Warp Man
SCORE: 75
Warp Man is another game I was able to
play thanks to the Namco Museum Collection 2 on the Evercade. The more
reviews I write from games on Evercade cartridges the more I appreciate
the Evercade as a system. Warp Man is a mixture of two things. We are
protecting a black hole looking thing from enemies coming through. Then
we get into Bomberman like levels. I am not really clear what is going
on with Warp Man but I enjoyed it.
The enemies in Warp Man keep appearing. We take them out and they keep
on coming. The enemies characters change color and sometimes lay eggs.
The eggs will turn into another enemy that we must deal with. There are
a limited amount of hits we can take and there are a set amount of
enemies in each level. Certain enemies will carry around letters that we
can collect and spell a word. The word being spelled in Warp Man is
EXTRA. Not a long word to spell.
I did some research and found the way we move from the space world to
the maze world in Warp Man is to enter the black hole when it is
flashing. Then we can plant bombs and blow the enemies up that way. The
main issue families will have with Warp Man is violence. We are shooting
or blowing up (with bombs) a variety of characters in Warp Man. The is
pretty much all we wind up doing in this game (aside from spelling
EXTRA).
Graphically Warp Man looks decent for its day and era. It is neat that
in essence two different kinds of games were included within Warp Man.
They are both on the limited side though. The music and sounds effects
are decent to listen to. Expect to hear a lot of shooting sounds since
that is what we mainly do in Warp Man. The controls work well and I had
no issues there.
I had fun playing Warp Man. I was really surprised to see a Bomberman
like game screen in Warp Man. I wish they had fleshed that out some more
personally. The enemy random movements in Warp Man can make it a bit of
a pain. They can only go the four main directions in Warp Man. There are
no diagonal attacks in this video game. I would love to see this
franchise receive a resurrection in the near future. It was a pleasure
for me to play and review Warp Man.
- Paul
Graphics: 70%
Sound: 80%
Replay/Extras: 70%
Gameplay: 80%
Family Friendly Factor: 75%
System: Evercade/ NES
Publisher: Namco
Developer: Namco
Rating: ‘NR’ for Not Rated
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