Just by playing the game again and again, no matter how bad you are, you'll manage to unlock more and more EX options that will make the game easier - allowing everyone to play the game through to its conclusion - something that isn't possible in the arcade without spending a small fortune. Reach the end, and you'll increase the size of your targeting reticle.
If you shoot down a number of enemies with the gun, you'll unlock an option to make your gun more powerful. The more times you play, the easier the game will make itself, by gradually unlocking a whole variety of options that turns your plane from a weak, fragile petal into a mean, lean, robust war machine. You unlock the first EX option - a few extra credits (continues), by simply getting a game over. These options are there to help make your life easier - and as such, they're unlocked by simply persevering, and sticking to your guns, so to speak. In a fit of genius, that we're surprised no-one else has come up with before, Afterburner Climax introduces something called "EX Options". For massive damage.īut this is where Afterburner plays its trump card. Once you've shot down enough enemies, you can go into "Climax mode", which slows everything down, and enlarges your targeting cursor. And when you find yourself always getting so close to the end of the game (the game has regular breaks to tell you how far you've progressed through the game, and tell you how many stages you've got left), before the odds simply overwhelm you - well, it just doesn't seem fair. As the odds get greater and greater, you'll find yourself dying more and more often - especially when, as you waggle the virtual joystick frantically, in an attempt to dodge the incoming rockets, your plane decides it wants to do a barrel roll, which just ends with you getting killed. However, on the standard difficulty, this "coming together", sadly, only ever lasts a few levels.
And when everything comes together - when you're dodging the enemies, firing missiles back, and racking up a huge combo (string together a number of kills, and you'll get a huge score), you feel - and look - like you're the new Top Gun. Starting out nice and easily, with enemies firing just a few rockets at you, the game quickly ramps things up, to the point where the screen fills with enemies, missiles, and smoke trails, as you're left frantically dodging whatever you can see in the hope your plane stays alive. It's surprisingly hard flying a jet at several hundred miles an hour without clipping anything.Ĭoming to the Xbox Live Arcade via the real, physical, bricks and mortar thing, Afterburner Climax plays as you'd imagine an arcade game would - relying on simple to pick up and play, but difficult to master controls, and, at times, a fair amount of luck.
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