![]() Housemarque have released some brilliant games featuring local co-op, so we asked them some questions regarding split-screen gaming. In fact, if you’re signed up for PS+, you can get that most recent version of the game for free. They’re also creators of the local co-op championing zombie shooter Dead Nation, originally a PS3 title that was recently repackaged and relaunched on PS4. One of the best ‘small but hugely successful’ studios out there, Housemarque are world famous for the Super Stardust series as well as the excellent PS4 launch title Resogun. We’ve got a special treat lined up this week in the form of an interview with independent Finnish developers Housemarque. ![]() Welcome to the fifth edition of Sofa Sharers. Sometimes, we just need to be reminded that's why we buy these consoles.// Articles // 21st Mar 2014 - 9 years ago // By Ryan Davies Sofa Sharers: An Interview With Housemarque Resogun is beautiful, chaotic, and just plain arcade fun. Once you truly start to understand the scoring mechanic, and see the leaderboards, that's when you realize there's a lot here to master. It's not overly frustrating or difficult, though there are four difficulties available for replayability. Resogun is one of those games that appear simple on the surface and it's something anyone can enjoy. It's also incredibly fun (and hilarious) to hit the L2 button and toss the human in the air to the other player like passing a ragdoll football. What co-op boils down to is fast and frantic action with communication on who should be trying to rescue the human while the other player covers them. In co-op, players have their own pool of lives, their own multiplier and even their own score - though they do share the bombs at your disposal. We hit a few issues with lag as the game seems to want a really solid connection while playing, but when Resogun worked in co-op it was a ton of fun. Sadly the classes don't really feel like they play off of each other much, so you really just choose the ship with which you're the most comfortable. Picking different ship classes help differentiate players on the screen, but in the chaos, it would have been nice to have player ships be different colors to help tell them apart. There seems to be some minor scaling going on, but for the most part, the gameplay is identical. If you've ever seen physics demos on computers a few years back, it's pretty similar, though much more impressive.Ĭo-Op in Resogun is an online affair as of now, with you and another player playing through the same levels as the single player game. So as stuff explodes in the game a shower of particles litter the screen. Resogun is built using voxels instead of typical polygons. The levels offer some minor variety in terms of visuals, including lakes, fire, and plenty of stuff that explodes. They aren't overly difficult and the patterns are fairly obvious, but they do add some tension. Thankfully there are on screen visual and audio clues to help you in your quest to save the last humans.Įach of the games' five levels culminate with a boss battle. It sounds simple but the chaos quickly unfolds and it's easy to lose the little guys in the action. They are released by killing enemies called "keepers."Once freed from their prison players need to pick them up and take them to ships waiting to travel off planet. The goal of each level is to rescue 10 tiny humans trapped in little square jars. Overdrive is a special attack that deals massive damage (see how I worked a PlayStation 3 launch joke in there?) to enemies and also helps create large scoring chains. While agility governs the speed of the ship, boost is a special move that allows you to quickly move around the level while also being immune to damage. ![]() Players can choose from three ships each with their own strengths built around three categories: agility, boost and overdrive. While SS:HD took place on a spherical world, Resogun's levels are cylindrical in nature. Resogun is most similar to Super Stardust HD in that it's a shoot em up arcade game where the goal is to complete levels and gain high scores. All solid titles, all featuring co-op play in some form or another. Resogun is created by Housemarque, developers of Super Stardust HD, Outland and Dead Nation. Resogun might be in the same boat for the PlayStation 4. ![]() For many that was the killer app for Microsoft's console for quite some time. It's hard to talk about Resogun as a "launch title" and not mention Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved on the Xbox 360.
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