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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Hole.io in Apps

Oct 8, 2018

Hole.io

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5.6

(5 Ratings)

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Skins you can earn for your hole are fun

When people are eaten, it's oddly darkly satisfying.

Physics engine makes it harder to eat things if they are the same size as you.

The "Skill" seems to be having a good internet connection without lag, and knowing the maps. (3 more)

Essentially a speed game where knowledge of where things you can eat quickly causes you to win.

When people fall over but aren't eaten, they just lay there... they should try to get up and run away...

Every game played earns you an ad before playing the next.

Solid little addicting time waster.

The premise of the game is very simple, you are a small hole, you are trying to eat things on the map and get bigger, and then be able to eat bigger things and get even bigger.... You get points for eating things. and there is a time limit, so it's a race to get as big as possible, and if you are bigger than other holes you can even eat them. This game has issues. Being the first to find a park which has lots of little things seems to be the trick to winning. Once you clear that out and size up, then you can get other things like parked cars, then move on to small buildings and fences and so on... This game could be better with a random map generator (which is probably hard) which would keep experienced players from dominating every time based on knowing the maps inside and out. This is single-handedly the reason why I am probably going to quit playing the game in a week or so, but right now I'm having fun with it anyway.

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Gareth von Kallenbach (977 KP) rated Tempest 4000 in Video Games

Jun 19, 2019

Back in the 80s when the arcade was king; Tempest was one of the more popular arcade games of the era. Anyone who turned their allowance or paychecks into quarters remembers the furious spinning and shooting combinations of the classic Atari game.

Tempest 4000 is the latest version of the classic game which blends new and retro graphics to

Create an updated version of the game. Playing the classic Claw, players must navigate various webs and fields to destroy and evade enemies which emerge from the center of the playing area and shoot and advance on the player. Players also will have a limited amount of Smart Bombs to use which destroy all in site which is a big help when enemies make their way to the edge of the playing area and start advancing their way to take out the players.

The game has some great new maps and colors and the action is fast paced and insane but will seem very familiar for fans of the original.

Playing on a PS4 Pro did have a bit of a learning curve as the control stick is not as ideal to circle a map as the disc of the original as I often found myself going too far or not far enough at first.

The gameplay is fast and intense but did seem repetitive after a while. No matter how many new maps, colors, and enemies it throws at you, it still comes down to how fast you can spin and shoot.

Tempest 4000 is a pleasant enough distraction for those looking for some updated nostalgia and a few hours of fun gameplay.

http://sknr.net/2018/07/31/tempest-4000/