I've been playing it. It is even better with the Nextball Arcade than I thought it would be, which is a strangely common feeling with the Nextball. When first testing, I had only tried the first character. Now I realise each character moves differently. This is particularly great with an analogue trackball as you get a very different feel and different control experience with each of them. Genius! It looks fantastic and plays very well indeed. The high score table is a little tricky to use still, but I'm sure that will get sorted and it doesn't affect the game play. The immediate reaction I had to seeing a letter A presented was to use the cursor up/down keys to change it. That got me a number entered. So I pressed delete. That got me another number entered. Luckily my first high score was easily beaten. :-D Wing Warriors, when paired with the Nextball, is the only analogue vertical shooter experience for the Next. Red Shift is great, but it is a Speccy 128K game and is a bit monochrome. For me, this is the best vertical shooter on the platform.
AndyCalling
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This is a really smooth vertical shooter for the Next. The graphics are many layered and very well animated. It is one good looking game. The audio sounds fantastic with a great back track. My only criticism there is that the sound effects could do with a little more punch to stand out from the music. And... the game has mouse controls as an option! This means it is compatible with the Nextball Arcade and I can confirm it works really well with it. This is the first true Next vertical shooter with Nextball capability (Red Shift is a classic Speccy game that can do it). BUT... there is a bug. You cannot move with a mouse/Nextball unless you hold down fire. This needs fixing before the game can take the title. Hopefully this can be fixed soon, then that's finally a Next vertical shooter in the growing Nextball capable library of games. Thanks Mr Dev, you made my weekend.
PS. If you do an update to fix the mouse/Nextball bug, adding the ability to use the delete key during high score name entry as well would add some extra polish. It can be a bit frustrating otherwise.
A formidable game! This is a real challenge, or for Countdown fans, a real conundrum. If you're the kind of person who loved games like Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Blockbusters and Pub Trivia on your Speccy back in the day then this will totally tickle the same toes. So many puzzle questions! Mr Bay, the dev, must surely be a professor of linguistic boffinry to put all these together. You will need to carefully use your study aids at the right moments to get through, unless you are a true genius and can go it alone. Cool looking Next level academic scenes and appropriately high-brow music with super smooth mouse driven gameplay show off the Next's capabilities wonderfully. Absolutely worth a donation of anyone's money. More! More!