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Swarm Gold Review

Swarm Gold is an outerspace action shooter that puts you in the pilots seat! Take your little space ship and try to collect all the EZT coins in your sector of the galaxy. When you have collected all the blue EZTs you can go to the exit portal, which allows you to continue on to the next level. Along the way, you encounter all types of obstacles which try and stop you from completing your mission. These include asteroids (large and small) and many different alien creatures. The creates you encounter range from the small and manageable Clag Scouts to the dangerous Clag Bots. It would be wise to avoid these aliens and especially look out for the Death Worms which is the most vicious, intelligent and deadly creature in the game.

There are four different levels of difficulty in the game (Kids Mode, Normal, Hard, and Insane). After you choose your difficulty, you can proceed on your campaign and begin playing the more than 100 different levels that Swarm Gold has to offer. In addition to the multitude of levels, there are all kinds of power-ups scattered throughout the game. These include shields, free lives and of course, weapons upgrades. The initial gun that comes on your ship is useful, but is also slow and needs time to hit the targets. You can find all kinds of other guns, like assault rifles, shotguns, autoguns, flamethrowers and mines that will aid you in defending your ship. Additionally the game has a multiplayer mode that allows for up to eight players. I am not sure exactly how this works but it seems like a cool idea and definitely is something that enhances the replayability of Swarm Gold.

Personally, I really liked this game. It was a simple point and click shooter, where shift propelled you into space. This was a cool idea but one should definitely use a mouse because the pad on a keyboard is a little cumbersome. I also had some difficultly avoiding asteroids, which pop up in inconvenient places. It is nice to have some obstacles, but when I am taking more damage from inanimate objects instead of the enemies, I think something needs to be changed. Maybe it was just because I wasn't using a mouse, but that was a big problem for me. What I did like was the blue and red cursors that pointed your ship in the correct direction. The blue cursor led my ship to the nearest EZT and eventually the exit portal. The red cursor was equally as helpful, as it pointed out an enemy that was near. Overall, this was a solid game and I would give it four out of five stars.

Features of Swarm Gold:
-Over 100 Levels
-Enemy Aliens
-Lots of Weapons

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