Despite the game descriptions quote from Game Reviewer as a 9/10, its hard to believe that a game like this actually received such a score. After playing this game for a couple minutes, I believe an accurate rating would be 4/10, but taking into account the falsified game description, maybe a 3/10 would be better, as looking up on both google and yahoo for "invasion battlefield free game reviewer" returns nothing about Game Reviewers supposed review or any sort of background info of Invasion: Battlefield Free. Fake advertising, it seems, was needed to pump up the downloads.
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You can immediately tell as you open up this game that it needs a good amount of polishing. After opening up the main menu, you are presented with "Play", "Quit", "Credit", and "Diary", along with a flaming trailer in a dark wasteland. "Diary" serves to give some background information of the game, but the information is sparse. From the game description, you are part of a squad of some sort sent to investigate the disappearance of some scientists who discovered a "Cube" that bore great energy, but after reading the "Diary", it seems these scientists are both illiterate and small fans of writing.
Upon clicking "Play", you take the role of a glowing tank (see the photos for reference), which, after randomly falling out of the sky, proceeds to investigate a
plain dotted with palm trees and flaming trailers. The players first reaction to handling the tank should be "No turret aiming?" Tanks have moveable turrets, but apparently the developers had an issue with that. The tank can fire, however, but its projectiles arent shells but instead glowing bouncy balls that richochet off anything and everything. Attempts to drive the tank and explore the surrounding area reveal that the aforementioned red glow is somehow
embedded within the tank, and can defy physics by casting its irritating glow upon trees and ridges through the tank itself. It doesnt help either that camera is awkwardly positioned behind the tank, roughly 20 degrees off the horizontal, preventing players from getting an unburdened view of what lies ahead of the tank, as the red glow immediately and irritatingly grabs the attention of your eyes.
The environmental design needs serious work as well. Exploring the surrounding area reveals that the tank can even float in the air if driven onto a ridge in the correct orientation, as well as the palm trees that dot the plain are incorporeal. Besides these quirks, moving onward from the plain, there exists a flaming structure that bears the resemblance of a gas station, except 60 times larger than you are. Theres also a giant staircase as well, that, like the palm trees, is incorporeal. Whatever idea came into the developers minds when they coded this, I have to question.
By this point there is little motivation to continue the game, but if the player wishes to struggle against the nearby aliens, they may for whatever reason do so. After leaving the "gas station", the player soon discovers that he/she is being attacked by aliens, who have armed themselves with turrets and wrench shaped spaceships. This being the first action in the game, it almost seems believable except for the tanks inability to aim its turret, which would be very helpful to destroy the flying "wrench-ships" which remain out of the tanks small, small range. By this point, the player will unfortunately realize that he/she has a health bar, it being the red tank image on the left side of the screen that is cut off by the window (Im unsure of whether or not this is actually because of the window resolution I chose, but it is an issue). By this point, being kamikazed by the "wrench-ships" and fired upon by the turrets, I quit the game.
Overall, Invasion: Battlefield Free is the developers example of a sub-par tank game. Graphics, user controls, environmental design, and action scenes are poorly done and require reworking. As the first version, it is a satisfactory product, but with the falsified Game Reviewer description, my regard for this game and the ethics of its developers drops a bit. If players download this game they will discover that it should not be rated a 9/10, but rather something much lower to give show to the inadequate content that was presented to them.