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Rocket Riot is an action-packed, side-scrolling shooting game with quirky 8-bit visuals that was previously available for Windows Phone 7 and 8.X as well as for Windows 8. Last month, the popular title made its way to Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile as a universal app.
First released in 2009 for the Xbox 360, Rocket Riot was one of the first Xbox LIVE Arcade games. A year later, Microsoft Studios published Rocket Riot as a launch title for the new Windows Phone 7 and then in 2012, Microsoft Studios published Rocket Riot 3D as a launch title for Windows 8. In 2014, Rocket Riot was removed from the Windows Store as well as the Windows Phone Store as Microsoft Studios took a step back allowing the developers Codeglue to take charge. Now, after seven years since the original launch, Rocket Riot is back on Steam and Windows 10, and is Xbox Live enabled.
Rocket Riot features over 200 single player missions across nine separate campaigns with unique set of characters. There is an assortment of over 300 characters unlockable by finding and killing them throughout the campaign. The campaign stories are ridiculously funny like an evil pirate escaping from prison and enacting his revenge on the world by stealing everyone’s legs, and then scientists developing a rocket that attaches to one’s backside. Yeah, really.
Once you’ve picked a game, you enter a level where you can move your character 360 degrees on a 2D plane and shoot enemies that appear out of thin air. The most common level objective is deathmatch where you need to kill a set of enemies, however, sometimes you’ll have a little creative objective like a football type match where you must pick up the football and carry it back to the goal. While you’re playing, you can score 20 color-coordinated power-ups – some of them detrimental – that last for a brief amount of time. Once you’ve completed the level’s objective, you’ll move on to the next level. If you die, you’ll need to start the level again.
The controls of Rocket Riot are quite simple and seamless. The simplicity comes in handy when the action gets intense, and essentially, you end up shooting randomly. You can use touch or keyboard/mouse, as well as the Xbox controller.
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Apart from the colorful graphics, the upbeat soundtrack adds to the fun, and the ‘Go Bananas’ song is insanely addictive.
Rocket Riot offers a splash of modern art with colorful 8-bit style visuals that are engaging and fun to play. There’s a mix of retro art, great soundtrack, and clever humor in a gameplay that features a fully destructible environment. Of course, since the gameplay is repetitive to an extent – both in single player and multiplayer mode – Rocket Riot is best enjoyed in short spurts, but the frantic pace of the game does get addictive quickly. It’s surprising that I ended up enjoying a seven-year-old game, but the chaotic arcade fun doesn’t get old, and one would hope success of this game will bring a sequel in future.
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Give it a whirl on your Windows 10 PCs, tablets, and mobiles by downloading the game from the link below, and let us know how you like it. It’s $3.99, and there are in-app purchases for unlocking campaigns and characters.
But maybe you can score it for free! Our friends at Codeglue have offered some promo codes – both for Steam and Windows Store – for our readers. Follow @OnMSFT and me (@baxiabhishek) on Twitter, and tell us the first video game you ever played, because Rocket Riot pays a fun homage to those 8-bit/16-bit video games we’ve all played back in the day. Not on Twitter? Share your anecdote in the comments below! We’ll pick few fun ones, and announce the results on December 1, so spread the word around.
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Riot’s new competitive shooter Valorant is finally receiving its first official patch, while the title is still in closed beta; it comes with equally appropriate notes that offer insight into precisely what the minds of Riot are thinking as they attempt to scale various heroes and abilities to a centralized theory of balance. In the first patch notes, the hero Raze is addressed along with Sage, some mechanics, and map balancing. We’ll briefly discuss the primary points of the patch, why they were addressed, and prominent opinions. The patch is due to release tonight for European servers, and tomorrow morning for North America.First up, we have Raze, who finds herself in the same situation as the McCree sniper from Overwatch, or the Krieg from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in late-2019; she’s a bit over-tuned in comparison to the others and can guarantee kills in a variety of situations that don’t have much counter-play. This frustrates everyone except those that are using Raze, and forums inevitably devolve into ‘gitgud’ statements and colorful epithets. It’s difficult to honestly deny that she can scoop up a surprising number of kills using only her kit, however; she’s widely considered to be the most powerful agent thus far in Valorant.Want to see specific details of the patch? Read about them here:— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT)The most common complaint thus far has been that her ultimate, or special move, is her Showstopper rocket that can kill an entire team if they’re defending close; in hectic situations, it’s very difficult to hear her voice line that announces that the enemy team needs to scatter like roaches in the kitchen when the lights turn on.
Another complaint is her consistent use of grenades (called Paint Shells), that scatter into additional grenades, littering an entire defense point with death with little to no counter-play aside from not being at the defense point.With this in mind, Raze is the first agent to receive some nerfs from Riot. From the official patch notes:.
Reduced Paint Shells from 2 to 1. Paint Shells now have a kill reset, requiring players to get 2 kills to refresh cooldown. Tuned and adjusted audio for Paint Shells, Blast Pack, and Showstopper so that they’ll be easier to hear in hectic scenarios.All in all, this is an appropriate approach towards reigning Raze in a bit to a baseline of damage output. The kill reset on Paint Shells ensure that users won’t be lobbing them blindly every match while waiting for them to replenish; Raze users will need to either successfully net two kills with one grenade, or use their other abilities along with weaponry to continue lobbing grenades anywhere an enemy may be.The adjusted audio should ensure that users can hear the voiceline prior to Raze sending out a Showstopper, at least offering a means of escaping before eating a rocket with their face. These patches have been received favorably, although not with Raze users.Strangely enough, Sage is also getting an alteration, although it’s difficult to determine it as only a nerf, or a buff.
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