There’s nothing wrong with the game, per se, but I’m not sure how addictive it is – compared to other casual games that are incredibly difficult to turn off. Star Defender 3 is a fun and frantic space shooter that should appeal to those who grew up on those types of games, but despite the wealth of levels, weapons and power-ups, game-play is merely average. Players can choose from multiple skill levels and the option to post their final score to a Worldwide Hall of Fame list. If you’re able to scoop them up, power-ups continuously fall down onto the screen, which gives you new weapons, an hourglass that slows down time, 500 points bonus, temporary invincibility, and so on. At the end of the eight main worlds (housing more than 100 levels) awaits a huge “boss” fighter that takes some patience and determination to destroy. Bigger aliens appear every few levels, each with their own life bar you can chip away at (so you know how well or poorly you’re doing!).
Each type of alien moves in a unique attack pattern: some soar down at an angle towards your hapless ship another kind circle like bees near the top and a third moves across the screen horizontally, leaving other creatures in its path. Similar to Galaga, the game is viewed from a top-down perspective, showing your ship at the bottom of the screen and firing up towards the circling space creatures. Most weapons let you hold down the left button as a kind of rapid pulse fire, which is a satisfying way to clear the screen. If you choose the mouse to control the game, the left button is used to fire your primary weapons, while the right button is reserved for secondary fire. Instead of mere missiles, you now have a handful of weapons at your disposal, including homing mines, nuclear bombs, laser blasts and lightning strikes. These swarming beasts are back in greater numbers than before, so it’s up to you to lead the human forces to battle back and destroy them before they can invade the Earth.
Star Defender 3 takes place in the year 2743, just two years after the last war against the vicious Insectus race. And perhaps it’s no mistake it says “Galaga Download” at the top of the official Star Defender 3 website (hmm, a sneaky way to get traffic from search engines?). Who could resist those swirling, insect-like aliens you can shoot out of the star-studded sky?įast-forward to 2007 and we now have another arcade space shooter, Star Defender 3 – a spiritual successor to Galaga, if you will – but one we can now play in the comfort of our own home instead of at the local arcade. To some, it was all about Pac-Man, while to others the addiction of choice may have been Frogger, Space Invaders or Centipede.
Thirty- or forty-something gamers likely have fond memories of dumping quarters into their favorite arcade game in the ’80s.
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