by destroying as many drones as possible by hitting them with balls. Each match you start with one normal red ball. After accumulating enough score the game will spawn another ball that you can use as well. If a ball destroys 3 drones it will get a power up and start to glow. The next drone it hits it will instantly destroy. The balls get destroyed if they fly passed the player into the purple void. Drones come in 4 levels signified by their color. Level 1 drones are blue, level 2 are cyan, level 3 are green and level 4 are purple. Each level takes that many hits to destroy so level 1 is 1 hit and level 2 is 2 hits and so on. The drones spawn in waves of 1 to 5 every 3 seconds based on length of round. The game ends if the drones get too close to the player or the player runs out of balls.Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better
- Storage: 210 MB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR. Room Scale 2m by 1.5m area required
- Additional Notes: HTC Vive Required
Отзывы пользователей
Galaxy Ball Defender is a really lame VR exclusive "Pong" game where you bash balls with bats and make them bounce around a low poly environment... that's all there is to this. It's pretty lazy shovelware with no redeeming features, value or merit as a serious game. Calling this a tech demo would be insulting to tech demos.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
This seems to have been made a VR exclusive to prevent any comparison with non-VR 3D games, a comparison that this game would fail very badly at. Developers must learn that while VR is great, if the only thing that makes the game great is the VR, then the game isn't great at all.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Galaxy Ball Defender is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
There are so many racquet / brickbreaker games in VR. Racket NX and Holoball are still the kings of this subgenre. Galaxy Ball Defender, unfortunately, is near the bottom.
Here is my list from personal experience:
1. Racket NX
2. Holoball
3. Plannes
4. Duo
5. Arcade Saga
6. Ready Player One (Smash & Fracture) * FREE
7. Proton Pulse
8. Slum ball VR * FREE
9. Magical Squash
10. Pingball
11. Galaxy Ball Defender
12. Not even woth mentioning games this bad (note: did not include tennis/ badminton / pure racquetball games or ping pong) ** Never played Super Pixel Smash, but it looks good **
So why is Galaxy Ball Defender so low on the list? Well, the ball physics are off. Hitting the ball would lead to often strange results. You can control the general direction where the ball goes if you hit it well, but that's it. Several times the ball would go up and down the corridor as though I had hit a foul ball. I think part of the problem is the paddle. It's like a thin baseball bat. Not good for this type of objective game. Easy to mishit and generally impossible to be precise.
There's only one game mode. You lose and you start back to zero. There's local leaderboard only. Only 1 boring and simplistic environment. The rules are not explained. It said to press grip to bring ball back to you, but that never worked on the Oculus Rift. Extra balls spawned, but I had no idea why. Different shapes and colors. Not sure what they did. Sometimes I lost and wasn't sure why. Is there a certain distance the drones can get to before you lose? They didn't seem that close. Who knows. Nothing explained.
Rate 4/10. It was only $2 on the Steam summer sale, I played only 10 minutes. It's probably something I'll never play again without major updates. But I won't refund. It's not the worst game, just compared to other racket games it's pretty dull.
Great score chaser game for the price. The music is fantastic and keeps you moving.
I have to say no homo all the time because the balls keep touching, but otherwise it's super fun and well executed.
This is officially in my rotation of games to show off at parties. It's not super complicated, which is why I think its great game to showcase to non VR people. Worth the price.
Solid, simple game. Worth every penny.
Simple game but addicting and keeps you moving around a lot. Great game to show VR to your friends with.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | That One Game Studio |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (7) |