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   Anonymous
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   Swarm Racer (< 1Mb)

   This is a 2D top down ‘action’ racer with quite a difference. You are in charge of a swarm of bees rather than a single racer, and the idea is to collect all of the purple gems while racing around the tracks as fast as possible. Keys change the shape of the swarm and sometimes you will need to fly in close formation while at other times you will need to open out the swarm to collect all of the gems quickly.

   

   

   There are 8 standard tracks plus 4 custom tracks and there are 8 gold trophies to try to collect. The tracks are timed and as well as being very varied, have obstacles to avoid, or which slow you down. Red blocks blink in and out of sight, trapping your bees when they appear, green blocks bounce your bees like off a trampoline, making it hard to keep your swarm together, and yellow blocks (honey?) can only be moved through very slowly. And nice funky music to race to! Being busy bees, there are sometimes a lot of gems to collect!

   

   It’s a colourful game with nice retro graphics and plays very well . It records your play if you wish to view the re-play. A sequel ‘Swarm Racer 3000’ is under development and is likely to be released sometime fairly soon. For a such a small download, with Swarm Racer you get an excellent game! Wish it had a level editor!

   

   The game plays windowed or full-screen (via options in menu), in XP, Vista and Win 7, and Mac OSX, and uses the ‘Arrow’ keys to move, ‘Z’ key to expand the swarm and ‘X’ key to contract the swarm (which is something you’ll do rather a lot!). ‘R’ key to restart a level, ‘Esc’ key to quit.

   

   It is a little on the short side, about half an hour’s worth to play right through, though you’ll be very hard pressed to win all eight trophies! There's plenty of replay value as you try to beat your previous best time for each track and grab as many trophies as you can! It’s decent game and very different from any other game you are ever likely to play. Very definitely worth some of your time! Get Bee busy!

   Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AQsI8kCt9g

   Download HERE

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   This looks very interesting. Thanks for posting Chazzo.

   I purchased one of the developers games via Reflexive arcade some years back Chocolate Castle, a decent puzzle game tht involves moving shapes around from point A to point B, much like the traditional sliding puzzle but created in a more interesting way. I played it a lot about 5 years ago with my children. They liked it because of it's name, lol.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Thanks WR, btw you can turn off the 'droning' sound, in the options menu if you wish! Bzzzzz! or Not! :)

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   To buzz or not to buzz, that is the question

   This is a high quality game with excellent graphics and a style that I really like. Tt's simple yet interesting at the same time. I do think they should improve the title page though; unless they were after a retro look from the 90's.

   Posted 13 years ago #

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