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hey everybody this is Steve from gamers Nexus Donna it is currently five a.m. where i am recording this room right now which is the past because you are listening to this in the future so it's like run to alternate realities i'm doing a new installment of a heat signature which is released every saturday and heat signature basically covers the lesser-known games the non forefront games and last week we talked about cube world which is a super awesome game check it out it's in the related videos check that out after this one this week we're talking about choplifter HD which i think is fairly new it came out january 11 that looks like and i just thought of pop up on my Steam feed when I had some DLC come out that is free so i decided i would check it out and the game itself is only ten dollars so it was an easy choice and easy game to pick up it is choplifter is a side-scrolling 2.5 dimensional if i'm a helicopter rescue game sort of like the older games it is basically side-scrolling you shoot the enemies you dodge their bullets you refuel your tank you can change altitude change speed you can shoot missiles shoot normal machine-gun bullets and the goal of the game is to rescue civilians that are stranded or drop off military personnel that need to go where they're going and the game is based in a war zone it is pretty pretty standard in terms of arcade-style games now where it gets cool though is the 2.5 d i mentioned we're with the helicopter you can actually rotate to be facing towards you out of the monitor so towards us or facing the other way if you swivel it fast enough and what that does is it lets you aim to foreground you that's not just the the same level background as your helicopter units so so you're you can aim at actually units that are basically closer to you or farther away from you on in the actual depth of the screen not just width and that's what makes it cool and makes it stand out there's a very simple game as I said but it's a great game to kill maybe three or four hours I probably wouldn't put that much time into it in one go because you'll burn out really fast it's not all that it's not gonna hold your attention attended all that long it is maybe a total of I don't know it's hard to say probably four hours to x depending on what kind of gamer you are of total gameplay you might get a little bit more if you're really into the downloadable content because they do release a lot of it and so far I believe two of them have been free the other uh looks like let's see here looks like two of them have been free and the others were all 99 cents each really isn't that bad so for the most part you get different types of choppers and they are equipped with different types of of attributes as normal so you can have more fuel or fit more passengers or stuff like that and of course there are different levels as you keep playing and and one of the cooler things is recent DLC added a zombie level which where we probably all had a bit enough of zombies at this point I'm kind of getting sick of them myself but this game does a really good job of it it really actually reminds me a lot of zombie driver which i'm considering covering and another one of these heats and your episodes but for those that aren't aware zombie driver is basically a not side-scrolling it's a top-down arcade racing game where you drive and kill zombies really hard that's that so this game has a zombie level where there is Ombey is that are attacking a town and they're besieging this by the state villagers I've been playing a lot of older games lately they're besieging the citizens and you go down there you rescue them you blow up zombies you shoot your missiles and take them out in big chunks at a time by the dozens if you can and it's all very a very non serious very fun very basic and it's really just it's the perfect game as I said to kill some time on a Saturday or something to that extent choplifter HD isn't an extremely challenging game it does have some very difficult levels though but for the most part is fairly average in terms of gaming difficulty when compared against other types of games that most of us listening to this or casting this in my case play so it is not super challenging but it is is a relative difficulty if you get into the later levels and if you restrict yourself with usage of weapons so that's a they're definitely a lot of options there for expanding the play and for helping it live on especially with this DLC and actually the game has really impressive voice acting it's not like it's the most resonant or the most impressive voices in the world they don't have the golden voice or anything like that but the voice acting itself is really well scripted it has great one-liners actually the pilot reminds me a lot of Johnny Bravo of all people and and there's some really good banter back and forth between the pilot and either the copilot or for the guy in the base he's he's basically another guy in the background but some good banter a lot of funny jokes a lot of one-liners and and I suppose they get old if play it for 20 hours but for the short kind of game it is it really won't won't be one of those games where you start where you to mute the sound because like that it is it's pretty solid there's really not a whole lot more to say the video tells it all for the most part like I said the cool part is that you can rotate your career chopper and shoot out towards you or out in different directions and then the whole dynamic where you basically land your chopper you have to be careful kill all the enemies surrounding the area clear out the area just like black hawk down or something there's some kind of mission and once you've cleared out the area and enough you can land you can still shoot while you're landed so we can cover your your citizens as they're boarding and then once you've covered them once enough of them have gotten on you can take off and bring them to the helipad where they're rescued at which point you go out again and you rescue some more and that's good game and in the zombie level which is dlc so it's not the whole game but in the zombie level there are some cool extra elements like the zombies can grab onto your chopper and paint onto it and you got to shake them off by whipping your chopper around to do the 2.5 d view in the normal 2d view and use your booster and run into objects intentionally and all kinds of stuff like that to shake the zombies off because you won't always have a chance to kill them all while the rest scream rescuing people because of course it is important not to land on people which I may or may not have done several times and started as a result of it but anyway it's a pretty good game check it out it's called choplifter HD is currently on steam like I said if it's not your kind of game you know skip it it's only a ten-dollar game it's not going to be a world of difference event big picture but it is a good game to kill some time especially if you really enjoy some arcade-style games if you really enjoy side-scrollers and if you're just in general interested in the Unreal Engine or in the other applications of the Unreal Engine or again interested in this whole 2.5 d thing and it is a simple game it is single player on this team for ten dollars if there's anything else I can tell you about it five DLC options currently available most of them are just extra choppers though but it does prove that the developers active so that means there will be more in the future which makes me excited excited about the feature of this game so I I have had enough stumbling over my words it is now 506 am and I'm gonna sign off for now so i will talk to you guys next time look forward to the next heat signature which I'm trying to decide I might talk about the voxel based RTS known as Castle story which I covered in the recent article or I might even do some more I might do a secret project that one of my friends has developed it is called I'm not gonna tell you cuz it's a secret project but stay tuned there will be another one next Saturday just like always and that is all for heat signature