Tanks vs Spaceships \u2013 who will win?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nEnvasion slides in snugly in the gap between Missile Command<\/strong> and Space Invaders. You are a tank that can scuttle, crab-like, left and right, on the bottom of the screen. In swoops spaceships, and it\u2019s your job to clear them before they obliterate you. So, you\u2019re firing primary and secondary weapons with the shoulder bumpers in combination with the second analogue stick, while unleashing hell with slow-mo and smartbombs on the triggers.\u00a0<\/p>\nExcept there\u2019s a reason that tanks are pretty much the last vehicle you\u2019d choose to face off against airborne units. The spaceships move with a large degree of speed and manouverability in a 3D space, and, well, a tank doesn\u2019t. So, Envasion already has a problem to solve: how can it make tank-versus-spaceship combat satisfying?<\/p>\n
The answer is \u2018with some difficulty\u2019. To Envasion\u2019s credit, it does try to speed up the player\u2019s tank. With a jab of the analogue stick, you can glide from one end of the screen to the other in a\u00a0 matter of milliseconds. When multiple salvos of missiles are coming your way, this level of evasion is needed. There\u2019s a lot of running away going on in Envasion.<\/p>\n
If the spaceships stayed, Space Invaders-style, at the top of the screen and drifted down, then everything would be fine. But Envasion shoots itself in its own kneecaps by constantly bringing the enemies close to the floor. Small ships, barely a few pixels in size, hover in the bottom-left and bottom-right corner of the screens. Trigonometry fans will anticipate a problem here: if there are enemies firing at the player while a couple of inches above the floor, then those bullets will sweep across the floor and become pretty much unblockable. It\u2019s just not satisfying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the spread of bullets. Get hit by an enemy bullet and a tiny sliver of your health bar will fall off. When enemies are killed, they often collapse into health pick-ups, so it\u2019s easy(ish) to replenish. But in Envasion, the ships love to swoop in for more than just a cuddle: in fact, they hardly ever stay at the top of the screen. This means that their shotgun-like volleys can concentrate on a single point, i.e. the player. Which means death. Sudden death. From a full health bar all the way to the bottom in a millisecond. Again, it\u2019s not exactly satisfying to meet a level end, just because you got hit once.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Envasion is all a bit odd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe feeling of having a hand tied behind the back is strong with Envasion. The guns, while varied, are odd choices for the enemies you\u2019re facing. A charged railgun is too precise and sniper-like when you\u2019re facing off against swarms of tiny, pixel-sized ships. You can also play with and upgrade some allied tanks, but they anticipate enemies offscreen, shooting them before you can, meaning you\u2019re left with nothing. They then hoover up the health pickups so you can\u2019t have them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The overriding feeling is that you, the player, are the least powerful entity on the screen. Ships are more maneuverable and capable of one-hitting you. Your allies can clear the screen of enemies before you\u2019ve even popped the safety off. And there you are, locked to the bottom of the screen, scampering away from bullets and trying to get a kill in edgeways. It\u2019s not wholly empowering.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nor is it varied. There are two enemy types, maybe three if we\u2019re being generous (since one is a larger form of the other), with the odd coloured variant. That\u2019s not a lot to play with when populating thirteen levels with multiple waves in each. The result is a feeling that you\u2019ve been here before, and we were yawning when we weren\u2019t getting scuttled by enemy ships.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve gone straight in for the kill with Envasion, not because we hated that flipping title, but because we\u2019re eager to see Envasion succeed. It\u2019s onto something interesting, and there is <\/em>some quality in the peripheral RPG stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\nThere\u2019s a menu between levels where you can buy upgrades to your ship and wingmen. It\u2019s about the ugliest interface you\u2019ll ever see, and it\u2019s fairly unintuitive, but there\u2019s a decent amount of choice to be had in terms of weapon loadouts and what you upgrade and when. You might opt for a railgun focused build, sniping enemies while your allies spray the screen with bullets, for example. It\u2019s not hugely deep, but these RPG-lite bits were welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Doesn\u2019t look the best, eh!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nAnd there\u2019s a frankly ridiculous number of difficulty modes. If you\u2019re interested in seeing how things escalate through them, as you defeat all thirteen waves (including a ridiculous difficulty spike in the final boss), then the option is very much there. We would have liked a cooperative mode, though, particularly as AI pals are already present.<\/p>\n
Regardless, there\u2019s a common thread to almost all top-drawer shoot \u2019em ups: they make you feel like overpowered killing machines, and then ramp up the opposition to match. But Envasion never made us feel powerful: quite the opposite. Locked to the bottom of the screen with some limp ordnance, we felt like we were pew-pewing our way through too many enemies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While there are some interesting RPG frills around the edges of Envasion, this is a Space Invaders-like shooter that lacks speed, bombast and variety. Envasion, sadly, is one to evoid.<\/p>\n
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