![]() ![]() ![]() All of a sudden you're dead and have to start over from the beginning. Too many enemies on screen, impossible projectile patterns that cannot be avoided, intense lighting effects. There is such as thing as too much of a good thing. The sound mix is a notch above what you'd find back in the day and catchy techno tunes are mixed with metal clanks that most likely have been recorded inside of actual tin cans. The charming pixel graphics also remind us of 1980s arcade games. More than anything it reminds us of the cult classics Smash TV and Robotron, where players must take down everything on screen while avoiding waves and waves of enemy projectiles. The biggest news in this latest version is that you can share the violence with a friend on the couch thanks to the new local co-op feature that has been added. That's really the only excuse you need as you run around a bunch of square-shaped arenas dishing out cans of whoop-ass to well. The humans are dead, the work of evil murder robots, and your job is to avenge mankind. The robot revolution started two years ago on PC, but it has spread and most recently it came to Xbox One and that's the version that this review deals with. It's never easy to imagine what the far, far future will look like, but we get the feeling that Puppy Games may be onto something with their insane shoot 'em up, Ultratron. Mankind no longer exists - and all that remains is cold darkness, living metal beasts, and psychedelic neon lights. ![]()
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