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Wingnuts 2 (Mac) | List Price: $29.99
Discount Price: $23.49
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Platform: Macintosh, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and below
Brand: FREEVERSE
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2006-07-30
ESRB Age Rating: Rating Pending
Features: - New features include the ability to land on the aircraft carrier and swap your damaged plane for a new one
- Learn fancy new aerial maneuvers to help keep you out of danger
- The aircraft carrier can now take damage, so you must now defend it when it's under attack
- Take on Raina, granddaughter of the now-imprisoned Baron as she takes over the evil air fleet
- Face the dreaded zeppelin
Candy-coated Classic Arcade Yumminess [Posted on 2007-01-18]
Wingnuts 2 is a classic top-down shooter in the spirit of Time Pilot (Does anyone else remember that one?). Included are the nonsensical mid-flight upgrades we've come to expect and the insanely armored "boss" units. The graphics are, of course, updated, because that's what developers do with graphics, and they look rather nice. The voice acting is amusing (sometimes groan-worthy), though the one-liners get repetitive.
Which brings me to the primary complaint about this game -- along with all the classic arcade goodness comes the classic arcade repetition. There's only so much you can do in a top-down shooter. You fly around and shoot things and bomb them. No, this isn't Asteroids, and it can be quite challenging on the harder settings, but there's only so much creativity that can be brought to flying around and shooting down aircraft. It's simply the nature of the genre (What, no Kafkaesque plotline!?).
Ultimately, this is game that doesn't take itself too seriously and is simply a fun way to pass some time. Wingnuts 2 is definitely not perfect, but if you like mind-numbing hand/eye coordination exercises like the ones we enjoyed in the '80s ... it doesn't get much better than this.
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