HURRICAN
Hurrican is a fun and challenging game. It reminds me of Contra from years ago on NES. It looks fairly simple, but isn't. Enemies come at you from all over the place, and while you do have a weapon that clears the screen of enemies, you only have three rounds.
The replay value here is high, as it is immediately addictive. While it looks simple, one must work hard to figure out the timings of one enemy, while doing the same thing from evermore approaching enemies. It is hard to accept failure here.
This is both a story driven and game driven game. The story at the beginning draws you in and explains much of what is going on when you are the sole survivor of a crash landing into an alien planet. Yet, as I stated, the gameplay is immediately addictive and keeps you fighting, but also wondering what the next advancement will bring.
The games presentation is impressive for a 2d scrolling mode. It is a well colored and attractive game complete with some old school style theme music. They, while not incredibly hard to make, are done well.
The controls take a while to get used to, especially if you are used to the "w" "a" "s" "d" configuration of 3d games. However they are simple enough to get used to relatively quickly.
If I had to change one mechanic here, it would be to make the directional controls on the left side of the keyboard with the firing controls on the right (as this is pretty standard on today's games).
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