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Here’s a demo for Megacopter, a Desert Strike parody with a splash of Mars AttacksEverything was mega in the 1990s
Everything was mega in the 1990s
Image credit:Pizza Bear Games
Image credit:Pizza Bear Games
In EA’s Desert Strike - released way back in the dim salvages of 1992 - you are a helicopter pilot scooting around a Sylvester Stallone reinvention of Iraq, shooting down tanks and fighters with guns and missiles while rescuing VIPs and fretting constantly about your wafer-thin armour and espresso-sized fuel reserves. It was a no-frills piece of Gulf War fanfic, complete with George Bush ending cameo, and a well-madeshooterthat used to drive me nuts on Sega Mega Drive.
Megacopter: Blades Of The Goddessis Desert Strike, but heavily Blood-Dragonified and with a big dollop of Airwolf to boot. Here, the enemy troops are naughty Reptoid aliens, the writing is scattershot-satirical (upgrades are bought with pizza tokens) and your helicopter houses the soul of a blood-drinking “AZ-TECH” goddess. Is it a nuanced parody of the Strike series? It doesn’t feel like it. Did I enjoy the demo? Yes. Does it have a crawling tentacle boss called Queen Oildusa? Also yes, and will you please stop asking questions so I can write the rest of this article.
Megacopter Release TrailerWatch on YouTube
Megacopter Release Trailer
Megacopter: Blades Of The Goddess is out 21st June - you can find it and the demo onSteam. Developers Pizza Bear Games consist of Gabe Miller and Nicholas Hunter, with Robin Ogden of OGRE Sound supplying some rad period music. If you like this kind of thing, you might also get a kick out of the antiqueRenegade Opsor the much more recentGo Mecha Ball.
