by gSathe
Okay. It needs to be said.
And really quickly.
GlueFO 2.0 is awesome! It’s one of the coolest takes on Asteroids in a really long time. Other games, like Echoes, for example, or Geometry Wars, refined the original concept. Dodge was an excellent example of how the original game could be turned on its head – in that game, you could not shoot at all. Instead all the enemies were actively hunting you and you had to guide their shots into each other.
GlueFO takes things in a different direction, making you more of an active participant in the devastation laid in your path.
Simply put, the company that’s funding you can’t afford to pay for ammunition anymore. So it’s your job to scrounge for some.
Truly, a game for the times we are living in, where jobs and money seem to be reserved for a lucky few. So your job is simple. You’re surrounded by a glue field, and you scoot up to little pebbles and then reverse the field, firing them out into the world. You start off with a floating pebble and big blobs, and as you beat up on them a bit, you quickly end up with lots of little pebbles, and no blobs, at which point the game sinks its first hook into you – upgrades.
One of the most useful is the one which lets you rotate the GlueFO, letting you aim the pebbles (handy!) but everything is useful. The only catch is that health is limited. Leveling doesn’t equal healing – in fact, there’s no way to restore lost health. It’s a nice way of inserting pressure, though as you will realise after a while, it’s really not that easy to end the game – you have a lot of health to burn through!
And as you’re doing that, you’ll get to see the next hook the game sinks into you. Achievements! Lots and lots of precious sparkly achievements to pick up and treasure!
There’s a passel of modes if you want, including one without any upgrades at all, if you want to challenge yourself, and you even get an achievement for it, and all the other modes too!
Constant colour changes, decent sound effects, even GlueFOs to battle with, easy to understand controls and highly satisfying gameplay it’s hard to find anything not to like in GlueFO?
Nothing actually, so go play now.
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