That's right, degrees of carnage that you must master alone, with only occasional help from friendly bombers. Enemies include ground troops, tanks, personnel-carrying armored vehicles, bombers, fighter jets, and plenty more. Your arsenal includes a bunch of sand bags to catch the bullets flying your way hopefully , and a turret mounted with several different types of artillery.
You have basic chain guns, more powerful anti-tank machine guns, heat-seeking missiles, air support provided by friendly bomber jets, and if all else fails, a. Flares are also available to temporarily light up the sky when needed, but they hardly qualify as weapons. The real fun starts when the sun goes down. That's right, the night missions The graphics presented are not the best in the world, but they do the trick.
Enemy troops are semi-believable, but the many different types of vehicles are much more realistic. The fire effects and explosions are pretty good. Also, the scenery is rather nice. These three things stand out above the rest of the visuals, but let's not let the lack of astounding graphics distract us from the real forte, which is the gameplay.
Beach Head is highly addictive and easily learned. The degree field of battle and primary weapon firing is controlled by the mouse. Weapons are changed by using the space bar, and a few other keys. Since the player is in a stationary bunker, there is no movement involved. It doesn't get much simpler than that. The controls can be learned in a couple minutes, but mastering your opponents will take much longer than that due to the fact that the levels just keep on coming, and they don't get any easier as you climb higher into the later stages.
Much like the lackluster visual effects, the sound is adequate. The background music played in the game menus strikes a stunning resemblance to the Rambo theme song. You are in a fixed position and you can only rotate a bit on each side.
That is the only movement the game gives you; I do not really have a problem with this. However, I can see why some people would be put off if they came into this thinking it was a first-person shooter.
Each time you start a new mission, you never know what is coming. You may have to shoot down a bunch of soldiers coming from the sea, some tanks, aircraft or you may even have to fire off flares so that you can see, before shooting down those that want you dead. The basic idea of each stage is that you have a limited number of guns to make use of and you need to kill everything that is coming your way.
It is pretty mindless stuff, but it can be a fun distraction for 30 minutes or so. It can be very rewarding when you do get in a groove and just start mowing down wave after wave of enemies.
Sometimes it is like enemies can spawn out of nowhere and I have seen stuff flat out fall through the map! So, the game is lacking a bit of polish. When looking at a game like Beach Head you have to take into account what it is. This is an arcade-style shooter and in the arcades this type of gameplay is fine. You put in a few quarters and you play until you die and then you move onto a different game.
I feel that for a home release, this game really needed something else to help keep the player engaged and motivated in order to keep on playing. It is even more annoying that they never added anything noteworthy over the game! Back in the day, I was a huge fan of the arcade shooter. What I got instead was a dismal attempt at a resurrection of an age-old favorite genre.
Beach Head is simple enough to play. Aiming the weapon is difficult. There is significant, purposeful, sloppy aim when trying to bead in on the target.
That in itself was frustrating enough, but fortunately, I was blessed with many more disappointments. Approximate size Age rating For all ages. Installation Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices. Language supported English United States. Publisher Info Beach Head website. Additional terms Terms of transaction.
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