iBomber Attack - PC Game Review

iBomber Attack is a classic style, top-down tank shooter.

You play moving the task with WASD keys. Unfortunately, these point where you are going directly - not W for move forward and AD to turn. This is a pet peeve for me, because a) it is counter intuitive to me and b) it induces the vehicle to make turns where you just want it to rotate, thus making it hit obstacles.

You aim your guns with the mouse. You have a main gun and machine gun that you flip through with the right mouse button - I'd rather they were assigned to each button, but maybe there are more guns later in the game. You also have a few bombs that you can drag anywhere in the screen.

The bomb might remind you of the other iBomber games, and as I see it a tank game is a wonderful idea -  I mean, they have all these graphic assets and code from their tower defense games, how hard can it be to make a tank game?

Music is mute during the actual mission, and sound and graphics are acceptable (on a retro style, of course). The gameplay, however, is just very annoying. I didn't enjoy the game at all.

There is also a RPG component using gold you collect from dead enemies and structures, but I didn't get there.

Not recommended at all.

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