Day 44 - Rocketmen: Axis of Evil

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil

Developer: A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games

Publisher: Capcom

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When I downloaded this demo I had 100% no idea what it would end up like. So I fired up the demo and was instantly intrigued by the comic book style art.  It was intentionally made to have that cheesy "Dash Galaxy" feel to it, almost like it was made by the makers of Futurama.  

So I get through all of the menus and it finally makes you chose a character. You can customize the person by the standard sex, job, hair color, skin color, etc.  It was here that I noticed if you chose a female your options to chose job function pretty much determine how slutty your outfit looks. I though it was funny that when I chose to be a specific class my character walked around with her top half open, bra exposed, on the surface of a planet where the other character was clearly wearing a space suit with helmet. Apparently Victoria's Secret in the future is part of the space program. (Or Agent Provocateur for you lucky EU readers).

So I finally get in to the game playing as the "Slut" class which gives me some sort of pea shooter phaser gun thingy. My mission is to find some fuel. Ok sounds easy enough.  I start moving around and suddenly I am getting overrun by aliens.  I am smashing all of the face buttons on the controller and nothing is working. I panic. Finally I accidentally hit the right stick and my girl fires her pea shooter. Oh  now I get it. It's a twin stick shooter!  I wish they would have had a splash screen showing that or something. 

So using twin stick shooter controls I began slaughtering the waves of enemies who were clearly there to gawk at my slutty space suit.  I gained a half dozen power ups that gave me everything from shield power to machine guns, saw blade guns, shotguns, and more. 

I think after realizing that when you play multiplayer it is cooperative play it made sense. In the photo above you see 3 players on the screen at the same time. Perhaps that(and the slutty outfit seen below) would be the real draw of the game. But alas I only played as a single player demo.  

Verdict: perhaps if I was looking for a fun party game to play multiplayer.