Drill Dozing..zzz
Mr. Driller Online is a pretty shoddy downloadable game. There, I said it. It looks fugly, the gameplay is unchanged from nearly a decade ago and the online barely works. There's no reason why you should spend your money on this.
Unless you picked up Namco Museum Virtual Arcade like I did. Then you'll take a step back and see that maybe it isn't worthless. At least, only when it's part of a bigger package.
If you've never played Mr. Driller before, here's the gist. It's a "puzzle-action" game where you control a guy with a drill as he drills though bright, flourescent colored blocks, collecting power ups and air capsules along the way. You get points for drilling as much as you can, as fast as you can. It's fun for a while, but this is largely the same game we've played for nearly ten years now. Unlike, say Tetris or Bejeweled, this can get old.
The graphics are sub-par. We have decent looking backgrounds/borders, but the actual gameplay screen looks like something from the Dreamcast days. There was no effort to upscale or update the sprites here, and it shows.
The sound is unmemorable, so unmemorable that I'll stop talking about it because I can't remember whether it was good or bad.
Online works some of the time but you're still just playing Mr. Driller with another person. There's no innovation here and it gets old quickly. Not to mention the lag time and the bugs just about ruin some games.
So here we have an uninspired port of a once-fresh puzzler with terrible graphics and sometimes unplayable online modes. Does that sound like a game you want to add to your collection? I hope not.
Unless you picked up Namco Museum Virtual Arcade like I did. Then you'll take a step back and see that maybe it isn't worthless. At least, only when it's part of a bigger package.
If you've never played Mr. Driller before, here's the gist. It's a "puzzle-action" game where you control a guy with a drill as he drills though bright, flourescent colored blocks, collecting power ups and air capsules along the way. You get points for drilling as much as you can, as fast as you can. It's fun for a while, but this is largely the same game we've played for nearly ten years now. Unlike, say Tetris or Bejeweled, this can get old.
The graphics are sub-par. We have decent looking backgrounds/borders, but the actual gameplay screen looks like something from the Dreamcast days. There was no effort to upscale or update the sprites here, and it shows.
The sound is unmemorable, so unmemorable that I'll stop talking about it because I can't remember whether it was good or bad.
Online works some of the time but you're still just playing Mr. Driller with another person. There's no innovation here and it gets old quickly. Not to mention the lag time and the bugs just about ruin some games.
So here we have an uninspired port of a once-fresh puzzler with terrible graphics and sometimes unplayable online modes. Does that sound like a game you want to add to your collection? I hope not.